Survey: Which Pub Crawl Location Is Tops?

by Washington Washington

OK, so there’s another pub crawl this Saturday, but this time there’s actually legit reasoning behind it… Philly Beer Week!

Philly Beer Week is a 10-day series of beer events starting on the first weekend in June in Philadelphia as a celebration of America’s Best Beer-Drinking City. Last year, it featured 674 separate beer events. The Hammer of Glory was used to tap the ceremonial first keg at Opening Tap on March 6, 2009. This year, more than 875 events are scheduled.

So, if you aren’t headed in to the city, where are you going in P-ville?

Survey: Where To Watch The Flyers?

by Washington Washington

As FLYERS fever sweeps southeastern PA, many people (who can’t afford the $750 average ticket price) will be making their way to local watering holes to cheer on the Fly-boys in the company of like-minded imbibers. We’ve reached out to all the P-ville bars over the last week or so to figure out who’s doing what for Flyers games and uncovered the following specials:

Epicurean – $9.95 entree and drink special, a $12.95 2 tapas special, half price drafts, and $2.00 bottle specials on Bud, Coors, Miller and Yuengling.

Pickering Creek Inn – Half price appetizers and $2.50 Yuengling Lager bottles.

Some of the other bars replied saying they don’t have Flyers specials per se, but they do have certain specials every night of the week (consult the DEALS sections for info).

Now, what we really want to know is…

Phoenixville Pub Crawl 2010 – Saturday March 13

by Washington Washington

For those of you who haven’t seen that big ass banner on Bridge Street, the Phoenixville Pub Crawl is happening this Saturday March 13th from 1-5pm. Aside from the banner, there’s a website devoted to the event, a grassroots marketing campaign (postcards in bars), and various other attention grabbing mechanisms… So what does this all mean???

It means that Phoenixville knows how to party, dammit!

Where else is excessive mid-day drinking so heartily encouraged? I mean, other towns host pub crawls (such as Manayunk, etc), but they aren’t advertised and promoted like this one is… And they aren’t as organized either.

It’s a great thing that the local bars all came together on this, as they should all do a ton of business on this day. Each location will be will be offering a different micro brew(s)… here’s the rundown and my personal preferred crawl order:

Sly Fox BrewerySly Fox Beer

EpicureanIthaca, Lagunitas, Spring House

PJ Ryan’sLongtrail

Bistro on BridgeHeavy Seas, Rogue, Brooklyn Brewery

Molly Maguire’sVictory, Kilkenny Irish Cream Ale

Iron Hill BreweryIron Hill Beer

Baxter’s 101 BridgeStoudts Brewery

Pickering Creek InnFounders, Weyerbacher, Cigar City

Of course there are more bars in Phoenixville, the bars above are only the ones that chose to participate. These additional bars could easily be worked into your crawl (see our story, Pub Crawlin’ Comes a-Callin’ This Thanksgiving Eve).

Have fun, rock hard, and be safe!