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| - Saints and Turncoats is the tasting room - it's not quite a bar - for the Draai Laag brewing company, also located within the same building. Draai Laag brews a Belgian, Abbey-style family of beers. They're potent beers, in the range of 6.0 to 8.0% ABV and they sell them cheap (shockingly so for a Belgian, let a lone any good beer) here. If you spend more than $10 at the bar, call someone to pick you up, you're in no shape to drive. Or call your mother and tell her you love her. Or invite your mother down for a round; that'd be interesting.
Open sporadically, like every other Friday (follow their Twitter to keep up), and only from 5-10pm, the tasting room keeps a low key atmosphere with simple decor, a few tables, chess boards and atmospheric music the likes of which you'd expect to hear when troubadouring was all the rage. I think that was in 1997. Tables, chairs and the bar were also built by the staff. The barrels in the front room aren't just decoration, they're full of the brew you're drinking. I think they said the lambic was in there. That stuff was good. It's a nitrogenated lambic and there are rumors that it may be a first-of-it's-genre in the beer world.
There's a friendly, helpful, insightful, and mostly importantly, beer-loving staff. Since they're the same folks brewing the stuff they can school you on eveything going into the mix and recommend a round suitable for your style. They pointed out that because the beers were brewed in such small batches, you're not likely to have the exact same beer twice. i think that's cool. If the idea that every round you buy is a unique little snowflake doesn't seem cool to you, call your mother. She'll explain.
From what I've been told they're open for private events on the weekends, Saturdays typically. Days and hours will change as the business develops and grows. Right now it feels like you're onto something hush-hush when you're there. No doubt this won't last. The beer is too good.
There are growler refills available at the bar. Getting a growler for myself to drag back to Brooklyn wasn't possible since they'd sold out of glass. But I was able to snag two sixers at Sidelines around the corner (which is like a mile away). Sidelines is so overwhelmingly Pittsburgh, so Millvale, I feel I should tell you to go there as well just for the experience. It makes my accent come back to just walk inside. Downside: the sixers aren't as fresh and they're way more expensive than the growler. I don't think that's in any way the fault of Sidelines, just the way things go.
Long and short of it: go there and drink, even if you have to cross a bridge to do so.
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