Thomas Pastorius, Pittsburgh brewer, dead at 67

Published September 10, 2012 2:59pm ET



PITTSBURGH (AP) — Thomas Pastorius, the man who brought craft brewing to Pittsburgh when he founded the Pennsylvania Brewing Co., has died. He was 67 when he died Thursday of prostate cancer.

Pastorius was from Sewickley and developed a love of beer in Germany, where he had three generations of relatives and spent time in the Army in the 1960s and again in the 1980s as a businessman after graduating from Penn State.

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