The trick to finding the Victory Brewing Company is knowing the Downingtown area. Click the pict below to enlarge your "map to Victory." The brewery stamps a map on the back of their coasters, I guess so you can find your way home on your bike after a night of drinking. If you made it to the place, why would you need a map? 

If you bothered to click on the map, you'd see there are just too damn many routes, turnpikes and interstate highways in Downingtown, PA. Do yourself a favor, hit our maplink and just follow that as best as possible. Just remember, once you turn onto Acorn Lane, make the first right into the industrial park and head towards the back. Victory Brewing Company is in the far right corner. 

When you enter the brewing company, you've got a loooong bar (70 feet long!) on your left and a gift shop on your right. Since the place used to be an old Pepperidge Farm bakery, imagine a warehouse motif. The red and yellow walls are broken up by the patron siants of Victory Brewing Company: Saint Boisterous and Saint Victorious. If you look above, you'll notice sacks of "weiner braumaltz" resting gently on the rafters. I'm pretty sure they didn't make it up there by an explosion due to a beer batch gone bad - they're arranged too nicely for that.

Past the beer taps, is where such creations as the infamous Hop Devil Ale, Dark Lager, Storm King Imperial Stout and Prima Pils are born. Behind glass, the stainless steel beer vats are visible and if the right hush comes over the crowd, you can almost hear the yeast fermenting. But just when you think Victory is going to rest on their laurels, they come up with new inventive brews that keep you guessing. On my visit, I had to partake in their Belgian influenced Golden Monkey Tripel. Whoa, that was good beer! But be careful, the brews at Victory pack a wallop - it's not uncommon for the alcohol contents to reach 9 & 10%. Typical beers have an alcohol content of below 5%. 

For entertainment, there are a couple of TV's mounted above the bar, dart boards, billiards and live music acts on Friday's and Saturday's. It should be mentioned that the live acts go on around 8PM and last call is at 11:30PM, even on the weekends - what a bummer! The crowd is primarily a local crowd ranging from mid-20somethings on up to people in their 40's and 50's. Can you really put an "age range" on beer lovers - nah, not really.  If your a beer fan, just go to Victory, just to say you went and sampled the brews yourself. If you want to take some home, that's doable too. Victory has growlers and various other sized containers for the take-out crowd. 

I guess to sum up the review we can leave you with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt which is scrawled over the bar at Victory: "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor souls that neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not VICTORY nor defeat."

It's not exactly the most appealing entrance you've ever seen.