BRISTOL, PENNSYLVANIA

Taking up the same space originally occupied by Broken Goblet, Bristol’s SECOND SIN BREWING COMPANY opened in 2019 (with a second location in Newtown since 2024). A casually conventional tap house with eight-seat right side cement top bar, rounded tables and community benches atop a yellowed concrete floor, Second Sin’s white tile ceiling fits the light Industrial mall complex.

There are lanterns above the bar, a fine bottled beer collection upon the shelves and a front walled TV. The metal-sided outside deck increases seating.

My wife and I joined a full house Saturday afternoon, February ’25, to try four of the dozen draughts available.

Dry Faux-Talian Pils, sprayed floral-spiced lemon spritz upon its earthen barnyard parch and raw-honeyed pilsner malting.

Flirty red cherry tartness penetrated soft-toned fruit ale, Cherry Seinfeld, prodding white grape esters before reaching its caramelized Belgian Flanders red ale base.

Mild lemony grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering picked up frothy oated wheat creaming for Oatey-Boi, a double dry-hopped IPA with ancillary pineapple, mango, green grape and peach illusions joining the spritzy fruit cocktail.

Mexican-styled mole knockoff, Lil’ Mole, seeped bitter dark chocolate into cinnamon-spiced mulato peppers and bittersweet vanilla beans, leaving charred hop resin on the Band-aided backend.