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Blacksmith Forge, Axe Throwing & Mead Hall · Lebanon, PA
Drunken Smithy is a hands-on blacksmith forge, axe-throwing venue, retail shop, and craft mead hall under one roof inside the Lebanon Valley Mall — forge your own knife, axe, or copper flower over a real fire, no experience needed, about 25–30 minutes east of Hershey.
Our take This one's worth the drive east if you want something you can't do anywhere else around Hershey — forging your own blade over a real fire, with a mead hall and axe lanes in the same building. It's about 30 minutes from our shop, and you can pair it with Game Traders Club next door.
Drunken Smithy is a genuinely unusual destination: a working blacksmith shop where you make your own metalwork in a project-based class, plus axe-throwing lanes, a retail shop of forged goods, and a craft mead hall — all inside the Lebanon Valley Mall in Lebanon, PA. It was founded by two Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire veterans, Greg Ramsey and Eitri Jones, who started the forge in Palmyra back in 2016 and moved into the mall (a former Victoria's Secret storefront) in 2023, expanding from there. The workshops are built for beginners: with a smith coaching you at the anvil and fire, you can forge knives, axes, swords, jewelry, copper "forever flowers," and more, leaving with something you actually made.
The shop also runs recreational axe throwing on IATF-style lanes and, since early 2025, a Mead Hall with an on-site winery pouring its own craft mead and cider alongside live music — so those stainless tanks behind the forge are Drunken Smithy's own, not a brewery's. It's the kind of place that hosts renaissance-style festivals a few times a year and has drawn regional coverage as a creative reuse of a struggling mall. Forging workshops and axe sessions run by advance reservation with a deposit, while the mead hall and retail shop are walk-in. It shares the Lebanon Valley Mall with the guide's Game Traders Club, making the two an easy pairing on a trip east of Hershey.
As of our last check Drunken Smithy was generally open Tuesday through Sunday from midday into the evening (later on Friday and Saturday), with Monday closed — though the mall directory and the venue's own listing don't fully agree, and workshops run on a booked schedule. Reserve workshops and axe sessions ahead at drunkensmithy.com and confirm current hours before a trip.
Drunken Smithy is in Lebanon, PA. The map shows both pins — Drunken Smithy and our shop in Grantville — so you can see exactly where it sits relative to us.
Yes. Drunken Smithy runs project-based workshops where a smith coaches you at the fire and anvil to make your own piece — knives, axes, swords, jewelry, or a copper flower among them — with no prior experience needed. You take home what you forge.
There's more. Under the same roof you'll find recreational axe-throwing lanes, a retail shop of forged goods, and a Mead Hall with an on-site winery pouring its own mead and cider with live music. It's a forge, an entertainment venue, and a tasting room in one.
It's inside the Lebanon Valley Mall in Lebanon, PA, about 25–30 minutes east of Hershey along the Route 422 corridor — the same mall as the guide's Game Traders Club. It's its own destination, not a Hershey-district venue.
Forging workshops and axe sessions run by advance reservation with a deposit; the mead hall and shop are walk-in. Forging is adult-oriented, with older minors able to join alongside an adult and young children only by arranged private sessions — confirm specifics when you book.
Drunken Smithy is in Lebanon, about 25–30 minutes east of Hershey along the Route 422 corridor, and pairs well with a few other Lebanon Valley stops:
Right inside the same Lebanon Valley Mall — a retro-to-current game shop with a free arcade.
A from-scratch tavern near Lebanon for a sit-down meal after you forge.
Local beer between Hershey and Lebanon if mead isn't your thing.
Verified via: Official site · Spotlight PA — Lebanon Valley Mall's blacksmiths and mead lovers · Visit Lebanon Valley listing · Instagram (@drunkensmithy)
Drunken Smithy is an independent local business we're featuring in our guide — we're not affiliated, sponsored, or endorsed. Details are from the business and public sources and were accurate at the time of writing; please confirm current hours, ages, and reservations before visiting.