Looking for German beers? Rauchbiers, dunkels, kolsch, berliner weisse, you name it, Brauhause Schmitz has it. Check out their beer menu on their website for now. Hopefully soon it will be searchable and updated on BeerMenus.

We now have just under 50 venues in the Philadelphia region. Stay tuned for more places, more updates, and more ways to find great beer. If you have any suggestions for places we should add, please let us know in the forums section. If you have any events we are missing please feel free to add them here. General feedback or technical problems can be directed here.

Cheers,
The BeerMenus Team

One of my personal favorite summer beers, the Witte, White, or Belgian wheat beer is an amazing beer to drink under the sun. We will be drinking 8 of our favorite Witte beers paired with some great cheeses from Murray's on Monday. Try some of the best Witte beers out there from Belgium, Italy, and the USA and figure out which one is your favorite.

See the list of Wittes and learn more

We have started a list of places on BeerMenus with free WiFi. Know of a place with free Wifi that we left off the list? Create your own version of the list to add additional places.

You may have noticed this morning we updated the design of the site reorganizing the navigation bars. We hope this makes navigating the site and finding great beer easier. If you have any feedback or comments please feel free to let us know in our forums.

Italian craft beer. Yes. There is an emerging craft beer scene in Italy creating small batch beers in strangely shaped bottles with strange ingredients with high price tags. These beers are some of the most interesting and complex beers brewed with the attention to detail and quality ingredients that you find in Italian wine and cuisine. The price tags can be difficult in this economy, but you will notice a couple of Italian restaurants serving these beers at a very small markup (hardly more than store price). Italian food and Italian craft beer, that sounds great.

Check out these two Italian restaurants on BeerMenus that offer craft Italian beers at great prices and never get stuck deciding between Moretti and wine at an Italian restaurant again:

Lusso

Convivio

As you may have read in our About section, we originally started BeerMenus because we were looking to go out in New York City, and we wanted to find a place serving Arrogant Bastard Ale. At the time this was a very difficult task, but thanks to the support and dedication of the best beer bars, restaurants, and beer stores in NYC, we have up to date info on where to find great beer. This past Wednesday, my brother Eric and I had the pleasure of meeting Greg Koch, co-founder and CEO of Stone Brewing Company, at Rattle 'N' Hum. As you can see below, finding great beer makes you happy.

Arrogant Bastard Ale FOUND...

We finalized the list for our next Styles Session event on Monday, June 8th. Learn the history of the style, see how the style has transformed and reincarnated itself, drink 10 representations of the style, and discover your favorite.

1. Pilsner Urquel
2. BB Burgerbrau
3. Budweiser
4. Czechvar
5. Jever Pilsener
6. Victory Prima Pils
7. Oskar Blues Mamas Lil Yella Pils
8. Stoudt's Pils
9. Moa Original
10. Rogue Morimoto

Learn more and buy tickets

The innovation of craft brewers lately has resulted in a dizzying array of beer styles found on tap that require a surprising level of understanding of draft systems and proper pouring techniques. The simple days of hooking up an inexpensive keg of watery beer and hoping for the best will soon be a thing of the past as more and more bars/restaurants/stores serve craft beer on tap that requires special attention. To learn more about draft systems, the Brewers Association has released a guide called the Draught Beer Quality Manual to make sure that you appreciate beer in its best condition.

In addition to this guide, the Cicerone Certification Program "offers that independent assessment and certification so that industry professionals—as well as consumers—can be sure of the knowledge and skills possessed by current and prospective beer servers." Want to make it your mission to never let a person drink beer served through dirty tap lines or beer served at the wrong carbonation level? Check out Cicerone and
get certified.