A. Piermani & Son
A family beer distributor on East 2nd Avenue, the kind of case-and-six-pack shop the name has covered for generations. Stock the party here instead of the chain.
Craft beer in the burbs
Every craft beer spot we vouch for, across every town we cover. Cross a town line for the good ones. That's the whole point.
The picks
- A. Piermani & Son
- Ardmore Park Beverage
- Artifact Brewing
- Artillery Brewing - West Chester (The Barracks Taproom)
- Artisan Homebrew
- Barnaby's - West Chester
- Beaver Creek Tavern
- Beer City
- Beermill Inc
- Below Deck Bottle Shop
- Bier and Loathing
- BierHaul - TownHouse
- Bill's Best Brewery
- Bistro on Bridge
- Blue Dog Pub
- Bottle Room
- Braeloch Brewing
- Branch Creek Taphouse
- Brass Collar Brewing Company
- Brick & Brew
- Brothers Kershner Brewing Co.
- Cabana Bar
- Casey's Place
- CJ's Doghouse Craft Beer and Wine Shop
- Common Good Pizza & Tap
- Conshohocken Brewing Company
- Conshy Corner Tavern
- Continental Tavern
- Coppa 82
- The Creamery of Kennett Square Restaurant & Beer Garden
- Crossroads Hotel and Bar
- Doubles by Human Robot
- Doylestown Beer Authority
- Dublin Brewing Company
- East Branch Brewing Company
- Easton Beer
- Ember + Ale
- Exton Beverage Company
- Farmhouse Tavern
- Ferry's End
- Flip & Bailey's
- Flying Pig Saloon
- The Foodery
- Forest & Main Brewing Co.
- Fran's Pub
- Free Will Brewing
- Fun Dungeon - Brewcade & Billiards
- Garrett Hill Ale House
- Geronimo Brewing
- Giuliano's Deli
- The Great American Pub
- Great American Pub
- Greeks Next Door
- Green Parrot Restaurant Pub & Patio
- The Grey Stone Fine Food & Spirits
- Greystone Oyster Bar
- Harlan Beverage
- The Highland Pub & Kitchen
- Hop Fidelity
- Human Robot Jenkintown
- The Hungry Pilot
- Iron Abbey
- Isaac Newton's Bar & Restaurant
- Jake's Bar
- Jerzee's Sports Bar & Pizzaria
- Jitters Bar
- Kildares Irish Pub - West Chester, PA
- Kings Corner
- Kings Tavern
- La Cabra Brewing Smokehouse
- Lamb Beverage
- Levante Brewing Company
- Liberty Place Pub
- Local Tap
- Locust Lane Craft Brewery
- The LOFT Bottle Shop
- Lou Beverage Inc
- Lower Merion Beverage Co.
- Machinery Club
- The MacSwiney Club
- MaGerk's Pub & Grill
- Main Street Pizza & Brewery
- Maxwell's On Main (MOMs)
- McCloskey's Tavern
- McSorley's Ale House
- Mesquito Grille
- Michael Kelly's Irish Pub
- Montella's Sports Bar & Pub
- Mystic Ways Brewing
- Narberth Beverage
- Nektar Wine Bar
- New Haven Pizza
- Newtown Brewing Company
- North Penn Beverage Inc
- North Penn Social Club
- North Wales Beer
- North Wales Pub
- Olde Towne Restaurant & Tavern
- Pag's Pub
- Palace Room at The Proper
- The Patio at Horsham
- Penn Taproom
- Pennridge Beverage
- The Pour House
- The Pour House - North Wales
- The Proper Brewing Company
- Quakertown Beverage
- Rams Pint House & Rooftop Lounge
- Rebel Hill Brewing Company - Brewery on Bridge
- Rec Room
- Rivertown Taps
- Roberts Block Restaurant
- Ron's Original Bar & Grille
- Root Down Brewing Company
- Ryan's Pub
- Saloon 151
- Santino's Tap & Table
- Second Sin Brewing Newtown
- Sedona Taphouse
- Sellersville Beverage & Cigar
- Sly Fox Taphouse at the Grove
- Spinnerstown Hotel Restaurant & Tap Room
- Square Bar
- Stable 12 Brewing Company
- Station Taproom
- Steel City Brewing
- Steel City Coffeehouse & Brewery
- Stolen Sun Scratch Kitchen & Taphouse
- Stove & Tap Lansdale
- Stove & Tap West Chester
- The Stray Dog Tavern
- Tannery Run Brew Works
- The Temperance House
- Ten7 Brewing Company
- TimeOut Skippack
- Tired Hands Fermentaria Tap Room
- Travelin' Man Brewery
- Troubles End Brewing
- Twelve78 Brewing
- Union Jack's Olde Glory Pub
- The Valley House Bar & Restaurant
- Van Lieus Brewing
- Vault Brewing Company
- Victory Brewing Company Downingtown
- Vince's Pizzeria & Taproom
- VK Brewing Co. & Eatery
- Wallace Dry Goods
- The Ways Restaurant & Brewery
- Well Crafted Beer Co. Lansdale Brewpub
- West Chester Seafood Kitchen
- The West End
- The Whip Tavern
- Wrong Crowd Beer Company
Ardmore Park Beverage
A beverage distributor on Haverford Road, in business since 1982. Kegs and keg taps to rent, plus ice, snacks and party supplies for the stop you make on the way to the cookout.
