Penn Brewery

10/11/2026

Penn Brewery is currently closed due to a power outage. We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to welcoming you back on Thursday at 4pm!

10/10/2026

Country fans, round up your crew for Harvest Fest this Saturday at Penn Brewery! 🤠🍻

We’ve got your afternoon AND your night covered:

🎸 Scott Riggle | 3–7 PM
🎶 The Fabulous Gunslingers | 7–10:30 PM

🍺 Try Penn’s NEW Light Beer—on special for just $5 a pint!

We’re also pouring fresh Oktoberfest and Pumpkin b**r. Sing along and spend a fall Saturday with friends on Pittsburgh’s Northside. 🍂

🎟️ NO COVER CHARGE!
🚗 FREE parking on the deck
📍 800 Vinial Street

Tag your live music crew and make a day of it! 👇

10/06/2026

Fresh pints, fall vibes, and live music—Friday night plans are set. 🍂🍻

Grab your crew and join us for Harvest Fest in the Penn Brewery Biergarten! Catch Zach Cratsley live from 6–9 PM, playing acoustic favorites from Aerosmith to Zach Bryan. 🎸

We’re pouring b**r brewed right here in our copper kettles. Find a spot outside, sing along, and make a night of it.

📍 800 Vinial Street
🚗 FREE parking on the deck

Tag your Biergarten crew below! 👇

10/01/2026

🍺 Been here, got the mug? 🍺

Bring your Penn Oktoberfest Mug
back for .......
🍺 $5 refills all weekend long! 🍺

And tonight, we’ve got a $10 STEELERS PREGAME BUFFET from 6-9pm with brats, kielbasa, pierogies, kraut, käsespätzle and more, plus $5 pints of Penn Gold and Penn Light.

Heading to Prostburgh? Stop in and see us afterward. Or come early, grab some dinner and a Penn b**r, and stick around for kickoff at 8:15pm.

See you at 800 Vinial. Prost!

10/01/2026

Thank you, Pittsburgh. Seeing so many familiar faces and so many new ones over these two Oktoberfest weekends has meant more to us than you know. Forty years in, we’re pretty excited about what comes next. Here’s to the next chapter and a whole lot more b**r on this hillside.

As such tonight, we’re keeping the good times going with a Steelers Thursday Night Football special. We open at 4pm, and from 6-9pm we’ll have a $10 STEELERS PREGAME BUFFET with brats, kielbasa, pierogies, kraut, käsespätzle and more. We’ll have $5 pints of Penn Gold and Penn Light. And your Oktoberfest mugs? Bring them along too! We’ll fill them for $5 all weekend long.

Grab a plate and a pint as we kick it off. See you tonight at 800 Vinial.

Prost!

09/27/2026

It’s Oktoberfest Family Sunday at Penn!

COMPLIMENTARY horse-drawn carriage rides will be trotting around historic Deutschtown from 2-6pm! The gates open at 11:30, the Steelers will be on our big screen tvs and our historic lagering caves will be open to check out and maybe feel a spooky chill.

Mädel Jäger is scheduled to play in the Biergarten from 3-8pm. German food, fresh Penn Oktoberfest on tap, and free horse rides, have all the makings of a perfect sunny Sunday here in Deutschtown.

Prost!

Sunday Family Day 12-8pm

Event details: pennbrew.com/oktoberfest-2026

800 Vinial, Pittsburgh, 15212

09/26/2026

09/26/2026

For Penn Brewery’s 40th anniversary, Head Brewer Christopher Rudolph decided to look a little further back, to the b**rs that were being brewed on this Vinial Street hillside during the Eberhardt & Ober era. That took us into the University of Pittsburgh archives, where original Eberhardt & Ober Brewing Company records from the late 1800s are preserved. We couldn’t find an exact recipe book, so Chris did the next best thing and worked backward. The result is our Eberhardt & Ober Heritage Series, built around what we know about E&O, the b**rs of the time, the ingredients that would have been available and the way brewers actually brewed with them. And that meant taking some modern brewing conveniences right back out of the recipes. The Münchner was brewed with 100% Munich malt and the Vienna L***r with 100% Vienna malt, all sourced directly from Germany. Simple grain bills built around the kinds of base malts that would have existed when Eberhardt & Ober was making b**r here.

