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NY Times takes notice of Philly's "beer renaissance"
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NY Times takes notice of Philly's "beer renaissance"
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Our bevy of small, local brewpubs and breweries just got big ups from The New York Times Sunday Travel section, in a piece entitled "Breweries of Brotherly Love". Times writer Betsy Andrews rounds up the best bets for small-batch, craft brews in Philadelphia, aka the places where we have been holding the bar up for ages.
From historically minded breweries that pay homage to our founding fathers, to bohemian pubs that craft unusual ales, the city is undergoing a kind of beer renaissance.
Earth Bread + Brewery, Nodding Head Brewery, Triumph Brewing Company, Dock Street Brewery and Restaurant, Yards Brewing Company, Philadelphia Brewing Company and Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant all appear either in Andrews' article or accompanying slideshow. She even gets our boy Joe Sixpack into the act:
The new breweries, said Don Russell, who as Joe Sixpack writes a weekly column about beer for The Philadelphia Daily News, “are filling a need that’s out there being created by the local bar scene. Every single bar that has been opening up has a multitap system and is featuring microbrews.” Combine that robust tavern scene with cheap real estate in emerging neighborhoods, and you’ve got the ingredients for a beer blast.
It's sweet to get some props from the only big newspaper that matters, but come on, Betsy baby, catch up! Rosemarie Certo and Jeff Ware opened the first iteration of Dock Street Brewery in 1985, with the new version landing in West Philly in August of 2007. Yards brewed its first for-sale batch in Manayunk in 1994. Manayunk Brewery poured its first drafts in 1996 and Nodding Head opened in 2000.
Guess it took a Heavyweight like Tom Baker to help NYC see the light.
I know, I know... I got really excited for the attention at first and then a friend pointed out just how patronizing the article was, as if provincial Philly JUST caught up to the beer trend and aren't we proud of them!
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