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  • Making Beer the Environmentally Friendly Way

    From www.wnep.com wnpe

    Making Beer the Environmentally Friendly Way

    One of northeastern Pennsylvania’s newest breweries isn’t just bragging about its beer. The brewery is also praising the way it makes it. They do it the environmentally friendly way. This week’s Power to Save is from the Susquehanna brewing company in Luzerne County.

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  • Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal

    From www.wvia.org 509-nobile_web

    Northeastern Pennsylvania has a colorful history of small breweries but that all pretty much came to an end decades ago when the big beer brands consolidated. The small brands couldn’t compete as the public tastes followed mass appeal marketing. But now, things are changing, and right here at home, too.

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  • Craft Brewing at The Speed of Sound

    From Dr Andrés Furukawa Senior Brewing Technologist, PDX AF_PDX reactor2

    According to recent publications, the U.S. craft beer volume increased by 13 per cent in 2011 with a total production of approximately 13.5 million hl (Dornbusch, 2012). Despite of this spectacular beer market phenomenon  there are just a few U.S. craft breweries, whose planning is based on integral and environmentally responsible production and retailing philosophy.

    Craft brewery with a long tradition

    Susquehanna Brewing Company (SBC) strives to grow its “green regional brewery credentials” based in Pittston, Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA). It has recently commenced operation, but enjoys a long tradition traceable back to 1895. Its extensive planning was carefully designed and carried out, committed to  an environment friendly strategy with a total investment of approximately USD 8.5 million and10 employees.

    This 6th generation family brewing business owned by Ed Maier, Fred Maier, Mark Nobile, and Jaime Jurado is currently producing three year-round craft beer brands; Pils-Noir, Goldencold Lager, and 6th Generation Stock Ale as well as seasonal beers starting with their Oktoberfest and then with a special pumpkin beer and a ‘fresh hop’ IPA immediately after.

    The origins of the name of the brewery trace its roots to Nanticoke after the Susquehanna River in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Charles Stegmaier purchased a two-year-old brewery and expanded and operated the SBC there until 1920, when it closed due to Prohibition in the United States, in place from 1920 to 1933.

     

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  • Czech out this complex brew

    From The Times Leader 210887_277167522391915_584620471_o
    Still in its infancy, the Susquehanna Brewing Company in Pittston is churning out yet another brew: the Pils-Noir.“It’s an innovative black pilsner,” Fred Maier, vice president and co-founder of Susquehanna Brewing Company, said.

    This is due to the brewing process used, a husk-free milling process and old Czech technique called decoction mashing. Decoction mashing is a technique used to conduct multi-step mashes without adding water or applying heat to the mash tun, another name for a brewing container. A third of the mash is removed to another pot and heated to conversion temperature, then boiled and returned to the mash tun.

    “This creates color and complexity while giving the beer a smoother, lighter body,” Maier said. “The beer is then finished with a generous amount of Czech Saaz hops for a distinctly European finish at 33 IBUs.”

    The beer is made from Pearl barley and malted by Munton’s, CaraMalt and Crystal malts.

    Pils-Noir is available in select bars for now but will become a staple brew for the company.

    SBC recently opened up its facilities for tours. The tours, which include tastings, run at 3 and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and at 2 p.m. Saturdays.

    PILS-NOIR

    Brewed by: Susquehanna Brewing Company, Pittston

    Type: Pilsner

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  • Meet A New Brew On The Block

    From The Times Leader 1337921072_8c38[1]

    The facility on Main Street in Pittston may be 55,000 square feet, but from the outside it’s unassuming. A walk through brightly lighted hallways at Susquehanna Brewing Co. will still make the structure feel cozy, until you pass through the door to where the actual brewing takes place. That’s when the enormity of the operation hits.

    “Every day I walk in here, and it catches me by surprise,” Mallory Nobile, community relations coordinator, said. “It’s just so big, and we’re only going to be adding more.”

    SBC has been hard at work getting operations in order during the past year, and the first batches of beer are finally here, rolling out in the form of drafts at bars that span Monroe, Pike, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming, Susquehanna, Carbon and Wayne counties. Fred Maier, one of co-founders, said tours and tastings at the facility will soon follow.

     

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  • A New Brew is Ready for Pouring (VIDEO)

    From WNEP

    Northeastern Pennsylvania’s newest brewery will soon start serving up suds to a tavern near you.

    The Susquehanna Brewing Company in Luzerne County invested millions into the operation and the owners dreams are now a reality.

    The Susquehanna Brewing Company’s master brewer takes a sample from one of the first batches of beer out of the fermenter and he likes what he sees.

    The $8.5 million brewery will soon provide cold ones for all to enjoy.

    Owner Ed Maier comes from a long history of brewers. His relatives founded the Steigmaier Company. Maier said this latest project, the Susquehanna Brewing Company, took two years of planning.

    “It was absolutely a dream come true.  To start back up in the brewing end of it after 40 years of wholesaling, it was a thrill,” said Maier.

    He added the company will employ at least 15 workers with room for expansion.

    Jaime Jurado serves as the master brewer, the head sudsman.

    “It’s a great time when the economy still struggling to have something we feel good about and know we are gearing up for. We will have positions opening up and we will be hiring local people,” Jurado said.

    If you want to try Susquehanna Brewing Company’s beer, you won’t have to wait long. All the empty kegs will soon be filled and distributed to local bars and restaurants in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties beginning next week.

