Cold beer, cool jazz

The neighborhood was dark, except for the neon glow of the lone beer sign in the window of the bar, touting the glories of Yuengling beer. across from the bar there was a small, modern strip mall, looking so bright as to be almost garish in the darkness of the surrounding houses and factory buildings The bar itself was alone, a small rowhome surrounded by the looming hulk of old factory buildings, the remains of one of Philadelphia’s largest and longest lived breweries.
Trupert Ortlieb founded the brewery that carries his name sometime in the 1800s, and when it finally …read more