The way we were.
When I posted those American Brewer stories earlier today (here and here), I was finally inspired to do something I’ve been thinking about for a while now and it all seems very appropriate right about now.
This idea first struck me when Suzanne Woods commented on how much she’d learned about Weyerbacher Brewing Company from this excellent online story. I thought to myself that she, and a lot of folks, probablu know even less about the early days of that and other local breweries. And that set me to prowling around my hard drive to find old stories which might be some interest today.
I mean, as long as we’re celebrating Philly Beer Week, it doesn’t hurt to take a look back and see how we got here.
So I’ve added three posts before this one (i.e., after this one from the standpoint of your reading) which hopefully offer some insight into Weyerbacher’s early times, the big leap taken by Yuengling as the 2oth Century was drawing to a close and the late ’90s emergence of Philly’s Belgian beer scene.
All of these are stories which ran in the late, lamented Barleycorn, for which I was a senior editor and main Philadelphia guy in its final months.
If this sort of thing proves to be popular, I’ll do more. I never have gotten around to creating that Dead Tree Press archive I promised when the “new look” was installed here, so this can be considered a step in that direction.
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