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Beer Tasting

Sweet Treats at the Philadelphia Honey Festival

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on August 23rd, 2012

Bee prepared, the Philadelphia Honey Festival is right around the corner. See what all the buzz is about from September 7th to the 9th as the city’s beekeeping community comes together to raise awareness about the importance of bees, while having fun and tasting delicious products. Activities range from kiddie crafts to cooking demonstrations to honey-based beer tastingsFranklin Fountain and Little Baby’s will be among the businesses participating.

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Charity Guest Chef Pot Luck and Beer Tasting at Lemon Hill

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on August 17th, 2012

Lemon Hill is having an eventful August with two more events happening August 26th: a rare beer tasting and a Guest Chef Pot Luck event. The beer tasting of rare Swiss beers features Jon Medlinsky of Khyber Pass Pub and starts at 4:30 p.m. The beers to be tasted will come from Brasserie Des Franches-Mantagnes, a small brewery in Switzerland known for their Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien an annually released wine-like beer. Attendance is $52 which also covers snacks and the beer. Seating is limited, so reservations are required.

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Fighting Feury Dinner at Nectar

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on June 11th, 2012

We previously told you about the release of Fighting Feury, the collaborative brew by brothers Terence and Patrick Feury and the sequel to 2010’s Fists of Feury. During Beer Week the beer was released during a dinner at Terence’s Fork and we’ve just received the details of Patrick’s tasting dinner for Nectar, scheduled for Thursday, June 14th.

Both Feury brothers will be in attendance for the four course tasting dinner, which will be $55 a person. The menu includes:

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Tonight: Beer and Cheese Tasting at Swarthmore Co-op

Posted by Tara Nurin on February 23rd, 2012

 

We know beer and cheese are supposed to be aged, but this is ridiculous…

At 137 years old, the Swarthmore Co-op is so old it doesn’t just remember when Brewerytown had breweries, it can tell you what color knickers your great-great-great-great grandmother would wear when she’d pick up her cheese from the local cow. But that doesn’t stop it from keeping up with the times by hosting a foodie book group, stocking organic spaghetti sauce and gluten-free nutritional bars, and throwing a local craft beer-and-artisan cheese bash at the store tonight.

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