Dock Street Brewing Company
"It's All In Your Head"
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Opened | 1985 |
| Key people | Rosemarie Certo, Marilyn Candeloro, Mark Russell, Sasha Certo-Ware |
| Annual production volume | 2,000 US beer barrels (2,300 hL) in 2016 |
Dock Street Brewing Company is a brewery in the Cedar Park neighborhood of Philadelphia, USA. It claims to be the first craft brewing company based in the Philadelphia area following Prohibition and one of the first in the country. The name Dock Street was chosen in honor of the seaport district of the same name in Philadelphia which was the largest producer of beer in the then-newly formed country in the late 1700s.
Dock Street was created in 1985 as a bottled beer operation based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It was founded by photographer Rosemarie Certo and her husband Jeffrey Ware, a Philadelphia restaurateur.
In 1989, the pair opened a brewpub in the Logan Square neighborhood of Center City, Philadelphia's central business district. By 1996, the company was producing more than 25,000 barrels of beer and distributing to 24 states, making it the 26th largest microbrewery in the U.S.
Certo and Ware sold the company in 1998 to Poor Henry's Brewery & Restaurant, operated by a descendant of the family behind the Henry F. Ortlieb Brewing Company, also of Philadelphia. In 2000, Poor Henry's ceased operations.
Certo repurchased the brand and bottling operation in 2002. In 2007, the brewery reopened as a pizza-centric brewpub in the former Firehouse Farmers Market in the Cedar Park neighborhood in West Philadelphia. The facility features a 10-barrel brewing system, four fermenters and six lagering tanks, and produces about 1,000 barrels per year, with capacity for 1,200.
In January 2017, Mark Russell assumed the position of Head Brewer.
In April 2017, Dock Street Brewing Company expanded with Dock Street Cannery + Lounge, a mixed-use space with a canning line, two fermenters, and a tasting bar with craft cocktails. With the expansion and the addition of the new fermentation tanks, Dock Street's capacity increased by 225%.
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