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Welcome to the SWPA Water Network, a collaborative effort to promote sustainable water management practices and protect the water resources of the Upper Ohio River Basin. Our vision is to create a more sustainable and resilient water future in the region by working together with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, academic ...
Nov 8, 2023 · Welcome to the reports page of the SWPA Water Network website. This page is dedicated to providing access to a variety of reports related to water management and water-related issues in the Upper Ohio River Basin. These reports have been compiled from a wide range of sources, including government agencies, academic institutions, nonprofit ...
Oct 8, 2019 · The menu is good “brasserie contemporaine” fare, like a medallion of creamy foie gras with chutney and a Cognac gelée (€25); a light dish of crab with cucumber and mint and a dollop of ...
📅 **Date: Friday, June 14, 2024** 11:00 AM 📍 **Location: Tissue Farm, Confluence, PA** REGISTER HERE ACTIVITIES CONFLUENCE AGENDA Join Southwestern Pennsylvania Water Network in the revitalized town of Confluence, PA, where the Youghiogheny River, Casselman River and Laurel Hill Creek meet, for a day brimming with adventure, community spirit, and a shared commitment to…
- Allegheny County: Wigle
- Allegheny County: Maggie’s Farm Rum
- Bucks County: Mountain Laurel Spirits
- Philadelphia County: Rowhouse Spirits
- Montgomery County: Boardroom Spirits
- Chester County: Bluebird Distilling
- Indiana County: Disobedient Spirits
- Lancaster County: Thistle Finch
In the 1790s the federal government imposed a so-called whiskey tax on all distilled spirits to help pay back debt from the Revolutionary War. Western Pennsylvania farmers who regularly distilled their surplus grain fought it, and their protests sparked what became known as the Whiskey Rebellion. One such 18th-century protesting distiller was Phill...
Many Pennsylvania craft distilleries tend to focus on whiskey or gin, but Tim Russell turned to rum when he founded Maggie’s Farm Rum in Pittsburgh in 2013—a move that was at first more about expediency and cash flow than spirit preference. “Frankly, no one else was doing it,” says Russell. “Wigle is down the street from us and had a year-and-a-hal...
Bristol, Pennsylvania’s longtime claim to fame was the “Bristol Stomp,” a 1961 hit by local a cappella group the Dovells. But since 2010, the riverside town (a Philly suburb) has something else to brag about: Mountain Laurel Spirits. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, its brand, Dad’s Hat, will. Cofounder and distiller Herman C. Mihalich grew up in ...
Half a dozen distilleries began bottling in Philly in the past couple of years, with much of the action concentrated in the city’s northeastern quadrant, by the Delaware River. Rowhouse Spirits, named for Philly’s iconic redbrick homes, is one such operation, noteworthy for its micro footprint and penchant for collaboration with other local artisan...
In Zsuzsa Palotas’s native Hungary, home distilling is a widespread art, but the former management consultant and her partners, husband Marat Mamedov and his brother, Vlad Mamedov, had no real experience in the industry when they set out to launch Boardroom. Through Palotas’s Hungarian connections, the partners hired a chemical engineer and a ferme...
Founder Jared Adkins left corporate America to jump into the spirits business in 2015, when he opened Bluebird, the first distillery in the city of Phoenixville, halfway between Reading and Philadelphia, near Valley Forge. He didn’t do it totally blind: Adkins had worked for Pepsi and Nestlé in high-speed bottling and engineering. He’s an ambitious...
“Playing by the rules doesn’t work so well when there are different rules for different people,” begins the manifesto of Disobedient Spirits, a distillery in Homer City, a small town between Pittsburgh and Altoona. Founders Bob Begg and Bob Sechrist are the sons of an Army sergeant and a deer-hunting union electrician, respectively, who count Pussy...
In Pennsylvania Dutch country, the iconographic distelfinkbird (a.k.a thistle finch) is so pervasive in local folk art that Andrew Martin used it as the name and mascot of the distillery he founded in 2013. Located in a historic former tobacco warehouse in Lancaster’s up-and-coming downtown, Thistle Finch produces vodka and gin, but rye whiskeys ma...
Sep 17, 2021 · The Pennsylvania D.E.P., however, determined that the cause was nearby gas drilling and had cited the energy firm for “failure to report defective, insufficient or improperly cemented casing ...
On April 3 rd 1840 the “Mohawk” canal boat from Pennsylvania and the “Tippecanoe” from Warren traversed the full length of the P&O, which officially opened on August 4 th. In its first year, 1,200 passengers were carried, and by 1844 the number had increased to 8,500. Between 1850 and 1854 coal tonnage transported grew from 55,000 to ...
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