Brews For Boobies 3 has officially started. After last years huge success, we have expanded into 4 unique crawls taking place on Saturday, October 2nd. Crawls take place in Old City, Center City, South Philly, and Northern Liberties. Register by September 22nd to participate. Click Here to Register.

School is back in session! Now more than ever, you might need some cheap craft brews.

With the summer break coming to an end and classes about to start back up, let's face it, most of us are pretty broke. Between all those midnight movies, trips to the shore, and catching up sessions with old friends at your favorite local watering holes, there isn’t much money left for going out drinking during the school year. Even if you’re not in school, sometimes spending $5 or $6 per beer is a little out of your price range,or at least too much so to go out on a regular basis. For these reasons, we’re bringing you a guide to save you money on your drinking habits. With all the great happy hour specials throughout the area, there is no reason to settle for drinking shitty beer in your dorm room or at home.  We’re in the best beer city in the world, so go out and take advantage of it and drink up the awesome beers and awesome prices!

My love for all things Belgian began in fall of 1984, that was my first trip to Europe. I was already 31, so I got a late start on the world travel thing. My friend, Marlene and I were going to visit a friend that lived in Paris. Seriously, who can refuse an offer of a free flat in Paris? The only issue was airfare to Paris was running a bit over $800. We were under funded (that just sounds nicer than ‘poor’) so we opted to fly to Brussels on PEOPLExpress for just $99 each direction. You had to pay at the gate and pay with cash. They sold bad beer, soda, and crappy boxed lunches on board. Hmmm...that sounds suspiciously like the current state of aviation.

A Recap of Philly Beer Week 2010.

Best 10 days of the year? Worst 10 days of the year? Well, there are arguments for both, but the arguments are only brought about because of how awesome Philly Beer Week is. Yes, many of us suffered some of the most severe hangovers of our lives, drank more beer each day than any human should consume in a lifetime, and went days at a time without sleep, but it was all for the sake of thousands of people joining together to show their love for the best beers, in the best beer city in the world! From Opening Tap to the totally unnecessary drink, it was a crazy 10 days that we hate to love, but really can’t resist loving and anticipating its return each year.

With Philly Beer Week upon us, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to introduce you to some of the prominent people in the beer scene who have helped to
make Philadelphia the best beer drinking city in the country. Some of them may be familiar to you, others have been more behind the scenes, but either way, we can thank them for the rich beer culture in our city. Cheers to our beer celebrities!

Name: Bruce Nichols
Claim to Fame: Co-hosting beer dinners with Michael Jackson and one of the founders of Philly Beer Week
Website: http://www.museumcatering.com
About: Along with Don Russell and Tom Peters, Bruce Nichols is the other co-founder of Philly Beer Week.  Bruce has made a name for himself through running Museum Catering at University of Pennsylvania. He recently took his catering experience into the bar business and opened up The Headhouse in Society Hill. Bruce is also one of the key players in bringing the late Michael Jackson to Philadelphia and setting up the classic Michael Jackson beer dinners that run annually.

 

In February 2010, the founders of Philly Beer Scene released a poll across the web to find out what bars, breweries, beers and people made up the best of the craft beer culture we have come to know and love in the City of Brotherly Love.

Philly Beer Scene Turns 1 And Is Still Growing!

How do you recap the craziest year in your life? As we celebrate our first birthday, we’re taking a look back at all that has happened over the first year. From our launch party at World Café Live to putting together a Philly Beer Week feature to guide you through the best events those 10 days have to offer, it’s mind-blowing to see how far you’ve all brought us. I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome it has been to meet as many of you as we have. Hearing that you enjoy what we’ve put out and actually read it has by far been the highlight of the year.

When you think of beer, you typically think of the four ingredients defined in the German Purity Laws of 1516 - the "Reinheitsgebot" in German - which are water, barley, yeast, and hops. But hops are a relatively new ingredient to beer production.

Beer is older than the very idea of civilization. Approximately 9,000 years ago - the age of the oldest known evidence of beer - most humans lived as hunter-gatherers and were nomadic. Somewhere around 6,000 years ago, the original proto-states started to form with things like centralized governments, militaries, and so on. That makes beer about 3,000 years older than what many scientists consider to be the formation of modern, civilized, organized states. In fact, Charlie Bamforth, Professor of Brewing Science at the University of California, Davis, and others have argued that “Beer is the basis of modern static civilization," which made way for proto-states and civilization as we know it (1).