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Pine Creek Spirits Closing

B. Kline — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:08:20 +0000

Pine Creek Spirits Announce Closing

Pine Creek Spirits, located in Elizabethtown PA, in what was at one time the Funk Brewing taproom (see Funk Brewing Fire). (See also: Funk Brewing Taproom closing and Pine Creek Spirits Taking Over.) Located at 28 S Market St, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, the spirits taproom is now permanently closed.

Pine Creek Spirits Logo

Pine Creek Spirits announced on their Instagram post that they will be officially closed, going forward from today.

Their post today reads:

After taking a step back, we have to face the reality that we do not have the ability or resources to reopen. We’re incredibly proud of the team that we had over the years. They fought through a pandemic, a fire, and a failed business partnership. Many people would have thrown in the towel after one of those obstacles, but they perservered over many years to keep fighting for our business to stay alive.

Thank you also to all of our customers. We got to know many of you over the years and you were awesome to us. It makes it that much harder to close the doors. We hope you had as much fun as we did and hopefully we’ll see all of you down the road.

–Pine Creek Spirits (Instagram Post – June 29th, 2025)

They previously recently posted this on social media as well:

Sorry everyone, we are taking a week to reorganize and won’t be open. We hope to see everyone at the beginning of next week!

-Pine Creek Spirits (Facebook Post – June 23rd, 2025)

So it looks like they are officially closed. Which is a shame, as its a wonderful location, and a great spot in Elizabethtown. Perhaps a new taproom will go in there, possibly a craft brewery taking over the spot, like how it used to be Funk Brewery’s taproom. Who knows. But we’ll keep you updated if anything does happen with the spot, so keep your eyes peeled on the blog. Cheers.

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Funk Brewing Company in Elizabethtown Fire Update

B. Kline — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:31:00 +0000

Funk Brewing Company in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania

A Quick Update on the Fire at Funk Brewing Company

Funk Brewing Company posted a quick update on their Facebook page just a bit ago, stating:

Hey, Funk Etown family,

You may have heard, but there was a fire in the back stairwell of the building. Fortunately, no one was injured.

We absolutely love serving this community, and we are doing everything we can to reopen the taproom.

Stay tuned to this channel for updates.

Norm, Ryan, Benny, Tyler, Mark
Funk Brewing Etown

This is in response to the fire that was reported earlier this morning. For those who don’t know or didn’t see that article, you can find it here:

Funk Brewing in Elizabethtown on Fire

(Be sure to go and read that article then come back to this one.)

Thankfully No Injuries

Thankfully there was no injuries for anyone involved with the fire that happened at 3AM this morning (10.27.22). However some damage has been caused to the building. This will result in a few change of plans for Funk Brewing Company in Elizabethtown going forward. They were originally scheduled to have their Halloween party this Saturday.

Still Slinging Suds

Funk Brewing Company has just posted that they have altered their plans but that they will be still slinging suds this weekend. Both Friday and Saturday (tomorrow – Friday the 28th and then on Saturday the 29th) they will be hosting parties in their parking lot back behind the brewery, as well as selling beers.

The original Halloween party plans were:

Join us this Saturday from 8-11PM for the Funk Etown Halloween party!

– DJ Dennis Mitchell 8-11PM

– 90s Themed

– Prizes for Best Costume & Best Group Costume

– Halloween drink specials
Funk Brewing Etown

That was posted yesterday earlier in the day.

But, of course, unfortunately, the fire has changed their plans, but they just posted what their planning for the weekend:

Hey, friends! We are going to make the best of our current situation and have some fun this weekend!

Friday, 10/28 – Norm, Benny, and Tyler will be in the back parking lot from 3-6pm selling beer to go! And that includes our latest beer, Project Haze 6!

Saturday, 10/29 – Join us from 12-6pm out back for a Funk Etown tailgate party!

• PSU game (starts at Noon)

• $5 cans and cocktails

• Fuego Latino Food Truck

• 4 packs to go

We’ll see you at Funk!

#supportlocal #craftbeer #pacraftbeer #nothingwillstopus
Funk Brewing Etown

Funk Brewing Company’s Weekend Plans (10.28.22 and 10.29.22)

A Funky Weekend

Hopefully everyone will have time to be able to stop out and help out Funk Brewing Company this weekend, have a good time, drink some beers, and grab some four packs to go. It looks like fun events, especially for PSU (Penn State University) Football fans.

Funk Brewing Company

Funk Brewing Company is located on South Market Street in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. You can find them here on Google Maps: Funk Brewing Company Brewery and Taproom – South Market Street. They are located next to the Elizabethtown (E-Town) Public Library. They host several events often and regularly at their brewery and one of the top spots of the E-Town community. They do a lot of fundraising events, charity events, and other things to help out the community.

Funk Brewing Company according to Untappd:

They are listed as a microbrewery out of Elizabethtown and Emaus Pennsylvania. They have 515 unique beers with 249,432 ratings (as of 10.27.22) and a global average rating of 3.85 (as of 10.27.22). They have no Untappd description.

