I would like to thank everyone involved in the establishment of Wasser. I will never forget the befuddling joy of being told I made the best beer a person had ever tasted and the satisfaction of seeing a room full of happy people on St. Patrick’s Day as the Fret Set played traditional Irish songs. Yet we are facing a completely different set of challenges today.
In the early spring of 2020 we had operated long enough to learn from our mistakes and were looking forward to a landmark year. Little did we know the key marker of the year would be the Covid pandemic. We survived the shut down with the assistance of the first round of the PPP, but the business has not received any additional federal funding including the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. The surges in the fall and winter of 2020 as well as the staffing shortage have had catastrophic effects on the brewery.
We are unable to provide the kind of experience that made us happy to welcome people to the brewery. We are suspending operations. We are exploring all options to be able to reestablish the Wasser Brewing Company as Greencastle’s Brew Pub for the Authentic.