Beer Radar

This week’s column looks at how beer (and, in this case, Johnny Brenda’s Tavern) helps build a neighborhood. Of course, my loving, loyal readers in Fishtown are already griping because I didn’t mention their favorite holes.  

Meanwhile, my local rag - the Roxborough Review - continues publishing a series of pieces from, of all places, Burkina Faso, by a former staffer who’s posted there with the Peace Corps. Never mind why a paper whose distribution doesn’t reach beyond Northwestern Avenue would devote so much space to an impoverished African nation - the reports are absolutely fascinating. This week’s, linked here, mainly focuses on brewing dolo in the village of Zogore. It’s made with sorghum in big, plastic trash barrels.

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