TWO TRACK: "You get what you Give" College Sophomore Edition

This song was played non-stop in college circa '98-'99.

It was most certainly a one-hit wonder by the New Radicals.
Kudos to my friend and Good Dog regular, Milo, for enlightening me to the Onion's "A.V. Club" project.
They have artists cover other artists. They do 25 a year and as the year wraps up the performers have less and less to choose from -so it can be a bit of a challenge.

Here Savoir Adoire covers "You get what you give"


Savoir Adore covers New Radicals

New Radicals- live in 2009

Philly Beer Scene/ Philly Tap Finder announces 2nd Bottle Share

Sunday June 23rd from 4-7- PBS and PTF will host their 2nd bottle share.

They've selected a community garden on Christian St between 3rd and 4th st for round two. Jared and Kristy Littman of Philly Tap Finder grow their own hops there.

They will cap it at 90 tickets so reserve your spot HERE. through ticketleap.

$15 will get you in the garden. That includes  awesome wood-fired pizzas from Kennett.

Please bring your own glass- or you can buy a PBS tulip for $5.

This is a bottle share.  Please bring a bottle- "any bottle you think people will enjoy," says organizer Jared Littman.

However, if it's on THIS LIST, you might make a few new friends.  Kidding. Sort of.  Use your judgement and use a public transport/cab to get there. Driving to bottle shares is dumb.

TWO TRACK: Common People "The back from the dead edition"

It's been several months since the last "Tuesday Two Track". November 27th to be exact.

On the 10th day of Beer Week- Dennis Hewlett of the POPE played "Common People" on the juke during the Bell's Brunch. He didn't know it's a favorite of mine and one that I haven't heard in a while as it's on my running mix and I've barely been running. Don't worry-very much a temporary thing.

He mentioned a cover that William Shatner did. I had never heard of it. The lovely Laura Bell was sitting next to me and confirmed that it existed.

SO- that prompted me to bring back the Two track this week.

PULP (1996)



William Shatner





And here's a video someone made about the making of "Common People"

ALLACLASH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

Philly Beer Week is almost here and here is... the ALLAGASH SCHEDULE !!!!!!!!!!

WHERE & WHEN of  BEER WEEK a la ALLAGASH

Friday 6-9 pm

TIR NA NOG

White, Black, Tripel 

Meet "Chavez" - who heads up our Pilot System in Maine

Saturday 

12-3 

INDUSTRY

ALLAGASH: THE BRUNCH

Shrimp and Grits, Hillbilly Philly, and a bevy of specialty beer

Featuring: Petite Fortunella aka "Chavez's Beer"

Chavez will be on hand to chat Kumquats

10:30-4:30

FOR PETES SAKE

Snobby Beer Brunch

THE POURS:Allagash Grand Cru, La Fin du Monde and sours

Saturday 6 pm -?

THE Cambridge

CIVIL WAR

featuring the beers of the North: Maine Beer Co, Oxbow, Allagash

and the South: Duclaw, Cigar City, Duck Rabbit, and Terrapin

I promise you an awesome line-up of beer -featuring a a few of our "brett beers" to boot. CHAVEZ & Petite Fortunella will be there.

Sunday 2-6 

Kite and Key 

 4th annual "Throwdown in Franklintown"

Victory, Yards, Allagash and Dogfish

go American Gladiator for the day.

Plenty of rarites poured. 

We'll be outside- let's hope for Sunshine

Featuring: Petite Fortunella

Sunday 7 pm

TIME

Beer, Sausage and some sweet, sweet sounds

This event was awesome last year. 

Squeeze a lil live music into your  beer week. 

Chef Sean Magee is making sausages to pair with our beers.

Featuring Chavez and Petite Fortunella

Monday 6 pm

GOOD DOG

2nd annual "OMMEGASH it's ALLAGANG"

Teaming up with one of my best buds, Megan Maguire as we

celebrate the best from our Belgian-American portfolios.
I advise you to get there early.

Monday 10 pm

VARGA BAR

"Pin-up Prom"

Varga will provide complimentary limos for parties of 8. 

I will be playing records with Dr. Joel of New Holland.

So taps will be a lil Michigan and a lil Maine.

I'm already dreading Tuesday morning.

Tuesday 6 pm

N. 3rd

N. 3rd remains one of my favorite bars in the city.

I was so happy the day I found out they were going to put White on. This is a no schtick event. Just great beer with great people.

Wednesday

 (also known in future tense as they day I survived)

4 pm

Bishop's Collar

"Pine state's favorite Son"

Meet Rob Tod and challenge him to drink all 11 beers on tap.

disclaimer: He probably won't. Plenty of rare beers-including the elusive FV-13. Also featuring Midnight Brett and Golden Brett.

6:30

NODDING HEAD

BEER ME

If you didn't know- We- at Allagash- have been very honored to be a guest tap at Nodding Head for the better part of the year. 

Rob Tod will join Mike Fava of Oxbow and we'll celebrate Beers from Vacationland.  Rarities will pour. Wooh-Fava's back!

 8 pm

BRU

Pouring Curieux, Odyssey, Interlude, 

White, Black, Tripel, Four

Oysters on the halfshell with Allagash White Mignonette

This is where the true fans come in. Well be popping by after Nodding Head on our way to Pennsylvania 6. Maybe you'll do the "tour" with us.

9 pm

PENNSYLVANIA 6

the one and only

"ALLACLASH"

You like the Clash? We love them. So we're going to listen to the band, who inspired them and who they in turn inspired. 

Golden Brett, Midnight Brett, James Bean, Blonde, and Confluence

and the great WHITE.

We'll also eat an obscene amount of oysters. 

