Yards Brewery Tour

After many years of enjoying Yards beer, Melissa and I, and a few other Fishtown friends, headed to the Yards Brewing Company to take a tour. If you live in Fishtown or Northern Liberties, set a Saturday aside and WALK to this delight!

Located on Delaware Avenue in the 19123, Yards is technically in Northern Liberties. Politics aside, the split-up from their previous location in Fishtown that spawned the Philadelphia Brewing Company was nothing but a win-win situation for locals that enjoy quality brews.

Tours are held every Saturday at Noon, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, and 3:00 pm, and last approximately 45 minutes. A few cups of whatever they want to offer are provided for free, but that’s about it. The Tasting Room dishes out beer for $5 a pint, as well as serving up what looked like some great pub lunch dishes. If you want to just hang in the Tasting Room, it’s open until 7:00 pm.

Our tour guide, Toby, was practically a standup comedian working at Yards. Very funny guy with many “asides”, cracks on attendees, and any guy that can make fun of himself and laugh at himself is always good by me.

Definitely swing by Yards some Saturday afternoon and sample something new. I checked out their barley wine, Old Bartholomew, which I had never even heard of. Meanwhile, my favorite Yards beer remains the Thomas Jefferson Ale.

Shipping area…Bad photo, I know.

Tasting Room winding down…It was quite hectic in there upon arrival…Seats were hard to find.

The locale of Yards Brewery used to be a skate / bike park, and this is a remnant of that.