This Weekend: PhillyTapFinder / Philly Beer Scene Bottle Exchange


File this one in the “Stuff I really wish I could do but I need a day off from drinking” category.

The couple behind the awesome website PhillyTapFinder.com are hosting a bottle exchange with Philly Beer Scene magazine on Sunday, and they’re making it a period event. And by period, we mean the 18th century period.

For their fifth bottle share, they’re holding it in the lovely garden of the Powel House, a Society Hill rowhome once inhabited by Samuel Powel, the first mayor of Philly after the Revolution. $15 gets you in; $20 includes admission and a branded snifter (if you don’t buy one you’re asked to bring your own). The event is on Sunday, October 6, and runs from 1-4pm. It will be moved inside if it rains. Although organizers are making this a non-intimidating event by saying that non-geeks are welcome and beers don’t have to be “an obscure bottle found in some hidden ruin from the other side of the world,” the list so far is fairly impressive. Drink one for me.

2013 Bottle Share List

  • Swamp Head Saison du Swamp
  • Forest & Main Luinaire Reserve
  • Santa Fe Kriek
  • Copper Kettle Mexican Chocolate Stout
  • Pipeworks Close Encounters Hoppy Double Stout
  • Two Brothers Heavier Handed DIPA
  • Futhermore Thermo-refur
  • Cascade Apricot 2009
  • Dogfish Head Pale Santo Marron 2008
  • Stone w00t Stout
  • Kane Morning Bell
  • Kane Apiary
  • Kane A Night to End All Dawns
  • Kane Seven Hundred Thirty
  • DC Brau Fermentation Without Representation
  • Schlafly Pumpkin
  • Hair of the Dog/de Proef Flanders Fred
  • Evil Twin/Westbrook Minigrowler
  • Port Brewing Old Viscosity ‘11
  • Sierra Nevada  Barrel Aged Bigfoot
  • Ducato My Blueberry Nightmare
  • Russian River It Takes a Lot of Great Beer to Make Great Wine
  • Firestone Walker Parabola
  • Duclaw HERO Chocolate Chipotle Stout 2012
  • Ballast Point Victory at Sea
  • Shipyard Smash Pumpkin
  • Cantillon Fou Foune 2012
  • Firestone Walker PNC
  • Brau Brother’s Wyne Ale 2011
  • Three Floyds Dark Lord 2012
  • Cascade Vlad the Imper Aler
  • Sweetwater 16th Anniversary
  • Free Will Hanami
  • Sam Adams Infinium 2010
  • Great Lakes/Deschutes Class of ‘88 Imp’l Smoked Porter
  • New Belgium Paardebloem
  • Epic Big Bad Baptist (batch 10)
  • Stoudts Big Nasty
  • Perennial Savant Beeersel
  • Cantillon Iris
  • Two Roads Henry’s Farm Double Bock
  • Three Floyds/Half Acre Annica
  • Revolution Mean Gene
  • Evolution Nouveau Rouge
  • Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad
  • Alchemist Heady Topper
  • Weyerbacher Blasphemy (2011)
  • Kerkom Bink Grand Cru

Bottle Exchange Tickets [Ticke Leap]