Pennsylvania Breweries History: Stoudt Brewing Stoudt's Brewing restaurant started as Stoudt’s Country Kitchen and in 1964 became the Black Angus Steak House. Stoudt’s Brewing Company was actually started in 1987 and brews European-style lagers and ales. The Stoudt brewery went through a lot of changes in it's first fifteen years. The size of the kettle was doubled, the bottling line was upgraded from a hand operated hundred year old filler to a modern fully automated production line, and the brewery underwent a million dollar expansion that included a separate, temperature controlled lager cellar. Stoudts Brewing Company adheres to the German Purity law of 1516.