Funk Brewery - The Beer Thrillers https://thebeerthrillers.com Central PA beer enthusiasts and beer bloggers. Homebrewers, brewery workers, and all around beer lovers. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:07:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/thebeerthrillers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-The-Beer-Thrillers-December-2022-Logo.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Funk Brewery - The Beer Thrillers https://thebeerthrillers.com 32 32 187558884 Pine Creek Spirits Closing https://thebeerthrillers.com/2025/06/29/pine-creek-spirits-closing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pine-creek-spirits-closing Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:08:20 +0000 https://thebeerthrillers.com/?p=16467 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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]]> 16467 Funk’s Brewery Taproom Closes and is Now Pine Creek Spirits https://thebeerthrillers.com/2024/02/28/funks-brewery-taproom-closes-and-is-now-pine-creek-spirits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=funks-brewery-taproom-closes-and-is-now-pine-creek-spirits Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:23:30 +0000 https://thebeerthrillers.com/?p=16468 The Funk Brewery Taproom in Elizabethtown is Now Pine Creek Spirits

The Funk Brewery taproom in Elizabethtown, located at 28 S Market St, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, has officially switched over to Pine Creek Spirits.

Funk Brewing and Pine Creek Spirits Logos

The Funk Brewery has had a taproom in Elizabethtown for quite some time, but unfortunately now that time is coming to an end, and it will switch over to being Pine Creek Spirits taproom. They have had a corporate agreement for a while, and now its official that Pine Creek Spirits will be taking over completely and Funk Brewing is phased out. The Funk Brewery E-Town Facebook page has officially changed names to Pine Creek Spirits taproom. (Pine Creek Spirits on Facebook.)

Funk Brewing still operates their brewery and production center as well as a taproom out of Emmaus, PA. They are under the Illumination Brewing LLC.

 

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]]> 16468 Funk Brewing in Elizabethtown on Fire https://thebeerthrillers.com/2022/10/27/funk-brewing-in-elizabethtown-on-fire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=funk-brewing-in-elizabethtown-on-fire Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:41:56 +0000 https://thebeerthrillers.com/?p=9846
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 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:

The News

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

Updates

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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Thanks For Reading

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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