The Grey Lodge’s traditional Friday the Thirteenth celebration, Friday the Firkenteenth gets started at noon today. There will be 23 or 24 casks poured throughout the day. It’s always a great time and there are some truly original beers on tap for the event.

Check out the Grey Lodge’s web site for all the details. And if you miss this one, you’ll have to wait all the way to August, 2010 for the next.

Friday the Firkenteenth [Grey Lodge]

Phoodie.info has rolled out a new Events Calendar in handy-dandy Google Calendar format.

Of course Phoodie isn’t the only ones publishing food and drink events this way. We’ve got our own Google Calendar and here are some others that you might like.

• Earth Bread + Brewery
• Grey Lodge
• Philadelphia Brewing Co. Social Agenda
• Phoodie Events Calendar
• South Street District
• Standard Tap

Open any of the calendars and click the to add it to your Google calendar.

And although not in a Google Calendar format, the Philly Beer Week Calendar of upcoming events is worth checking out as well.

New And Improved: The Phoodie Events Calendar! [Phoodie.info]
Foobooz Calendar [f8b8z]

Jolly’s Dueling Piano Bar will be opening Friday. There will be 2 dueling baby grands, room for 125 and a menu put together by Brendan Smith of *Smiths. [Meal Ticket]

If Jose Garces decides to open a New York restaurant he says it will be an Amada. [Grub Street]

Meal Ticket has a slideshow and the menu for Grey Social,  French bistro spot that is promisingly swimming against the Old City current. [Meal Ticket]

Grey Lodge didn’t stop their refurb with new urinals, they also have gotten a glorious new sign. [The Grey Lodge]

Year after year Zagat polls diners to find out who is most generous. And year after year Philadelphia comes out on top. [KYW 1060]

Shinju Sushi at 930 Locust Street is moving to the former site of Aso Sushi at 719 Walnut Street. They’ll also get a cool new name, The Fat Salmon. [Meal Ticket]

MidAtlantic has started weekday lunch. [The Insider]

Sarcone’s Deli is adding a franchise in Delaware. [The Illadelph]

Yep, the Grey Lodge has big news to share. Really big news. They’ve replaced their 59-year old floor mount urinal on the first floor with another floor mount urinal!

She’s a beauty. Hurry over to try it out.

All Your Urine Are Belong To Us [The Grey Lodge]

The Grey Lodge has quite the relationship with the number 13, so it should come as no surprise that they have a celebration and a half scheduled for their 13th anniversary.

the event will feature 13 events in 13 hours. It all starts at 11am and sure sounds like fun.

• 11am – Dock Street Triskaidekaphilia Dunkel Weisse
• 12pm – Levity (Comic) & Levitation (Stone)
• 1pm – 101 with Philly Brewing plus cheesesteak specials and Carolyn Wyman
• 2pm – Brooklyn 3Cs (chocolate, coffee, chicken)
• 3pm – Weyerbacher Beer Barrel Bingo
• 4pm – Victory Pils and Phils + Really Old Old Horizontal
• 5pm – Grey Lodge Bar Mitzvah
• 6pm – Six Sixpoint Sixtels
• 7pm – Flashback with Boulder Flashback
• 8pm – Yards Crazy 8’s at 8 (8% ABVs)
• 9pm – Sly Fox Chicken and Egg Party
• 10pm – It’s Always Sunshine-y at the Grey Lodge
• 11pm – Flying Fish Exit 11

For details check out the official page on the Grey Lodge web site.

13th Anniversary [Grey Lodge]

The Sly Fox Brewhouse is moving into a bigger facility across Rt. 113 this fall. The new pub will have 3 handpumps and automated growler filler. [Liquid Diet]

Philadelphia Brewing Co. will be bottling their Joe Porter when it becomes available in September. [Seen Through a Glass]

The Grey Lodge is now doing mix-and-match six packs to go. [The Grey Lodge Pub]

This Wednesday the Grey Lodge will be celebrating St. Jean Baptiste and Quebec. It’s the saint’s feast day and he is the patron saint of Quebec so there will be Unibroue beers by the bottle and Quebecois specialties like poutine on the menu.

Also on tap at the Northeast Philadelphia’s favorite beer bar, a Sunday night comedy competition throughout the summer and on Friday, July 10th, it’ll be Christmas in July with all your favorite Christmas beers.

Upcoming Events [Grey Lodge]

Supper has added a $35 prix-fixe menu Monday to Friday. And that price tag includes wine or beer. Meal Ticket has the menu. [Meal Ticket]

SoleFood at the Loews Hotel is offering a deal that you might not be able to refuse. $40 for three courses for two. And you get a $10 gift card for a return visit! [uwishunu]

Alfa has a happy hour that runs 7-days a week. Respect! [The Restaurant Club]

Say hello, it won’t kill you. And if you do it at Friday Saturday Sunday it will get you a free drink. [Latest Dish]

El Fuego for happy hour? Well there is cheap Mexican beer and discounted chips, salsa and guac. [Phoodie.info]

Sundays are special at the Grey Lodge. Get surf or turf plus beer for just $19.95. [Grey Lodge]

It’s Friday the 13th, the first of three for 2009 and of course that means Friday the Firkinteenth at the Grey Lodge. 20 firkins will be poured, 7 at a time.

Hurry though, they’ve been at it since 9am.

Tentative firkin list after the jump.

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Back in the early days of Northern Liberties, way before all the condos and Rita’s and bowling alleys the fridge behind the bar at the Standard Tap used to pour $2 Yuengling’s Lord Chesterfield Ale and we have to say, it has kept a special place in our heart since. But then Yuengling Lager blew up and America’s oldest brewery stopped kegging Lord Chesterfield and the Tap switched the fridge over to Yards Philly Pale Ale.

But low and behold Lord Chesterfield is back on tap! It’ll be debuting not at the Standard Tap but at the Grey Lodge in Mayfair on Friday September 12th at 6 PM.

Lord Chesterfield Ale World Draft Debut [Grey Lodge]