Mon, 08 Feb 2010

Happy Monday
Frankford Ave is looking clear and the sides were plowed, so there's plenty of parking on both sides of the street.


Draft Beer News
Kicked: Stegmaier Porter, Philadelphia Joe Porter, Prism Bitto Honey IPA, Bear Republic Racer 5, Flying Fish Imperial Espresso Porter.

Tapped:
Elysian Avatar Jasmine IPA, which is this week's Beer Season Beer of the Week. We should have the design for this year's shirt online later this week. I like this beer. Jasmine flowers in an IPA doesn't sound very macho, but it does taste great. And there's more than enough hops to let most people feel sufficiently macho.

Lagunitas Hairy Eyeball, this winter seasonal is always a crowd favorite at here at the G-Lodge. Somebody wake up Nick Dominski and let him know this is on.

Philadelphia Kilty Pleasure, Philly's latest Seasonal, is back on tap. This is a very tasty Scotch Ale.


Vote for Us If You'd Like
Philly Beer Scene Mag is running a reader's choice poll. Please vote for us if you feel so inclined. There's write-in options, so you can vote Milli Vanilli if you want. I often do since they are bigger than the Beatles and so humble about it.

Sun, 07 Feb 2010

Tonight's the Super Bowl. We'll have it on all of our TVs tonight, plus our usual assortment of great food and beer at reasonable prices.

Draft Beer Update
As expected Ithaca Flower Power didn't last long. Even with the snow, it kicked in 3 days. Replacing it is Manayunk California Dreaming IPA.

Link of the DayJohn Flagler sent this one in.

Sat, 06 Feb 2010

Hitch up your dogsled; we're open! Jeez that's a lot of snow out there. Watch those drifts.

Draft Beer Changes
Kicked: Victory Helios, Victory Mad Kings Weisse, Flying Fish Belgian Mild, and Weyerbacher Fireside.

Tapped: Stegmaier Porter, Victory St. Victorious Doppelbock, 21st Amendment Golden Doom. Yards IPA.

It's been a while since we've had Steg Porter on. It will be interesting to try it again and see how it stacks up.

St. Vic came off for Groundhog Day and is now back on tap.

Golden Doom sounds interesting, especially after how great their Monks Blood was. Golden Doom is a Belgan style golden strong ale, ala Duvel, which is an especially tasty and dangerously drinkable style of Belgian beer.

Yards IPA is always a tasty hop bomb.

Fri, 05 Feb 2010

Let It Snow
We'll be open regular hours this weekend. SEPTA will be running. Many folks will walk here. Hopefully we'll see you. The taps will be ready and the grill will be on.


Draft Beer Update
Cask-conditioned Bear Republic Racer 5, replaced Troegs Nugget Nectar on the handpump.


Tapping of Whiny the Unger on March 2nd at 7pm
Ssshhhhhhh!!!! Loose lips kick sixtels!

Actually we will be tapping a beer that rhymes with Whiny the Unger. Like the very few other places that are getting this beer, we are only getting a sixtel. Since there is so much anticipation for this beer, we wanted to keep the tapping under the radar, so that will be more for our regulars (like you who are reading this now).

We are calling it Whiny the Unger to make it less Googleable.

Thu, 04 Feb 2010

Groundhog Day
Thanks to everyone who attended Tuesday to make our Groundhog Day Beer Breakfast so much fun. Pictures are already up. These are mostly from Steve Lyford and Steve Hawk. If you have any pictures from Groundhog Day, please email me (scoats@greylodge.com) the pix or the link. Thanks a lot everyone!


Draft Beer Update
Four Groundhog Day beers kicked: Founders Breakfast Stout, Russian River Temptation (sixtel), Russian River Consecration (sixtel), and Yards Old Bart (sixtel).

Three pre-Groundhog beer were retapped: Weyerbacher Fireside Ale, Flying Fish Belgian Mild, Otter Creek QVH.

And Ithaca Flower Power IPA was freshly tapped.


Get Snowed in with Us
We'll be open all weekend no matter how much it snows. If you don't want to drive, the 66 goes right by our door.

