Bube’s Brewery

By the mid-1800s, German-style lager beer had become all the rage among beer drinking Americans. Into this brewing climate came a young German immigrant named Alois Bube. Having been a brewing apprentice in his homeland, Alois secured a job at, and in 1876 bought, a small brewery in Mount Joy Pennsylvania.

Bube’s Brewery as it stands today is the result of Alois Bube’s life’s work. He expanded his small brewery several times and built a Victorian hotel to serve his beer and accommodate overnight guests and offer dining to travelers passing through Mount Joy. By the turn of the century, he had a very successful business and his reputation as a good brewer and decent businessman had spread far and wide.

At the time of his sudden death in 1908 at the age of 57. He had built up enough wealth that although his brewery closed just prior to Prohibition in 1920, members of his family were able to live there until the 1960s, changing nothing and doing little with the buildings. As common as breweries similar to this one would have been in the late 1800s, Bube’s Brewery is the only of the hundreds of “lager era” breweries that still stands in almost completely intact condition in the United States today. Restoration of the complex began in 1968 and continues to this day.

Today, Bube’s Brewery is an intact historic 19th century brewery and museum complex. Featuring fine dining in their Catacombs restaurant and casual dining the Bottling Works and Biergarten restaurants. The hotel portion of Bube’s Brewery has 8 themed rooms each individually decorated employing hand stenciling and other painting techniques and each is a work of art in its own right. You can stay, experience live events, enjoy their Feasts, view the art gallery and shop in their Cooper’s Shed Store while taking a step back to the 19th century.

For more information on Bube’s Brewery check out their website at:

http://bubesbrewery.com/