This month’s Session topic (hosted by Beer at Joe’s) is “Beyond the Black & Tan”: What’s your favorite beer cocktail? Find a recipe for that or a new one, try it, and tell us why you did or didn’t like it–even if you think beer cocktails are nothing but a good way to waste a [...]

The final “Meet the Brewer” event we attended during Philly Beer Week was on Saturday at Iron Hill Brewery in Phoenixville. Iron Hill currently has seven locations, with more on the way. Tim and I were first introduced to this brewery at the original Iron Hill in Newark, DE. It’s located right on Main Street [...]

We attended yet another “Meet the Brewer” event at TJ’s last night, this time featuring Tröegs, one of my favorite breweries! A special surprise to us was the firkin of Flying Mouflon that Tröegs had brought. Flying Mouflon is sort of like a barleywine-ized Nugget Nectar. Higher gravity, more hops, specialty grains tweaked. The end [...]

For our second “Meet the Brewer” event of Philly Beer Week, we went to TJ’s in Paoli. Monday’s event featured Brewery Ommegang. On tap, was Ommegang’s Three Philosophers, “Obamagang,” Abbey Ale, and Chocolate Indulgence, as well as Duvel Green. On hand, was brewer Wes Nick. I started off with “Obamagang,” which was brewed especially for [...]

This week marks the glorious Philly Beer Week 2009. All through Philly and the surrounding suburbs, you can find yourself at any of about 700 events at over 100 different breweries, brewpubs, beer bars, and the like. Yowza! We’re only attending a handful of the events (damn you, full-time job!), so this will just be [...]

I’m gonna start sounding like a Victory spokesperson, but I can’t help it, they just continue to be awesome. Victory has recently started a monthly event called “Follow the Liter.” Here’s the description from their website: Enjoy a bit of Bavaria at Victory Brewing Company. Celebrate with $5 mas liters of Festbier and Wiesen and [...]

This past Sunday was Victory‘s 6th Annual Chili Challenge. Various Victory employees made 5-gallon vats of their own chili recipes, to be reviewed by a panel of judges, as well as by the general public (Read: free chili!). We were so there. The moment Tim and I arrived, we realized that this event was no [...]

Last weekend, Tim and I checked out Earth Bread + Brewery in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philly. Definitely an interesting place! The setup is pretty neat, though it’s a tiny bit cramped for the crowd they draw. That’s actually an understatement. It was uncomfortably crowded in there. Granted, we were there on a Saturday [...]