Great food deserves great beer you really can’t have one without the other. This chart provides a basic start to pairing your meals. With endless options on beers, some of it may just take a little experimentation.
The Variety Pack
Meet the Scene: Matt Guyer
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Philly Beer Scene: Prior to your days running the Beer Yard, what were your plans for life?
Matt Guyer: To be honest, I was a bit lost and looking for something to hit me. I had quit my job in May of ‘97, an office job, and had taken the summer off. I was thinking about moving out west with a friend, but then I started to talk to the guy who owned the beer store where I bought one, two, maybe hundreds of cases and he mentioned that he was looking to sell. Well, one thing led to another and…
How I Discovered Craft Beer
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Reader Matt Cicalese describes his discovery of craft beer. If you have an interesting story about discovering craft beer, send it to us at discovery@beerscenemag.com
When it comes to trends, I tend to be very late to the game. I didn’t have a Myspace page until after it was the cool thing to have. I was rocking a Discman well into the iPod years. I still don’t have a smartphone (soon to change). But one thing that I like to think I caught onto earlier than most anyone I know personally is craft beer, circa 1996.
Farmhouse Flavors
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Victory Helios Ale and Birchrun Hills Fat Cat make for a complementary tasting.
This spring, it’s farmhouse meets farmhouse. Our cheese is Fat Cat from Sue Miller of Birchrun Hills Farm in Chester County. Sue makes some of the most interesting farmstead cheeses around, and it doesn’t hurt either that she’s one of the most accessible, affable cheesemaking characters I know.
One Tasty Bastard
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Mysterious and shrouded in secrecy; Arrogant Bastard’s cellaring only adds to its complexity.
Bastard, by definition, means “of illegitimate birth, or uncertain origin.” Add arrogant to the term, and you undoubtedly have not only marketing genius, but one of the most intriguing beers made.
Swapping out the Six-Pack: Bombers, 750s, Rockets; whatever you call them, these big bottles are a treat.
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“We are here to drink beer,” once wrote author Charles Bukowski, known for his drunken 3 am poems. My first 750 ml bottle was at his namesake bar in Boston. The beer was La Fin du Monde, the 9% golden triple from Unibroue. I was there visiting a college friend shortly after graduation. We shared the bottle while talking excitedly about our post-grad lives. I immediately loved the concept of the communal vessel. We nixed shopping on Newbury Street, ordered another, and gladly lost the afternoon.
Canned at Last:The cider revolution finally joins the can revolution.
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With the likes of Revolution and Desioto Ciders already making their way around the Philadelphia beer community, there is another Pennsylvania cider making its way through the state.
Worst Beer Ever
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Let me give you a quick timeline of the history of Pliny the Younger. Born in 61 AD. In 79 AD, he watched Mt. Vesuvius
erupt and kill his uncle, Pliny the Elder. Around the year 112, he died. In the year 2009, he became the biggest pain in the ass in the world.
Sly Fox: A can of corporate craft
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A brief recap of can benefits: they’re portable and unbreakable. You can take them to the beach and the park where bottles aren’t allowed, throw them in a bag for a party, bring them lazy-river tubing and to your economics class and to your mother-in-law’s. Beer in a can tastes good. The aluminum blocks flavor-killing light, and thanks to a new lining process, you can’t taste the can. There is less headspace and less oxygen than in bottles, cans are cheaper to ship, and there’s a complete seal that prevents spills in your purse when taking them to the movies or the wedding that lacks an open bar.