Artifact Brewing
Small brewery on West Court pouring its own line a block off the courthouse. The name fits: find it, keep it.
Artillery Brewing - West Chester (The Barracks Taproom)
Artillery Brewing's West Chester taproom on Granite Alley, known around town as the Barracks. Their own beer, poured downtown.
Artisan Homebrew
The homebrew shop on Wallace Ave, stocked with grain, hops, yeast, and the gear to turn them into beer. Staff who will walk you through your first batch or your fiftieth.
Barnaby's - West Chester
Barnaby's has held down the corner of South High Street for decades, a wings-and-beer bar that fills up with West Chester University crowds. Grab a booth for the wing specials or a stool at the bar for the game.
Beaver Creek Tavern
Comfort cooking in a tavern out on Bondsville Road — bacon cheeseburgers, fish and chips, ribs, and beer on tap. Prime rib happens exactly once a month, the first Saturday starting at 4, and that is the whole schedule.
Beer City
A beer distributor on West Broad built for buying by the case, not the six-pack. Worth the stop before a cookout when you want the price to do the talking.
Beermill Inc
Beer distributor on West Chestnut Street, the place to grab cases and singles to go. Stocked deep for when you're the one bringing the beer.
Below Deck Bottle Shop
A Fayette Street bottle shop for beer and wine to carry home, run off the Boathouse next door. Grab a six-pack for the porch or a bottle for the table you were invited to.
Bier and Loathing
Craft beer bar on West Market Street with a Hunter S. Thompson wink in the name. A rotating wall of taps and a seat to work through them.
BierHaul - TownHouse
Beer hall on North Walnut Street with a long pour list and a kitchen to match. Downtown, at the TownHouse.
Bill's Best Brewery
A small-batch brewery on South Keswick pouring hazy IPAs alongside English ales, Belgian saisons and German pilsners. Food comes from a different truck most nights, and there's a large private beer garden out back.
Bistro on Bridge
The Bridge Street anchor: a gastropub with a rooftop deck, a serious burger list, and a tap wall that keeps pace with this town’s brewery habit.
Blue Dog Pub
A family-friendly craft beer tavern that keeps its rotating draft list posted online, so you can scout the taps before you claim a stool. The kitchen backs it up with burgers, cheesesteaks, weekly specials, and a real vegetarian list besides.
Bottle Room
A neighborhood bar on Lincoln Highway with a rotating tap list and a bottle selection wider than the room suggests. The kind of spot that fills up with regulars on a weeknight.
Braeloch Brewing
A neighborhood brewery and taproom on Birch Street, a short walk from the Creamery. The house board runs hop-forward to malty, with new pours rotating through.
Branch Creek Taphouse
Beer garden and taphouse on Chestnut, with a rotating draft list and outdoor tables for when the weather turns. The kind of place you land at after work and stay longer than planned.
Brass Collar Brewing Company
A small brewery on South Front turning out house beers to drink where they're made. The taproom is the draw, not a distribution deal.
Brick & Brew
Gastropub on East King Street in Malvern built around craft taps and pub food. The move is a burger and a local beer at the bar.
Brothers Kershner Brewing Co.
A Skippack brewery on the Pike pouring house-made beer, with a taproom crowd to prove it. Rotating drafts and the sort of easygoing local room you settle into for a couple.
Cabana Bar
A smaller neighborhood bar on Skippack Pike, more low-key than its sports-bar neighbors. Pull up for a drink without the crowd.
