Philly day 2

The Liberty Bell

What a day it's amazing what 8 hours of sleep will do for your body. It was freaking miserable day today. I flew this far to get a Vancouver January day cold and misty. Had to even buy a toque. Started out by heading to the Reading Terminal Market for some breakfast nice, this market makes Granville Island look like kindergarten and tiny in comparison. It was breakfast time so I didn't stop for a beer but they do have the option available in the beer garden. Next off to see the Liberty Bell and some historic sites. Pretty impressive to see buildings that were built in the 1700's.

my 1/4 rack of ribs

Now for the good stuff. I ventured off to check out some of Olde City Philly and was getting tired of the rain and cold when I smelled this amazing wood smoke coming from this restaurant. So I ventured in to have a beer or too. The place is called Q. It's where the old Philadelphia Fish Company was. The place was fairly empty but smelled amazing. I sat at the bar and ordered a beer Long Trail IPA from Vermont, not bad I get a feeling that the East coast brewers like more malty, less hoppy beers. I would have this beer again as it wasn't too heavy had a fairly low abv probably around 5% for an IPA. Next up was another Yards Pale. They must have a couple different versions of this as the one on tap is different from the bottle one, that could be me just not having enough sleep when I had the first one. I really didn't want to eat as I was going to be meeting someone for a late lunch but the Bartender ( can't remember his name but a great guy) kept trying to get me to order some food. So I gave in and ordered a 1/4 rack of ribs I will put a picture up when I get back but you will die at what a 1/4 rack looks like, I've seen a full rack that seemed smaller. There went lunch but it was worth every bite.

Triumph Brewing Tasting Platter

I set off to explore more of Olde City when 1/2 a block further I stumbled on Triumph Brewing. The place was dead only a couple of people at the bar it was 2:30 and still shit out so I ordered up there tasting platter with 8 was supposed to be 10 but two were out but 8 was enough even though I was offered two more samples. Of the beers tried the Jewish Rye had a hint of caraway in it and the Belgian double stood out. They were all good beers this place is a definite for the beer lover on any trip to Philly.

The Beer Board @ Triumph

Now it's off to lunch to meet my wife's coworker. Lunch was great it was reply nice to meet Tony and hear his stories about the city and region. The beer I had was nothing special a local lager that was ok but much better than the Yuengling ( I'll review that one later)

After walking all day probably close to 15 km I was tired and needed a break so i went back to the room and had small nap. Feeling refreshed I headed over to a place that the bartender at triumph tod me about called Village Whisky can't just drink beer right. Well the place was packed at 8:30 and had a line for even the bar seats, too bad the food looked great. So I started walking back towards my hotel to see what jumped out at me and I stumbled upon the Devils Ally, I went upstairs to the bar for a bite and a few beers. I started off with the happy hour special Flying Dog Saison. It was ok but a little watery for my taste. I then ordered up their tasting platter which consisted of four beers, none of them were particularly good or bad just average. A couple sat down beside me and ordered a beer I never even saw on the list from Duck Rabbit it was there brown ale, it was new for them so he opened one up to try and gave me a taste. It was great almost like the old Okanagan Springs Nut Brown (the best beer they ever made by the way) a nice malty beer with a little hop kick, defiantly something you could make a regular every day beer.

A bit of a surprise when I was leaving the bartender was restocking his cooler when he brought up some six packs of Red Racer IPA and Pale Ale, come all the way across the continent to see a beer from 15 minutes from my house, told the bartender he has a good one with an easy sell on the IPA as it continually wins awards back in B.C.

That's it for day two I will be posting some pics of some things when I get back


S