Yards Brewing Company Celebrates Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday by Reviving an Old Recipe.PHILADELPHIA -- When the Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corporation needed an official beer for the year long Ben Franklin 300th Birthday Celebration, they turned to Yards Brewing Company Yards Brewing Company is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's only production brewery within city limits. Despite Philadelphia's history as a home to thousands of brewers and a regional brewing center, a number of factors including the consolidation of the brewing industry and the city's of Philadelphia to create Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce Ale(TM). Yards has been brewing General Washington Tavern Porter(TM) and Thomas Jefferson Tavern Ale(TM) according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the traditional recipes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both avid home brewers. "When the GPTMC GPTMC Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation asked us to formulate a beer for the celebration we researched public records and found Ben Franklin's spruce beer Noun 1. spruce beer - a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt) brew, brewage - drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling recipe recorded in his memoirs," says Nancy Barton, co-owner of Yards Brewing. Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce Ale(TM) is made using molasses molasses, sugar byproduct, the brownish liquid residue left after heat crystallization of sucrose (commercial sugar) in the process of refining. Molasses contains chiefly the uncrystallizable sugars as well as some remnant sucrose. and spruce tips. We add 22 pounds of spruce tips and sprigs during the boil process of the brewing. "The spruce contributes a unique piney pine·y adj. Variant of piny. aroma which is even more complex after we add the 100 pounds of molasses," says Jose Beddia, Yards brewer. You can find Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce Ale(TM) on draught around town and soon available in limited edition cobalt blue bottles. Continuing in the rich tradition of Philadelphia breweries, Yards is the only production brewery in operation within the city Philadelphia. Yards is located at 2439 Amber Street in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, in the former 40,000 square foot bottling house of the old Weisbrod and Hess Oriental Brewing Company. Yards hosts free tours of the brewery every Saturday between Noon and 3 p.m. The tours start in the tasting room, where you'll get to sample several varieties of ales on tap. For more information on Yards Brewing and its beers visit them at www.yardsbrewing.com. High Resolution Photos are Available Upon Request |
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