Casey's Place
A little corner sports bar out on California Road, the kind of room where the wings have a following and the beer shows up properly cold. TVs everywhere, and the doors stay open past midnight every night of the week.
CJ's Doghouse Craft Beer and Wine Shop
A Tuesday-through-Saturday bottleshop where the wine wall leans natural and minimum-intervention, and the beer case turns over fast enough to land Heady Topper. There's a book club, which tells you the kind of room this is.
Common Good Pizza & Tap
Pizza and a rotating tap list on Pennsylvania Ave. Drop in for a pie and a local draft.
Conshohocken Brewing Company
The original taproom of an award-winning Montgomery County brewery, pouring hazy IPAs, fruited styles and dark malty ales on East Elm Street. Food, event space and a rotating tap list a short walk from the river trail.
Conshy Corner Tavern
A corner tavern on East Hector where the regulars have a stool and the taps stay cold. The kind of neighborhood room where one after work turns into three.
Continental Tavern
American tavern fare in a Main Street building restored to its 1875 look, with 16 taps inside and a porch over Lake Afton. During the 2007 renovation the owners cracked open a sealed chamber under the kitchen and found more than 7,000 empty Prohibition whiskey bottles — the leftovers of the speakeasy this used to be.
Coppa 82
Family-run since 1982 and named for the year Italy lifted the World Cup, this Lincoln Highway dining room has spent four decades on old-world Italian. By their own telling, the order is chicken parm, mussels, and the pizza.
The Creamery of Kennett Square Restaurant & Beer Garden
A big outdoor beer garden on the old creamery site off Birch Street, with rotating taps and food trucks parked in. It's dog-friendly, and there's live music when the weather cooperates.
Crossroads Hotel and Bar
An old-school corner tavern at Lancaster and Brandywine where the drafts are cheap and the stools have regulars. Come for a bar burger and whatever game's on the TV.
Doubles by Human Robot
A Human Robot taproom that doubles as a trading-card shop, where you pour a Milktube and dig through vintage wax packs at the same counter. It took over the old Great Barn space on Mechanic Street in July 2025 — 900 square feet of craft beer and cardboard.
Doylestown Beer Authority
Beer distributor on Atkinson Drive with a craft wall deeper than the name suggests. Case law, Pennsylvania edition.
Dublin Brewing Company
A small brewery on Wallace Ave, sharing a building with the Artisan Homebrew shop. Low-key and local, the kind of place you find because someone tipped you off.
East Branch Brewing Company
Downingtown brewery on East Lancaster Ave pouring its own lineup in the taproom. Named for the East Branch of the Brandywine that runs through town.
Easton Beer
A take-out beer store on South Easton Road in Glenside, cases and six-packs for carrying home. In Pennsylvania, a beer store this close by still counts for something.
Ember + Ale
Pizza and Italian plates on Market Street, with craft cocktails and beers alongside. Two to know: the slow-smoked brisket cheesesteak and the pesto cheesy loaf.
Exton Beverage Company
Beer store on Lincoln Highway with a deep run of craft cans, imports, and singles. Staff keep up with what's rotating in, so it's an easy stop when you want something you haven't had.
Farmhouse Tavern
An English pub with a working fireplace and a Dr. Pepper pulled pork sandwich that's become the reason regulars keep coming back. Weekday social hour runs 4 to 6, right when you need it.
Ferry's End
The bar inside Ferry Market, pouring beer, wine, and canned cocktails you carry out to a food-hall table instead of drinking in place. Happy hour lands twice a day, noon to 2 and 5 to 7, so a drink can meet whichever vendor stall you wandered into.
Flip & Bailey's
Two-story neighborhood bar in Garrett Hill with a full bar on each floor and rotating drafts. Pool, shuffleboard, darts, Pac-Man and Golden Tee if you want something to do between rounds.
Flying Pig Saloon
A neighborhood bar on East King Street in Malvern with a full kitchen and a deep tap list. The kind of place you plan on one and stay for three.
The Foodery
The Bridge Street bottle shop with a wall of singles deep enough to build any six-pack argument. Mix, match, repeat.
Forest & Main Brewing Co.
A brewery in a Victorian house making some of the most quietly admired beer in Pennsylvania. Creaky floors, cask ales, no pretense.
Fran's Pub
A roadside tavern with a band playing most nights, 13 beers on tap, and another 100-plus by the bottle. Order the Fran's Burger and take a spot on the big outdoor patio to watch Main Street go by.
