DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Opened April 2024, Doylestown-based ARTIFACT BREWING joins its Hatboro flagship location as a functioning nanobrewery. The red-bricked garage shop with large black-framed overhead door features a pine bark topped bar with 20 black metal seats. Several community tables fill out the cement-floored interior and the paneled wood board lists 12-plus draughts.
My wife and I gathered to consume eight stylishly centered ‘Artifacts’ mid-afternoon, early February ’25. Cocktails, spirits and wine also avail.
Mild amber-grained helles lager, Walk With Me, a pale yellowed lightweight, let spritzy lemon drops fall upon dry herbage and sourdough white breading.
Peaty moss secured the pumpernickel rye breading and dried fig-orange spot of moderate-bodied Extra Special Bitter, Only Child, a traditional English ale.
Boozy 8.7% ABV doppelbock, The Lonesome Love Us, placed Scotch-licked caramelized rye across spiced fig sugaring and lightly toasted raisin breading.
Brewed in collab with nearby Geronimo, hand-pumped English-styled dark mild, Come Together, slid dewy peat moss into weedy black tea stead.
Clear pinkish gose, Scattered Seeds Prickly Pear, let sea salted kiwi-like prickly pear adjunct receive mild celery-watered earthiness and pink champagne sparkle atop acidulated wheat base.
Sunshiny hazy IPA, Refuse 2 Lose, loaded sweet orange-peeled lemon zesting, tangy yellow grapefruit juiciness and salted guava-mango tartness onto dry pine surface.
Candi-sugared Belgian pilsner malting affixed fruity tripel, Unlikely Event, leaving tartly sweet banana puree, lemon custard, orange marmalade and dried apricot impact on herbal spiced concision.
Easygoing dry stout, The Twilight World, placed dewy moss inside dark chocolate chalking, day-old coffee dryness and charred nuttiness over barley-flaked mocha malting.
