All the Philly Beer News You Can Drink

1.) Looking to celebrate the Pope coming to Philadelphia, but you don’t quite know how? Get in on the Pope Crawl 2015, a bar crawl meant to commemorate the papal visit. As of the time I’m writing this, some 5,200 people are planning to get their brew on in the name of His Holiness. There’s a GoFundMe page to get shirts made for the event, and uniforms (popes, bishops, priests, Jesus, other deities) are encouraged. The crawl will start at 11am on September 26th. An itinerary for the crawl has yet to be chosen, but will be announced on the event’s Facebook page as the date comes nearer. The bar crawl will benefit Philabundance, a charity that provides food to those who don’t have it.

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2.) The much-anticipated Uptown Beer Garden didn’t last for long. The 9,000 square foot beer garden, which just opened July 1st in the courtyard of the BNY Bank Center, has been shut down by the city’s Licenses and Inspections department. The beer garden allegedly lacked a permit for two trailers it had parked on site, one being used as a bar and one for restrooms. Uptown Beer Garden was the brainchild of Teddy Sourias, who also owns Bru Craft & Wurst, U-Bahn and Finn McCools Ale House. Sourias said that he wasn’t sure if or when the beer garden would reopen.

3.) It’s a tragic problem faced by all too many Americans each day: wanting beer, but having none in the house. Luckily, someone has come up with the means of fixing this disaster. Chris Fetfatzes, owner of local beer cafe Hawthornes, has kicked off a home beer delivery service called “Quick Sip.” Available to most residences in Center City and South Philly, Quick Sip supplies cold beer to your door at a speedy pace. Fetfatzes said that most deliveries are completed within 23 minutes. If successful, Fetfatzes says that he wants to develop a Quick Sip app and expand his services to wine and spirits.