Delco Malthouse Debuting PA Pride Beer At Digital Malt-A-Palooza

GLEN MILLS, PA — A Delaware County malthouse is gearing up for a virtual version of its fall harvest festival that will include the debut of an all-Pennsylvania sourced beer.

Deer Creek Malthouse’s fall harvest festival “Malt-A-Palooza”, now in its sixth year, will be held digitally in November.

Malt-A-Palooza was founded to showcase Pennsylvania brewers and beer made with grain and malt grown in Pennsylvania.

Each fall, Deer Creek, which is Pennsylvania's first malthouse to open since prohibition, welcomes the public for a day of family fun, highlighted by beer and food tasting, malthouse tours, hay wagon rides, games, and live music in a beautiful farm setting with many popular Pennsylvania breweries committed to local grain.

But in the times of the coronavirus, the event is going online with a virtual happy hour remotely instead of the normal field day festivities from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5.

Deer Creek teamed with Chatham University and the Grains & Revolution Conference to create the virtual event.

With the help of digital promotion company Breweries In PA, numerous craft breweries across Pennsylvania have come together to develop an all-Pennsylvania beer collaboration which celebrates local Pennsylvania agriculture: A hazy pale ale made with 100 percent Pennsylvania grown and malted grain.

"PA Pride," a beer named after the love and pride for the keystone state, will debut during the Nov. 5 virtual happy hour.

This recipe showcases organic spelt from Dauphin County & 2-row barley from Chester County.

“PA Pride” is a hazy pale ale produced with Keystone Pale barley malt and organic pale spelt malt. A light, hazy, sessionable pale ale hopped with Simcoe, Citra, and Cascade hops. Beer drinkers will find tasting notes of toasty crisps, petit cakes, hard tangerine candies, lemon verbena tea, and orange creamsicle pops.

The beer will be packaged and released in 16-ounce cans by the many Pennsylvania breweries who have joined together for the beer collaboration.

Cans of PA Pride feature Pennsylvania imagery such as the state outline, the iconic keystone and even the barn that can be found at Deer Creek.

Some breweries confirmed for the project are: Broken Goblet Brewing, Clarion RiverBrewing, Newtown Brewing, Noble Stein, Shy Bear, Stone Bridge, Beaver Brewing and many,many more.

Breweries who are interested in joining the collaboration can email Breweries In PA at info@breweriesinpa.com

Moderated by Deer Creek founder and maltster Mark Brault, a beer tasting and a panel discussion with local heroes making social and agricultural impacts on craft beer will highlight the virtual event.

The conversation will attempt to decolonize the practice of brewing by using grain as a vehicle for revolution in order to create a more equitable, sustainable, and inclusive food system.