Pennsylvania Breweries History: Wainwright Brewing
The Wainwright Brewing Company is a contract brewing company
(beer brewed under contract by Pittsburgh Brewing).
Joseph J. Wainwright founded one of America's oldest breweries
in the early 1800's. Located in Lawrenceville, which is technically
part of today's Pittsburgh, J.J.Wainwright's was one of the
twenty-one Pennsylvania breweries that merged in 1899 to become
Pittsburgh Brewing Company. The Pittsburgh brewing Company in the form
of the contact brewing company Wainwright started brewing the special
J.J. Wainwright beers in the late 1990's in Lawrenceville using the
time honored methods and quality ingredients that J.J. Wainwright used
for his slect beers.
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