Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Captain Lawrence Pumpkin
Arcadia Jaw-Jacker Pumpkin Ale
Brooklyn Post Road Pumpkin
Bruery Autumn Maple
Southern Tier Pumking
Dogfish Head Punkin Ale
Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale
Elysian Night Owl Pumpkin Ale
Blue Moon Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale
Heartland Smiling Pumpkin Ale
Wolaver's Will Stevens Pumpkin
Jack's Pumpkin Spiced Ale
Saranac Pumpkin

Avery The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest
Atwater Blocktoberfest
Blue Point Oktoberfest
Flying Dog Dogtoberfest
Harpoon Octoberfest
Hofbrau Oktoberfest
Kostritzer Oktoberfest
Penn Oktoberfest
Pennichuck The Big O Oktoberfest
Stoudt's Oktoberfest
Warsteiner Oktoberfest
Left Hand Oktoberfest
Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen
Wurzburger Octoberfest
Victory Festbier
Brooklyn Oktoberfest
Climax Oktoberfest
Weissenhoe Monk's Festbier
Weyerbacher Autumnfest
Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest

Pumpkin beers available in Philadelphia
Southern Tier Pumking
Bruery Autumn Maple
Dogfish Head Punkin Ale
Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Arcadia Jaw Jacker Pumpkin Ale
Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale

Oktoberfests available in Philly:
Flying Fish Oktoberfest
Flying Dog Dogtoberfest
Sprecher Oktoberfest
Weyerbacher Autumnfest
Bell's Octoberfest
Stoudt's Oktoberfest
Becks Oktoberfest
Spaten Oktoberfest
Warsteiner Oktoberfest
Victory Festbier
Paulaner Oktoberfest

Our rescheduled Styles Session 11 will take place tomorrow (9/28/09) at 7PM. We will be discussing the history of the Oktoberfest festival while drinking 8 different examples of the Oktoberfest/Marzen. We will also have several great cheese pairings from Murray's Cheese Shop. Check out the list of beers and learn more here

BrewDog recently shipped an extremely limited number of cases of their newest IPA the BrewDog Atlantic IPA. From BrewDog: "Atlantic IPA survived two months on the North Atlantic, involving a tense barrel-rescue-mission, beatings from force ten storms, 60 foot waves and encounters with killer whales. Upon safe return to dry land, the IPA was bottle conditioned and is now available."

BrewDog's brief history of the IPA: "Originating in the 1700s, India Pale Ales were developed in Britain and sent by sea to British people living in India. The beers travelled inside oak casks on board sailing vessels however the lack of refrigeration and tempestuous sea journeys often compromised the quality. India Pale Ale was born when brewers realised that together, hops and alcohol act as a natural preservative ensuring that the beer could withstand the voyage and arrive in good condition."

Also check out the crazy label artwork.

Want to learn more about the history of IPAs? Check out the book Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire.

Resurrection Ale House opens today with an awesome draft list:

Brewer’s Art Resurrection Ale
Stoudt’s Pils
Slyfox O’Reilly’s Stout
Cantillon Cuvee des Champions
Schlenkerla Helles
Dogfish Head Punkin’
PBC Rowhouse Red
Brooklyn Sorachi Ace
Ommegang Rare Vos
Lagunitas Lucky 13
Ayinger Octoberfest
Russian River Pliny The Elder

On Cask : Yards Cape of Good Hope

Due to popular demand, we have put together a list of places that sell growlers. The Places that sell growlers list is by no means complete, but it is a starting point that we plan to build on. For those of you who are not familiar with growlers, they are 64 ounce glass resealable bottles that you can get filled up with draft beer at a bar or store. Some beers just taste better in draft form. To learn a bit more about growlers, you can check out our post from back in May called The American Growler.

This is what a typical 64 ounce growler looks like:

Chuck Silva, brewer at Green Flash, will be at Jimmy's No. 43. Dale Katechis, founder and brewmaster at Oskar Blues, will be at Stanton Public. Rob Tod, owner of Allagash Brewing Company, will be at the Astor Center. Team Bear Republic will be at Bar Great Harry. Team Ommegang, Captain Lawrence, Allagash, and Southampton will be at Rattle 'N' Hum. Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, wil be at Per Se.

