It's Philly Beer Week 2022

We're in the midst of Philly Beer Week, which started on Friday, 03 June, and runs to Sunday, 12 June.

This year, Philly Beer Week is a completely volunteer driven grass roots operation. So please match your expectations accordingly, and you will definitely be more than happy with the numerous events.

Hammer of Glory Relay

After a 2 year hiatus due to COVID, William Reed (Standard Tap, Johnny Brendas, The International Bar) and I decided to bring the Hammer of Glory Relay back.

Neither William nor I were on the Philly Beer Week board when we came up with the idea of the hammer (they roped us in later). We were just humble publicans minding our own businesses. We thought Philly Beer Week needed something stupit to prevent it becoming all serious like it was Philly Wine Week or something.

Our idea, probably mostly William's idea, was to do an Olympic Torch type thing. Somehow we came up with a giant hammer. William knew Wayne, who had an iron forge, and the idea became a reality. For the name I found inspiration, where I often do, in Woody Guthrie. Woody's autobiography (a great read, I recommend it) is Bound For Glory.

Despite organizing the route and timing, I had to miss the Hammer of Glory Relay due to agonizing heel spurs. Intrepid adventurer John Mello followed the HOG the whole way and posted pix!

Photo by John Mello. Click the link above for more!

Logjammin

Happily I was able to make it to Human Robot's Logjammin the next day. It was a truly epic event. I'll post about it later this week.

More Events

There are still loads of events. Bryan Koselar has a spreadsheet with a extensive list (creating it was a Herculean job) at his Brew Lounge beer blog.

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