Eat’n Park: Grist House ‘Strawberry Pie Forever’ Beer Launch

At Pittsburgh staple Eat’n Park, the month of May signals the start of the restaurant’s summer menu, featuring a variety of fresh strawberry favorites. Among those is one of the Burgh’s go-to desserts: strawberry pie. And in 2022, Eat’n Park found a unique way to leverage its iconic menu item – “Strawberry Pie Forever Dessert Sour,” a limited-edition, co-branded beer in collaboration with Pittsburgh’s own Grist House Craft Brewery.

The launch of “Strawberry Pie Forever” was sure to be sweet, but first, Eat’n Park needed to ensure that media members got the first sips. Media kits – including facts about the collaboration, an Eat’n Park-branded sample beer glass and a four-pack of the co-branded cans – were assembled and personally delivered to Pittsburgh food and beverage editors, news stations, influencers and beer aficionados.

Expertise

• Database management
• Email marketing
• Digital & print advertising
• Social media
• Public relations
• Print collateral

Thanks to plenty of social media buzz and 19 broadcast clips that resulted from media outreach, the limited run of “Strawberry Pie Forever” cans sold out within two hours of the launch, and remaining kegs sold out within days. Fans even took to Twitter to barter cans!