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Penn
Brewery History
The
history of Penn Brewery making great German
beers began with Tom Pastorius' great-great-great-great-great-great-great
grandfather, Franz Daniel Pastorius. Today
considered the father of German-Americans,
Franz Daniel Pastorius was an idealistic scholar
who studied at five European universities,
earned a doctor of laws degree, wrote many
books, more than 2000 poems and could read,
write and speak seven languages.
A
friend of William Penn, Franz Daniel Pastorius
lead the first group of German settlers to
America in 1683 and founded Germantown, Pennsylvania.
He dined frequently with Penn and enjoyed
the beer brewed in Penn's brewery at Pensbury
Manor. The Pastorius family has been drinking
Pennsylvania beer ever since, for ten generations.
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Franz
Daniel Pastorius provided Germany with
an accurate description of Pennsylvania
(Umständige geographische Beschreibung
der zu allerletzt erfundenen Provintz
Pennsylvania, etc.), a collection
of letters and reports sent to his father
and published by the latter in book
form.
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"Homestead
of Franz Daniel Pastorius"
Commemorating
Germantown's 225 years, this 1908 engraving
shows the Pastorius homestead between
the Pastorius-Dunton house on the right
and the Green Tree Tavern on the left.
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Tom
and Marybeth Pastorius established the
Pennsylvania Brewing Company in 1986.
Known as "Penn Brewery," the
company is committed to brewing authentic
German beers and is located in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania in the former Eberhardt and
Ober Brewery. |
Picture
of Eberhardt and Ober Brerwery, circa 1880.
The
Eberhardt and Ober Brewery in the historic
Deutschtown section of Pittsburgh's North
Side, where beer has been made since 1848.
The buildings are listed on the National Register
of Historic Sites.
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