Free Will Brewing
Free Will has been barrel-aging sours, saisons, and stouts in a 35,000-square-foot Walnut Street facility since 2012, with 15 rotating taps and a barrel house out back. Food trucks park Thursday through Sunday and there's live music Friday and Saturday nights, but you can always haul in your own dinner.
Fun Dungeon - Brewcade & Billiards
A basement brewcade under South Main: pinball, pool, and pints below street level. The name is accurate twice.
Garrett Hill Ale House
A neighborhood tavern in Garrett Hill with a scratch kitchen and rotating craft taps. The 10oz Alehouse Burger and the crepe lasagna are the two dishes the kitchen puts its name on, and Sunday brunch runs 10am to 3pm with a custom Bloody Mary bar.
Geronimo Brewing
Small-batch taproom tucked down the alley off Shewell Avenue, behind Lilly's Gourmet. Finding the door is half the initiation.
Giuliano's Deli
A deli and a bottle shop in one, with hoagies like the Italian Stallion built to order and fresh-tapped growlers to carry out. The Giulianos opened it in 1982 and the McManuses took over in 2022.
The Great American Pub
A Fayette Street pub in the middle of the strip, with a long bar and a kitchen backing it up. The kind of corner where a weeknight beer turns into dinner and two more.
Great American Pub
Narberth's corner pub right by the train station, with a long beer list and a burger to match. Loud on game nights, easy on a weekday.
Greeks Next Door
Beer store on Haverford Ave for craft six-packs, singles, and bottles. The walkable option when you don't feel like a distributor run.
Green Parrot Restaurant Pub & Patio
A Sycamore Street pub styled after the original Green Parrot Inn, a Newtown tavern of the early 1900s, with 19 TVs on the pub side. The bar stays open after the kitchen closes, which tells you the house priorities.
The Grey Stone Fine Food & Spirits
Opened in 2017 by Washington Crossing native Brandon Smith in the refurbished property once known as Lavender Hall. Chef Robert McNally's menu turns over every season, and the bar runs twenty-four rotating craft taps.
Greystone Oyster Bar
An oyster bar aimed at the Northern Italian coast — fresh seafood, handmade pastas, and classic pizzas on Church Street. Doors open at 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday, so a midweek oyster lunch is on the table.
Harlan Beverage
Beer distributor on West King Street in Malvern, stacked with cases and craft six-packs to carry home. Good for stocking the cooler before a Saturday.
The Highland Pub & Kitchen
Glenside's American pub and kitchen, run by the K to Z Collective. Weekend brunch goes 10 to 3, happy hour runs weekdays 4 to 6, and eight TVs carry the game with the sound on.
Hop Fidelity
Record store on West Market Street with a name that puns hops into hi-fi. Flip through the crates, beer in hand.
Human Robot Jenkintown
The Jenkintown outpost of Philly's Human Robot brewery, pouring lagers and mixed-fermentation beers on York Road. Order a flight and settle in.
The Hungry Pilot
A bar and grill inside the terminal at Chester County Airport — order the short-rib Runway Flatbread or the French Onion Smashburger and watch the planes take off. Kids get their own Little Pilot's menu, which explains the number of small aviation fans at the window tables.
Iron Abbey
A gastropub on Easton Road with a beer list that runs deep into Belgian and Trappist territory. Come for the mussels and a pour you will not find on tap anywhere else nearby.
Isaac Newton's Bar & Restaurant
Twenty-two taps, fourteen of them on constant rotation, plus 150-odd bottles, in a State Street building that predates the country. It's been Newtown's beer headquarters for two decades-plus; the food menu is long and does the job, but the Delirium Tremens on draft is why you walk in.
Jake's Bar
Jake's is a South End neighborhood bar on Matlack Street, off the downtown grid. The kind of low-key, unpretentious spot regulars keep to themselves.
Jerzee's Sports Bar & Pizzaria
Sports bar and pizzeria that opened in 2007, with a takeout bottle shop added in 2015 stocking over 200 beers and a heated patio since 2022. Open 365 days a year, kitchen running late.
Jitters Bar
A no-frills sports bar on West Gay Street with the games on every screen and pitchers on the table. This is where West Chester students and locals land to watch the Eagles.
Kildares Irish Pub - West Chester, PA
Irish pub on West Gay Street with the dark wood and the proper Guinness pour. A downtown standby for pints and pub food.
