Bube's Brewery
Restaurants, Gallery, and Museum

Bube's Brewery is an historic nineteenth-century brewery complex. In addition to being a museum, the complex now contains three restaurants, a banquet facility, outdoor biergarten, art gallery, and brewery store. The brewery was built by Alois Bube, a German immigrant, during Lancaster County's heyday as the "Munich of the New World" prior to Prohibition. Today, Bube's Brewery is the only brewery from the 1800's surviving intact in the United States.

Enjoy ..... The Bottling Works ..... Alois Restaurant
The Catacombs Restaurant & Entertainment
The Cooper's Shed Brewery Store & Museum
and The Brewery Gallery ... all in one location.

The Bottling Works ...... (717) 653-2056

The Bottling Works is a casual dining restaurant and tavern in the original bottling plant of Bube's Brewery. The beer and soft drinks were bottled here, and the water for making the beer was drawn from the limestone caverns below. Adjacent to the Bottling Works is an outdoor Biergarten reminiscent of a drinking garden one may have found in Mr. Bube's Bavarian homeland. In the middle of the biergarten is the huge original boiler and smokestack used to create the steampower necessary to run the brewery.

The menu in the Bottling Works includes steaks, seafood, light dinners, sandwiches, and salads. On Friday, Saturday, and some other evenings, live entertainment is featured. On Sunday evenings in the summertime, live jazz is presented in the biergarten. Lunch and dinner is served seven days a week, and the Bottling Works bar is open every day as well. Reservations are not required, although they are appreciated for parties of six or more.

Alois Restaurant ..... (717) 653-2057

Alois consists of the original bar and dining rooms in the Victorian hotel portion of Bube's Brewery. Each individually decorated room, employing hand stenciling and other painting techniques, is a work of art worth seeing in its own right. It is here that artist and chef Ophelia Horn draws upon her talents in the visual and culinary arts, using the principles of color, variation, texture, and taste to present a gustation that is truly unique. One becomes a guest of a staff that orchestrates an evening wherein the room, music, order of presentation, and food all complement one another as integral parts of a memorable whole.

The ever-changing menu employs a concept that allows every guest to experience a wide variety of foods and condiments drawn from an international repertoire. Reservations for the Alois experience can be made for each evening except for Monday.

The Catacombs .... (717) 653-2056

The Catacombs Restaurant is several stories below the surface of the street in the aging cellars of Bube's Brewery. A costumed guide will greet you and lead you on a tour of the brewery on your way to dinner. You will descend 43 feet into the stone-lined vaults where you will find a unique dining experience with a menu that includes a variety of traditional and gourmet dishes.

Dinner is served seven nights a week in the Catacombs. Theme dinners, knows as feasts, are offered in the Catacombs on most Sunday nights. The most frequent feast is the Medieval Feast, which has a menu inspired by seasonal medieval cooking and presents the liveliness and festivity of a feast with the help of minstrels, wenches, beggars, and other entertainers. This is not the amusement park version and is generally recommended for adults. Other feasts include Roman and Halloween Feasts. Scheduled Sunday feast seats are available by advance ticket sales only and can be secured by calling during the week. You may schedule your own feast for a group of twenty or more on weeknights.

The Cooper's Shed

Bube's Brewery also offers The Cooper's Shed, a brewery store and cooperage museum. The store is in the original cooperage (barrel working shop) of this nineteenth-century brewery. A large collection of antique cooper's tools is on display (including many original tools from this cooperage) and because many museum pieces are not fragile, there is an actual barrel producing area where they are used. The Cooper's Shed store features a variety of products including: handmade coopered items, signature Bube's Brewery items, hand-crafted beers, home-brewing equipment and supplies, locally made jewelry, and quality items produced in the local area in metal, glass, ceramic, wood, and other media.

The Brewery Gallery

In addition to being a restoration of a one-of-a-kind brewery complex, Bube's Brewery is consciously pursuing the opportunity to be a venue for artistic expression of all kinds. In addition to design, culinary, musical, and theatrical expression, the Brewery Gallery allows the presentation of visual arts including sculpture, painting, drawing, assembling, photography, and installation. Although many works are for sale, the work presented is chosen for its originality and expression rather than for its saleability.

For a taste of the history surrounding Bube's Brewery, visit the Brewery Museum or enjoy one of the complimentary tours. A short tour is available to anyone dining at the Brewery in the evening either before or after your meal, any day of the week, all year long. From June 15 to Labor Day, there is a tour guide on duty every day to give a more in-depth tour. During the rest of the year, call for advance reservations for the tour, which is always available to groups.