Then there’s the fun part, the process. Both b**rs were double decoction mashed, an old-world brewing technique where part of the mash is pulled out, boiled and added back in. A modern brewer could simply add melanoidin malt to help create that deep, rich malt character. Chris didn’t. It wouldn’t have been there in the 1800s, so he created that character through the brewing process instead. Same thing with pH. Acidulated malt makes that job easier today, but brewers in the 1800s didn’t have it, so Chris used Sauergut, intentionally soured wort, to adjust the pH instead.

Are these the exact Eberhardt & Ober recipes from 1885? No. Nobody can honestly say that. They’re reconstructions of what we know those b**rs could have been, using ingredients that would have existed and brewing techniques that would have been familiar to the people making b**r here more than a century ago. The idea was pretty simple. If we’re going to bring Eberhardt & Ober b**rs back for a night, let’s really try to do it right. Get as close as we reasonably can. Brew them the way they would have.

So tonight 9/26, we invite you to step inside our historic E&O lagering caves, try both b**rs and taste a little Pittsburgh history....

09/26/2026

09/26/2026

Last call for Oktoberfest under the tents!!!! FREE ADMISSION AS ALWAYS. Tonight is the FINAL Saturday night of Penn Oktoberfest, and we’re kicking things off at 5pm!

This is it for Penn Oktoberfest 2026 nights under the tents, so grab a stein and come spend a dirndlriffic Saturday night with us in the Biergarten and raise a glass to a new chapter at Penn. In short, Uber deinen Hintern to 800 Vinial!

Tonight. Mädel Jäger, the Bros-in-Hosen, get things going outside on the big stage from 5-8pm, followed by The Heritage Band bringing it home from 8:30-11:30pm. It’s your last chance to tell them how you’re feeling, maybe get a second glance. Inside, Grammy-nominated accordionist Kevin Solecki will be playing from 6-10pm.

Again. No ticket, no cover charge, just come on down and grab yourself a milk jug of b**r!

But because we’re not done yet. Tomorrow is Family Day and a sunny Steeler Sunday in the restaurant and Biergarten! We’ll have COMPLIMENTARY horse-drawn carriage rides from 2-6pm to trot you and the fam around historic Deutschtown, and Mädel Jäger is doing double duty and coming back to play again!

Zicke Zacke!
Saturday 5-11:30pm
Sunday Family Day 12-8pm
Event details: pennbrew.com/oktoberfest-2026

09/25/2026

Schnitz is it!!!! The FINAL weekend of Penn Oktoberfest starts tonight at 5pm!

The Heritage Band gets things going outside on the big stage under the tents from 5-8pm, followed by Zolkas from 8:30-11:30pm. Inside, Grammy-nominated accordionist Kevin Solecki will be playing from 6-10pm.

Penn Oktoberfest is always FREE to enter, with no ticket or cover charge. We still have a few VIP seats left for the weekend if you want to elevate your experience with a guaranteed seat and other perks, so grab yours while you can!

And! Sunday is Family Day, and this week we have not just Mädel Jäger playing but also HORSES! They’ll be here from 2-6pm to trot you around historic Deutschtown, so bring the kids, bring the grandparents and come spend one last sunny Oktoberfest afternoon with us.

Prost!

September 25th-27th
Friday & Saturday 5-11:30pm
Sunday Family Day 12-7pm

Event details: pennbrew.com/oktoberfest-2026

05/15/2026

Penn Brewery is OPEN.

Penn Brewery is a tenant occupying only a fraction of the historic building and 4-acre northside complex.

Like many commercial properties, the building itself may change ownership over time, while the businesses operating inside continue serving their customers as usual. Again, the brewery business and the real estate property are not the same thing.

This historic complex we call home is also home to many long-standing and reputable tenants including doctors offices, salons, law offices, and other small businesses. In fact, even Franco Harris previously had an office in our D-Building for his company.

That said, please continue supporting local small businesses and join us tomorrow 12-10pm for Halfway to Oktoberfest with The Heritage Band in the biergarten! 🍻