Brew LB
Philly Beer Week officially starts tomorrow, June 4th. Many people will be attending a ticketed event for The Opening Tap at The Independence Visitor Center, which kicks off at 7:30 PM.
Yours
Truly will be working at the
Meet The Brewer Event in Kennett Square(come and say hello) that will be featuring my longtime friend, Shaun E. Hill of
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro Bend, VT. At the risk of pimping too much, I'll go ahead and do so without restraint being that I'm uncensored on my own website.
As the Sales Rep for this fine product in the Philly area, I'm proud to be on site for the initial offerings of the brewery. We'll have an IPA(Edward), a Double IPA(Abner), and perhaps a few other surprises. Local food destination,
Talula's Table will be on site with food for us to pair up with the deliciously fermented creations.
Shaun formally brewed for The Shed in Stowe, VT, where I first tried his beers at a Vermont beer fest and he let me try his first
saison that he had brewed for them. We kept in touch and conducted many trades since that initial meeting, which led to my sharing amongst my fellow local beer fanatics, who have been meeting for years for beer tastings...(Rate Beer's
egajdzis, hopdog, TomDecapolis, and others from Rate Beer, and Beer Advocate).
Over 20 different Shed beers later, and a following from over 440 miles away, I continued trading with Shaun during his tenure at
Trout River Brewing in
Lyndonville, VT. At this point, pilot brews were being developed for his true brainchild and passion - Hill Farmstead.
It wasn't long until Shaun ventured to the Scandinavian land of Denmark to brew for
Nørrebro Bryghus. Shaun was responsible for the 3 winning medals that
Nørrebro recently took at
The World Beer Cup.
Hill Farmstead beer will be available in the near future through
Bella Vista Distribution in Philadelphia. Contact me in the meantime.
Other than my long winded choice of words mentioned above, there are countless things to attend during Philly Beer Week. You can check out the actual
website for the different events, or the
iphone app(you need the software version 3.1 to download it...I haven't plugged mine into a computer in quite some time, so I'm still running on 3.0) or you can check out what our friend, Bryan at
The Brew Lounge did...for you spreadsheet fans (as I am), this
spreadsheet of events offers a comprehensible listing that you can sort and figure out your personalized agenda. Furthermore, he's created a listing of the
Capone's events that are running during
PBW...most would be happy to spend most of their time in East
Norriton for the entire week with the ridiculous amount of events that Matt has planned. I had placed most of those events on Beer Advocate before having to do "actual" work. The ones I missed were kindly uploaded by local beer lover from BA &
Rate Beer, corby112.
Sadly, I'll be missing a few days of events because I'm traveling for the first few days of
PBW. I expect each and every one of you to throw back a craft beer for me during my absence and send out good karma due to my heartfelt love of the Philly beer community. I hope to see you all out and about when I am back in the saddle on Tuesday!