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Lehigh and Berks counties. Tour operators pick three sites WEDDING CELEBRATIONS
from a list and arrange lunch at a fourth site. Everything, BRIDAL SHOWERS
Jeffreys says, is included in the price. LUNCHEONS

These types of tasting tours are becoming more REHEARSAL DINNERS
popular all the time, industry insiders say. “We do
get a fair bit of bachelor parties and other parties that PRIVATE PARTIES AVAILABLE SEVEN DAYS
come through County Seat Spirits and the Bridgeworks 3501 BROADWAY, WEST END ALLENTOWN
[Enterprise Center],” says Anthony Brichta, County Seat’s
CEO/president. “The site works really well for that because 610.706.0100 | GRILLE3501.COM
we have HiJinx [Brewing], County Seat, and Colony
[Meadery] in the same building so the groups that come
through usually circle through the building. At County
Seat, when we know we have a group like a bachelor party
we will often do something special for the group. In the
past, we’ve provided advance tastings of not-yet released
products and different cask tastings from whiskey barrels
for a unique experience.”

“We’ve hosted quite a few bachelor parties this past year,”
says Randy McKinley, president of Manatawny Still Works in
Berks County. “It has definitely become the ‘thing to do’ …
we’ve had the mini buses pull up and twelve to fifteen guys
come in for a private tour and tasting of the spirits. We’d set
them up in the back, in the barrel room. They have a few
cocktails and have fun.”

If alcohol isn’t your liquid of choice, there’s always
water. Just add a raft, some paddles, a bunch of friends
and let the river mix things up. Sarah Zurawa, marketing
assistant at Skirmish Paintball — sister company of Pocono
Whitewater — says a lot of groups do whitewater

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