    Steve Senenski, a friend of the owners, stopped by for a sample and said the brews will be a hit.

    “I think it’s great. I like a tasting beer and both these beers have taste,” Senenski said.

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  • Something’s brewing: NEPA’s newest brewery makes first batch

    From The Citizen's Voice 41213181E

    The Susquehanna Brewing Co. began brewing its first batch of beer Wednesday.

    The moment marked another chapter in brewing history for the descendants of local brewing icon Charles Stegmaier and business partner Mark Nobile.

    Charles Stegmaier’s great-grandson, Ed Maier, joined his son Fred Maier, Nobile, brewmaster Jaime Jurado and brewing experts from Germany as he poured hops into the first brew.

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  • Owners foresee a crafty boom

    From The Times Leader 1333867224_f6af[2]

    Ed Maier remembers a time not long ago when only 42 beer breweries remained in the United States.

    The year was 1974 and Schaefer was the world’s best-selling beer with Schlitz, Genesee and Stroh’s still popular at the corner tavern. Miller Lite was just a year old and was officially called “Lite Beer from Miller.”

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  • A New Brew

    From The Times Leader 1333867220_2de1[1]

    What started as a father-son trip to Boston three years ago to a craft brewers’ conference will culminate this week when the brewing units are fired up and the Susquehanna Brewing Co. begins making beer.

    The smell of hops was in the air last week as the final touches were being put into place inside the sprawling brewery that was once home to United Beverage of NEPA, a beer distributorship owned by the brewery’s current owners Ed Maier, his son Fred and Mark Nobile.

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  • Coming Soon: A Brewery Near You

    From The Pittston Dispatch news317

    When beer lovers think of micro or craft brewery start ups they picture a couple guys with a couple barrels in a garage. Mark Nobile, one of the partners in the Susquehanna Brewing Company (SBC) soon to be opening in Jenkins Township, said many successful micro brews started that way, but he adds “there is more than one way to do it.”

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  • SBC Hires Veteran Brewer

    From SBC hire

    Susquehanna Brewing Company (SBC) is pleased to announce that Guy Hagner is joining SBC as its Packaging Manager/Quality Assurance Manager, effective January 2012.

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  • New Businesses Gamble on the Economy

    From USA Today newbusiness_t

    Who would start a business in this economy? Chuck Mooty and his cousin Paul Mooty did. In September, they began producing blankets at Faribault Woolen Mill, which had been closed for two years. They have about 35 employees and hope to have 100 next year.

    Ed Maier, his son Fred and Mark Nobile are opening a brewery in Pittston, Pa. They hired 15 workers and expect that number to increase

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  • Brewery’s Brewmaster No Stranger to Area

    From The Citizen's Voice nostranger_t

    Luzerne County’s newest brewery will soon have its first brewmaster. When nationally known brewmaster Jaime Jurado joins Susquehanna Brewing Co. in January, it will be a homecoming of sorts. He was master brewer at the Lion Brewery in Wilkes-Barre for six years until 1991, and obtained his master’s degree in electrical engineering at Wilkes University during that time. “It indeed is a bit of a homecoming,” Jurado, 52, said in a phone interview recently. “I didn’t expect to go back, but it’s great.”

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  • Top Brewer Will Join Startup

    From Times Leader topbrewer_t

    The upstart Susquehanna Brewing Co. has hired its first master brewer. Jaime Jurado, a 1990 Wilkes University graduate, will return to the Wyoming Valley effective Jan. 1. Susquehanna Brewing Co., which will begin brewing in the coming months inside the former United Beverage of NEPA building at 635 S. Main St. in the township, was able to lure Jurado away from The Gambrinus Company in San Antonio, Texas.

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  • Raise Your Glass

    From Times Leader raiseglass_t

    Raise your glass, beer lovers. The former United Beverage of NEPA building at 635 S. Main St. soon will be filled with beer once more. But instead of pallets of already bottled, canned and kegged Miller, Rolling Rock and Genesee ready to ship to local bars, restaurants and beer stores, the facility will become a brewery. It’s in the owners’ blood. Read the Full Story (link)

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  • Stegmaier Descendants Brew Next Chapter

    From The Citizen's Voice nextchapter_t

    A new chapter in brewing history began Tuesday for Charles Stegmaier’s descendants and business partner Mark Nobile. Five massive brewing vessels arrived by boat from Germany and were delivered Tuesday on flatbed trucks to the Susquehanna Brewing Co., which will open in a few months. Ed Maier, the great-great-grandson of Charles Stegmaier, his son Fred and Nobile are turning the closed United Beverage at 635 S. Main St. in Jenkins Township into a German-style brewery that will produce craft beers with labels from the Susquehanna Brewing Co.

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  • Stegmaier Legacy Lives On In Planned Brewery

    From The Citizen's Voice legacy_t

    Ed Maier, the great-great grandson of Charles Stegmaier, is getting back into the brewing business with his son Fred and partner Mark Nobile. They plan to turn the closed United Beverage in Jenkins Township into a new brewery called the Susquehanna Brewing Co. The initial investment in the brewery, which will produce craft beers, will be $8 million to $10 million, they said. A company from Germany called BraKon GmbH will design and build the state-of-the-art brewhouse in United Beverage’s former warehouse. The brewery will open in the fall and will initially employ 15 people.

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