WE LOVE LAGER.
We started Golden Age Beer Co. because we are passionate about making clean and crisp lagers that are eminently drinkable.
From crisp Northern German and fragrant Italian-style pilsners to luxurious dunkels and Franconian rauchbiers to the easy-drinking, “lawnmower” American lager, we believe that, with their clean, subtle and eminently-drinkable finesse, lagers are the beers that bring people together, that cross divides, and that are both the past and the future of beer. And so we brought a brewery that makes lager its primary focus to Pittsburgh and, more particularly, to Homestead. Indeed, we believe that to do anything else would be an injustice to this community’s hard-working, steely heritage and resolve. When this community rose up in 1892 to rebuff a barge full of armed Pinkertons, it was fueled by Homestead-brewed lager, while the very brewers who crafted that lager stood in solidarity with their steel-worker brethren on the banks of the Monongahela. We hope that we can stand in solidarity with this community once more as it continues on its path to a new golden age.
Our brewhouse is well-equipped to produce the finest lagers. We are fortunate to brew on a state-of-the-art 15 barrel BrauKon brewing system. Bavarian-made and designed to manufacture the world’s most precise beer styles, this system provides our brewing team with the tools it needs to walk the tightrope to make perfect lager, which is defined nearly as much by its absence of imperfections as it is by its pursuit of perfection. In what feels like a meeting driven by fate itself, we were fortunate to find a head brewer who is up to the challenge of working with a system that has a lofty reputation for precision and finesse.
