Christmas in July: South Side Bethlehem Brewpub Crawl 2

We had so much fun at last year's South Side Bethlehem Brew Pub Crawl, that we're going to return this year to once again celebrate the best of South Side craft brew culture.

This year's crawl will be somewhat different than last year's. We'll hit some new stops but keep things concentrated in the South Side Historic District, close to Steel Stacks. This year's crawl will also feature cider and mead in addition to beer.

We'll start things off at Country Club Brewing on Pierce Street. Oddly enough, this brewery opened its doors right around the same time I started this meetup group, late in 2022. The Burger Shack food truck is there if you want to get lunch. Or order in or bring food to any of the other stops on the tour.

We'll head to the South Bethlehem Greenway from there, adding a new stop this year at the Five Maidens Cider Company on Polk Street. If you don't want to show cider a little love, they pour some local microbrews as well.

From there, we'll head back to the Greenway and down to Bonn Place Brewing on Taylor Street, where the motto is Nice Beers for Nice People. It's on the small side, but it's hip and cool and the beer's pretty good too.

We'll return to East 3rd for the fourth stop on this year's tour: the Colony Meadery. This is a new stop as well. The specialty is mead--alcohol made from honey--but they also pour eight different Weyerbacher draughts.

It'll be dinner time once we're done there so that brings us to the fifth and final stop: The F&A Grog House, a beer bar with 52 different beers on tap. And South Bethlehem Restaurant Week specials!

If you feel really ambitious, you can continue on to Seven Sirens Brewing Company on Broadway, arguably Bethlehem's most famous and largest brewery and the Lehigh Valley's only brewery with beer hall. But that's optional. You'll still get at least four stamps in your Lehigh Valley Brewers Guild passport. That's 1/6th of the total. You'll have a chance to get your Seven Sirens stamp in Easton later this summer, stay tuned for more on that.

And there are free concerts at Steel Stacks and Artsquest if you want to keep the party going into the evening.

Plan to join us for all or part of the afternoon for this day-long celebration of our local craft brew culture.

See you there!