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another lame-ass thing about philadelphia. (if you don't mind me griping.) i went to whole foods to look at the microbrews. i don't drink much, in fact i rarely buy beer at all. but i enjoy looking at all the bottles (that's marketing for you, i hate the taste of most beers, but i am inexplicably drawn to most beer marketing, bright colors, silkscreened bottle logos, shiny metal, all things that attract an old crow like me.) anyhow, i was astonished to find that there WERE no microbrews in whole foods. no beer at all, and no wine either. in fact, when i thought about it, there wasn't beer, well.... anywhere i expected it. no beer in 7-11, no fortified wine in Kroger, no malt liquor in the convenience store.
in fact, i found that the ONLY place you can buy beer in Philadelphia, is at a liquor store or a "Beverage Store" (interesting little converted car washes where you drive through and buy beer.) and to add insult to injury, you can only buy it by the CASE. That's right, not a sixpack in the state.
to me this is particularly bad. it would take me about three years to consume a case of beer. in fact, i only say that because in three years, unless i had guests, i might drink three beers, and cook something with two, leaving the rest to be thrown away because they would certainly go bad.
so i don;t see the point of this law. i feel like Pennsylvania is pretty much removing my ability to drink, unless of course, i become a HEAVY drinker. is it a deterrent? poor people won't buy beer because they can't afford a case? or are they trying to eliminate the "social" or "casual" drinker?
which brings up something else. when i do drink a beer, i don't like to drink crappy beer, which is what normally gets sold by the case. i like to sample, try different things, especially rich dark beers. i don't want to have to buy a case to try out a beer, and since this is how most people find and latch on to a microbrew, this has the effect of locking smaller brewers out of the city. It seems to me that if i had a really great small (or even larger) west coast brewery, (like say, Henry Weinhardts, ) and i wanted to break into Philly, i might be tempted to cut my losses and look for other eastern markets, because although Henry's is a fine beer, i'm not buying a case of them. i'm sure a lot of people feel the same way.
I think that the rule exists for one reason alone. One can go to a bar in philly and order a single beer. Hence the popularity of bars here. If you want to kick back and have JUST one or two, you have to do it in a bar. And microbreweries are making inroads, by marketing towards the bars. People go to bars BECAUSE of their large selection of microbrews. This generates a lot of revenue for the city in parking, eating, etc, and if it has anything to do with the high quality of food IN the bars here, then it can't be entirely a bad thing, because some of the best food i have ever had, has come from the bars here in philly. But i'd still like to be able to sit someplace quiet, that isn't full of smoke and drunks, and drink ONE cold beer while i watch tv.
in fact, i found that the ONLY place you can buy beer in Philadelphia, is at a liquor store or a "Beverage Store" (interesting little converted car washes where you drive through and buy beer.) and to add insult to injury, you can only buy it by the CASE. That's right, not a sixpack in the state.
to me this is particularly bad. it would take me about three years to consume a case of beer. in fact, i only say that because in three years, unless i had guests, i might drink three beers, and cook something with two, leaving the rest to be thrown away because they would certainly go bad.
so i don;t see the point of this law. i feel like Pennsylvania is pretty much removing my ability to drink, unless of course, i become a HEAVY drinker. is it a deterrent? poor people won't buy beer because they can't afford a case? or are they trying to eliminate the "social" or "casual" drinker?
which brings up something else. when i do drink a beer, i don't like to drink crappy beer, which is what normally gets sold by the case. i like to sample, try different things, especially rich dark beers. i don't want to have to buy a case to try out a beer, and since this is how most people find and latch on to a microbrew, this has the effect of locking smaller brewers out of the city. It seems to me that if i had a really great small (or even larger) west coast brewery, (like say, Henry Weinhardts, ) and i wanted to break into Philly, i might be tempted to cut my losses and look for other eastern markets, because although Henry's is a fine beer, i'm not buying a case of them. i'm sure a lot of people feel the same way.
I think that the rule exists for one reason alone. One can go to a bar in philly and order a single beer. Hence the popularity of bars here. If you want to kick back and have JUST one or two, you have to do it in a bar. And microbreweries are making inroads, by marketing towards the bars. People go to bars BECAUSE of their large selection of microbrews. This generates a lot of revenue for the city in parking, eating, etc, and if it has anything to do with the high quality of food IN the bars here, then it can't be entirely a bad thing, because some of the best food i have ever had, has come from the bars here in philly. But i'd still like to be able to sit someplace quiet, that isn't full of smoke and drunks, and drink ONE cold beer while i watch tv.
