Art & Design Philly Beer History is on Tap at the Neon Museum The Philadelphia Neon Museum gets drunk on breweriana with new exhibition
Photography A Buzzy New Beginning For Poth Brewing Company Before renovations begin, Michael Bixler takes us inside the remains of Poth Brewing Company with this photo essay
Preservation A Saint Guided By Spirits In an old horse stable in Kensington, beer brewing history is about to come full circle. Brad Maule talks with Tim Patton from Saint Benjamin Brewing Company about his plans for the site that once belonged to Theo Finkenauer’s brewery
Preservation Gretz Cited For Violations But Demo Not Imminent (Updated) L&I cites Gretz’s owner Tony Rufo with six new code violations, serious enough to warrant a “repair of demolish” notice pasted onto the 19th century brewery
History The Cheapest Place Of Entertainment In The World Harry K jumps in his time machine to take us to Callowhill, pre-urban renewal. Far from today’s wasteland, the district was a vital connection to the Northern Liberties–and on this one particular block a brilliant lens on this city’s history
Photography Anything But Sober The 19th century beer barons of Philadelphia built breweries that looked more like castles than factories. For our third and final Beer Week installment, we visit the suitably ornate yet sadly vacant Rieger & Gretz Brewery on Germantown Avenue, which a neighborhood group hopes to put on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
Preservation What’s Up With The Gretz Brewery? In our second Beer Week installment, Dan Wisniewski finds another vintage brewing plant, the 1861 Gretz brewery, with some motivated advocates pushing for reuse, but no clear path forward
