History & local legend
Bube’s Brewery occupies a nineteenth-century brewery and hotel complex on North Market Street in Mount Joy. The brewery building dates to 1859; Alois Bube added the Central Hotel in 1880. An icehouse connects the buildings, and deep cellars once provided the cool conditions needed to age beer. Those cellars now house the Catacombs restaurant, about forty-three feet below street level.
The haunting accounts concern figures seen by employees and customers in the old complex. Discover Lancaster describes reports of a woman wearing a long gown and a male apparition. The property also appeared on Ghost Hunters, bringing these local stories to a wider audience.
Family history remains part of how the stories are told. Discover Lancaster identifies ghost-tour guide Jean Ellis as Alois Bube’s great-granddaughter. Tours and paranormal investigations take visitors through a place that still contains the working spaces of the original business, from its hotel rooms to its underground cellars. Brewing itself resumed in November 2001 after a break dating to 1917; the modern brewery operates in the former icehouse.
