South Philly Tap Room

There are 13 taps, ten of them on a specially-made ten-tap "T" which was commissioned from a North Philadelphia metal working shop. Local breweries and Belgian imports are strongly featured and backed up by an eclectic 100-bottle selection. As hoped, a new clientele is learning about craft beers. "We have an Italian, Asian and African-American neighborhood demographic," Longacre says, "and many of them are happily getting into good beers... They used to come in and ask for Miller Light. The other night, half of them were drinking Hoegaarden and the other half Yards IPA. Progress." Progress, indeed. Sort of like a neighborhood that slid between the cracks and was rescued by the bar on the corner." - Jack Curtin, Celebrator Beer News