THERE’S NO FRESHER BEER THAN LOCAL BEER
Our brewing approach is a little bit different.
WHAT’S ON TAP AT THE BIG SEWICKLEY CREEK BREWERY?
Our true passion is lager beer. We’ve dedicated our lives to brewing it. Not a beer lover? (Are there such people?) That’s okay. We also offer soft drinks along with wines and spirits from local small-volume wineries and distilleries. But our hope is that our expertly crafted lager will make some converts.
What you won’t find are gimmicky names and seasonal flavors. Instead, we’re dedicating our efforts to perfecting our core recipes. After all, great local beer is about what’s in the glass, not what’s on the label.
CURRENTLY SERVING
(Beer list subject to change.)
SMOKEY JOE
Our signature brew, 20 years in the making. It’s an amber lager close to Vienna style, malt-forward, and lightly smoked. A personal favorite.
BO-PILS
This is the style that Josef Groll first brewed on October 5, 1842. Pale and hoppy, cold fermented, it changed the world of beer for the following 181 years and counting. Liquid gold, big time! Thanks Joe!
BRAD’S MALT
One of the great German beers, a little more malt, a little more body, a little more color. Malty with just enough hop character to balance it out.
MR. BROWN
Another classic favorite German Dunkel style. Malty with toasty darkness, like a well-baked pumpernickel bread loaf fresh out of the oven.
BALTIC PORTER
This one represents a lesser-known style of beer called Baltic Porter. Although similar to it’s ale namesake by being toasty, the cold fermentation allows the dark malt subtleties to show up. Think raisin and dark stone fruit, some smoke too, backed up by 7+% abv.
ROASTY JOE
This beer is Smokey Joe’s cousin. The smokey side is balanced with a good bit of nicely roasted barley malt. There’s a lot going on here.
HELLES & BACK
Just in time for warm weather. Light, pale, lightly malted with balancing noble hops. Nothing says summertime like a light well-balanced lager.
DARK CZECH
Dark with toasty notes, yet light in body and perplexingly refreshing. This is a dark Czechoslovakian-style related to the classic Bo-Pils, but with darker colored malts added in and toned down bitterness.
CREEK KÖLSCH
Like a summer day. Pale golden, dry and bubbly with a hint of fruitiness. Another thirst-quencher just in time for any outdoor celebration.
BSCB PALE
This is a beer style you’d have found in many places across our great country prior to the Volstead Act of 1919. Expect full flavor with medium body and mellow sweetness due to 30% corn in the grist.
Unclosed tabs will be charged a 20% gratuity. No outside alcoholic beverages are permitted.
BREWHOUSE BACKSTORY
Fabled Brew Day Bock Again
I home brewed this beer once many years ago. It was sort of ad lib from leftover grains and a yeast strain I couldn’t recall. It wasn’t a complicated bill, but not carefully considered either.
WHAT MAKES A GREAT LOCAL BEER?
Brewing is a time-intensive process – particularly traditional lager brewing.
Despite all we have scientifically learned about brewing over the centuries, there is still magic in brewing. Every batch offers potential greatness. Who doesn’t mind going to work for a chance at achieving greatness each and every day?
The history of beer styles reveals two main branches: namely, ales and lagers. Ale brewing is much older and generally less-complicated than brewing lager. However, newer lager brewing techniques require a little extra effort.
Lager brewing is really a story about color, malt color to be specific. In 1842, Josef Groll, a Bavarian Brewer, brewed the first-ever batch of pale-colored, bottom-fermented beer in the Czechoslovakian town of Pilsen. This beer was unique, being brewed with pale-colored malt dried in an indirectly fired malt kiln. The gentle heating leaves the malt lightly colored. As does the malt, so goes the beer. Other factors conspired on this brew, including very soft water natural to the area and spicy floral hops known as Saaz. Mr. Groll started a revolution that not only created a unique beer style, but also a type of beer that, even today, reigns as the most popular beer in the world. It is the quintessential lager beer known as pilsner. Some would argue that pilsner became the role model for all subsequent lager beers. Brew Master Groll is our hero! These days lager beer has broadened into many different colors and flavors. Thanks Joe.
Lager beer is the most popular beer in the world, by far. Of course, most of this is due to the mega breweries which are remarkable for the consistency. They have come very close to eliminating any risk in the brewing process. But, therein lies the beauty of small-scale brewing: with nano and micro brewing, risk rules the day. That means we can use the techniques we feel have significance. In fact, we specifically designed our brewing system to make traditional lager beers. Our kettles are optimized for special mashing techniques and our aging cellar is chock full of lagering tanks.
UPCOMING FOOD TRUCK & MUSIC SCHEDULE
GENERAL FOOD TRUCK HOURS: Thursdays & Fridays: 4-9 PM, Saturdays: 3-8 PM, Sundays: 1:30-6 PM
GENERAL MUSIC HOURS: Fridays: 7-9 PM, Saturdays: 7-10 PM
(Schedules are subject to change without notice. No outside alcoholic beverages are permitted.)
