(MAGGIE)
IT'S TIME TO GET
"HOPPED UP!"
DID YOU KNOW OUR
STATE CURRENTLY
HAS THE MOST
MICRO-BREWERIES IN
THE ENTIRE US?
IT'S A BOOMING
BUSINESS AND YOU
DON'T HAVE TO GO
FAR TO REALIZE
THAT.
(KC)
NEW CRAFT
BREWERIES ARE
OPENEING UP IN
CENTRAL PA--
AND WE'RE STOPPING
IN TO SEE WHAT
MAKES THEM SO
UNIQUE.
IT'S OUR LOCAL
CRAFT BREWERY
WEEK HERE ON
WTAJ...
AND WE BEGIN IN
HUNTINGDON--
WHERE A BREWERY
IS A BRAND NEW
IDEA!
WELCOME TO
HUNTINGDON
COUNTY'S ONE AND
ONLY BREWERY!
THE ORIGIN OF THE
RECENTLY OPENED
JUNIATA BREWING
COMPANY MIGHT
SURPRISE YOU.
"it was not a
love of beer oddly
enough...
at least not on my part."
INSTEAD CO
FOUNDER AND CEO
SEAN STEEG SAYS IT
WAS MORE ABOUT A
LOVE FOR HIS
COMMUNITY.
"a brewery is
the best way to express
that. The brewery
culture that has been
engendered across the
nation, but in pa in
particular, is one of
community and
inclusiveness."
SO WITH SEAN
HAVING THE IDEA...
HE JUST NEEDED
SOMEONE TO BREW
THE BEER.
(pshhhhhhhhhh)
THAT'S WHERE HIS
PARTNER DAVID
WELSH COMES IN...
WHO LEARNED
ABOUT BREWING
FROM A COURSE HE
TOOK AT JUNIATA
COLLEGE. FROM
THERE HE STARTED
HOME BREWING AND
WAS EVENTUALLY
PUT IN TOUCH WITH
SEAN.
"I take
inspiration from
traditional beer styles. I
read about beer..(butt to
9;23;28;04)...
sometimes an idea will
kind of come to me and I
can base a recipe
around that."
JBC IS CURRENTLY
OPERATING OUT OF A
5 BARREL SYSTEM IN
THEIR BREW HOUSE,
AVERAGING A NEW
BEER, ROUGHLY
EVERY WEEK AND
HALF.
AND BOY...
DOES THE FINAL
PRODUCT LOOK
DELICIOUS!
(9;26;14;19)
"all of the
wood that you see, if you
enjoy looking at it, was
created by my partner
and his father.."
PART OF A ROUGHLY
ONE THOUSAND
SQUARE FOOT TAP
ROOM, WHERE SEAN
SAYS THE ORIGIN OF
THE BREWERY
REALLY COMES INTO
FOCUS.
"I wanted it to
be a place where
conversations weren't
limited to the table that
you're at..you hear
something interesting,
you can turn your head
and start having a
conversation with the
table next to you..right
now, those tables are a
little bit further apart, but
that's still happening."
(KC)
AND THEY REALLY
LISTEN TO THE
COMMUNITY WHEN IT
COMES TO THE
TYPES OF BEERS
THEY BREW. SEAN
AND DAVID USE SOME
LOCAL INGREDIENTS
FOR VARIOUS BEERS,
AND USE LOCAL
NAMES TOO...
THEY USE
HUNTINGDON'S
STANDING STONE
COFFEE FOR THEIR
"STANDING STONE
STOUT." I
RECOMMEND THE
"BIG CHED," A HAZY
IPA NAMED AFTER
DAVID'S CAT
CHEDDAR. WE DO
WANT TO NOTE.
BECAUSE OF THE
LATEST
RESTRICTIONS - JBC
IS DOING ONLY
CURBSIDE TO GO
ORDERS RIGHT
NOW...
BUT GO CHECK THEM
OUT...
ALONG
SUSQUEHANNA AVE.
JUNIATA