For more on Funk Brewing Company, you can check out their social media pages:

Recap of the Fire

Things are still new at this point, so not lots of news, but whats coming in we’ll try and keep updated (will try and make phone edits while at work, so bear with me on that). But currently we have the following:

WGAL8 News:

Crews battled a fire early Thursday morning at a brewery in Lancaster County.

The fire happened at Funk Brewing along the first block of South Market Street in Elizabethtown. The call went out around 3 a.m.

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Crews from Lancaster and Dauphin counties responded to the fire.
WGAL 8 News – Kate Merriman Reporting

Around 6 a.m., police officers surrounded much of the scene in crime tape. WGAL’s Kate Merriman was at the scene as it happened. You can watch that video in the player above.

There were no injuries in the initial call.

The investigation is continuing.
WGAL 8 News – Kate Merriman Reporting

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Doing this update as I leave work on my phone and heading out to run some errands and such. Hopefully the editing and writing will look as normal as a regular post. Visiting my parents at a Trunk or Treat they are volunteering at, and then our errands. I might be stopping over at D. Scott’s and doing a stream, or he might be doing one by himself tonight if I’m not able to. You can find him at Knights of Nostalgia.

Was a long day at work, busy day and so hopefully this all works out. (Fingers crossed, haven’t done phone writing updates / articles on here before.)

Have a long weekend ahead for us. There is the Boneshire Brew Works 6th Anniversary Celebration Friday and Saturday (we’ll probably be going Friday night). There is the World Series. There is an Alzheimer’s Association Walk in York on Saturday morning that Amy and I will be volunteering at. And then in the evening, we’ll be over at Ming and Don’s for a Halloween party. This is on top of the regular Friday baby check – up appointments (counting the days down now). So certainly a busy weekend. Hopefully we’ll see you out at some of the stuff. We might also be popping in at Funk’s on Saturday to wish them the best and hope things get better for them.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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Funk Brewing in Elizabethtown on Fire

B. Kline — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:41:56 +0000

Funk Brewing Company in Elizabethtown currently on fire

Not So Good Morning

Pretty much upon waking up Amy showed me the news. Two hours ago (5:20AM) it was first reported by Kate Merriman of WGAL News 8 that the Funk Brewing Company on South Market Street of Elizabethtown was on fire.

Since then, updates have been coming in and pictures and videos and news articles as well.

First reported was at 5:20AM by Kate Merriman of WGAL News 8 with her personal Facebook account. Her post reads:

#UPDATE Police lined the back of the building with tape. Details are still limited. Still with us for the latest developments.
BREAKING Crews are on the scene of a fire at Funk Brewing on South Market Street in Elizabethtown Borough. This is the backside of the business. No injuries. Still under investigation.
Kate Merriman Facebook

She updated the post at 6:30AM with the following pictures:

WGAL 8 7:00AM News

The WGAL 8 News at 7:00AM then ran a news clip, which they posted to their YouTube Channel after its airing. It was posted on YouTube just 8 minutes ago at 7:10AM.

Funk Brewing Company

Funk Brewing Company according to Untappd:

For more on Funk Brewing Company, you can check out their social media pages:

The News

WGAL8 News:

Crews battled a fire early Thursday morning at a brewery in Lancaster County.
The fire happened at Funk Brewing along the first block of South Market Street in Elizabethtown. The call went out around 3 a.m.
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Crews from Lancaster and Dauphin counties responded to the fire.
WGAL 8 News – Kate Merriman Reporting

Around 6 a.m., police officers surrounded much of the scene in crime tape. WGAL’s Kate Merriman was at the scene as it happened. You can watch that video in the player above.
There were no injuries in the initial call.
The investigation is continuing.
WGAL 8 News – Kate Merriman Reporting

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Stay tuned and come back here to the article for updates as we get them. We will try and best and keep everyone updated.

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Well…. this is very unexpected and unfortunate news to wake up to this morning. Hopefully the updates will be better and things will come out better. Hoping that there continues to be no injuries and very little building damage. Funk Brewing is a great brewery and a great spot to visit. I love stopping in there when in the E-Town area. (Even done a few beer reviews from there.)

Please stop back for updates.

Reminder – tomorrow is the Boneshire Brew Works 6th celebration that we’ll be stopping out at, come out and visit. As well as game one of the Phillies – Astros World Series. Fingers crossed for our Phightin Phillies.

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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Beer Review: Griddle (Funk Brewing)

BKline — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 02:38:12 +0000

Griddle by Funk Brewing Company at Funk Brewing in E-Town, PA

Sorry for a slow amount of articles lately. I know things have kinda gotten down to a trickle with only weekly articles, but I do have a lot of backburner ones, and hoping for my weekend (Wednesday – Friday) I will be able to get up a lot of them. Quite a bit of them are backdated ones, so be sure to be on the lookout for them (best way to automatically be notified is to become a subscriber and follower, so make sure to follow us). I am also hoping to finish up the YouTube video (FINALLY!?!!!!!??!?!?!?) and get that posted this weekend as well.

