That’s what I plan to do.  You won’t have me to kick around in West Chester any more!  It’s official, I’ll be leaving you this spring to go and open up our newest location in Maple Shade, NJ.  I actually grew up in south Jersey, about 13 miles from where I’ll be working.  So it will feel a little bit like going home.  I’m wondering how many people from high school I’ll wind up seeing sitting at the bar drinking my beers!

I live in center city, so the move is mostly about the (MUCH) shorter commute.  I am, however excited about having a hand in building a brand new location and to bringing something that is sorely lacking to the neighborhood.  Living in Philly I find myself at a lot of beer events and in a lot of beer-centric bars in the city.  I’m constantly running across people who cross the bridge to come drink in the City of Brotherly Suds.  I know that there is a huge community of homebrewers and beer fans in southern New Jersey that are just waiting for a place to drink beer and I can’t wait to make it for them.

I am however going to miss West Chester.  I’ve always joked that I have the best office view in the company including any of the owners.  I look outside of my brewery and see cobblestone and brick sidewalks with lots of happy friendly people walking by.  I’m going to miss the Old Fashioned Family Christmas, Halloween Parade and Restaurant Fest.  I’m going to miss running into people from the bike club I helped found 5 years ago.  I’ll miss the Buzz Off, and Iron Hill Twilight Criterium, and Belgium Comes to West Chester (although you’ll probably still see me at all of those).

Hopefully some of you will miss me too.  You’ll be in good hands though.  Larry Horwitz from North Wales will be coming to take my place in West Chester.  He’ll be bringing is own personality and specialty beers and hopefully brew a couple of my old favorites too.

I hope to see a lot of you before leaving to start construction.  And hopefully some of you will cross the state line to visit me once I do.

Cheers,

Chris