History Professor Helps Make Mexi Casa a Craft Beer Hotspot
Ali Wyrostek has worked to bring some new and unique brands into the Dormont restaurant that are tough to find elsewhere.
By day, she’s a history professor at Westmoreland County Community College. By night, Ali Wyrostek is crafting Dormont’s Mexi Casa into a hot spot for specialty beers, local brews and rare brands. “I would have meetings with [representatives] from brewing companies and they would ask where the craft beer places are around Dormont and Mt. Lebanon,” Wyrostek said. “We thought, there really aren’t that many. We could make a name here.” Wyrostek has enjoyed craft beer from the start. She earned both her bachelors and masters degrees from Slippery Rock University, and said she never settled for the cheap stuff in a college town that boasted microbreweries close to campus. She’s worked for Mexi Casa on-and-off for eight years, and took over …
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erika
1:07 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Great to hear! Mad Mex, whether technically a "chain" or not, feels like a chain to me. Although I do think it is ok, I would love to try the local Mexi-Casa and will make sure to do so in the near future. more ›