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I ended up at Funk Brewing in E-Town a while back (September 4th) when Cox Brewing’s newest location – The Rally Point – was at max capacity. So, unable to get in, I got a draft to go, drank it in the parking lot, then went to Funk Brewing. Where I first had their Oktoberfest, and then this – Griddle – a barleywine that was delicious and worthy of a beer review. So here goes!

Griddle by Funk Brewing

Beer: Griddle
Brewery: Funk Brewing (Funk Brewing Company)
Style: Barleywine – English
ABV: 10.5%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: Brewed with over 50 gallons of Vermont maple syrup this barleywine a huge maple nose but the heirloom english malt shines through cutting the sweetness. In 4 words or less: Flapjacks and Jack Daniels.

I am a huge Barleywine fan, of all shapes, sizes, flavors and breweries. Funk’s is no different. Funk Brewing is well known in the Central PA, primarily for their Double Disco and Mic Drop and Citrus and a few others. Their location in E-Town is typically pretty hopping (even during COVID) (….get the pun?). To read more about Funk Brewing click here for their Untappd page: Funk Brewing’s Untappd Page.

Appearance for Griddle follows what most Barleywines look like; a malty looking dark, heavy beer. Akin to tobacco spit, which might not be the most appetizing way to describe it, but I think a pretty apt one (just don’t think about it from now on). Despite having to drink it in a plastic cup (which I hear is a bit of a no-no for some people in PA and that sometimes post in a Facebook group and run their own brewery……….) it still had a nice small ring of a head.

Smell is very syrupy, very maple, very malty. The description does a good job describing the nose to this; very heavy maple. Very. Heavy. Maple. A. Very. Maple. Forward. Nose. The. Nose. Is. Very. Heavy. In. Maple. Ummm… did you pick up on that its got a very heavy maple aroma? There are a few more underlying hints and whiffs, but its primarily the maple, a bit of a brown sugar smell, and English malts. Possibly a hint of some of the English hops, but it would be so extremely diluted that it’d be hard to say.

This is definitely flapjacks and Jack Daniels. Its strong boozy right out of the gate, but with an extremely heavy maple flavor. The English malts (and perhaps English hops too) bitter out the sweetness of the maple syrup and tame it a bit, giving it – alongside with the booziness – a bit of a bite. Not fully a bitter bite, but a definite eye – opener. Mostly bitter to cut out the sweet, the bite also has that boozy undertone kicking you a fair bit. Thats not to say this isn’t sweet though. Its certainly still very sweet, but with the heavy boozy undertones, and with the English malts providing a nice malty bitterness, that the maple sweetness doesn’t become too cloying or clinging to your tongue (like Lizard of Koz was from Founders……. shudders….. I still have nightmares of drinking that beer). This seems like a very strong Pennsylvania beer, the idea of a boozy flapjack strikes deep to the core of a good hard working lumberjack breakfast. A can of Griddle, some flapjacks, scrapple, bacon, eggs, and maybe coffee to wash it down, would be a great breakfast and start to the day for any hard working man ready to go out and cut down a hundred trees and deforest the rural lands. The beer might even give said lumberjack the edge he would need if he had to race a giant flannel wearing man with a big blue Ox…… (Do people even remember the old folk tales and folk legends of yore?) At 10.5% and with the boozy taste, a 16oz can of this is all you need at a time, but its a wonderful time, and a great drinking beer. Enjoy! (I know I did!)

My Untappd Rating: ****
Global Untappd Rating: 3.65 (as of 9.21.20)

For those interested, the book I’m reading in the picture was a great book by Daniel Klein. You can find it (and even find my book review of it there) on GoodReads here: Everytime I Find the Meaning to Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live Life. I highly recommend the book as much as I do the beer. (In fact I highly recommend Daniel Klein as an author, his philosophy books are fantastic, and the joke series he did with Thomas Cathcart are great – Plato and A Platypus Walk Into a Bar and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates).

This was a shorter beer review, and a bit of a quick launch one, but I wanted to get an article out tonight, because primarily, because I feel like I haven’t been writing that much lately, and I need to get a lot more writing done. I have all of these “drafts” set-up on my WordPress and just need to finish them. Plus I have had a ton of great beers lately that all deserve reviews. So I need to get through them and get them done! So I’m trying.

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Enjoy and cheers everyone!

-B. Kline

Funk Brewing in E-Town - The Beer Thrillers

Pine Creek Spirits Closing

Pine Creek Spirits Announce Closing

Brewery News

Thank You For Reading

Funk Brewing Company in Elizabethtown Fire Update

A Quick Update on the Fire at Funk Brewing Company

Thankfully No Injuries

Still Slinging Suds

A Funky Weekend

Funk Brewing Company

Recap of the Fire

Sources

Brewery News

Funk Brewing Company Articles

Thanks For Reading

Funk Brewing in Elizabethtown on Fire

Not So Good Morning

WGAL 8 7:00AM News

Funk Brewing Company

The News

Updates

Sources

See Also

Brewery News

Funk Brewing Company Articles

Thanks For Reading

Beer Review: Griddle (Funk Brewing)