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Joe Sixpack is prepared to take a stand against the “moraly wrong” idea of mixing beer and spirits in beer cocktails. But in the end he has to admit, some of them can be tasty.

Beer cocktails: Could it be? [Philadelphia Daily News]

Tonight, if you’re going to cry in your beer, cry in a good beer. Check out what Sidecar Bar & Grille has on tap, some studly beers to try.

• Furthermore Fallen Apple Cream Ale
• Lefthand BlackJack Porter
• Bell’s Winter White
• Stoudt’s Fatdog Imperial Stout
• Dark Horse Perkulator Coffee Doppelbock
• La Chouffe Belgian IPA
• Nodding Head Grog (cask)
• Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA

Sidecar Bar & Grille [Official Site]

Beer historian Dale Van Wieren is set to hit an impressive milestone on Saturday, November 21st at Sly Fox Brewery in Phoenixville. He will be trying and logging his 10,000th different beer.

Dale’s 10K, an “amber Pils/Dubbel/Bier de Garde hybrid of about 7.5% abv” in O’Reilly’s words, will be tapped at 5pm and Dale will then sip and make notes as his friends and an expected crowd of Sly Fox regulars and beer aficionados drawn to the historic occasion cheer him on before rushing to the bar to enjoy their own pints of 10K.

That’s pretty darn impressive.

Beer Historian Dale Van Wieren will create history at Sly Fox [via Jack Curtin's Liquid Diet]
Sly Fox Brewery [Official Site]

Well the Phillies could use a prayer and Tria is offering one up in the form of Lost Abbey’s brandy barrel-aged The Angel’s Share. Described as “a riotous orgy of dark fruit, caramel, brandy and oak flavors,” both locations are offering it tonight for $8 a 10 ounce draft.

Where do the beans come from? How did owner Drew Crockett get  that fire engine red paint job? Rick Nichols has all the answers about the Hub Bub coffee truck that has set up shop on 38th Street between Spruce and Locust Streets.

Artisan coffee from a truck [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Hub Bub Coffee [Official Site]

Friday afternoon we received a note that Monday evening Pub & Kitchen would be kicking off the Phillies game with a “shotgun rally” of 100 free cans of Sly Fox Pikeland Pils. We were a bit incredulous. Had a Blackberry been compromised? Was someone pulling our leg? Was Pub & Kitchen losing its mind?

But we checked in over the weekend and it is true. Owner, Ed Hackett wants 100 people on the sidewalk shotgunning cans of Pikeland Pils t 7 tonight. Maybe it’s just the thing the Phillies need to get back on track, it’s certainly worth the try.

In other Pub & Kitchen news, the Illadelph spotted the 20th and Lombard bar in last week’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode.

Pub & Kitchen [Official Site]

Of course the World Series begins tonight but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the launch of Flying Fish’s Exit 1 Bayshore Oyster Stout as well.

There are two launch parties, from 6 to 8pm at the Oyster House and from 7 to 9pm at the Standard Tap. Both these locations typically do not have televisions but will for the World Series. The Oyster House will also be offering $1 oysters and $3 oyster shooters.

Exit Series [Official Site]

Victor Fiorillo’s Operation Maker’s Mark has wrapped up and Oscar’s got busted. the divey Center City bar was serving up something that wasn’t Maker’s Mark.

But now what? What’s the correct punishment for a bar that’s misrepresenting the liquor they’re serving?

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Operation Maker’s Mark: The Results Are In [Restaurant Club]

Bridgid’s is set to tap its “down draft,” a gravity tap where beer flows from the third to the first floor creating one smooth pour.

To celebrate they’re going to tap a 5-liter cask (20 pints) of Yards Love Stout followed by Yards ESA.

It all starts at tomorrow at 7 and you can of course hang out to make it a night with the Phillies.

Bridgid’s [Official Site]

Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head have collaborated on a new beer, Life and Limb Limb & Life that will debut locally at Jose Pistola’s during lunch today. Just don’t think about going back to work, the category defying dark beer weighs in at 10% ABV. 5%ABV, you can go back to work, just don’t expect to be productive!

Life & Limb [Official Site via Beer Lass]
Jose Pistola’s [Official Site]