Kings Corner
A neighborhood pub on Summit Avenue with a solid beer list and a kitchen that does pub food right. The sort of corner spot you end up at without planning to.
Kings Tavern
The tavern on West Kings Highway runs on craft beer and a house creed worth quoting: locals treated like royalty, visitors treated like locals. The kitchen keeps things American, from wings to steak and seafood, with dinner specials that rotate through the week.
La Cabra Brewing Smokehouse
The Bryn Mawr barbecue arm of La Cabra Brewing, with its own beer list beside the pit. Brisket and baby back ribs come off the smoker, the signature mac and cheese runs four ways, and Wednesdays from 3pm bring 36-hour fermented sourdough pizza.
Lamb Beverage
A beer store on North 9th where the cold cases run deep and the staff actually know the shelves. The kind of place you stop before someone's cookout and leave over-prepared.
Levante Brewing Company
The production brewery on Carter Drive keeps its taproom open Tuesday through Sunday, food trucks and live music rotating through, with a house hazy they bill as pillowy-soft. Saturdays and Sundays in season, they also pour at Highland Orchards.
Liberty Place Pub
The pub tucked inside the Market at Liberty Place on West State Street, pouring drafts and pub plates. Somewhere to land when the food-hall counters get loud.
Local Tap
Everything poured here is sourced from Pennsylvania — the beer, the liquor, the wine, even the coffee. Order the Bacon Washed Old Fashioned and settle in for the live music that fills the room most weekends.
Locust Lane Craft Brewery
Fourteen tap lines of flagships, seasonals, and test batches in a taproom off Three Tun Road, with food cooked in the Epicurean Garage truck and run to your table. Family friendly inside, dog friendly out on the deck.
The LOFT Bottle Shop
Iron Abbey's bottle shop, up on the second floor at 680 Easton Road with cans and bottles to take home. Craft beer to go from the gastropub downstairs.
Lou Beverage Inc
A Downingtown beer store stacked with cases and cold six-packs, heavy on the craft side. Worth a stop before a cookout or a quiet night in.
Lower Merion Beverage Co.
Beer, cider and hard seltzer in every format from singles to cases and kegs, open on Greenfield Ave since 2021. Belgian beer is the house specialty, with Brumate and GrowlerWerks drinkware on the shelves too.
Machinery Club
A bar at 510 Greenwood Ave, the sort of place you find by walking past rather than by Googling. No website, which tells you something about the crowd.
The MacSwiney Club
A members' social club at 510 Greenwood Ave with an Irish streak and a bar behind the door. The kind of room that runs on regulars.
MaGerk's Pub & Grill
A sports pub pairing Philly cheesesteaks with what the house calls grub with a Baltimore twist, and the kitchen holds out until 11 on Fridays and Saturdays. It's the Horsham branch of a small family of pubs with siblings in Fort Washington and Maryland.
Main Street Pizza & Brewery
A pizzeria that pours its own beer, from a West Coast IPA to a Golden Lager brewed in the same building. Order the Main Street Pie — steak, pepperoni, fried onions, and garlic — and drink something that didn't travel more than fifty feet to reach you.
Maxwell's On Main (MOMs)
The Main Street gastropub that has been doing Southern-leaning American cooking and weekend live bands since 2010. Ten craft ales always on tap, chicken and waffles on the menu, and a second-floor patio worth angling for.
McCloskey's Tavern
An Irish pub that has been on Cricket Avenue since 1934, which by its own count makes it the oldest on the Main Line. Rotating craft taps, burgers and wings, and a kitchen that runs an hour later Thursday through Saturday.
McSorley's Ale House
A Haverford Road sports bar with 16 taps and better than 30 beers in total, plus dart boards, pool tables and TVs on every game. Family run, and loud once the college crowd arrives.
Mesquito Grille
Mesquite-smoked barbecue and craft taps on West State, with a covered patio for the good months. Upstairs there's a rugby room called the Dragon's Lair, which tells you most of what you need to know about the regulars.
Michael Kelly's Irish Pub
A tiny Irish pub right by the bridge and the old railroad depot, small enough that the Friday and Saturday live music fills the whole room. When it turns cold, it's where you go for a hot toddy or an Irish coffee.
Montella's Sports Bar & Pub
The wings are the reason to come, especially Thursday nights when the jumbo ones land in a habanero sauce that earns its heat. TVs cover every wall on Broad Street, so you can catch whatever game's on while you work through a plate.
