Mountain breweries do strawberry wheat ale
Five breweries in the mountains east of Pittsburgh have collaborated on a berry good beer.
Fifty percent of the proceeds from Balding Berry Strawberry Wheat Ale will benefit the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. The nonprofit fights childhood cancer via fundraising events where people volunteer to have their heads shaved.
Nurse practitioner Ruth Shaffer already has raised more than $3,000 for her virtual shaving, to happen Friday at at Hyndman Family Health Center in Bedford County. She spearheaded this collaboration with Whitehorse Brewing in nearby Berlin, Somerset County; Olde Bedford Brewing in Bedford; Spring Dam Brewing in Roaring Spring; Iron Pint in Altoona; and Coal Country Brewing in Ebensburg.
Whitehorse Brewing will have the draft at both its Berlin and Washington, Pa., taprooms starting Saturday, and also will be selling six packs and cases of bottles. Whitehorse’s Susan
Walker says the other breweries will be selling their own versions of the brew, which was made with barley donated by Bedford’s forthcoming Dalesman Distillery & Brewery and was malted at CNC Malt in Butler County.
In a Facebook announcement about her event, recorded at Whitehorse on brew day, Shaffer thanks the many sponsors of her second close-shave fundraising event and says, “I’m pretty excited to be bald.”
Four Points opens
Charleroi-based Four Points Brewing has opened its taproom at 919 Western Ave. on the North Side, with first-come, first-serve limited indoor seating and temporary outdoor seating. Food will be available from food trucks or from neighboring businesses. In Charleroi, you can order takeout from sister business Fourth Street Barbecue.