MAY SCHEDULE
Thursday 5/4
FOOD TRUCK: Al's Pizza
Friday 5/5
FOOD TRUCK: Ambridge Italian Villa
MUSIC: Dan Bubian and the Delta Struts
Saturday 5/6
FOOD TRUCK: Mobile Chef
MUSIC: Rusty Valley Revival
Sunday 5/7
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Thursday 5/11
FOOD TRUCK: Taqueria El Pastorcito
Friday 5/12
FOOD TRUCK: Papa Wood BBQ
MUSIC: Samantha Sears
Saturday 5/13
FOOD TRUCK: Truckin Triangles
MUSIC: Michael Bartlett
Sunday 5/14
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Thursday 5/18
FOOD TRUCK: Taqueria El Pastorcito
Friday 5/19
FOOD TRUCK: Billu's Indian Grill
MUSIC: Dan Bubian and the Delta Struts
Saturday 5/20
FOOD TRUCK: Kilimanjaro Flavor
MUSIC: Jim Tobin
Sunday 5/21
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Thursday 5/25
FOOD TRUCK: Al's Pizza
ENTERTAINMENT: Trivia Night with Quiz Markie
Friday 5/26
FOOD TRUCK: Ambridge Italian Villa
MUSIC: Gary Prisby
Saturday 5/27
FOOD TRUCK: Ambridge Italian Villa
MUSIC: William Young
Sunday 5/28
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
JUNE SCHEDULE
Thursday 6/1
FOOD TRUCK: Sak Pase
Friday 6/2
FOOD TRUCK: Papa Wood BBQ
MUSIC: Mark Shuttleworth
Saturday 6/3
FOOD TRUCK: When in Rome Pizza
MUSIC: Jay Wiley
Sunday 6/4
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Thursday 6/8
FOOD TRUCK: Taqueria El Pastorcito
Friday 6/9
FOOD TRUCK: Syrian Aroma
MUSIC: Dan Bubian and the Delta Struts
Saturday 6/10
FOOD TRUCK: When in Rome Pizza
MUSIC: Michael Bartlett
Sunday 6/11
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Thursday 6/15
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Friday 6/16
FOOD TRUCK: Billu's Indian Grill
MUSIC: Drew Pinchotti
Saturday 6/17
FOOD TRUCK: Kilimanjaro Flavor
MUSIC: Come September
Sunday 6/18
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Thursday 6/22
FOOD TRUCK: Al's Pizza
Friday 6/23
FOOD TRUCK: Syrian Aroma
MUSIC: Dan Bubian and the Delta Struts
Saturday 6/24
FOOD TRUCK: When in Rome Pizza
MUSIC: John Charney
Sunday 6/25
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Thursday 6/29
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Friday 6/30
FOOD TURCK: Los Gingos
MUSIC: Samantha Sears
JULY SCHEDULE
Saturday 7/1
FOOD TRUCK: Ash & Kris Kitchen
MUSIC: Michael Bartlett
Sunday 7/2
FOOD TRUCK: Los Gallitos
Thursday 7/6
FOOD TRUCK: Sak Pase
Friday 7/7
FOOD TRUCK: Barbariou Greek Gyro
MUSIC: Greg Iskat
Saturday 7/8
FOOD TRUCK: Taqueria El Pastorcito
MUSIC: William Young
Sunday 7/9
FOOD TRUCK: Meat Man BBQ
Thursday 7/13
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
Friday 7/14
FOOD TRUCK: Mobile Chef
MUSIC: Dan Bubian and the Delta Struts
Saturday 7/15
FOOD TRUCK: Yovi’s Chicago Dogs
MUSIC: Rust Valley Revival
Sunday 7/16
FOOD TRUCK: Barbariou Greek Gyro
Thursday 7/20
FOOD TRUCK: Taqueria El Pastorcito
Friday 7/21
FOOD TRUCK: Billu's Indian Grill
MUSIC: EASE
Saturday 7/22
FOOD TRUCK: When in Rome Pizza
MUSIC: Eclectic Acoustics
Sunday 7/23
FOOD TRUCK: Los Gallitos
Thursday 7/27
FOOD TRUCK: Sak Pase
Friday 7/28
FOOD TRUCK: Truckin’ Triangles
MUSIC: Dan Bubian and the Delta Struts
Saturday 7/29
FOOD TRUCK: Ash & Kris Kitchen
MUSIC: Bobby Thompson Duo
Sunday 7/30
FOOD TRUCK: Barbariou Greek Gyro
GREAT LOCAL BEER IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK!
The Big Sewickley Creek Brewery is 30 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh located between Wexford and Ambridge. We have plenty of parking and hope to see you soon!
FIND US AT:
2030 BIG SEWICKLEY CREEK ROAD
SEWICKLEY, PA 15143
HOURS
Thursday: 4:00-9:00 PM
Friday: 4:00-10:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00-10:30 PM
Sunday: 1:00-7:00 PM