Buffalo Brewpub is New York’s Oldest Brewpub, opened on Halloween night in 1986, it was the brainstorm of Kevin Townsell who had seen a similar operation in Welland Ontario and decided to see if he could bring the concept to Buffalo. The building was purchased in August of 1986 and after 2 solid months of renovations, we produced the first commercially brewed beer in Buffalo since the Simon Pure and Iroquois breweries closed in 1970. Our beers are brewed in a 10 bbl extract system that was manufactured Continental Breweries in Toronto Ontario. Upon opening we served 3 of our own beers and 9 other imported beer. We have expanded that to 34 taps making us the largest import and micro brewed draft beer selection in Western NY The concept was based on having a pub style atmosphere, where you can get casual food and good beer, friendly service all at reasonable prices. Also we wanted to have a place where you would feel you belonged and our goal was to have a large mug club membership. Our mug club currently stands at over 8300 members since it inception in 1986, of that 2300 are still active regular customers.