SKIPPACK, PENNSYLVANIA
In a red brick old farmhouse with brown overhead doors in Skippack Village, BROTHERS KERSHNER BREWING COMPANY hit the ground running in 2018. Amongst small boutique shops, custom cuisine, cultural art centers and a winery, Skippack is very reminiscent of New Hope (a half-hour away in northeast Pennsylvania). A refurbished auto body shop, Brothers Kershner now produces a diverse range of beers with a ‘focus on India Pale Ales.’
The rustic interior includes wood floors, block tables and a ten-seat magnetic silver metal bar top. An interior overhead door separates the barroom from a small banquet room. Rear brew tanks and Industrial pipes fill out the space. A small deck with plastic benches, wooden seats and strung Edison lights offer further seating.
Founding brothers, Basil and Kevin Kershner, have expanded their operations in 2025 to include a new 3,000-square-foot taproom, Brothers On The Brandywine Beer Garden, in nearby Coatesville. On top of the varied beers are fine pub fare, white and red wines, hard seltzers and cocktails.
My wife and I visited on a beautiful Friday at noon, early May 2026, sucking up ten sundry suds.
Salty lemon musk and herbal Noble hops gave gold-cleared flagship German pilsner, Johan, a slightly bitterer stylish spunk above dry barnyard cereal graining.
Lemon-limed Mexican lager, Zesty Bestie, let dry lime zesting contrast lemony rock candy sugaring as cologne perfumed musk spread thru tertiary lemongrass, agave, parsley and floral whims.
Dewy English Special Bitter ‘pub ale,’ Baker Street, swept dried currant fruiting across French breaded pumpernickel base.
Another English-styled ale, a collab with Philly’s Requiem Bar, Gold Horn, brought soily compost and vegetal earthiness to dry rye toastiness.
Yet another Brit-influenced ale, English dark mild, Moon, stayed dry as dark chocolate, black coffee and nutty espresso tones gathered comfortably.
Semi-strong (7.7% ABV) dark lager, Doppelbock, embraced molasses-sapped raisin breading and sedate plum-date whims given honeyed wheat sway.
Dry orange-spiced pale malting picked up musky hop astringency for moderate-bodied pale ale, Porch, leaving mild IPA-like piney grapefruit bittering on its back end.
Another steadfast year-round flagship, ‘Classic American IPA,’ Bing Bang Pow, placed floral citrus spicing across grassy hop astringency.
Softly citrus perfumed Belgian IPA let vodka-nipped grapefruit rind bittering and lemon musk ride atop lightly oated wheat creaming, picking up latent blackcurrant, blood orange and yuzu snips (hiding any true Belgian influence).
Robust Imperial Stout (a 10% ABV dark ale on the ‘beer engine’) sported milk-sugared coffee, dark chocolate and molasses richness, gaining black cherry, blackberry and blackcurrant swipes.