Penn Brewery Finds Wooden “Treasures” In Old Brewery “Cave”

I’ve been following along as Andy Rich & everyone at Penn Brewery  have been preparing their biergarden.  In the process, they found what they have been calling a “cave” that had been blocked over years ago.  After slowly removing the blocks over the last few days they found historic wooden former brewing vessels (as you can see in their photo.)  Stay tuned for more details.

From Penn:

Rest assured we will be very conscious historically as we clean up. And the benefit of being sealed as it was is no sign of critters. ANY critters. Or any life (at least non-ethereal) we could detect.

Rumor has it the Ober sister’s ghost still haunts the place, though. We don’t need an exterminator, but we may need TAPS. -lol (just kidding)

Would you think we’re exaggerating if we said it goes back over 30 ft. Then it turns left. Then it gets BIG. And goes left, right, and straight? (And UP and DOWN – think split-level cave.) Well, we’re not. (exaggerating) This isn’t a beer cave, it’s a BEER MINE!

Use it for? To Be Determined.

We had a major cold-storage expansion planned this year anyway. Thinking it just may be worth the effort to go green. (Or back to tradition.) 84-degrees outside today, warmest last month ever, and in the caves we could still occasionally see our breath through the respirator like a winter day. At least we hope that was what that was.