Our Beers

Lavery Brewery is an American craft brewery that feels comfortable bouncing across brewing traditions and styles. We like traditional beers as much as we like extreme beers and try to walk a fine line between the two at Lavery Brewing Co. If you must classify us, how about a Pennsylvania-style craft brewery? Do ya feel better now that we fit into a little box? Do ya?

All our beers are unfiltered, unpasteurized and naturally carbonated in the bottle. Also, ingredients change from time to time as does the alcohol percentage (ABV) of our beers. Small batch, hand crafted beer means its made by people not machines.

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Imperial French Ale (Summer Seasonal)

Inpired by Napolean Bonaparte. The Irish and French were Allies during the period when Napolean was in power. French has a small brewing culture but their independence and culture is worthy of great respect. This ale is based around our house French saison blend. It features mostly pale and wheat malts and a hefty dose of sugar to dry this big boy out. Hopped and dry hopped with massive amounts of Cascade, Columbus, Centennial and Chinook hops to double IPA levels. So...is it a Tripel IPA? Hoppy saison, a new style? Who knows and more importantly, who cares. Beers like this don't deserve to be put into tiny boxes.
Bottles in 1 L 'Grolsch' style, flip top bottles.

 

Information:

  • Malts - Pale, Honey malt, Wheat and cane sugar
  • Hops -  a blend of Columbus, Centennial, Cascade and chinook
  • Lavery French-Belgian Blend
  • ABV - 11.5%
  • IBU - 76

 

Belfast Black (Fall/Winter Seasonal)

This is the beer that started the brewery. Named after the ancient homeland of the Lavery's. It is rich, dark and smokey. Not for the faint of heart but that's how we intended it. It has a taste of bacon, which is one of the most beautiful images I can image; a bacon beer (No actual bacon is in this beer). A solid earthy hop bitterness with a little astringency from the dark malts. This beer has no better pair than excellent Vermont Cheddar cheese.

 

Information:

  • Malts - Pale, 2 types of Crystal, Chocolate, Munich & German Rauchmalz
  • Hops - Northern Brewer
  • Lavery Yeast Blend
  • ABV -  7.0-7.5%
  • IBU - 35-40

Stingy Jack Pumpkin Ale (Fall Seasonal)

Named after the Irish legend of the Jack O Lantern. Brewed with local Port Farm Pumpkins and Lavery Estate Hops. Subtle spicing to make sure you can enjoy more than 1 pint per session. A drier version of your standard Pumpkin ale, ours is not cloyingly sweet. A nice toasty/biscuity flavor from the American pale ale malt.

 

Information:

  • Malts - Pale , Amber,  2 types of Crystal & Vienna
  • Hops - Northern Brewer, Cascade
  • Lavery Yeast Blend
  • ABV - 7.2 - 7.8%
  • IBU - 26

Imperial Red Ale (IRA)

BIG. HOPPY. RED. Irish beer gone incognito! Our IRA has a beautiful burnt orange/red color with the unmistakable aroma and flavor of American hops. This beer is brewed to be dry with full flavor of Nugget, Apollo & Cascade dry hopping. With over two pounds of hops per barrel (that's a lot) its like no beer ever brewed in Erie.

 

Information:

  • Malts - Pale, Munich, Amber, 2 types of Crystal & Chocolate
  • Hops - Nugget, Apollo & Cascade
  • Lavery Yeast Blend
  • ABV - 7.9 - 8.2%
  • IBU - 65 - 72

1847 Rye Stout (Winter Seasonal)

A dry, bitter, Irish dark ale brewed with malted rye and hopped with Columbus. Extremely dry and roasty. Delicious!

 

Information:

  • Malts - Pale,  Rye, Special B, Roasted Barley, Chocolate
  • Hops - Columbus
  • Lavery Yeast Blend
  • ABV - 6.8%
  • IBU - 50

Liopard oir (Spring Seasonal)

A beer for the ladies, crazies and connoisseurs. A floral, hoppy and fruity French-style saison. Saisons are completely undescribable so we won't even try. Our interpretation has five types of grain, nobel hops and three different strains of yeast! The yeast is the star of this show - fruity, spicy, fragrant, alluring and simply delicious. This beer ends dry and crisp and bottled conditioned with Brettanomyces Clausenii, a wild yeast that adds fruity, tart and mildly funky aromas and flavors to ale. This beer is great young but will change considerably with time.
Named Liopard oir, Irish for 'gold leopard', which appears on the Lavery Family crest.

 

Information:

  • Malts - Belgian Pilsner, German Pilsner, Vienna, Rye, Oats, Wheat & Corn
  • Hops - Golding & Cascade
  • Lavery French-Belgian Blend
  • ABV - 4.8%
  • IBU - 30

2011 'Devil Bird' Holiday Ale


Imperial Porter aged in Bourbon Barrels
A festive name for a holiday beer, right? Based on the Irish tradition of carrying a dead wren through the streets on the day after Christmas. Will be available usually the week after Thanksgiving and will be very (very) limited release. Packaged in 1 liter flip top amber bottles & our recipe and style changes from year to year.
 
  2010 - Spiced Holiday Ale
  2011 - Imperial Porter aged in Bourbon Barrels

Information:

  • Malts - Pale, Munich, 2 types of Crystal, Brown, Chocolate
  • Hops - Nugget, Northern Brewer
  • Lavery Yeast Blend
  • ABV - 8.5%
  • IBU - 44
  • Aged in Maker's Mark Bourbon barrels

Our Story

Brewing Innovative Ales
in Small Batches / Erie PA

We love small batches and the variations in each batch • Not a bottle or keg has left the building that we haven't filled, capped, labeled or packaged personally • We love anything local - especially hops and pumpkins! • We are ale brewers, no lagers for us • We like big beers, session beers, Belgian beers, British beers, sour and funky beers, barrel aged beers and... • We don't buy the conventianal wisdom that you must make 1,000,000 gallons of beer a day, we like our small hand crafted batches • We are truly American; a melting pot of beliefs, styles, traditions and tastes. Slainte!

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Where To Buy

22oz Bottles and Draft: Too many locations between Erie, Pittsburgh, State College, York and Philadelphia so ask for Lavery Brewing Company at your local Grocery, Pub, Bottle Shops, Wegmans, Giant Eagle and beyond.

Penn Beer Company
1825 E. 12th St
Erie, PA 1651
(814)454-1578

Wilson McGinley
85 36th St
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
(412)621-4420

Nittany Beverage
139 N. Patterson St
State College, PA 16801
(814)238-3031

Ace Distributing
1800 Pennsylvania Ave
York, PA 17404
(717)755-0774

Bella Vista Specialty Beer Wholesale
755 S. 11th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215)627-6465

Contact

Lavery Brewing Co.
128 W. 12th St
UNIT 101
Erie, PA 16501
Phone: (814) 454 0405
Email LBC