George Solis is a national correspondent with NBC News.
A pair of brothers have added another historic location to Philadelphia: Their venture Two Locals Brewing Co., a sprawling 6,000-square-foot brew pub in the city’s expanding University City section of West Philadelphia, is Pennsylvania’s first known Black-owned craft brewery. “It just meant a lot to us to be here,” Mengistu Koiler said. “This is where we grew up.” Two Locals, which Mengistu and his brother, Richard Koiler, opened in January, was the culmination of nearly a decade of hard work.
But navigating that “otherness” as new Black business owners engaging with distributors and contractors in an industry that lacks a swath of Black peers also provided a new challenge at first. Nonetheless, by 2018, the Koilers had formed a limited liability company for their business but still needed cash to get up and running, so they turned to crowdfunding. Then the pandemic came barreling down. “We kind of looked at each other like, all right, well, this isn’t going to work,” Mengistu said.
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