Mystic Ways Brewing
A Perkasie brewery pouring creamy pints off a side-pull tap that only a handful of Pennsylvania places bother to keep, open since August 2022. The taproom runs on hanging plants and fairy lights, with a kitchen and a beer garden out back for the long stay.
Narberth Beverage
Beer distributor on Montgomery Ave for cases and cans. Classic Pennsylvania take-home beer, no frills.
Nektar Wine Bar
Twenty-eight wines by the glass pour from the Cruvinet, backed by one of the deeper whiskey lists in Bucks County and eight rotating taps. It sits right across Mechanic Street from the Bucks County Playhouse, which makes it your stop before the curtain.
New Haven Pizza
Greek-style pizza from the same family since 1970 — by its own banner, West Chester's home for the style. The beer list runs past 82 domestic and imported picks, drink in or take out.
Newtown Brewing Company
Family-owned brewery and taproom on Penns Trail, with tours of the brewhouse and outdoor seating when the weather turns. Their tagline is 'Quality Craft. Quality Beer. ...and movies' — which tells you the pours come with a personality.
North Penn Beverage Inc
A beer distributor on Washington Avenue with a wide craft selection, from mix-a-six singles to cases by the door. The spot for local drafts the grocery store doesn't carry.
North Penn Social Club
The social side of North Penn Fire Company on South Main, a members-and-guests bar tied to the volunteer firehouse. There's a hall out back for when the whole block needs somewhere to gather.
North Wales Beer
Bottle shop on North 3rd with a craft-heavy wall and singles you can mix into your own six. Come here when you want something specific, not another case of the usual.
North Wales Pub
A small corner bar where Main meets Montgomery, the kind of room where the bartender has you pegged as a regular by the second visit. Cold beer, low lights, no pretense.
Olde Towne Restaurant & Tavern
Twenty beers on draft and a wall of takeout bottles, in a room that's been a bar since the days it went by the Mayflower Restaurant. Show up for an Eagles Sunday and there's usually a free buffet or pizza going while the game's on.
Pag's Pub
A proper State Street pub: 24 rotating drafts, fifty-odd whiskeys, and a brick oven turning out thin-crust pizza. The patio is heated in winter, which tells you how they feel about you leaving.
Palace Room at The Proper
The event room upstairs at The Proper Brewing Co on West Broad, wired for private parties and live music nights. Book it out for a party, or catch a band when the calendar fills up.
The Patio at Horsham
A seasonal beer garden off Lakeside Drive, all picnic tables and open air. More of a warm-weather spot than a winter haunt.
Penn Taproom
The reliable middle of a Doylestown night out: rotating craft taps, a garden patio out back, and live music Thursdays and Sundays. Monday trivia at 8 and $7.99 Tuesday cheesesteaks keep the regulars on schedule.
Pennridge Beverage
A Perkasie beer distributor working the same 2nd Street corner for more than 40 years, aisles running from stacked domestic cases to a wall of craft. Build your own mixed six-pack or haul out a full case for the weekend.
The Pour House
A gastropub on Pottstown Pike in Exton with a draft list that runs deep. Come for wings and the big game on the screens.
The Pour House - North Wales
The North Wales outpost of the Pour House, a self-declared 'better beer bar' that was stacking craft drafts before craft went mainstream. Upscale burgers and sharable plates from the kitchen, and taps that hold out until 1 a.m. on weekends.
The Proper Brewing Company
Quakertown brewpub on West Broad pouring beer made in the building, with a full kitchen behind it. The move when you want dinner and the pint to come from the same address.
Quakertown Beverage
A beer store on South West End Boulevard that the regulars treat like a second fridge. Cases in back, a cold box up front for the six-pack you meant to grab yesterday.
Rams Pint House & Rooftop Lounge
A rooftop deck over Chestnut Street, open since 2020, where the seats run first-come, first-serve and the taps stay on till midnight on weekends. Get up there early on a Friday if you want a rail spot for the game.
Rebel Hill Brewing Company - Brewery on Bridge
Rebel Hill's Bridge Street taproom, one more argument that this borough brews harder per block than anywhere in the burbs.
Rec Room
A brewery with a rec-room heart on Bridge Street — pints alongside games you haven't played since middle school. Competitive streaks welcome.
Rivertown Taps
Bridge Street taps with a 4.8 average and a rotating draft list that rewards the indecisive. Small room, strong pours.
