Yards Brewing Company

Infobox Brewery
name = Yards Brewing Company


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location = 901 North Delaware Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19123 USA
owner = Tom Kehoe
opened = 1994
production = 18,000
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Yards Brewing Company is a American production brewery located in Philadelphia. Founded in 1994 by Tom Kehoe and John Bovit in a small building in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, Yards has grown from a small microbrewery with one product to a large microbrewery with approximately 10 products.

Bovit and Kehoe used their personal savings to get started and made the first Yards beers in a small, garage-sized brewery in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. They brewed on a homemade three-barrel brewing system. Their lineup included soon-to-be cult favorites like the "Entire Porter" and "Old Bart." When they unveiled their Extra Special Ale (ESA) at the Philadelphia Craft Beer Festival in April of 1995, Philadelphia's beer drinkers were flabbergasted.

Within a few months, bars were clamoring for their wares and "the Yards Guys" were supplying them with six-keg batches of ESA, Entire Porter, and several other cask-conditioned ales. They delivered the beer themselves, and made a point of being there whenever a bar tapped its first keg.

In 2003, Yards partnered with Philadelphia's City Tavern — a reconstructed version of a historic tavern frequented by the nation's founding fathers — to create Ales of the Revolution. This line of beers was derived from the original recipes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin and featured unusual ingredients such as organic spruce tips.

The Yards team of brewers continued to tweak and refine their recipes and their beers garnered increasing critical acclaim and local loyalty. As Philadelphia's reputation as a craft-brewing mecca solidified in 2004-2005, Yards products increasingly became the "go to" beers for the city's beer lovers. In 2006, the New York Times called Philadelphia Pale Ale "one of the best" pale ales in the United States.

Ironically, growth led to restrictions in distribution as the brewery found it could barely keep up with demand in the local five-county area. Frequently, inventory was so tight that the beer was loaded onto trucks for distribution within hours--sometimes minutes--of being packaged. This meant that Yards was usually the freshest beer available in bars and stores.

Currently Yards operates a 4 vessel 50 bbl system manufactured by JVNW.

References

http://yardsbrewing.com/

External links

* [http://www.yardsbrewing.com/ Yards Brewing]