POSTED: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 6:44 PM
Meal Ticket is giving away two passes to this year's Brewer's Plate, scheduled for this Sun., March 8 from 4 to 7 p.m. at UPenn's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (3260 South St.). Now in its fifth year, the event brings together local restaurants and local breweries, who team up to pair dishes with 3-ounce pours of well-matched beer.
Just a few of this year's participants on the beer end: Dogfish Head, Earth Bread + Brewery, Nodding Head, Philadelphia Brewing Co., Sly Fox, Stoudt's, Triumph, Troegs, Victory, Yards.
And here's just a portion of the restaurants that'll throw down: Bar Ferdinand, Belgian Caf�, Cantina Dos Segundos, Distrito, El Camino Real, Pub & Kitchen, South Philly Tap Room Southwark, Tinto, Tria.
Want to win? All you have to do is be the first person to e-mail drew.lazor @ citypaper.net with the correct answers to our beer trivia quiz. DO NOT LEAVE ANSWERS AS A COMMENT.
Questions after the jump. Good luck!
UPDATE: OK, so we might've screwed up a little bit. Turns out there's not really a definitive answer to one of our questions. Taking this into consideration, we feel it is only fair to crown TWO winners. Congratulations to Meal Ticket readers Marc Hensley and Jason Portnoy, who'll both get a pair of tickets.
Answers after the jump.
- What two events inspired the creation of Philly Beer Week?
The Book and the Cook (out of which the actual Brewer's Plate grew, so that was also an acceptable answer) and late, great beer writer Michael Jackson's tutored tastings at the Penn Museum were the two events that truly inspired the creation of our city's smashing Beer Week festivities.
- There were many local winners at the 2008 Great American Beer Fest in Colorado. Name at least TWO Gold Medal-winning breweries and what categories they won in.
Everyone from Sly Fox to Iron Hill to Dogfish Head took home golds at the most recent GABF. You can check out the full list of winners on the Beer Fest's Web site.
- According to the original text of the Reinheitsgebot, what are the only elements that can be included in German beer?
According to the ORIGINAL TEXT of Germany's beer purity law, the only ingredients allowed in German beer are water, barley and hops (or "wasser, gerste and hopfen," as purist Joe Sixpack submitted). But what about yeast? Well, the Reinheitsgebot originated in the late 15th century � before dudes even knew what yeast was. Tricky, I know.
- In England, what alcohol-by-volume measure is required for something to be called a "session beer"?
Here's where things got a little funky. In concocting this question, Team Meal Ticket was working with the knowledge that 4 percent was the ceiling for easy-drinking session beers in England. We heard this from several sources. After consulting several other sources, however, it became clear that there truly is no hard and fast ABV applied in the UK. Basically, if it's 5 percent or under (and there are exceptions aplenty to this), it can be called a session beer. That's why there are two winners.
- Name at least TWO locally produced beers making their official debuts during Philly Beer Week 2009.
Joey6 recently posted a mouthwatering list of all the new beers on his blog.
