Fly Hartigan’s Brewing Pours Their First Beers in Evansville

31 Jan Fly Hartigan’s Brewing Pours Their First Beers in Evansville

by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap

Joshua Pietrowski, the Big Cat of Evansville craft beer, has a new brewery that opens today. Fly Hartigans Brewing is pouring its first beers at Patsy Hartigan’s Irish Pub on Thursday, January 30, at 6pm. “Summer in Brussels” is a Belgian witbier, and Patsy’s Light is an English Blonde – and these beer will give you a good indication of the emphasis that Fly Hartigans will be putting on Continental European ales and lagers.

image credit: Fly Hartigans Brewing

The beer list will be an annual seasonal rotation, and will have something for everyone. Joshua is making clean beer as the head brewer and co-owner of the brewery and Patsy Hartigan’s Irish Pub (203 Main Street, Evansville, IN 47708), and will be training Neil Seib as a brewer as well. The brewhouse is located in the original home of Myriad Brewing, just around the corner (101 SE 1st Street, Evansville, IN 47708), using their small brewer’s permit until their own permits are approved.

As beer production picks up, they will be looking to add some outside accounts around Evansville, but we suggest that you make sure to drink from the source at Patsy Hartigan’s, a traditional Irish pub that has been open since late June of 2024. The food is English/Irish and features exactly what you’d hope for (bangers ad mash, Shepherd’s pie, Scotch eggs, corned beef and cabbage, fish & chips), but you can also get some excellent curries. This place is so Irish/English that they have the required EPL table listed on the wall, and even have a snug!

image credit: Patsy Hartigan’s Irish Pub

The addition of Fly Hartigan’s to the Evansville scene just makes Evansville an even better foodie/beer town. Places like Damsel Brew Pub with John Mills’ beer and food, Turoni’s Pizzeria and Brewery, with their own beer and – oh my, those pizzas and breadsticks, Gerst Haus for German food and a huge European beer list (ask for the secret pretzel, it’s not on the menu) and now Patsy Hartigan’s, all give you a chance to drink great beer while eating great food. Go visit Joshua this weekend and get in on the ground floor of Evansville’s newest brewery.