Lavery Brewing (Erie, PA) has been pumping out their award winning beer since they opened in 2009. 10 years later they are one of the next breweries to open a new location! Their second location will be at 113 S Franklin St in Titusville. They will be taking over the location from the Blue Canoe who is scheduled to close in June.
We recently spoke with brewery owner Jason Lavery to understand the expansion a bit more. “We want to be sure this location has its own identity. The craft beer market is getting crowded and we have found that by being authentic and creating beers and a menu that we, as a company and team, are proud of- really resonates with our customers.” Jason said regarding the motivation behind adding a new location.
The brewery will receive the keys to the building by July 1st with hopes to be open around July 12th. The Titusville location will focus on German style beers with every beer being decotion mashed. If you’re not familiar, decoction mashing is a way to conduct multi-step mashes without adding additional water or applying heat to the mash tun.
“Our Erie location is more a brewery with a tap room, and our Titusville location is a restaurant with a brewery” Jason said of how the new location will differ from their original brewery in Erie.
Titusville will have a 7 bbl steam brewhouse with four 14 bbl fermenters and serving tanks as well. Jason confirmed with us that they anticipate the Blue Canoe staff staying on when the Lavery brewery opens. They have met with many of the existing team members and the plan is to keep them all working.
The ultimate goal for Lavery is to open “a brewhouse that can decoct and a really big kitchen to play around in” Lavery said. Their Titusville location will offer food that will be treated as elevated comfort food.
“Even though we’ll be brewing German-style beers at the new location, we will also have our other beers on tap as well. Four of the twelve taps will be Titusville brewed beers and the other eight will be Erie beers that are shipped down” Lavery added.
“We’ve been brewing lagers for a long time now and this Titusville location was a perfect opportunity to create something new and unique. We also get the best of both worlds (thanks Act 166!) since we can ship our IPA’s, Stouts, Saisons and everything else down from Erie”.
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