Things about which you might care, he said ever-so-grammatically.
I guess we should have seen this one coming: a new clothing line dedicated to craft beer. I’d sneer and make fun of it, but I’ve seen some of the ways you guys dress so maybe this is a good thing.
Wine School of Philadelphia founder Keith Wallace has a piece up at Daily Beast entitled How Wine Became Like Fast Food, which has stirred up some fun stuff in the comments section at the end. The Wine School is currently having a sale on its courses, by the way, for those of you who might want to expand your horizons (the sale also includes a couple of Dean Browne’s beer classes if you want to stick with brew).
City Food Tours is conducting a Craft Beer & Artisanal Cheese Tour on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Saturdays of every month from 3:30pm-5:30pm. They say: “This entertaining and indulgent encounter features 8 locally-brewed Craft Beers and four Artisanal Cheeses in 2 fun, casual hot spots in the heart of Old City Philadelphia! This event is perfect for everyone who loves beer, wants to try some new brews, and is looking for something fun to do.” Oddly enough, unless I’m missing something, they don’t reveal which “2 fun, casual places” they visit. That’s weird. On the other hand, the company is ranked one of the Top Ten Tours in America by TripAdvisor.com and was 2009 Winner of Philly Mag’s “Best of Philly” for best Tour of the City, That’s good.
USA Today published a story on Tuesday about how a lot of backward states are falling all over themselves in a rush to allow higher ABVs for beers sold in their borders. These includes places like Alabama, Iowa and West Virginia, where, let’s face it, strong drink would seem to be an absolute necessity, so consider it a great leap forward for common sense. Interestingly, MADD was pretty reasonable in their comment…
Chuck Hurley, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said, “Our chief concern is that (higher-alcohol brews) be properly labeled so people understand it takes fewer beers to become intoxicated.”
while these guys played the same old card…
David Rosenbloom, president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in N.Y., said the more alcohol, “the faster you get drunk and the longer you stay drunk. … There’s no evidence that people will drink less, or fewer beers.”
Finally, San Diego Beer Week starts tomorrow, I loved this quote in the North County Times:
San Diego is one of the first cities to hold a Beer Week featuring craft beer, or beer made by smaller, independent breweries.
Except for the 20 or so other cities which have already done it, that is. But let’s not snarky. After all, this will be a good opportunity for locals to finally get to try many of the San Diego beers that we enjoy in Philadelphia regularly. That’s nice.
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