Troegs brews news

Oops.... missed this exciting news but better late than never...
HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA — Tröegs Brewing Company recently claimed two bronze medals in the Brewers Association (BA) World Beer Cup© 2008, a global beer competition that evaluates beers recognizes the most outstanding beers being produced in the world. Gold, silver and bronze medals in the competition's 91 beer-style categories were awarded April 19, 2008, during the World Beer Cup Gala Awards Ceremony and Dinner in San Diego, California.

Tröegs Brewery was awarded a bronze medal in the Traditional German-Style Bock category for Troegenator Doublebock, a smooth, mahogany-colored lager. Owners Chris and John Trogner first created Troegenator—inspired by German monastic brews—five years ago; it became a year-round beer in 2003, and is the brewery's second best-selling beer. Sunshine Pils was awarded a bronze medal in the German-Style Pilsener category. Sunshine Pils was introduced in 2001 as Troegs Summer Beer and became our Summer Seasonal the following year.
"It's a privilege to win two medals, especially in categories that attract so many European breweries with generations of brewing tradition," said John Trogner.
World Beer Cup 2008 winners were selected by an international panel of 129 beer judges from 22 countries. An impressive field of 2,930 entries from 646 breweries in 58 countries made up the competition. More than 3,800 breweries in 100 countries were invited to compete.

Founded by brothers Chris and John Trogner in 1996, Tröegs Brewery is a small, family-owned specialty brewery. Located in Central Pennsylvania, Tröegs beers are distributed throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, including Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and New York. Tröegs Brewery is open for tours and tastings every Saturday at 2 p.m.
Tröegs year-round products include: Tröegs Pale Ale, Hopback Amber Ale, Rugged Trail Ale, DreamWeaver Wheat and Troegenator Doublebock. Tröegs seasonal products include: Nugget Nectar, Sunshine Pils, Dead Reckoning Porter and Mad Elf Holiday Ale. Tröegs also produces the Scratch Beer Series available at Tröegs Brewery throughout the year.
Visit www.beercup.org or www.troegs.com for information.

Triumph Brewing Company News

Join Triumph Brewing every month when the brewer drags up a barrel out of his secret stash. The supply is very limited (about ten gallons), so make sure to be on hand when the tap is hammered home.
This month's tappings:
Princeton - Gose Wednesday, July 2 at 6pm
Philadelphia - German Pilsner, Thursday, July 3 at 6pm
New Hope - Oak Aged Pale Ale, Friday, July 4 at 6pm

For more information and brewing news check out:

www.triumphbrewing.com

First Friday and July 4th in Lancaster, PA 2008

July 4th, 2008: First Fridays are a great time to experience Downtown Lancaster, PA! Join the thousands who have enjoyed the evening's artistic energy. Over 90 art venues and shops extend their hours to 9 p.m. — some even later! For a complete listing of monthly First Friday activities, visit http://www.lancasterarts.com/

ALSO

July 4th: Freedom Fest at the Marion Courtroom... WXPN Welcomes Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, along with 11 other regional acts to Freedom Fest '08 at the Marion Court Room. This year's Street festival will also feature many local artists in an outdoor expose sponsored by Creative House of Lancaster. This year's edition of the annual Street Festival will pack a walloping mix of 12 bands on 2 stages and 30+ Artists into one fun filled day of outdoor live music, art exhibits, food, beverage, and fun! Marion Court Room, 7 Marion Court located in downtown Lancaster, PA.... 717-399-1970. For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/freedomfestpa.

Things to do this July 4th Holiday Weekend in Lancaster PA

July 4th 2008....Musser Park- Old Fashioned 4th of July= An Independence Day celebration held in Musser Park with food, games, crafts, entertainment and fun. This family event is free and will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Musser Park, corner of Lime and Chestnut streets.

http://www.musserpark.org/

The Olde Fashioned 4th of July event is back this year bigger and better at the new Musser Park. The event will be held on Friday, July 4, 2008 from 11 a.m. to 4p.m.

Event activities include: BBQ Chicken Meals - for tickets for the meals please contact any Musser Park Board Member.

Games for all ages

Cake Walks

Art Contest for kids

2 different bands

Crafter Stands

Musser Park Express Rides

Think Local-Buy Local-Be Local=Lancaster PA

Celebrate Your Independents! Think Local....

Celebrate "Independents Days" July 1-6 by thinking local first.

The Susquehanna Sustainable Business Network (SSBN), in partnership with the James Street Improvement District, and the Downtown Investment District is launching Lancaster's first Think Local First campaign.

Join local businesses throughout the City of Lancaster PAwill be holding special events and offering incentives during Independents Days, so be sure to go out and show your support!

According to information gathered by the SSBN, small local businesses are the largest employers nationwide, have less negative impact on the environment, give an average of 350% more support to community groups than national chains, and keep more money circulating in the local economy. For every dollar a customer spends in an independent business, 45-70 cents stays in the local economy and tax base. For every dollar spent in a chain, only 14 cents stays.
With well over 500 locally-owned service-related, unique retail and excellent restaurant businesses within Downtown alone, this week is the perfect opportunity to explore and support our own!

With well over 500 locally-owned service-related, unique retail and excellent restaurant businesses within Downtown alone, this week is the perfect opportunity to explore and support our own! For a listing of Downtown businesses, please check-out the business directory at www.DowntownLancaster.com and for more information and a complete listing of businesses holding special events or incentives for this week, please visit www.susquehannasbn.org.

