The Creamery: New Kennett Square pop-up beer garden with Philly ties
Chef Jeremy Nolen of Whetstone and Brauhaus Schmitz will handle the food for the beer garden, due to open in late May and run through the warm-weather season.
Why should the city get all the fun from the pop-up beer garden craze?
Kennett Square entrepreneur Michael Bontrager has retained the landscaping services of Groundswell Design Group to convert a long-vacant industrial complex on three acres - a former cannery and creamery - into The Creamery (401 Birch St., Kennett Square).
Due to open June 3 and running through the warm-weather season, The Creamery is billed as a community gathering place that will offer nightly live music and other family- and community-focused programming (bocce, corn hole, table games) provided by the Philly-based experiential marketing agency Mole Street.
Chef Jeremy Nolen of Whetstone Tavern in Queen Village and Brauhaus Schmitz will run the food program, which will be augmented by a rotating list of guest food trucks on Fridays. The Produce Place (11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday to Saturday) will offer fruit, smoothies, sandwiches, and salads served out of a rustic wood barn from Bontrager's family farm.
The beverage program, run by Charlie Collazo of the Institute Bar, will feature 4 draft cocktails, a rotating selection of wine and canned beer, as well as 16 craft brews on tap including 21st Amendment's Hell or High Watermelon, along with a number of sessionable local selections.
The Creamery will run Thursday to Sunday through Sept. 30.
Beer garden hours are 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday, 5 p.m. to midnight Friday, 2 p.m, to midnight, noon to 10 p.m. Sunday.
Here's some back story on the plans.