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Oct/ Nov 2011 I on Beer

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By Joe Gunn

I on Beer | October/November 2011

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How to continue a healthy beer drinking habit as a new dad.

Life changes quite a bit when you have offspring, especially if you stick around to raise them. Less room for all of your cool stuff, less money for all of your cool secret stuff, and less time for all of your everything are all direct byproducts of sowing your seed.

Many guys throw in the towel. Not me, I decided I wasn’t going to let some zero year old kid, who can’t even stand up on his own, boss me around. I never thought much of it until dads from all over the land would ask me how I get away with enjoying beverages as much as I do, having children. I decided to throw a couple pointers out there that should help all of you new dads and soon-to-be dads.
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Weird Beer #15: Ghost Face Killah

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October/November 2011 | Weird Beer

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When your brewery has the word “twisted” in the name, it’s expected that you would have some strange and unique offerings. Twisted Pine Brewery out of Boulder, CO, doesn’t disappoint. They have taken a style growing in popularity and brought it to a new, twisted level. Most people have seen a chili beer by now, but most of those beers are “drinkable,” Twisted Pine’s version… well, this one might just burn like a mother f***er. Read more…

Corked & Forked

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By Neil Harner

October/November 2011

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A delicious series of seasonal recipes and libations to pair.

Most cookbooks are the type that sit on a shelf and collect dust until a recipe you once skimmed over when you first got the book comes to mind, and you quickly pull it down for that one meal. When the evening is over, the book goes back on the shelf for months or years before you pull it out once again.

Corked and Forked, by Philadelphia’s Wine School Founder & Director and Drexel University Professor, Keith Wallace, is anything but one of these traditional cookbooks. Keith offers up a selection of awesome, unintimidating recipes that anyone can make, using common ingredients found in your own pantry or your local grocery store. Read more…

Nick Johnson

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By Mat Falco

August/September 2011 | Meet the Scene

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Meet Nick Johnson, Tröegs’ Regional Sales Manager and universal spreader of Tröegs love.

Philly Beer Scene: What were your plans in life before you got into the beer business?
Nick Johnson: I was either going to be a Sherpa mountain guide and carry out my life in the Himalayas helping people reach the summit of Mt. Everest or fulfill my lifelong dream of winning So You Think You Can Dance with my sick break dancing skills – but then I found beer.

PBS: How did you start working for Tröegs?
Nick: In college, I spent three years slinging kegs of Natty Ice into car trunks on a nightly basis at Gabler’s Beverage in beautiful Shippensburg, PA. After graduation, I fell into a job at local wholesaler selling beers like Coors, Rolling Rock and PBR. A friend in the beer industry told me Tröegs was going to hire a Philly rep, so I got a hold of Chris Trogner and went to the brewery to have a beer with him (no lie.). A few weeks later I was selling beer for an amazing craft brewery in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Read more…

D-Lite Aug/Sept 2011

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By Andrew Loder

August/September 2011 | D-Lite

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Ray Deter

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By Tom Peters

August/September 2011

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A tribute to an East Coast craft beer trailblazer.

The Beer Community lost another great man recently; Ray Deter passed away on Sunday, July 3, 2011 from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident near his famous New York City beer bar, d.b.a.
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London Grill

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By Mat Falco

August/September 2011

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Celebrating 20 years of great beer and food.

To make it in the restaurant industry for 5 years now is considered to be quite an accomplishment. New places are constantly opening and people always want to try the hot new thing. However, you sometimes have those places that stand the test of time and keep patrons coming back time and time again. London Grill is one of those places. Read more…

How I Discovered Craft Beer

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By John Doherty

August/September 2011 | Discovering Craft Beer

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Reader John Doherty describes his discovery of craft beer. If you have an interesting story about discovering craft beer, send it to us at discovery@beerscenemag.com.

About 11 years ago, a co-worker of mine, Bill, and I got into a conversation about beer. He asked me if I had ever visited what he described as a “bar in Philly that had all these beers.” I responded that I hadn’t. Up until that time I had tried all the beers that 99% of people were drinking. With rare exceptions, I did not think much of these beers, nor did I care about trying a few more. Two months later, Bill walked into my office and asked me if I checked that same place out. I told him, “No!” Bill walked closer to me as I was sitting at my desk, his eyes lit up and and he said, “You’ve got to go.” “OK,” I replied. I said to myself, “Let’s get this guy off my back and go.” I asked Bill the name of the establishment. He said, “MONK’S!” Read more…

JavaHead Stout & Old Gold

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By Paul Lawler

August/September 2011 | Le Fromage

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This aged farmhouse cheese plays right into JavaHead’s coffee flavors.

This issue’s pairing comes out of Hidden Hills Dairy in Western PA and from the Trogner brothers in Harrisburg. JavaHead is a stout, a coffee beer brewed with actual beans that marries deliciously well with Hidden Hill’s Old Gold. Old Gold is an aged Gouda, and I affectionately assert aged Gouda’s are one of the “gateway drugs” of the real cheese world. With their candied flavors of caramel and toffee brittle, they have an addictive Wonka-bar affect on the tongue. Read more…

Carpe Nocturnum

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By Phillip L Pittore III

August/September 2011 | From the Cellar

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Experience the remarkable cellaring of Delirium Nocturnum.

In today’s society, we are surrounded and obsessed with symbols; everything from the golden arches to multi-colored swooshes, polo figures to interlocking backward Cs. The beer world is no different. The pink elephant of Huyghe Brewery has become synonymous with excellence. Delirium is a staple in an ever-growing world of top notch beer. Read more…

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