National beer museum still on track for Pittsburgh

History Center’s “We Can Do It! WWII”: Traveling Exhibit — will be about beer in World War II. It’s to run Feb. 2 through March26.

The “Brew: Museum of Beer” flag also is flying at a new series of beer class events that Mr. Young tested earlier this month at Bierport in Lawrenceville. And the museum team also will have a booth at the Sept. 15 Steel City Big Pour beer, art and food festival at Construction Junction in Point Breeze (www.cjreuse.org/bigpour). “Until we have the physical structure,” says Mr. Young, “the idea can live anywhere people wantto gather to talk about beer.”

TheBrew team is keeping an eye on other beer museum projects. One that is moving ahead is the Chicago Brewseum, which on Saturday is to announce the local museum where its first exhibition will go on display this fall. That museum is specifically dedicatedto that city and region’s history.

Also underway is the American Brewing History Initiative at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., a project to document, collect and preserve the history of beer and brewing in America, with a special focus on home brewing and craft beer. The Smithsonian’s beer historian, Theresa McCulla, visited Pittsburgh in June for a talk at the Heinz History Center.

Mr. McAllister notes that the Brew team now also includes its own archivist, Rachael Rampa, who has a lot of collections experience with The Andy Warhol Museum. But for now, they’re taking only notes. “We’re still doing this balance between the stuff and thestory.”

And that story is still going to be the 10,000-year history of beer across the world. So if it takes them a bit longer to get the museum launched, so be it. “We’re still plugging away,” says Mr. McAllister. “The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame took more than 10 years. We’re trying to beat that.”

You can learn more at http://brewmuseum.com and by following the museum on socialmedia.