Richard Norgrove, owner of Bear Republic, will be at Amsterdam Ale House. Dale Katechis, brewmaster at Oskar Blues, will be at Mudville 9. Brewery staff will be pouring Ommegang beers at Swift Hibernian Lounge. Meet the people behind Stoudt's Brewing Company and Smuttynose at Rattle 'N' Hum. Team Sixpoint will be at Pacific Standard. Rob Tod, owner and brewmaster of Allagash, will be at Downtown Bar & Grill

Here goes. Carol Stoudt, founder of Stoudt's Brewing, will be at Luckydog. Dave Yarrington, head brewer at Smuttynose, will be at Swift Hibernian Lounge. Chuck Silva, brewmaster at Green Flash, will be at Stanton Public. Finally, the folks from Stone and Bear Republic will be at Rattle 'N' Hum.

We are pumped to have Manayunk Brewery & Restaurant on BeerMenus. Go on a pub crawl out in Manayunk and check out this place. More Manayunk spots to come very soon.

Sam Calagione, owner of Dogfish Head, will be at the Blind Tiger. Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster, will be at Rattle 'N' Hum. Jim Koch, founder of Boston Beer Company, will be at Mas. Carol Stoudt, of Stoudt's Brewing, will be at The French Culinary. Geoff Wenzel, brewer at Keegan Ales, will be at The Gibson.

Drinking with brewmasters is fun. Tonight and throughout NYC Beer Week you will have many chances to meet some great brewmasters/brewery owners. The brewers from Victory, Sixpoint, and Flying Dog will be at Rattle 'N' Hum tonight. Brian O'Reilly, brewmaster of Sly Fox, will be at the Hops event at the Astor Center tonight. Tim Suprise, owner/brewer at Arcadia Brewing Company, will be at the Gate tonight. Scott Vacarro, brewmaster/owner at Captain Lawrence Brewing Company, will be at Murray's Cheese Shop. At Barcade you will be able to find brewer Jeremy Goldberg, of Cape Ann Brewing.

Check out the rest of the exciting NYC Beer Week events today.

Today Swift Hibernian Lounge and Rattle 'N' Hum are pouring some extremely unique casks. Check out their beer menus to see all of the beers they just added. Also, checkout everything else going on for beer week here

We would like to personally thank all of the participating bars for maintaining their beer menus so well. Accurate information is critical when it comes to menus and we would like to give a shout-out to the two bars that have updated in "real time" from the day we launched. TJ's Restaurant & Drinkery and Grey Lodge Pub have updated the most often providing you with the most accurate information.

Accurate information on the continually changing taps in town is incredibly valuable to the thirsty craft beer loving public, and we would like to thank everyone for providing this info. To promote these places, we are going to start a list of the "real-time" bars that have proven to be consistently accurate. If you are a bar owner that believes your menu is updated in "real-time," please leave a comment to get added to the list.

We are excited to have Blue Dog Tavern and Blue Dog Pub on board. Check them out and have a Weyerbacher 14 on tap!

NYC Beer Week 2009 starts tomorrow. NYC is an amazing beer town, I encourage you all to take advantage of this celebration of everything that NYC has to offer. Check out the events schedule and pick up a passport to get all of the amazing discounts. A special thanks to Josh Schaffner for putting this together.

We are excited to have London Grill on board. Check out the Stoudt's Willie Sutton Lager for an unusual find.

We are very excited to have The Belgian Cafe on BeerMenus. As you may have noticed under the 'New Beers' section, they have a serious selection of vintage Belgian Lambics as well as great Belgian and American draft beers. Check out their full beer menu.

I have done many blind taste tests on my own to experiment with honest beer evaluations -- no hype. This weekend Memphis Tap Room is making this an official event featuring 33 taps in 3 days, all unmarked. They have ballots you can fill out to guess what each beer is. From the organizers:

*Starting at Noon on September 4, we’ll tap 3 rounds of 11 different styles of beer—33 beers total during the whole weekend! It’s up to you to taste them all and tell us what you’re drinking from the list of clues above. Haven’t been at the bar since the 1st round of kegs were tapped? Ask your server what round you’re currently tasting! Ballots must be turned in by 4pm on Sunday September 6 and will be tallied by a panel of not-too-intoxicated judges. The winner will be announced around 5pm.*

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