PITTSBURGH—Thomas Pastorius, the man who brought craft brewing to Pittsburgh when he founded the Pennsylvania Brewing Co., has died. He was 67 when he died Thursday of prostate cancer.

Pastorius was from Sewickley and developed a love of beer in Germany, where he had three generations of relatives and spent time in the Army in the 1960s and again in the 1980s as a businessman after graduating from Penn State.

Pastorius and his wife, Mary Beth, founded Penn Brewery in 1986 and added a restaurant and brewpub to the business—at the site of the former Eberhardt & Ober brewery on Pittsburgh's North Side —in 1989. The brewery produced Penn Pilsner, Penn Dark and other German-style beers. He sold the business in 2010.

A memorial service has been scheduled Tuesday at the Presbyterian Church of Sewickley.