Next Exit: Episode 4, "Philadelphia Craft Beer & The City of Beery Love"

Last week, Next Exit: Episode 3 took us to Brooklyn. This week, Next Exit: Episode 4, "Philadelphia Craft Beer & The City of Beery Love" takes us to Fermentery Form, Human Robot, ReAnimator Coffee, and Monk's Café.

Cheers!

Next Exit, Season One:

• Episode 1, "The Hidden Gem Beer Scene of Pittsburgh"
• Episode 2, "Baltimore Craft Beer, BBQ, and Harbor Views"
• Episode 3, "A Brooklyn Craft Beer Reunion"
• Episode 4, "Philadelphia Craft Beer & The City of Beery Love"
• Episode 5, "Cincinnati Craft Beer & The Historic Beer Caves"

 

One of the breweries that Kenny visits is Human Robot. Human Robot sponsored a lager beer festival this summer which they brand as Logjammin’. I attended this festival and it was great! Below is a short summary I provided in a past thread about Logjammin’

The ‘highlight’ is that there were many breweries there and every beer I had was a ‘keeper’ – no beers were dumped.

My wife and I got there early and we were fortunate they let us get in when we arrived. There was a very long line for Bierstadt and we wisely decided to get in that long line to get two pours of the Slow Pour Pils which the beertender did pour very slowly (3-5 minutes for a pour). The beer was pretty to look at (see photo below) and while I enjoyed drinking that beer there were several other Pilsners there just as good (and some better).



Tonewood was there with two beers (Foeder Lager and Dry Hopped Pilsner) and I enjoyed both of those beers.

Schilling was there and I drank their Polotmavý which I thought was good.

There were a couple/few Czech Dark Lagers and I enjoyed the one from Deciduous Brewing.

I drank a lot of locally brewed lagers (Human Robot, Attic, Trauger, Mainstay,…) and every one of those beers brought a smile to my face while drinking them.

The beer which was ‘best of show’ for me was a Keller Pils from Bonn Place, that beer was excellent.

The other highlight for me was getting a chance to speak to beer industry folks for extended conversations: Jack Hendler of Jack’s Abby, Jeremy Myers of Trauger and a number of others.

It was indeed a great time!

Cheers!

 

I too am a big fan of Mooey.

Cheers to Bonn Place!!

 

I have no details about the process utilized by Fermentary Form but I just read the below linked article and found it to be a good read:

https://www.morebeer.com/articles/Solera_Aging

Cheers!