Mark Your Calendars!

for our first annual President's Day Weekend White Sale!

Please click on the image for full size.

Tuesday, 02 Feb 2010

Today was our annual Groundhog Day Hawaiian Shirt Beer Breakfast. A very large thank you to everyone who joined us. It was a very jolly time. For those of you that missed it, there's next year.

Diaper Drive
I heard that Jim Kosek of Accuweather.com gave us a shot out this morning. I missed it since I was working. Who all caught it? An updated forecast about snow for tonight has replaced Jim's video on the Philadelphia pages. There is still time to drop off diapers at the Lodge for Jim's diaper drive. Steveo Hawk and I will drive them up to State College in a few weeks.


Draft Beer News
We had to temporarily untap a few beers to make room for today's Groundhog Day festivities. Untapped and returning are: Sly Fox Oatmeal Stout, Flying Fish Belgian Mild, Victory St. Victorious Doppelbock, Weyerbacher Fireside Ale, cask-conditioned Bear Republic Racer 5, Otter Creek QVH, Stegmaier Porter.

Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA kicked last night kindly leaving us one less beer to untap.

Troegs Dream Weaver Wheat made it just far enough through Groundhog Day to make room for Stoudts Quad, which was our 11th Groundhog Day draft beer. This was a problem since we had 11 draft beers lined up, but only 10 draft lines. So it all worked out. The 2nd Troegs Mystery Keg that was on just before this Dream Weaver turned out to be Dream Weaver as well. So that was 31 gallons of Dream Weaver since Saturday evening. That's one popular beer.

Newly tapped were: Stoudts Quad, Sly Fox Gang Aft Agley Scotch Ale, Philadelphia Joe Porter, cask-conditioned Troegs Nugget Nectar on handpump, cask-conditioned Prism Bitto Honey IPA via gravity-pour, Founders Breakfast Stout
Russian River Temptation (sixtel), Russian River Consecration (sixtel), Victory Helios, Victory Mad Kings Weisse, Yards Old Bart (sixtel), Flying Fish Imperial Espresso Porter.

I even managed to get to have a few beers this morning. The two Russian Rivers were both really stellar. Mmm I could drink loads and loads of Consecration. I also had the very tasty Founders Breakfast Stout with breakfast.

Tomorrow night during the special NFL Quizzo, I'll get to try some of the ones I missed today.


NFL Quizzo - Tomorrow Night (Wednesday)
Join Quizmaster Barry for four rounds of NFL Trivia. 8pm on our 2nd floor.

All Four Rounds will be themed this week.
Round One - Eagles Trivia
Round Two - Stadiums
Round Three - The Super Bowl
Round Four - Active Trivia, questions concerning only Active players and coaches

Groundhog Day Signage

Tomorrow is the day! We are the 2nd best place to catch Punxsutawney Phil's prognostication; the first of course being Gobblers Knob. On the plus side, the Grey Lodge is much easier to get to, and we're heated. And we have beer. There's no beer at Gobblers Knob.

Sat, 30 Jan 2010

Draft Beer Update
Sly Fox Oatmeal Stout replaced Dogfish Head Chicory Stout. One local stout for another, now that's some balance.

GreyLodge.com Version 2010
While this page hasn't changed, the rest of the site has. I tested it pretty good before releasing it into the wild of the World Wide Web. But our site is 14 years old, growing all that time, so there are a lot of nooks and crannies, and there's probably stuff that I missed.

After using an HTML editor for 4 years, the site has gone back to being hand coded, removing a lot of the garbage code the software insisted on installing.

Please email me with any issues that you notice and/or what you think of the redo.

Thanks!

Blasts from the Past/Picture of the Day
I found a lot of old pictures, which are now with the rest of our photos. Today's picture is of long time regulars Ed and Juli.

Fri, 29 Jan 2009

Draft Beer News
Troegs Mystery Keg #1 was replaced by Troegs Mystery Keg #2. We were expecting one of Troegs's Scratch beers, but it seems to be Dreamweaver. Whatever it is, it's a very nice hefe.

8pm update: Flying Fish Belgian Mild replaced Russian River Damnation. The Belgian Mild kicked really fast when we had it on tap last week.


Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA replaced Lagunitas Cappuchino Stout. I didn't get to try this night (other beers had my attention). But the people around me who did have it, loved it. This will be the first beer I have tonight when I get over to the better side of the bar.


Picture of the Day
This pic is from Groundhog Day 2004. Unlike 6 years ago, the forecast for this year's Groundhog Day Hawaiian Shirt Beer Breakfast (which is Tuesday) calls for dry weather with a high of 40.

We have all sorts of great beer and a lot of fun planned. How often do you get to drink great beer at 7am? Hope you can join us. Don't forget to bring diapers. Each diaper gets you a chance to win a great prize.

Thu, 28 Jan 2010

Draft Beer News
Victory St. Victorious Doppelbock replaced Victory Wild Devil. I haven't had St. Vic in a while. I look forward to rediscovering Victory's take on this classic German style. Both Bill and Ron trained in Germany, so you it will be great.


Picture of the Day
Chef Jason made pierogies and kielbasa. Jason handmade the pierogies himself this afternoon. I had this tonight for dinner and it is as great as it looks. They should be around for Friday too.

Wed, 27 Jan 2010

Draft Beer Update
This week's Beer Season Beer of the Week, Weyerbacher Double Simcoe, replaced itself.

A quarter barrel of Philadelphia Brewing's newest seasonal, Kilty Pleasure, a Scotch Ale replaced Yards Brawler. Kilty Pleasure is very tasty and rather smooth for a Scotch Ale. Kilty is a real winner. They didn't make much of it. We bought 4 quarter barrels, which I expect won't last long.

Quizzo
Join Quizmaster Barry tonight for a General Quizzo. Next week is a very special NFL Quizzo. And just like "a very special" Fats of Life, Mrs. Garret will solve the issue, and it will end without a laugh track. Quizzo, every Wednesday, from 8 to 10pm on our 2nd floor.


Groundhog Day is coming up fast! Get your sick day excuse ready now.

Tue, 26 Jan 2010

Draft Beer Update
Our little run of smoked beers continues and ends with Weyerbacher Fireside Ale. Fireside replaced Erie Smokebender. If you like smoked beers, you'll like Fireside. And if you don't, we have 10 other beers on tap, none of which are smokey. It's all good.

Sun, 24 Jan 2010

Draft Beer News
21st Amendment Monks Blood kicked in just 3 days. I guess Geno, Ed, and I are not the only ones who dug it. Replacing it is Troegs Mystery Keg #1.

The caps fell off two Troegs kegs at the wholesaler. One is probably a Troegs Scratch beer (very rare); the other is probably a year round Troegs beer. Not being able ID what the kegs are sort makes selling them hard, unless they find a sucker. They know we at the Grey Lodge are suckers for great beer and for a little discount. We also love passing along any savings to our customers. We bought both kegs. Prices for both are $4/pint. If you are in a gambling mood, order a Troegs Mystery beer. The style might be a mystery, the quality won't be. I remember that once I had a Troegs beer that was merely very good. But that was many years ago, they have been great or above the last few years.

Cask-conditioned Bear Republic Racer 5, probably consistently the fastest moving beer that we run regularly our handpump, replaced cask-conditioned Yards ESA (which is always a winner too).

Russian River Damnation replaced Flying Fish Grand Cru. Damnation is a Duvel-y sort of beer, which can be both very good (tasty, tasty), and sometimes very bad (easy to have too many).

Sat. 23 Jan 2010

Draft Beer Update
Weyerbacher Double Simcoe replaced Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA. Double Simcoe is a 9& double IPA that only uses one kind of hop, simcoe.

Victory Wild Devil replaced Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA. Wild Devil is Victory's Hop Devil brewed with Brettanomyces yeast, which gives it a funky flavor. If you like funk, then you are bound to be down with this one; papa's gotta brand new beer. If you like your beers less funky, then you might want to pass on this one.

Yards Brawler replaced Sly Fox Dale's 10K. No funk with Brawler, just a perfect session beer.


Picture of Day
Cask conditioned Yards ESA from our handpump with a side of afternoon sun.