About this episode

This episode features a conversation with Andrew Rubenstein about the beer and food scene in Philadelphia.

The city of Philadelphia is a great beer town. It’s also a great food town and a place to get a dose of history, while living your best life. This week on the podcast it’s a conversation with Andrew Rubenstein of Sacred Vice , who shares tips and insights on visiting the city of brotherly love. This Episode is Sponsored by: Berkeley Yeast Our Tropics yeast is based on a London Ale strain, but we added a new gene to its genome that codes for a unique thiol-releasing enzyme. The enzyme converts the precursors in barley to free thiols that smell and taste like passionfruit and grapefruit. It’s super clean. No off-flavors like burnt rubber or other sulfurous notes. Just tropical aromatics. You don’t have to do anything unusual either, like mash hopping. Just pitch dry Tropics and supercharge your hazy IPA. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Calling all hop heads! Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute IPA is a fantastically hoppy India Pale Ale that’s beautifully balanced thanks to their unique continual hopping method. Delivering a pungent hop flavor that isn’t crushingly bitter, 60 Minute is continually hopped throughout the boil for a full 60 minutes … starting to see where the name comes from?! Check…

People in this episode

Host: John Holl

Guest: Andrew Rubenstein

Topics covered

• beer
• food
• Philadelphia
• craft brewing
• history
• hazy IPA

Keywords

• Philadelphia
• craft beer
• hazy IPA
• Sacred Vice
• Dogfish Head
• Berkeley Yeast
• Tropics yeast
• 60 Minute IPA

Sponsors

Berkeley Yeast, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sacred Vice

Products: Tropics yeast, 60 Minute IPA

Places: Philadelphia, Milton, DE

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