When one thinks of the face of Philly beer, Tom Kehoe’s large, happy, face usually comes to mind. He’s the owner and face of Yards Brewing Company, Philadelphia largest brewery.

A Haddonfield native, Tom started brewing beers with a hot-plate in his dorm room at Western Maryland University—now known as McDaniel College. While in college, he started volunteering and then working at a local brewery. Upon graduation, he moved to Philly’s Manayunk neighborhood and started brewing Yards beers out of his garage.

The rest is history.

Yards now has a 70,000-square-foot facility at 5th & Spring Garden containing a tasting room, brewery, canning line, and private event room. They currently produce over 100,000 barrels of beer each year. And, they have the Brew Unto Others campaign in which they donate three tractor trailers of beer each year to local non-profits to help support their fundraising events.

Tom sat with us at the Yards tasting room, of course. Reef couldn’t make this episode as he’s currently on tour throughout Europe. We discussed the early days of Yards, bringing new products to market, how Philly can make things easier for businesses starting up, Yuengling, and Tom’s early acting career.

This episode’s Philly Blunt segment has listener questions, including one from Philly Mag’s Victor Fiorillo and one from 97.5 Fanatic Morning Show producer Jamie Lynch. In the Blunt, we find out Tom’s finishing move while being a college wrestler and a most surprising song that he’d like played if he was in a movie and kicked in a door during the scene.

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