Abjuration Brewing licensed, opening on Thursdays, too

brewery license. It’s adding Thursday hours from 5 to 10 p.m. Customers no longer will be able to carry pints into the theater, but they can sip those on the brewery side. And the two businesses say that customers can legally buy closed containers of beer — growlers — at the brewery and take them into the theater. (But by law, the growlers cannot be opened and consumed at the brewery.)

Having the beer overlap with the movies as much as possible was the original vision of Aaron Stubna, who bought the old theater and gave it to the Community Reel Arts Center before opening Film Lounge and a screening room inside.

Head brewer Dave Hallam, who co-owns Abjuration with Tom Glover, said they are looking into having pint-sized growlers. Additional taproom days and hours are probable, but “we only have so much beer — we’re so tiny.” They want to ease into additional open time while also expanding fermentation capacity for their brews, which have been selling at a clip, and which they serve in distinctive glass beakers.

A new one debuting Saturday: Hazelnut Coffee Latte Ale — real hazelnuts, local Fortunes Coffee beans, vanilla, lactose — served on nitrogen for extra creaminess. That day, the brewery also will have a food truck from Black Box Bistro.

“It’s been going great,” said Mr. Hallam, who with Mr. Glover is upbeat about what’s ahead, including eventually serving more craft-cocktail-inspired beers, Pennsylvania spirits and mead, and even setting up a small canning operation for some releases, which also could be legally taken into the theater. But first, they had to brew another one, which will be released at the taproom and then be poured at the June 2 Beers of the Burgh festival: Mango Triple IPA version 1.3.