Roberts Block Restaurant
American kitchen and bar right at Glenside Station, built out with barn wood, antique marble and old La Salle High School bleachers. The Block Yard out back runs Thursday trivia and live music on Friday and Saturday.
Ron's Original Bar & Grille
Ron opened his first restaurant in 1982 and still works at least six days a week; the desserts are made from scratch daily. Live music takes the bar Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and you can grab to-go beer from the takeout area on the way out.
Root Down Brewing Company
A big, open taproom in the old Superior Beverage building, with a Sunday brunch and a vegan menu that most breweries don't bother with. Bridge Street's other tap wall.
Ryan's Pub
Ryan's Pub is the Irish corner of Gay Street, Guinness on draft and a kitchen that does the pub-food basics right. A reliable spot for a pint and a burger downtown.
Saloon 151
Saloon 151 anchors the Gay Street bar strip, a bar-and-grill by day that turns into a late-night crowd after dark. Come for the beers and burgers, stay for whatever the DJ has planned.
Santino's Tap & Table
Santino's Tap & Table pairs a rotating draft list with pub plates on East Market Street. Pull up at the bar for a beer or settle in for dinner.
Second Sin Brewing Newtown
The Newtown taproom of a Bristol brewery whose hazy IPA, Burgerstaxx, took first place at the 2024 Pennsylvania Farm Show — all citrus, peach, and nectarine. Their sour, Cobblerin' Time, swaps the fruit every batch, so the cobbler you get in July is not the one you got in March.
Sedona Taphouse
The Bridge Street taphouse with a beer list that runs long and a Monday steak deal locals plan around. Big room, always moving.
Sellersville Beverage & Cigar
A family beer distributor since 2006, with a walk-in humidor of a few thousand cigars set behind the cases of craft, import, and domestic. Build your own six-pack, grab a keg, or walk out with an adult slushie.
Sly Fox Taphouse at the Grove
Sly Fox's taphouse at The Grove, pouring since January 2020 with beer arriving fresh from the brewery and a pizza oven handling the food. Tuesdays do double duty — trivia from 6:30 to 8:30 and $9 select growlers.
Spinnerstown Hotel Restaurant & Tap Room
Feeding this corner of upper Bucks since 1750, which makes it older than the country it's in. The kitchen buys from local farms, and the attached Spinny Bottle Shop sends you home with beer or wine.
Square Bar
Square Bar is a neighborhood bar on East Chestnut Street, off the Gay Street rush. Expect a solid drink list and a lower-key crowd.
Stable 12 Brewing Company
Beer brewed in a converted barn — Stable 12 calls it 'barn to brewery,' and the beer garden makes the case. Sugar Coated Pony Kisses, a low-ABV IPA, is the one to start with.
Station Taproom
A craft beer bar by the Downingtown train station, with a rotating tap list and a burger regulars will argue about. Small room, serious beer.
Steel City Brewing
Steel City Brewing takes its name from Coatesville's steel-mill past and pours on Lincoln Highway. House beers in an old mill town.
Steel City Coffeehouse & Brewery
Coffeehouse by day, listening room by night. Order a flat white in the morning, then come back after dinner for the songwriter showcase.
Stolen Sun Scratch Kitchen & Taphouse
Brewery and scratch kitchen on North Pottstown Pike, pouring its own beer next to a full dinner menu. The taphouse setup means a flight and a plate without leaving your seat.
Stove & Tap Lansdale
The original Stove & Tap, holding down the old Molly Maguire's space on Main with a taxidermied bear named Biff keeping watch over the bar. Order the wings and work down a tap list that turns over fast enough that regulars log every pour on Untappd.
Stove & Tap West Chester
Gastropub on West Gay Street pairing a long draft list with mussels, burgers, and a from-scratch comfort menu. Part of the local Stove & Tap group.
The Stray Dog Tavern
From-scratch tavern cooking: sheep's-milk ricotta gnudi, flaky puff-pastry chicken pot pie, and buck-a-shuck oysters at happy hour, 4 to 6 every day. The owners also run Philly Bully Team, which they call the Philly area's largest bully-breed dog rescue.
Tannery Run Brew Works
Ambler's own brewery on East Butler, named for the creek that once ran the tanneries. History in the name, fresh hops in the glass.
The Temperance House
Andrew McMinn opened this tavern in 1772, and it spent the 1840s pouring nothing alcoholic, which is how it landed the name; the bar now runs 33 taps. The scratch kitchen leans Latin and European under colonial fireplaces where folk painter Edward Hicks once turned up.
