Beer ice cream?
If you happen to be in or around Columbus, Ga. today, drop by the Ben & Jerry’s for a very special ice cream tribute to Homer Simpson. “The ice cream, dubbed ‘Duff & D’oh!Nuts’ to fit a Homer Simpson diet plan, has a malted, sweet stout flavor with a cake doughnut swirl.”
Source: Ledger-Enquirer

China loves beer
Recent data put China as the number one beer drinking spot for the fourth year in a row, with the United States coming in second. C’mon, people!
Source: just-drinks.com

Guinness scandal
Did famed brewer Arthur Guinness fabricate his family history? DNA seems to prove he did.
Source: Belfast Telegraph

Beer brewing Bender
There is nothing we can actually say about this. Labor of love is right!
Source: Gizmodo

Grow a ’stache for Terrapin
Terrapin Brewing Co. is on a campaign (of sorts) to grow proper mustaches until the brewery receives its brewing license from the state of Georgia. Trust us, we saw Spike and John W. last week for Christmas Jam and it was righteous.
Source: BeerAdvocate.com

From Mom R. today:

Source: Ugly Christmas Trees

So, here’s the basic round-up: Philly is a beer town. This is not new news, but it is unbelievable the array of beer available there. We’re not talking in the way like Portland, Ore. is influential with all its breweries, we’re saying the Philly folks just like to have good beer around, from all over the place. Sure, there’s no ABV cap in Pennsylvania, making some interesting beers show-up in stores like The Foodery, but outside of that beer-geek-ness, you can barely go anywhere without finding at least one good beer on a menu. And by good, we don’t mean decent—we mean good.

We were stood-up at Victory Brewing. Well, maybe. We also hit horrendous traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway, which if you’ve never driven on, it is hard to translate the amount of anxiety the road produces. We don’t know if we misunderstood our time, but we did not get the full tour, which was disappointing. However, the Victory Brewpub is a great stop. Yummy food—how about some Hop Devil Potato Soup? We had crazy delicious burgers along with glasses of both Hop Devil and Storm King on cask. (Incidentally, The New York Times says today that cask beer is coming back.) Too bad two weeks early for the Hop Wallop release.

The best thing we found at Victory was in the package store, where we bought a t-shirt that has B-E-E-R spelled out in the formation of Philadelphia’s famous LOVE sculpture, by Robert Indiana. We heart that shirt already.

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