I love a good brewery, and I'm all for the proliferation of high-quality, small-batch beers around the U.S.A., so I read with great interest a story from the Sunday New York Times travel section on the burgeoning Philadelphia brewing scene. As with most industrial towns on the east coast, Philly's beer-brewing industry was going gangbusters back in the 19th century, but Prohibition all but wiped it out, and for most of the 20th century, area drinkers had few alternatives to the insipid mass-market lagers that flooded the market after Repeal Day. Fortunately for anybody with taste buds, this is no longer the case. ]]> Victor Ozols 2009-01-17T14:42:49-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/11/9/15312/8699

There's something special about visiting the Brooklyn Brewery during Friday night Tap Room Hours. It feels liberating in a way that a regular pub happy hour doesn't. After all, it's not a bar, it's a brewery, and even when it's crowded, there's room to wander among the huge vats and kettles and sacks of barley, malt, and grain while sipping a freshly-brewed beer and savoring the weekend as it unfolds. So in the interest of serving any readers who consult this site in an earnest attempt to ferret out fun things to do in their destination, let me give you the ABC's on one consistently enjoyable option in New York City. ]]> Victor Ozols 2008-11-09T15:31:02-05:00 40.7217142 -73.958014 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/