Velum Fermentation
New place! Velum Fermentation: It’s where the Duquesne Brewing bottling plant used to be. (Suggested by Alex)
New place! Velum Fermentation: It’s where the Duquesne Brewing bottling plant used to be. (Suggested by Alex)
Mike’s Beer Bar: It’s where Beerhead and the Beer Market used to be. (Suggested by Jessica)
New place! Brillobox: It’s where Penn Cafe used to be, and way before that, Ninehouser’s. And it’s been a tavern since 1895. That’s a track record. (Suggested by Jen)
New place! Lolev Beer: It’s where Club Elevate Fitness used to be. (Suggested by Jessica)
Beerhive: It’s where Saloon on the Strip used to be. (Suggested by Tim)
Huszar: It’s where the Recovery Room used to be. (It’s also the site of the first cancelled run in PWRD history. Thanks COVID.) (Suggested by Tim.)
Cinderlands: It’s where the Spaghetti Warehouse used to be. (Suggested by Jessica)
Trace Brewing: It’s where a brass and bronze foundry used to be, followed The Shop (a punk rock venue). (Suggested by Jen)
Voodoo: It’s where Rivertown used to be. (Suggested by Matt & Jessica)
Church Brew Works: It’s where St. John the Baptist Catholic Church used to be. (Suggested by Terry)
Bulldog Pub: It’s where Wilk’s and Maroney’s and Petrilli’s used to be. (Suggested by Tim)
Ruggers Pub: It’s roughly where the Brady Street Bridge used to be. (Suggested by Tim)
New place! Moonlit Burgers in Uptown: It’s where Red Ring used to be. (Suggested by Tim)
Tom’s Watch Bar: It’s where Ben’s ill-fated restaurant was supposed to be. (Suggested by … someone. But not Tim.)
East End Brewing is where an abandoned warehouse used to be. (Suggested by Alex)
Birmingham Bridge Tavern: It’s where Union Street used to be. (Look it up. 29th Street had a history of controversy in the naming of streets.) (Suggested by Tim)
New spot! Hitchhiker Brewing in Sharpsburg is newly open on Tuesdays. It’s where Fort Pitt Brewing used to be. (Suggested by Jessica)
PS: Parking advice from Hitchhiker: Please do not park in the parking lot next to the brewery. This is not our parking lot and our customers do not have permission to park in this lot. Free on street parking is offered on all surrounding streets. In areas where there is Residential Permit Parking, this is only M-F 6am-6pm and excludes weekends.
In addition, there are two municipal parking lots located within two blocks on 13th St.
Primanti’s in Market Square: It’s where the first Allegheny County Courthouse used to be. (Suggested by Sean.)
Federal Galley: It’s where the Allegheny Center Mall used to be. (Suggested by Jess & Matt.)
Sly Fox: It’s where the Pittsburgh Terminal Property used to be, apparently the largest, most efficient cargo warehouse between New York City and Chicago. (Suggested by Sean.)
Park Place Pub: It’s where a community storefront has been since the early 1900s. They didn’t have the internet then. (Suggested by Terry and by Tim)
New place! And it’s where the Lawrence Public School, built in 1872, used to be. (Suggested by Jessica.)
Penn Brewery is open on Tuesdays again! It’s where the E&O and Ober Brothers Breweries used to be. It’s good when some things don’t change. (Suggested by Alex and Matt.)
The Eagle: It’s where an office furniture company used to be. (Suggested by Sean.)
Lot 17: It’s where August F. Mueller’s used to be, according to the ad on the outside wall. (Suggested by Terry)
The Pitch on Butler: It’s where No Name’s (for a hot second), NPL, Gus’s, and Backroom Bar and Grill used to be. That bar has seen some stuff, kids.
Spork Pit: It’s where Double Wide Grill used to be. And… now it’s already where Spork Pit used to be. Yeah, they’re closed. So we’re swapping to a nearby location.
“Wait, wasn’t that on the schedule kinda recently?” Yes, but since everyone went to the Levity trailer that night, we never actually went to Hofbrauhaus.
Map: It’s simple. Go to the trail. Face east. Run until you are half as far as you want to go in total. Turn around. Come back.
Allegheny City Brewing: Assuming its new taproom is open, it’s where - most recently - a vacant lot used to be. (If the taproom is not open, head back to Foreland Street and the main brewery. There used to be an old seafood restaurant that had an “underwater” Aquamarine room on that corner.)
Stack’d in Oakland: It’s where Joe Mama’s used to be.
Sly Fox Taphouse at the Point: It’s where Stone Neapolitan Pizza used to be. (And before that, a bunch of state government offices. Look, I found that information on the internet, and now you need to know it too.)
The Abbey: It’s where Henninger Funeral Home and The Wayne Brass Foundry used to be.
Burgatory: It’s where Three Rivers Stadium used to be.
A new place! El Sabor: It’s where some random sports bar might have used to be. (And, fun fact, it’s in a spot that was voted “eyesore property” of the month back in 2009. Boy, how that has turned around in 15 years - it’s a great little Latin Kitchen now!)
Hofbrauhaus: It’s where J&L Steel used to be. (There’s a historical marker on the trail and everything!)
Two map options for you:
1) If you’re fancy, here’s one option.
2) If you’re not, Darrin offers: Go to the trail. Face east. Run until you are half as far as you want to go in total. Turn around. Come back.
Roland's: It used to be The Rail Restaurant in the 1940s, and it used to be on 28th and Penn. Who knew?!
Southern Tier: It’s where the rest of Gold Lot 2 used to be, and where Toby Keith’s bar and then NPL were supposed to be.
Here’s the map — it’s kind of a marathon course preview!