Imagine how happy I was to find that the hotel I was crashing in this week in Chicago had a great Tapas place… and it turned out to be from Philly’s own Iron Chef Jose Garces!
If you haven’t been to Jose’s wonderful Distrito on Chestnut St in University City, you are missing out on ...
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Written by admin on January 21, 2010
Why do we like to drink beer? Or drink any alcohol for that matter? Well, watching football games this weekend I thought about many actual reasons why. (As opposed to the reasons that are depicted on the endless and insipid light beer commercials).
Patrick McGovern, an archeologist from the University of Pennsylvania, just published a book ...
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Written by pcherpack on January 11, 2010
Florida over the holidays is a nice change… The weather, relaxing by the water… And Key West has that “whatever” Bourbon St vibe…
But what about the beer? I was really challenged in the hotels, resorts and downtown bars to find anything remarkable, any craft beer – much less local.
At the common venues along with the ...
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Written by admin on January 3, 2010
The X Fest was a really nice Christmas Beer tasting event held last Friday night at the Penn Museum. Joe Sixpack (Don Russell) and the Philly Beer Week crew put together some great winter brews at the site of the old “Book & Cook” beer tastings at Penn.
Unlike those events, you could actually hear yourself ...
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Written by admin on December 15, 2009
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