Tag Archives: DOYLESTOWN PA

GERONIMO BREWING @ LILLY’S GOURMET

United States Brewpubs,

DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

Taking up a cozy backspace at Lilly’s Gourmet inside a pinkish mauve stucco side cafe in the heart of Doylestown, GERONIMO BREWING matches stylishly familiar proprietary beers to upscale food. The small wood floored and furnished pub features nine billiard-balled draught handles at the L-shaped eight-seat bar and a back kitchen creating fine cuisine. Exposed pipes line the low ceiling and one TV is situated near tonight’s tap list.

The right side nano brew tanks were next to the two-seat round table my wife and I grabbed on a brisk Saturday eve, January ’25. I quaffed all five available beers alongside quiche, chicken wings and cheesesteak eggrolls.

Dry German-styled pilsner, Ut Prosim, loaded creamy rye flouring upon dewy peat earthiness and black-peppered whims atop tidy pilsner malts.

Dry unfiltered pilsner-styled lager, MPM Kellerbier, saddled mild mandarin orange tartness with peppery herbage and earthen rusticity.

Easygoing Columbus-Chinook-hopped pale ale, CB5, let dry wood resin and barnyard hay inside its Maris Otter-malted caramelized rye stead, picking up latent grapefruit, orange rind and lemon dollops as well as apple-pear snips.

Sunny lemony grapefruit tanginess lightly embittered Citra-Mosiac-hopped NEIPA, Chuicy Chowie Wowie, leaving dry herbal-tinged pine tones on the pale malt spine.

May fave was rummy red-orange-yellow fruited Mayday Maibock, a toffee-spiced Vienna malted treasure with braided Easter bread buttering.

ARTIFACT BREWING – DOYLESTOWN

United States Brewpubs,

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.