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Fresh from Beantown: All Aboard the Philly Brew Tour to Eat, Drink and Revel in Booze
Photos, story by Cassie Hepler A true beer lover has always dreamed of a vehicle that would drive them around the city for hours while they drink and learn beer nerd facts along the way. Well, the time has finally come. From our Boston Beantown neighbors, let us introduce Philly Brew Tours, a complete day of non-stop beer education that includes guided craft brewery and distilleries tastings including food pairings with a hearty meal at a local brewery along the way to soak it all up. You drink, we drive is their motto and we like it – a lot. Founder and CEO Chad Brodsky decided to add Philly to his list of beer education and craft…
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Great Beer Expo was an Ocean of Philly’s Beloved IPAs for Beer Week
Photos, story by Clare Shepherd This is the most important thing this article has to say: go try Free Will Brewing’s Community Kolsch. Nearly every brewery at the 8th annual Great Beer Expo brought their most popular IPA. Philadelphia is, as one brewer put it, a crowded marketplace for this style: a representative from Double Nickel, one of the two newest companies at the event, said that if a company calls a distributor saying they have an IPA, or a pale ale, they won’t even get a call back. “It’s a crowded marketplace,” said one brewer. “When it comes to beer, if you can make it in Philadelphia, you can…
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Yards Brewing Company loving the ladies with Lady Birds Beer Club
By Cassie Hepler Newsflash: Ladies like craft beer too. And if this really is news to you, what rock have you been hiding under all winter? It’s time to get out, stretch those wings and fly over to Yards Brewing Company to enjoy some stellar seasonal beer with their first ever ladies beer club dubbed Lady Birds Beer. The first meeting was held on April 1, 2015, while celebrating the release of Unite Red Ale, brewed collaboratively with the women of Yards, Victory Beer & Malteurop North America. In true ladies night honor, the first beer is free with your drink ticket from 5-7 p.m. Lady Birds Beer Club will meet on…