Rob Tod will be there and it will be a good ol time.

THURSDAY 4 pm

FERGIES PUB

"Rob Tod pops in with some POP"

Catch an afternoon buzz with Fergie and Rob

Rarities to Pour. You can event get a coffee "buzz" 

with "James Bean"

SUNDAY

THE 6th annual TUDD

5-8

I know, I know you can barely think of drink beer right now- so you might as well pull it together and sing Karaoke.

This is always a fun last "huzzah" to the week.

Fergie made it a lil earlier this year so if you pansied out the past two- you have no excuse.

Sly fox and Allagash beers will pour.

***

best of luck

Petite Fortunella launches tomorrow at Iron Hill Maple Shade 5 pm- 7 pm

Tomorrow night- also known as the night before the night before Philly Beer Week begins- we will be tapping the first keg of Petite Fortunella at Iron Hill in Maple Shade.

Petite Fortunella is the recipe of Allagash brewer Patrick Chavenelle, affectionately referred to as all save his parents and possibly girlfriend as Chavez."  He's been brewing at Allagash for two years and heads up our Pilot team.

He had been wanting to brew a Belgian style table beer for a while -made with Kumquats (whirlpool) and fermented with Orval yeast ). Sorry- this isn't finished with Brett.  However Lance did put some in a barrel- so we'll see how thats tasting when the time comes.

I haven't actually tried this beer yet- so I can't tell you how delicious it is- but we would love to see you there supporting.

I am also attempting to make ice cream for the event. Let's hope my freezer bowl freezes in time.

Thanks to Lance Romance for letting me into his brewery for the day.  It was a fun- but I will implore, someone get that man some rakes! ;)

THE POURS

Petite Fortunella

Confluence 12

Curieux

Black

Fluxus '12- (saison-wit hybrid with green and pink peppercorns)

BONGOGASH- this THURSDAY 8 pm

Ever since I saw Toots and the Maytals and Hugh Masekela four days apart two weeks ago- I've been listening to their Pandora stations.

The arduous drives to and from DC are better, chores are better, everything is better.

Varga Bar and I had an event slated for Thursday May 9th.  I thought it would be fun to add a lil
Afrobcuban, reggae, ska, calypso music to the evening.

As of now they're calling for possible thunderstorms which is unfortunate- but that's 96 hours away.
things could change. And even if they don't- I'm sure people still play bongos in the rain. (as long as their not walking down the stairs in the rain playing bongos).

I am not a graphic designer so forgive my attempt at an event sign.
See you this THURSDAY at VARGA at 8! 10th and Spruce if you've never been.


The POURS
interlude
bourbon black
grand cru
curieux
odyssey
white
triple
dubbel

Tuesday Two Track: Willie Nelson 80th Birthday Edition

It's been months since a Tuesday two track. I almost wondered sometimes if it was possible to run out of material so to speak, but no I don't think I could. I just run out of time...

Today- Willie Nelson was thanked again and again for 57 years of music on his special day. Lots of twitter and facebook tributes. He is nothing short of a living legend- and probably pretty lucky to still be among the living.

Here Willie does a lovely version of the Righteous Brothers "Unchained Melody"



Righteous Brothers

Kutztown's Saucony Creek Trickles into Philly Taverns this Week

This Wednesday, Saucony Creek launches at the P.O.P.E. 

They were one of 1,118 microbreweries that were slated to open in 2012.  And they actually did.

Owner, Matt Lindenmuth took his dream to Kickstarter last Spring and with enough support and a generous landlord, built a brewery and crew (Joe Percoco, head brewer formerly of Barley Creek in the Poconos) and started distributing this year.

What makes them different (besides the fact that Lindenmuth spent years as a globe-trottin' Guinness Book inline vert rollerblader/snowboarder) is they are farming and malting their own barley.

What else do you need to know???

The brewery took over an old Saucony Shoe warehouse.
They've named the brewery for the Sacony Creek that there water is sourced from, but kept the original spelling.

It appears that 7%  Stone Fly IPA is a potential flagship out of the gate.
On Wednesday between 7-10 pm you can try that as well as North Ramp Stout and Bling Blangers Brown. 

Guests can also meet  Lindenmuth who I  imagine has a few great stories.

Kudos to them for making it happen and being one of the 2, 416 breweries now operating.


Follow Saucony Creek on twitter here.  Website coming soon.

Big Beer Weekend in University City

Saturday 4/20  
12 pm- 4pm
City Tap House is hosting a BBQ with
 BROOKLYN Brewery
$20 all you can eat Barbecue (vegetarian options avail)
and $3 Brooklyn CANS
Live Music from Estimated Profit (Grateful Dead tribute band) featuring
Brooklyn Brewery rep, Miles Moser.

Sunday April 21
THE "HEADDIE"
 BEER FEST
The Blockley/Jollys
38th and Chestnut
2 pm- 5 pm
Tickets available HERE

Spot burgers (never had, but apparently they're delicious) are available for purchase from their food truck.
Music will be provided by Professor Slim.

Tickets to Blockley concerts will be given away every hour.

Those who purchase tickets online- are privy to 24 additional beers.
Some of 
THE POURS

1. Troegs Nugget Nectar

2. Dead Guy

3. Ithaca Flower Power

4. Northern Lights IPA

5. Starr Hill Dark Starr Stout 

6. Lagunitas Hop Stoopid

7. Sixpoint Resin

8. Abita Purple Haze

9. Firestone Walker Wookey Jack

10.Stone Smoked Porter

11. Loopy Oatmeal Red

12.Rochestafarian

13. Too Kind DIPA

14. Skunk Black IPA

15. Stony Face

W E A T H E R - Partly Sunny both days 55-59 degrees