POSTED: Friday, June 4, 2010, 9:10 PM
Are you already drunk as eff on
Philly Beer Week information? Here's some more! We'll try to keep it as straightforward as possible. Mainly this is just an excuse to use our sweet proprietary PBW logo at right. Bottoms up, kids!
Friday, June 4
Opening Tap is tonight at 7:30, at the
Independence Visitors Center (Sixth and Market). This is the photo-op-crazy event where
Nutter rocks the big
Hammer of Glory, etc.
The
Chemical Heritage Foundation (315 Chestnut St.) is hosting an educational beer tasting/talk from 5 to 8 p.m. It'll feature CHF scholar
John Ceccatti and brewers from
Dock Street talking up "the history of hops and the pedagogy of porters."
Victory brewmaster
Bill Covaleski will serve the first pints of his brand-new
Summer Love Ale (
we told you about it in Small Bites) during tonight's happy hour at
Johnny Brenda's (1201 N. Frankford Ave.).
Resurrection Ale House (2425 Grays Ferry Ave.) is pouring beers from SoCal's
Green Flash all night. Get their IPA.
MidAtlantic (3711 Market St.) is doing $3 drafts and happy-hour snacks at the bar on out on their sweet patio.
Saturday, June 5
The Continental (138 Market St.) is hosting a
Yards Beer Brunch, featuring the brewery's
Tom Kehoe, from noon to 2 p.m.
From 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., hit up 10th Street between Locust and Spruce for a
Varga Bar block party that'll feature hot dog/wing eating contests, music, and chef
Evan Turney grilling up kobe beef burgers and dogs.
Our pick for best-named event of the weekend:
Yuengtoberfest at
O'Neal's (611 S. Third St.). All Yuengling drafts are $3.50, and we're told both
Jennifer Yuengling and
Lord Chesterfield in the damn flesh will be there from 1 to 4 p.m. Prizes and giveaways too.
Saturday also marks the official debut of
Flying Fish's brand-new
Exit 6, which
we wrote about on Tuesday. They'll start pouring the rye ale at 3 pm. at
Nodding Head (1516 Sansom, second floor).
Sunday, June 6
UPDATE [05jun10]: Doug Hager of
Brauhaus Schmitz tells Meal Ticket that Saturday's
Bierfest at the
German Society of Philadelphia (611 Spring Garden St.) was such a success that they're doing it again on Sunday. It'll run at the GSoP from 2 to 6 p.m.; beer tickets, which include a sandwich (they're roasting a whole pig), will be $3, $2 less than Saturday's tix.
Beer lineup here.
Smoke 'Em If yous Got' Em at
Yards Brewing (901 N. Delaware Ave.) — this annual event features hellacious amounts of smoked beer (
look at this lineup) and tons of barbecue. (We'll be sitting in as one of the judges for the amateur barbecue cook-off.)
Head to
Hawthornes (738 S. 11th St.) at 3 p.m. for a meet-the-brewer with Florida's
Cigar City. They'll be pouring stuff from their
Humidor Series, a limited-quantity lineup of cedar-aged brews.
Meet
Jean Van Roy of
Cantillon at
Tria Rittenhouse (123 S. 18th St.) from 5 to 6 p.m. Check out our
April '09 Q&A with the dude to help you develop some sweet questions.
