Update: The restaurant ended up doing a surprise opening on the day we published this article. Their hours can be found on the Snitz Creek website.
LebTown dropped in last week at what will soon be the third location of Snitz Creek Brewery.
The bar and restaurant located at 2701 Horseshoe Pike (Route 322), at Leed’s Corner on the east end of Campbelltown, once housed the Mount Gretna Craft Brewery, which closed in February.
The Funck family, proprietors of 11 other Central Pennsylvania drinking and dining establishments, purchased the building along with the brewing equipment.
Co-owner Alan Funck said he and his team hope to open before year’s end.
Funck and a dozen or so employees and contractors were busy putting finishing touches on interior renovations and furnishings when we stopped by.
No major changes to the interior layout are anticipated, Funck said, although the large corner fireplace will be fully functional.
The Palmyra Brewery, as Snitz Creek’s web page describes it, will brew beer on site, the same as the original Snitz location in downtown Lebanon. Funck said it has slightly more brewing capacity than the Lebanon location.
Funck said that initially the same crew of brewers will make beer at Lebanon and Palmyra.
Beer is not brewed at Snitz’s Fort Indiantown Gap outpost, but trucked in from Lebanon.
Funck said Snitz Palmyra will feature pizzas, “something we don’t do at our other restaurants.” The 15 or so beer offerings will initially be the same as at the other locations, but “will be adjusted based on customer tastes.”
The Funck family’s business can be traced to 1969, when Alan’s parents, Ray and Ruth Ann, opened a Tastee Freeze on West Main Street in Palmyra. It is now the site of the original Funck’s Restaurant.
According to Funck, the 12 restaurants under the Funck umbrella employ about 500 year-round employees, and the labor force swells to about 700 during the summer.
UPDATE: Dec. 21, 11:05 a.m.: Several Campbelltown readers took issue with our describing the new Snitz Creek Brewery as being “just east of Campbelltown.” We have updated our story to say “at Leeds Corner on the east end of Campbelltown.”
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