Yards Brewing Company
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| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA |
| Year opened | 1994 |
| Active Beers | |
| Thomas Jefferson Tavern Ale | Golden ale |
| General Washington Tavern Porter | Porter |
| Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce | Spruce beer |
| Extra Special Ale | Ale |
| Philadelphia Pale Ale | Pale ale |
| India Pale Ale | I.P.A. |
| Love Stout | English-style stout |
| Saison | Belgian-style ale |
| Trubbel de Yards | Trappist-style tripel |
| PYNK | Lambic |
Yards Brewing Company is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's only production brewery within city limits. Despite Philadelphia's history as a home to thousands of brewers and a regional brewing center, a number of factors including the consolidation of the brewing industry and the city's decline lead to the closure of the city's breweries one by one, until the closure of Schmidt's in 1987 left the city without a brewery for the first time in its 305-year history. Yards was founded in 1994 by Jon Bovit and Tom Kehoe, with a brewery in the city's Manayunk district. Increasing demand resulted in the construction of a second brewery in the Roxborough neighborhood two years later. Then, in 2001, the brewery moved its entire operations to the historic former Weisbrod & Hess brewery in Kensington, which had shut down in 1939. Current production capacity is over 10,000 barrels per year.
Yards brews a line of ales including Philadelphia Pale Ale, ESA, IPA, a Belgian abbey-style Saison, and a seasonal Love Stout, which was formerly brewed with whole oysters. In 2003, the brewery partnered with Philadelphia's City Tavern to produce "Ales of the Revolution," a porter and an ale reconstructed from original recipes brewed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
