Wednesday night is Quizzo with Quizmaster Chris3. Wednesday just so happens to be Int'l Talk Like a Pirate Day. Due to the grumblins and apathy of some landlubbers, we no longer be doin an official Talk Like a Pirate Day event. But Chris3 that scurvy dog won't be deterred from doin' an International Talk Like a Pirate Day Quizzo. As usual, Quizzo be at eight bells (or be it 20 bells?), upon our upper deck. Vittles and grog 'ill be a flowin'. Arg.
Also on Wednesday, from 6pm to 8pm, on our first floor, our Republican friends will be having a fundraiser for our state rep. John Taylor. Details are on Bookface.
On Saturday and Sunday, as usual, we serve brunch from 10am to 3pm. Our full menu us available too.
On Sunday, the Mayfair Civic is having the first of two fall previews of the Farmers Market that will be at Cottman and Frankford starting next spring. We will be hosting a beer garden there. We will have draft beer available for pints, beer mimosas, and growler fills. We will have empty growlers for sale too. This will be a festive day with music and other fun. Plus there are always a lot fun rude things you can do with produce.
Once we find out what we can get in 1/4 barrels, we will announce our beer line-up for the Farmers Market.
Republic Bank and the Mayfair CDC are hosting the
Mayfair Fall Festival and Farmers' Market Preview
Sunday, September 23, 2012, 9am to 2pm
3500 block of Ryan Ave (Frankford Ave. and Cottman Ave. intersection)
**Farm fresh produce, local honey and beeswax candles, organic soaps and body
products, homemade pasta sauce, flowers, fresh bagels, gourmet dog treats, baked
goods, and craft beers served at our pop-up beer garden!
Featured Vendors
Stern Farms
Wild Flour Bakery
Mill Creek Apiary
Philly Dog Biscuit Company
5 Sisters Pasta Sauces
Stan's Health Foods
Mayfair Shop N Bag
The Grey Lodge Pub
Torresdale Flowers
Specialty food trucks from the
Philly Mobile Food Association
**Face Painting, water ice, and live music featuring the Father Judge Jazz Band,Mike Brenner, and Tricia Paffen and Nick Giannetti.
Yes, that's Mike Slo-Mo Brenner playing here in Mayfair! I can't wait. This will be a great day. Butters and I will be working the Grey Lodge table. Why not join us?
If you haven't had Shop N Bag's bagels yet, you are in for a treat. Well you are in for a treat whether you have had them yet or not, just as long as you have one (or more) on Sunday.
Hop Angel has some great stuff this week too, including Pumpkinfest this weekend.
Draft Beer Update
Stone 16th Anniversary replaced Fegley's Brew Works Hop Explosion. For their 16th, Stone brewed a double IPA (surprise! surprise!) This one uses some rye and lemon verbena, whatever that this.
I am Goolging lemon verbena right now, but let's guess what lemon verbena is first. You can play at home, or one your cell phone, or at work if you work somewhere cool that doesn't block nonsense like greylodge.com.
Lemon Verbena is:
a) furniture polish
b) stuff left over from lemons after all the good stuff is used, sort of like the scrapple of lemons.
c) feminine hygiene product
d) all of the above
The answer from Wikipedia: Lemon verbena is a perennial shrub or subshrub growing to 2 –3 m high. The 8 cm long glossy, pointed leaves are slightly rough to the touch and emit a powerful scent reminiscent of lemon when bruised. Sprays of tiny lilac or white flowers appear in late Spring or early Summer. It is sensitive to cold, losing leaves at temperatures below 0°C although the wood is hardy to -10°C.[3] Due to its many culinary uses, it is widely listed and marketed as a plant for the herb garden.[4]
Well I learned something this morning.
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