Category: Drinking

  • In Praise of Local Coffee

    What’s your favorite local­ly-roast­ed bean? I’ve tried three recent­ly myself: old favorite La Colombe as well as new jacks Green Street and ReAn­i­ma­tor. Is it blas­phe­my to say I pre­fer La Colombe? It may be my per­son­al pref­er­ence, but no mat­ter how much cof­fee I brew, I just find that La Colombe has a bet­ter,…

  • In Praise of Dock Street Brewing Co.

    Ah, spring. It’s so nice to be out­side again. Noth­ing quite like run­ning Char­lie ragged in some nice parks. Thing about nice parks in Philadel­phia is that most of them are in West Philly. Helen and I may be river­ward  chau­vin­ists, but, man, I wish Penn Treaty Park were as nice as Clark Park. You know…

  • In Praise of Iron Hill Brewery

    Going to a great brew­ery and restau­rant is bet­ter when your baby isn’t pee­ing through his dia­pers. What a dif­fer­ence a year makes, right? Picked up a growler of Iron Hill’s Biere Noir out in West Chester yes­ter­day. Had a few glass­es last night. Deli­cious! Can’t wait to get back for a refill.

  • Married Dudes Drink Four Loko, Live to Tell Tale

    Was­n’t the great­est idea we’ve ever had, but we made the best of it. Feel like I final­ly recov­ered from Sat­ur­day night. It was the last bach­e­lor par­ty of our clan, so it seemed worth it at the time. Not so sure that we would’ve jumped out of the 2nd floor bal­cony onto a pile…

  • How Much Can You French Press?

    French press cof­fee is as much a part of my morn­ing rit­u­al as “Thomas the Tank Engine.” I’ve watched sev­er­al videos to help me hone my skills and Jasper here has real­ly done the trick, espe­cial­ly with the tem­per­a­ture of the water and the tim­ing. I feel pret­ty con­fi­dent about my cof­fee to water ratio…