Nodding Head

Jo and I hadn't been to Nodding Heading in a long time so we decided last night was a good night to change that.  Nodding Head is a brewpub in Philadelphia between 15th and16th on Sansom St.  Someone from my home town is actually a brewer there now so I'm trying to convince my friend to visit so she can introduce me.

It's sort of hard to find as it's upstairs from a different restaurant and the door is really nondescript.  (So nondescript they just have a piece of paper with their name on it tacked to the door.)  There's two decent signs, but if you aren't looking for it you'll probably walk by it.

Still, it's one of my favorite places in the city because the bar is pretty large, the food is really good (since it's owned by the same people the menu is similar to Monk's and Belgian Cafe, just a little smaller), and their beer is excellent.  In fact, I thought the beer last night was the best their beer has been since I've been going (8 years at this point, on and off maybe?)

I think I might be crazy...

Last Thursday, I found out that Troegs was doing a release of a special beer, Splinter Blue, and over the next couple of days convinced myself that leaving at 5:30am to drive for 2 hours and sit in line for 2 and a half hours was a good idea.  I'm not sure why I thought this was a good idea, but my mind works in mysterious ways aka I'm crazy.  Probably didn't help that my wife encouraged me to do it or that my buddy thought I was trying to convince him and decided he was going to come along.  Yes, let's blame others for my insanity.  Good idea.

Weyerbacher!

Jo and I took a trip to Easton yesterday to visit the Weyerbacher brewery.  When we got there, it was sort of odd because you pull into a neighborhood, go down the street a bit, and then there it is basically next to a bunch of houses.  With our GPS it wasn't too hard to find, but we still missed the entrance because a car was coming out and for some reason the driveway exit is only one car wide.  Once we pulled in though there was a large parking lot which at 12:45 was already kind of full.