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12 Days of Whiskey Festival Starts Friday at Fiume

Posted by Victor Fiorillo on January 30th, 2013

Kevin James Holland, the operator of West Philadelphia’s Fiume, is a serious fan of the brown liquors, and this Friday, he’s launching the bar’s third annual whiskey festival. And even if Fiume wasn’t a tiny bar with six stools and a handful of tables, Holland’s fest would be most ambitious. Read the rest of this entry »

Lloyd Opening Tonight for Limited Hours and Reduced Prices

Posted by Foobooz on October 24th, 2012

Lloyd, Fishtown’s new whiskey bar at 529 East Girard Avenue will be opening its doors to the public tonight for a soft opening.

Owners Scott and Taylor Coudriet have assembled a collection upwards of 70 whiskey varietals, house-made syrups, eight taps, and 15 bottled beers. The menu ranges from fried deviled eggs to Goldfish crusted mac and cheese, to beef stew.

Official opening date is this Saturday, October 27th, so beat the crowds and enjoy reduced prices from 8 to 11 p.m. this evening.

Llloyd Whiskey Bar [Official Site]

Canal Street North Project is Supported by Fishtown

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on September 12th, 2012

The Michael Samschick proposal for Canal Street North, an entertainment center planned for Fishtown that we described yesterda y, was approved by the Fistown Neighbors Association last night. According FNA’s live tweets of the public meeting the project was supported 72-17.

What we now know from last night’s meeting is that the music venue will be a Fillmore Theater run by Live Nation and that parts of Canal Street will be turned into a pedestrian plaza with outdoor dining. We also have it on good authority that the distillery set for Canal Street North will be ….

Read on for details on the distillery and more »

Dad’s Hat Introduces Its Rye Whiskey and Distillery Tours

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on June 28th, 2012

Mountain Laurel Spirits has just released the first Pennsylvania-produced aged rye whiskey in twenty years. Dad’s Hat Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey is now being distributed in PA, New York, and Connecticut but is looking to expand to New Jersey, Delaware, and more in the near future.

To accompany this release Mountain Laurel Spirits is doing tours of the Dad’s Hat Distillery in Bucks County starting July 14th. For ~~$20~~ $10, tours are given every hour on the hour from 1 to 4 p.m. The tour includes discovering the distilling and aging processes and the history of rye as well as tastings. The distillery also offers Dad’s Hat Rye Whiskey, White Rye and merchandise for sale.

For locations selling Dad’s Hat Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey visit their website.

A St. Patrick’s Day Guide To Whiskey Drinking: Get A Little Irish In Ya

Posted by Jason Sheehan on March 16th, 2012

Some of you out there will be drinking stout tomorrow. Some of you will be knocking back cocktails. But for those of you who like your whiskey straight, may we humbly present a field guide to some of the finer (and nastier) Irish Brain Tonics you’ll likely find behind the bar tomorrow. Sláinte mhaith.

Jameson Irish Whiskey

‘The Opinion: The standard by which all other Irish whiskies are (rightly) judged: a smooth, almost spicy malted barley whiskey with a slightly sweet and buttery aftertaste. The only reason not to choose Jameson as your straight liquor of choice this St. Patty’s Day is if, for some reason, our expert judges have already been to your local bar and drunk it all. In that case, go for the Redbreast.

More Whiskey, Please

Stateside Adds Happy Hour

Posted by Foobooz on January 23rd, 2012

Starting tonight East Passyunk’s Stateside will be offering happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m. Look for buck-a-shuck-oysters, half-priced drafts and whiskey specials. Today’s whiskey special will be Michter’s rye and bourbon pairing for $9.

Stateside’s happy hour will run Monday to Friday.

Stateside [Official Site]

It’s About Time: XXX Shine Hits the Bottle

Posted by Victor Fiorillo on May 31st, 2011

After many months of experimentation, delays, and inevitable late-night taste-testing at their Northeast Philadelphia industrial park facility, Philadelphia Distilling, the producers of Vieux Carre Absinthe, Penn 1681 Vodka, and the revered Bluecoat Gin are finally bottling XXX Shine, their white whiskey that pays homage to Pennsylvania’s moonshine heritage (who knew?). Read the rest of this entry »

Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Vegans, Tastykakes, Whiskey and Flies

Posted by Jason Sheehan on April 15th, 2011

“Just when we started hearing some things about the Farmer’s Daughter at Normandy Farm in Whitpain Township (former site of a restaurant from the missing-in-action Jim Coleman, who disappeared from there, WHYY’s Chef’s Table, and World Cafe Live all in 2010) that made us actually consider making the awful drive up to that part of Montgomery County, we find out that Corey Fair, the bull-riding Texas-born chef that started to turn things around for the property, is gone.

Although the original tip that came in at the end of last week suggested that this was a sudden departure (to the effect of: ‘something happened last night, and the chef is gone’), both Fair (pictured) and the folks behind the so corporately named Normandy Farm Hotel and Conference Center say that’s not the case…”

Want to know the real story? Check out “Chef Flees Farmer’s Daughter For The Big City, But Promises ‘A Flawless Transition‘” for the truth.

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On The Ground, Day Two: Raining Whiskey From Very Far Away

Posted by Jason Sheehan on April 12th, 2011

In which the new food editor wanders around his brand-new home and eats whatever strikes his fancy…

I’d done just about as much time sitting behind a desk as I could. I’d filled out paperwork, tried (and failed) to memorize a dozen new phone numbers and passwords, made potentially life-altering decisions about medical coverage, accidental death and dismemberment insurance and what I want it to say on my business cards (Jason Sheehan: Amateur Pie-Eating Champion, ex-Fry Cook, Professional Sonofabitch), and I’d had enough. Officing has never been my strong suit. There always seems to be something more interesting, more vital, more not-sitting-on-my-fat-ass-and-staring-at-a-computer-y that I could be doing. There was a whole city out there filled with fried chicken, dumplings, dirty-water hot dogs, tacos, cheesesteaks, ice cream and foie gras, and I’m stuck in here trying to figure out withholding allowances? Fuck that. It was time to go.

“So what are you going to do now?” someone asked me, standing in the door of my office while I hastily shoved what were probably very important papers into unmarked drawers. And I shrugged, looked around, said, “I dunno. Think I’m gonna go take a walk and see what kind of trouble I can get into.”

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