All Week, bring in a new unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots, get a free beer (or other beverage)! Fine print: No dollar store garbage. Maximum value $5. One drink per toy per customer per day.
Today starts the 2nd week of Beer Season. Drink all 13 beers of the week to get a free T-shirt. Details on this week's beer, Allagash White, are below.
Wednesday is a special Phillies Quizzo with PhilliesNation. Quizmistress E-Unit will be coming out of retirement to host. PhilliesNation will have a some really great special prizes. 8pm on our 2nd floor.
On Thursday, Theology Pub comes to the Grey Lodge. Theology Pub is a casual evening in a pub where anyone is welcome to come discuss issues of life and faith. This month Theology Pub will be at the Grey Lodge on our 2nd floor. Theology Pub is lead by Trent Williams of St. Luke's. 7:30pm
On Friday, it's Anchor OSA Flashback Night. Remember last year when you were a year younger? Still a fresh daisy in your prime? Well neither do we. But we might have a sense memory to help trigger a flashback to that kinder, gentler time. As usual last winter we saved an Anchor OSA for our Xmas in July. Come July, we realized that we screwed up and saved two. D'oh! We decided to sit on the extra for a few months more so we could pour 2012 and 2011 OSA side by side in December. We should screw up like that more often.
On Saturday, Tacony is having its annual Winterfest. This year, it's bigger than ever. Holiday festivities and activities including facepainting, a visit from some camels (acutally alpacas), a free trolley tour of Tacony, and more. Also, from 12:30 - 2:30 pm meet Santa Claus and from 12:30 - 1:30 pm enjoy the Victorian Carolers performance. Visit the branch between noon and 3:00 pm. This is a free, family event. The activity takes place in and around the Tacony branch of the Free Library at Knorr and Torresdale. noon to 3pm.
Draft Beer Update
Kicked: Brooklynner Weisse, Great Lakes Blackout Stout, Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA, Elysian Dark O' the Moon Pumpkin Stout, cask-conditioned Troegs Hopback Amber, Woodchuck Winter Cider.
Tapped:
Allagash White is this week's Beer Season beer of the week. For this year's Beer Season, we are spotlighting iconic beers. Allagash White is the iconic American made Belgian style wit beer.
Once again we look to Wikipedia for info about a beer style. Witbier, white beer, bière blanche, or simply witte is a barley/wheat, top-fermented beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. It gets its name due to suspended yeast and wheat proteins which cause the beer to look hazy, or white, when cold. It is a descendant from those medieval beers which were not brewed with hops, but instead flavoured and preserved with a blend of spices and other plants referred to as "gruit". It therefore still uses gruit, although nowadays the gruit consists mainly of coriander, orange, bitter orange, and hops. The taste is therefore only slightly hoppy. The beers have a somewhat sour taste due to the presence of lactic acid. The suspended yeast in the beer causes some continuing fermentation in the bottle. Witbier differs from other varieties of wheat beer in the use of gruit. French regulation (the territory was French in the 14th century) excluded the use of hops in gruit. Witbier can be made with raw wheat, in addition to wheat malt.
I remember thinking this was a pretty extreme beer style 16 years ago. Oh how times have changed. This another iconic beer that I can't recall the last time I drank one. That DAB last week was very tasty and interesting. I look forward to drinking an Allagash White this week with the same open mind and fresh palate.
Rogue First Growth Wet Hop Ale - wet-hopped harvest ales continue to trickle in. This one is grown with hops and barley from Rogue's farms.
Lancaster Gold Star Pilsner - I bought we needed a pilsner in the line-up to switch things up and to make Neil happy. Yet another local pilsner, this one is from Lancaster PA.
Starr Hill Boxcar Pumpkin Porter - Butters requested this one, so we got two. This pumpkin porter is probably our last pumpkin beer of 2012.
Hand Pump: cask-conditioned Bear Republic Racer 5 - an old favorite is back on the beer engine.
Cider: Woodchuck Amber Cider - after all sorts of specialty ciders from Woodchuck, we have one of their regular ciders as a change of pace.
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