I recently spent some time in Washington, DC for work. No, I wasn’t called before a Senate subcommittee and asked about my contact with Russian agents. And, no, I wasn’t brought in through the back gate of The White House to help escort Reince and Spicey from the […]
On the return trip from a recent 9U baseball tourney with My Benevolent and The Urchins, we had a hankering for a quick meal before we began the hour long ride home. To satisfy our cravings, we stopped at a shopping center that was located between the field […]
I don’t know about you, but whenever anyone mentions the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), I think of places like the ones that are mentioned on the four beer cans up above plus Acadia, Glacier, Denali, Great Smokey Mountains or any of the other 51 places that are […]
We relive our misspent youth and review a German Pilsener from the Veltins Brewery.
Let’s start this review off with a song… Beer Run. A song by Todd Snider and an IPA from Ninkasi Brewing Company’s Special Release Series. When we were first approached by Ninkasi to review their Beer Run IPA, I was assuming that this beer would be a Session […]
Before we get to our review of the Belgian beer that you see in the above photo (made by a brewery that I hadn’t heard of until this beer was literally delivered to my front porch!), let’s list some facts and figures about the country of Belgium… Total […]
You know you’re living in the Golden Age of American Craft Beer when you forget that many of the beer styles that we’ve grown to love were created somewhere else. Whether it’s the IPA which originated in England or the Berliner Weisse which originated in Germany or even […]
A couple of weeks ago, we were invited to attend the grand opening of a new brewery / restaurant in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia called Urban Village Brewing Company. Due to circumstances beyond our control (I am of course referring to The Benevolents and Our Urchins. […]
G-LO has been working the interwebz rather vigorously lately and the samples have been pouring in to the boozemail box. This has created a #FirstWorldProblem of sorts: We just have too much to drink and not enough time to drink it! I know, “Poor you!”. Anyway… A couple of […]
It’s been 4 years since we last attended Opening Tap (the OFFICIAL kick-off to the 10-day brewfest known the world over as Philly Beer Week), and in those 4 years, a couple things have changed… In January of this year, the Board of Philly Beer Week (PBW) announced […]