Ten7 Brewing Company
Named for police code 10-7, cop-speak for off duty. Family- and veteran-owned since 2018, with a co-owner who logged 25 years on the force; bring your own food or catch the weekly food truck.
TimeOut Skippack
The sports bar on Skippack Pike, games on the screens and a table-friendly menu. Come with a group.
Tired Hands Fermentaria Tap Room
Tired Hands' production brewery since 2015, 13,000 square feet with a tap room and a General Store attached. This is where Hop Hands comes from, and where the Milkshake IPA got invented alongside Sweden's Omnipollo.
Travelin' Man Brewery
Small-batch brewery on Cloverly Lane, pouring its own beer in a taproom tucked into the Horsham industrial blocks. The kind of place you find behind a loading dock and keep coming back to.
Troubles End Brewing
Troubles End is a Collegeville brewery and taproom off Third Avenue, pouring its own beer next to a full kitchen. Room to settle in over a few pints.
Twelve78 Brewing
Small brewery tucked behind a building at the bottom of Bridge Street. Finding the door is part of the membership.
Union Jack's Olde Glory Pub
Wings and crisp pierogies are what this Limekiln Pike pub leads with, backed by a craft and import beer list. Open to midnight seven days, and it sends out catering trays for parties.
The Valley House Bar & Restaurant
'Smash'-style burgers, pasta, and daily specials on the food side; 20 craft, domestic, and local taps plus craft cocktails on the other. The bar opens at 11 every day and keeps going after the kitchen calls it.
Van Lieus Brewing
Named for Van Lieus Road in Ringoes, New Jersey, where the family ran a basement nano before taking over a converted Texaco station on West Walnut in October 2023. The board leans traditional — Kolsch, ESB, Irish stout on nitro — right next to the hazy IPAs everyone else is chasing.
Vault Brewing Company
A craft brewery inside the 1889 Yardley National Bank, where the original steel vault now cellars the kegs instead of cash. The Cain brothers opened it in 2012 with a wood-fired kitchen turning out pizzas alongside the seasonal beer list.
Victory Brewing Company Downingtown
Victory's founding brewpub, brewing HopDevil and Golden Monkey on Acorn Lane since 1996. The taproom pours pints a few steps from the tanks they come out of.
Vince's Pizzeria & Taproom
A pizzeria built around what they bill as Bucks County's first self-serve tap wall: you pour your own beer, cider, or wine. Order the PAG — pear, gorgonzola, fresh arugula, white truffle oil.
VK Brewing Co. & Eatery
Veteran-owned brewpub in the historic Ship Inn on Lincoln Highway, brewing its beer on site with a full kitchen and bar behind it. There's now a second taphouse in Honey Brook, but Exton is where the tanks live.
Wallace Dry Goods
A bottle shop on Lancaster Ave where nothing has alcohol in it: zero-proof beer, wine, spirits and aperitifs, plus bitters and mixers. The tasting bar pours rotating samples and the occasional craft mocktail.
The Ways Restaurant & Brewery
Beer brewed on site in the middle of Glenside, with the sauces and dressings made in house to match. Thursday nights are smoked ribs, weekends bring live music, and the beer van rents out for parties, taps and all.
Well Crafted Beer Co. Lansdale Brewpub
Twenty taps of beer brewed in-house on a 7-barrel system, around the corner from the SEPTA station on Madison Street since 2018. Rick Solomon's original brewpub, and the reason downtown Lansdale smells like a mash tun on brew days.
West Chester Seafood Kitchen
Chesapeake crab cakes, lobster rolls, and a raw bar at the corner of Gay and Walnut, inside Hotel Indigo. Downtown's 2026 best-of list already named it Best New Restaurant.
The West End
Quakertown's calendar pub: dollar wings on Mondays, $36.95 prime rib every Wednesday. Happy hour runs 4:30 to 6:30 on weeknights, a dollar off select drafts, wine, and cocktails.
The Whip Tavern
A proper English pub out in southern Chester County horse country, pouring rotating drafts against weekend features like classic roast beef with Yorkshire pudding. Sunday brunch runs 10 to 2, and the whole place goes dark on Tuesdays.
Wrong Crowd Beer Company
A West Chester brewery on Hannum Avenue pouring its own beer in a low-key taproom. Small operation, good crowd, name notwithstanding.
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