GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Operating out of former Blaisdell pencil factory, ATTIC BREWING COMPANY became historic Germantown’s first neighborhood brewery, January 2020. With an “antique roadshow” feel, Attic owner Laura Lacy’s compact classic beer stylings rum the gamut.
A patio-benched beer garden leads to the red brick garage entry. The rustic cement-floored, wood-benched, black aluminum-ceilinged pub features a lacquered wood top bar, elegant blue-walled barback mural and twelve bronze-piped draught handles. Several wood and barrel tables (with red plastic stools) also regale the overhead doored interior while brew tanks are stationed in the rear.
Lacy spent some time with my wife and I early September ’26 while we downed five friendly brews, taking home nine more (reviewed in Beer Index) on my North Philly two-hour stopover.
Firstly, light-bodied German pils, G-Town Strutter, retained mild lemon spicing, cucumber-watered crisping and dry herbage atop rye-daubed toasted breading.
Standard mainstream commemoration, USA 250th Anniversary American Lager, placed corn-flaked barley in a salty lemon-fizzed hop setting, picking up buttery diacetyl phenols.
Maize flaked pilsner malts saddled dry Mexican lager, La Libertad, leaving musty Tequila, orange-oiled agave, musky brown tea and mild Scotch illusions in its wake.
Traditional pale ale, Universal Melody, utilized citric-spiced Mosaic hops to juice up vodka-nipped yellow grapefruit, mango and peach tropicalia as sharp pine tones contrasted creamy oats sugaring.
Dry kettle-soured herbal gose, Sage Against The Machine, let locally grown sage minting pervade sea-salted lemon peel tartness and cologned lime wisp.
Brisk Strat-hopped New England IPA, Stratacat, slipped dank pine resin inside tropical grapefruit, orange and pineapple zesting as well as peach-fuzzed strawberry, guava and grape perk over lightly creamed oated wheat.
Equally tropical fruited hazy IPA, Leading Ladies, gathered polite lemony grapefruit-salted bittering, Pina Colada-like coconut-pineapple zesting, pink guava tartness and white grape esters over creamy vanilla oats.
