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JUNE/JULY 2012 VENUE: VICTORY BREWERY
With the 2012 Best of the Philly Beer Scene Awards being presented, we thought it was only fitting to hold the Tasting Room at the location of the “Best Area Brewery” winner, Victory Brewing Co. On top of being named best brewery, Victory also won awards for their Prima Pils (Best Lager) and Storm King (Best Stout/Porter). For this issue, we also changed up our formatting a bit–our newly revised Tasting Room features more beers and a rotating tasting panel.
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The Cornerstone of East Passyunk Ave.
Resting on the corner at the end of the hip stretch of East Passyunk Avenue in South Philly, the Pub on Passyunk East (P.O.P.E.) has been perfectly balancing the line between dive bar and craft beer worthy destination for years; but with the surge in craft beer interest, it has more recently defined itself as the latter.
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Ortino’s Northside offers a beer selection worthy of a trip to Zieglersville.
According to Wikipedia, Zieglersville is an unincorporated community, located in Lower Frederick Township, Montgomery County, PA; meaning it’s pretty much in the middle of nowhere. What Wikipedia fails to mention is in this little town called Zieglersville, which is tucked away between Schwenksville and Perkiomenville, is a beer destination that is worthy of its very own trip out to the country.
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The bottles of Leinenkugel rattled in the back of the Jeep over the South Dakota badlands. Never mind that we weren’t supposed to have beer in the national park; we were not supposed to be in this section of the national park. There was enough beer in the back to last five of us all night, but by the time we reached our illegal camp site, several bottles had broken and had not proved to be ideal booze vessels for off-roading. We lost the bottle opener around the fire and clumsily used boulders to pop the caps. We rattled back out in the morning with all the clanking empties, sounding like the conspicuous trespassers we were.
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In the minds of Philadelphians, there is no question that The City of Brotherly Love is the Mecca for craft beer. Ask any beer drinking resident which city has the best craft beer culture in the country and they will proudly say Philadelphia. Why wouldn’t they? Outside of California, who else gets the ales of craft beer god Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River? And who else has an ambassador of beer on the level of Tom Peters? (He is probably a bigger rock star in Belgium than Jean–Pierre Van Roy of Cantillon.) With the best in the world coming to us, Philadelphians have a reason to be proud.
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In early February, a comprehensive nomination survey went out to many of the industry professionals throughout the Philly beer scene to get their thoughts on who should be on the final ballot to be voted on as a Best of the Philly Beer Scene award winner. This year, nominations were so diverse, yet concise, to the many deserving brewers, beers, breweries and restaurants, that we lifted the restrictions of a designated number of nominees. Additionally, a few categories were consolidated as well as the introduction of a few new industry awards that were voted on solely by bar owners. 2012’s “Best of” has a total of 35 award categories which were opened to the public for voting the entire month of April.
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Trappist brewing classic Chimay adds another milestone to their legacy.
Chances are, at some point along your journey of discovering craft beer you had a Chimay. For many, this was one of the first craft beers that opened the gateway to the world of better beer. The famous Red, Blue and White bottles have been a staple of better craft beer bars for as long as beer bars have been around. And now, Chimay is celebrating an impressive 150 years of brewing.
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Corked & Forked author Keith Wallace seeks out the best pairings for scrapple.
I was hunting for scrapple in a sleepy Appalachian hill town.
I did not come here by accident. For years, one of my old chef buddies had been bragging about a spot so old and far away that not even Yelp knew of its existence. The Grillbillly, as he is known, described the town as a mythical place of sweet old country grandmothers; and he swore they served a scrapple that transcends all other porcine dishes known to mankind.
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Are you a beer-lover in a gluten-free world? Read on…
For the past few months, Philly Beer Scene Magazine has been keeping a dirty little secret from you. Johnny Bilotta and I have been answering your beer related questions under the column “Ask Two Guys On Beer” – but only one of us has been able to actually drink beer.
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The General Assembly supports the growth of small breweries.
In recent years, Pennsylvania has led a nationwide trend in the explosive growth of small breweries. While fewer than a dozen breweries were in operation in Pennsylvania as recently as 1985, today at least 105 breweries are supplying unique products to consumers around the world. And, across the country, sales of craft beers increased by 15 percent last year, making up about 6 percent of the nation’s total beer market.
