[1][2] Around the turn of the century, there were a total of fifty-eight breweries involved in mergers across Pennsylvania.

[2] The Duquesne Brewery, which had always been the foremost of the IBC's branches,[2] was the only to return in 1933, operating under the Independent Brewing Company's name.

[7] A crowd of 25,000 jubilant people gathered at the IBC's plant in Pittsburgh's South Side as legal beer was allowed to flow "unlicensed and uncontrolled" at 12:01 a.m. on April 7.

The IBC brand would be dormant until 2013, when brothers Matthew and Peter Kurzweg re-established the name for their independent bar in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh.

Opened on February 15, 2014, the "Indy" focuses on western Pennsylvanian small batch craft beers, much like those made by the original Independent Brewing Company.