Check out Building Character

Building Character
342 N. Queen St., Warehouse B
Lancaster 717-394-7201

BUiLDiNG CHARACTER is downtown Lancaster ’s only gallery for architectural salvage, antiques, art and assembly.

Ongoing:
Music Fridays (every third Friday)

Sunday market....Vendors wanted

http://www.buildingcharacter.biz/

Sunday, June 29 -- 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sunday Market @ BUiLDiNG CHARACTER kicks off at 11 a.m. in the parking lot area at the shop. The market will be held every week. Vendor spaces are still available and are $20. Call 717-394-7201 to reserve a space or for more details. Check out their website for Pictures and more!

Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away, sung by Miss Piggy

Oh What a Week....TGIF

For George Carlin-Goodbye Funny Man Truth Teller

June 23, 2008, In MEMORY
What I've Learned: George Carlin

From ESQUIRE MAGAZINE

Comedian, 64, Venice, California when first published in Esquire Magazine
By Larry Getlen

I was in my mother's belly as she sat in the waiting room of the abortionist's office. Dr. Sunshine was his code name. I was fifty feet from the drainpipe, and she saw a painting on the wall that reminded her of her mother, who had recently died. She took that as a sign to have the baby. That's what I call luck.

My father drank and was a bully. For the first five years of my brother's life, my father beat him with a leather-heeled slipper. Had I been subjected to that kind of treatment, all bets are off. His absence saved my life.

My mother had great executive-secretarial jobs in the advertising business and raised two boys during the Second World War. She used to say, "I make a man's salary." That's heroism.

I'm sure Hitler was great with his family.

I used to collect the most colorful curses I heard and write them down. I actually carried in my wallet things like "kraut cunt" and "burly loudmouth cocksucker" and "longhair fucking music prick," which was a thing Mikey Flynn yelled at a Juilliard student that he was kicking in the head.

I don't like authority and regulation, and I do my best to disrespect it, but I do that for myself. It's self-expression only.

Sex without love has its place, and it's pretty cool, but when you have it hand in hand with deep commitment and respect and caring, it's nine thousand times better.

If it's morally wrong to kill anyone, then it's morally wrong to kill anyone. Period.

It's amazing to me that literacy isn't considered a right.

I was arrested for possession and cultivation of marijuana in the early '70s, and it was thrown out. The judge asked me how I felt about it, and I said, "I understand the law, and I want you to know I'll pay the fine, but I cannot guarantee I will not break this law again." He really chewed me out for that.

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

The first thing they teach kids is that there's a God -- an invisible man in the sky who is watching what they do and who is displeased with some of it. There's no mystery why they start that with kids, because if you can get someone to believe that, you can add on anything you want.

I would die for the safety of the people I love.

I wish that we could measure how much the potential of the mind to expand has been stunted by television.

Because of my abuse of drugs, I neglected my business affairs and had large arrears with the IRS, and that took me eighteen to twenty years to dig out of. I did it honorably, and I don't begrudge them. I don't hate paying taxes, and I'm not angry at anyone, because I was complicit in it. But I'll tell you what it did for me: It made me a way better comedian. Because I had to stay out on the road and I couldn't pursue that movie career, which would have gone nowhere, and I became a really good comic and a really good writer.

I stopped voting when I stopped taking drugs. I believe both of those acts are closely related to delusional behavior.

There's no morality in business. It doesn't have a conscience. It has only the cash register.

They'll sell you crappy things that you don't need, that don't work, that they won't stand behind. It's a glorified legal form of criminal behavior.

If everybody knew the truth about everybody else's thoughts, there would be way more murders.

There's nothing wrong with high taxes on high income.

Lenny Bruce opened all the doors, and people like Richard Pryor and I were able to walk through them.

Given the right reasons and the right two people, marriage is a wonderful way of experiencing your life.

I think that the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King showed that all of the wishing and hoping and holding hands and humming and signing petitions and licking envelopes is a bit futile.

Blacks are deliberately kept down. Poor communities are deliberately underfunded.

I don't think people should get credit for being honest and brave. I think there's a lot of genetic shit going on there.

Someday they'll find a gene for putting on your overcoat.

There's a pulse in New York, even on the quietest street, on the quietest day. It's full of potential.

If there's ever a golden age of mankind, it will not include men over two hundred pounds beating children who are less than one hundred pounds, and it will not include the deliberate killing of people in a formal setting.

I did something in a previous life that must have been spectacularly good, because I'm getting paid in this life just magnificently, more than one would dare imagine or hope for.

Buy Fresh Buy Local Week July 11-19 2008

Check out this new web/blog site I found concerning Local Food it is Celebrating Lancaster's Finest....ESSEN
Essen is a recreational cooking school located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and provides demonstration and hands-on classes for the home cook. The interactive classes are fun, intimate and mind expanding and focus on how to bring delicious, seasonal, and homemade foods into our crazy busy lives.

http://www.breathelivegrow.com/index.php

Essen is involved in BUY FRESH BUY LOCAL 2008 week events for July 11-19.

I picked up a flyer listing the events @ Eastern Market on Saturday. I will hopefully post more information about events soon.

Encounters at the End of the World

I have talked about Werner Herzog on here before but I have to give another mention on his new Docu that has been released by THINK Films. Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film. Cannot wait to see it!!

Here is a link from IFC's Aaron Hill article and interview with Herr Herzog:http://www.ifc.com/film/film-news/2008/06/werner-herzog-on-encounters-at.php

seventhrow.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/706071...for photo credit