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 […]
Below is all the news that’s fit to print about Philly Beer Week 2017 courtesy of our friends at Profile Public Relations and Philly Loves Beer… CHEERS TO 10 YEARS OF BEERS! PHILLY BEER WEEK (PBW) TO CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY The nation’s first, biggest and best Beer Week […]
With an actual high temperature of around 52 degrees and total rainfall of 2.06 inches, May 13, 2017 probably wasn’t the greatest day (from a weather perspective) to host an Outdoor Craft Beer Festival (i.e. Pour-A-Palooza #9), but when you have 81 breweries scheduled to bring 143 different […]
Plum. Sour. Stout. These three words sound good when you say them individually, but when you say them together, they sound a bit mismatched. Plum and Sour works well together. Plum and Stout works too if the plums are ripe and sweet. But a Plum Sour Stout? That […]
Ever the dutiful son, G-LO pays a visit to his Mamma in South Philly on a weekly basis. Not too far away from her house is a great bottle shop (Beer Heaven). So, while playing his role as the ever dutiful son, he can also stop off and […]