I got a call to help with some brewery consultation and advice and I was happy to help with some simple process and engineering stuff while bored at my 9-5 job. Fast forward a couple years and this guy is wanting to open another Burgh’ers concept restaurant in Lawrenceville but getting punished by the PLCB bureaucracy and decides to investigate the brewery licence route. Where we’re from you don’t show up to a party empty-handed! We hit it off with Fiore and his wife Michelle and offered some very “subtle” help with the boil technique and became fast friends. My wife and I (from LA and MS respectively) not being able to resist exploring a little town outside of the city where we lived for a crawfish boil, made the trek up there with some homebrew and shine.
Eventually, I ended up in Harmony, PA at Fiore Moletz’s (who is now my business partner) Italian restaurant where they were having a crawfish boil one chilly, rainy afternoon. I started making basement beer and loving it, so I made a lot and shared it all. This led to me “working from home” and of course strictly following my recovery instructions, I renovated the former coal cellar, storage room in our house to be a fully functional brewery and taproom. Simultaneously, around this time, I had blown out my ankle and had to have a major tendon replacement surgery that would put me down for several months unable to walk. Now with a brewery and tap system I was ready to roll after about 3 years of tinkering on the buildout. That became a 5 tap kegerator unit also modeled after a buddy’s setup. Fermentation and conditioning are what makes an okay brewed beer an even more okay’er tasting beer, so I would also have to design and construct a temperature controlled fermentation chamber.
I was reading, researching, and learning like a madman during this time though, and knew that just brewing the beer was only half the process. I decided to start with all grain brewing rather than extract kits on the stove, so equipment construction and accumulation was slow too. I traveled while working as a field engineer for a research company nearly 160 days a year, so time was very scarce and brewery progress was slow.
#BURGHERS HARMONY PA PLUS#
Beer was no different, and the making of brewery equipment to make the beer was a major plus to the home brewing hobby. I’m an engineer and tinkerer and love making things that I am interested in. I like to joke around and say it was because my wife cut off the $100 a week hemorrhage from the budget on beer I was spending, but really it was curiosity. I was feeling an adventurous departure from my usual Bud Heavy or super sophisticated Heineken bottles and grabbed the frosty mongo mug of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale draft on happy hour and got my head spun from the flavor of hops.
Parking is available across the street in a free, public lot,Īlong German Street, or in the overflow lot on Wood & German Street.Honestly, I was drinking at Red Lobster in Hattiesburg, MS in the mid 90’s with some restaurant work pals. We accept all credit car ds, cash, and Apple Pay. Hours: Tues- Fri 4pm-9 pm, Sat & Sun Noon - 9 pm Explore our grounds, find the fairies that live in the treetop above our bridge, or view our colorful light show when the sun sets. Nestled in the charming and quaint historic town of Harmony, our shop is housed in a beautifully restored 1807 Harmonist building that transports you to a bygone era. Our Bursting Boba Ice Cream is so fun to eat, and chocolate lovers will rejoice over our All-the-Chocolate dessert - it's a fan favorite! Only at Neff Haus will you find a gigantic peanut butter buckeye cookie on top of creamy soft serve, and we have generously sized soft serve cones and rich, creamy milkshakes – each in 23 flavors. We have the BEST cookie dough ice cream experience with HUGE scoops of your favorite cookie dough on top of our incredible soft serve - you'll never run out of cookie dough again! And you haven't lived until you've had our sweet, fluffy Cloud toppings over our creamy vanilla soft serve. We went crazy making our desserts what you love most about desserts.
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