January 4th, 2008 Joe Sixpack
Victory’s Baltic Thunder is finally flowing this weekend, and I take a look at the porter in this week’s column. If you can’t make it to tomorrow’s (1/5)Â debut at the Drafting Room (635 N. Pottstown Pike, Exton), it’ll soon be on tap at a bunch of locals, including these city joints: Tria, Monks Cafe, The Belgian Cafe, Standard Tap, Johnny Brenda’s, Ten Stone, Brigid’s, and O’Neals. In the ‘burbs: The Other Drafting Room (Spring House), Teresa’s Next Door (Wayne), Kildare’s (West Chester), The Flying Pig (Malvern), TJ’s Everyday (Paoli), Flanigan’s Boathouse (Conshy & Frazier), Doc Magrogan’s Oyster House (West Chester), Ortino’s Northside (Zieglersville), Quotations (Media), Blue Dog (Lansdale and Chalfont), Firewaters (Chadds Ford), Hulmeville Inn (Hulmeville, Union Jack’s (Manatawny & Glenside), Spinnerstown Hotel (Spinnerstown), Spence Cafe (West Chester).
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December 7th, 2007 Joe Sixpack
This week’s column takes a look at Santa in beer ads. It’s not beer, but one of my favorites is this Time mag ad for White Rock Ginger Ale in the 1930s, with St. Nick happily sucking down a bottle of whiskey while reading the kiddies’ letters.
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November 30th, 2007 Joe Sixpack
Take a walk down the aisle at your local distributor, and you can’t help but notice the Christmas beer selection is growing. Yesterday, I was stuck behind an Origlio delivery truck and noticed it was sporting a huge advertisement for its excellent Xmas selection (with the catchy slogan, “Beer is the new wine”). Just 30 years ago, the segment was non-existent; now, I’m hustling to meet a deadline for an entire book (to be published in ‘08 by Rizzoli) devoted to the subject.
In the meantime, this week’s column is a look at where it all started. Then, over the next week or two, I’ll be adding more Christmas beer here.
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November 23rd, 2007 Joe Sixpack
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving - now it’s time to start your holiday shopping. Here’s some great beer stuff that you should put on your list.
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November 16th, 2007 Joe Sixpack
Fact or myth? With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I take a look at the story of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims’ beer stash.
I love paging through old newspapers, a task that’s enhanced with Google’s newspaper archive search engine. While researching this week’s column, I dug up this cool-looking Bud ad . (Click on the ad for a hi-res pdf.)
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November 12th, 2007 Joe Sixpack
Joe Sixpack reg’lar brsrkrbob reminds me, upon reading my piece a couple of weeks ago on John Stuart Mill’s choice of beer, that Monty Python’s Flying Circus may have written the greatest tribute to Beer & Philosophy. For those who’ve forgotten the lyrics:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
    who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
    who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out consume
    Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
    who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya
   ’bout the raisin’ of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
   after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away,
    ‘alf a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
    and Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
    “I drink, therefore I am.”
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he’s pissed.
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November 2nd, 2007 Joe Sixpack
This week’s column is posted, and it urges you to turn to John Stuart Mill to answer one of the great beer-drinking questions of the ages.
And speaking of drinking, I’m headed to Germany tomorrow for a week of research and I’m not sure if they’ve got the Internets over there. So this blog might be silent for a few days. Hang in there.
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October 26th, 2007 Joe Sixpack
My look at Sam Adams and its support for homebrewing is posted. And don’t forget to check out New Stuff, including a pair of over the top bottles that’ll set you back a day’s pay.
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October 19th, 2007 Joe Sixpack
Philly-area brewers had their best ever showing at the Great American Beer Festival last weekend. Several well-known standards, including Victory Prima Pils, Troegs Troegenator, Sly Fox Pikeland Pils & Stoudt’s Weizen were among the winners. Even more notable: The region ruled lagers. Read the full column here.
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