Established in January of 2015 Spoonwood Brewing Company has been committed to bringing great food and craft beer to the residents of the Bethel Park area of Pittsburgh, PA. With a large bar seating area, high, vaulted ceilings and both indoor as well as outdoor seating Spoonwood provides a clean, comfortable environment where you never feel like you’re crammed against other patrons.

A mixture of granite, hardwood, exposed rock face and well kept landscaping make both the interior and exterior feel very polished, almost like you’ve walked onto the set of a show from the DIY Network. Behind all of that polish though is something even more important, wood-fire grilled food that leans on locally sourced ingredients for their specialty pizzas and an ever-evolving tap list of an assortment of craft brews. Below are a few of the beers we enjoyed while visiting:

• All Down Hill (Vanilla Cream Ale – 5.6% ABV)
  • A traditional wheat ale this brew is smoothed out by the use of lactose and vanilla giving it a creamy mouthfeel and sweetness without overtaking the wheat backbone.
• Rye Demise (Rye IPA – 6.4% ABV)
  • Part rye, part IPA you get to experience the spice and kick of the rye while still enjoying a pronounced hoppy, bitterness, a nice crossover brew not completly beholden to one style.
• Killer Diller (IPA – 6.7% ABV)
  • An IPA drinker’s IPA, it has the piny, floral aroma with notes of citrus you’d expect from a pale ale and just enough malt balance to stop people from calling it a West Coast style IPA.
• Forever Single 3 (Single Hop IPA – 6.6% ABV)
  • Made using experiemental hop HBC 342 with a strong bitter flavor alongside notes of citrus and malt to balance this brew out.
• The Stache (Red Rye – 5.1% ABV)
  • Bready with an expected rye sweetness this ale goes down smooth with only a hint of bitterness and no fruit flavors to speak of, this brew is all biscuit, no marmalade.
• Turtle Exclipse (Tropical Stout – 7.4% ABV)
  • Brewed with pineapple, mango and passion fruit it has a traditional creamy mouthfeel, but with a tropical fruit undertones; it’s the beer drinker’s answer to the vacation ‘boat drink.’

Visit the brewery yourself at 5981 Baptist Road in Pittsburgh and enjoy all they have to offer!