Philly Beer Week 2013 (May 31st - June 9th)

That's....really helpful when you're inside a bar with 100+ people elbow to elbow. But well done, Holmes. The power of the internet at your fingertips.

 

Cambridge is doing it Friday May 10th

https://m.facebook.com/pages/The-Cambridge/156813707752680?id=156813707752680&_rdr

 

It wasnt that crowded. It was more like a normal weekend night than monks back room. I was late and got a seat at the bar pretty easily.

 

Agreed. Everyone I knew managed to get pours of everything they wanted to try. It helped that no one was trying to win at the event and get growler pours early before people had a decent shot at trying the rarer stuff.

 

It may have thinned out by then...but when I got there, right off the bat, it was crowded. Especially since everyone at that point needs a drink, and they're all huddled around the same spot. We were only there for an hour and a half or 2.

 

I was sitting next to lauren when you came over to talk to her. It wasnt later.

 

What's the point of this discussion? Oh, right! Philly Beer Week!

I'm looking forward to it as I do every year. Last year I had a great time checking out the PA beer tasting at the Boilermaker and the Mikkeller tap takeover at the Farmers Cabinet, both on the first night of beer week. After dinner I hopped over to Chris' to play with the Hoppin' John Orchestra (the big band that plays Brewers Plate every year). Quite a fun night!

As luck would have it, HJO is playing at Chris' again on opening night so I may just hop around some center city spots before the gig as I did last year. Anybody notice anything of particular interest?

 

Oh...so I was shit faced upon arrival huh? LOL Too funny. I hadn't had a beer that day, drove into the city, had two beers the entire time I was there...and I was crushed. Amazing.

Really it's immaterial. I don't really care what impression you took away. But your observations are off.

 

Definitely a great place to visit and my favorite bar, but they don't do Beer Week (or at least haven't in the past, not sure if their plans will change this year) so you won't see them on the PBW events list. But I'd still keep an eye on the tap list because it's a great bar even without events.

Maybe we are in the minority, but I'm the same way. I've been to many "meet the brewer" events and at most I've gotten a few minutes of conversation which basically amounted to various ways of saying "you make great beer" and them replying "thanks man, appreciate it." .

 

Uh, yeah, I was with Hayden (Retail1LO) the entire time. (Also, we took the train into the city, dipshit). It was hot as a motherfuck and we split four beers total, so we each had two. So Lauren, keep making your stupid comments and keep the pissing match with him going but you're dead wrong on this one.

 

Can you all please stop squabbling over who was drunker than whom, who was sweatier than whom, and who's a bigger liar than whom? Perhaps you two can start a new thread with votes at the top so we can all weigh in.

I'd like to get back to discussing Philly Beer Week, please. Thank you.

 

I could be wrong but I can't remember any events last year that week. I know he had a "Scraps" event two years ago that was killer but was a few weeks after. Again, definitely worth checking out with or without events.

 

i think my favorite PBW story of last year was probably the bartender at jose pistola's literally jumping over the bar to go outside and tell the work crew just outside that they could not, under any circumstances, shut the entire block's power off during their HF event

 

Would be nice if they had Silva Stout - I have yet to see it here this year.

http://www.phillybeerweek.org/bio_page.cfm?venue_code=615

 

You know a month in advance what you'll be wearing?

I knew a lot of BA's were OCD tickers, geeks, snobs, liars, pissing contestants and drunkards but this is a new low.

 

You're probably better off hitting individual events opposed to the Opening Tap, which will probably attract more tourists and people from out of the area who want to casually try a bunch of beers at once. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's just a different scene/quality from what you get at the niche events.

The Bella Vista event at DD will be super crowded, but they always have a handful of things worth fighting the crowd for...plus once you're tired of that you could walk to another event at one of the other bars in the area. This is the beauty of PBW - if something is a total mobscene you can always try another spot.