2016 Summer Olympics | Beer from Around the World

It’s Summer Olympics time. Sure, a flight to Rio is expensive. So, stay home, turn on the T.V. and have a flight you can afford — an international beer flight. Anthony Norkus, who specializes in imported beer for the 127-year-old Chicago-based Louis Glunz Beer explained, “The international/import beer market is aggressively trying to stay relevant as much as the American craft breweries. Due to this we are seeing a lot of innovation coming out of breweries that are hundreds of years old.” Read More

2016 Summer Olympics | Pennsylvania Craft Beer Pride

The upcoming 2016 Olympics in Rio are about to evoke some serious excitement and national pride. Americans everywhere are looking forward to tuning in to swimming, gymnastics and beach volleyball. For two short weeks, we will all look to the medal counts, feeling as if our success as a nation is in the balance.

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The Beer Museum, Where Brewery Meets History, Opens in Austin

The first of it’s kind, The Beer Museum debuts in Austin, Texas at Last Stand Brewing Company in the beautiful Texas hill country this weekend.

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Beerstagram | July 28th – August 4th

August 4th marked National IPA Day so of course this week’s edition of Beerstragram had to be all about IPA! This one goes out to all of you hopheads out there, I hope you all got to imbibe in your favorite bitter beverage! Cheers! Read More

What You Should Be Listening To | Summer 2016 Playlist

It’s not often I get to write about my other passion, music, but every now and then the PorchDrinking team lets me share my favorite rising artists. This summer’s playlist once again features some PorchDrinking favorites in Run River North, The Lumineers, and The Oh Hello’s which have all recently put out new music, but this edition of What You Should Be Listening To features new discoveries from our coverage of SXSW and this past weekend’s Underground Music Showcase in Denver. Read More

Ultimate 6er | Stranger Things

If you haven’t watched Stranger Things yet (what are you doing?! It’s already been up for a few weeks!), you may want to take a break and read another PorchDrinking … Read More

Beerstagram | July 21st – July 28th

The theme for this week’s Beerstagram seems to be the outdoors, more specifically the beach! It seems like a lot of folks were enjoying themselves by the water this past week! Now only if Colorado had a beach… Be sure to keep tagging @porchdrinkingco in your photos each week and enjoy this last weekend of July! Cheers!

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Event Recap | Capitol Hill Block Party 2016

Cover photo courtesy of Capitol Hill Block Party

I wasn’t shy about being excited for the 20th Anniversary of Capitol Hill Block Party. It had been marked in my calendar … Read More

PorchDrinking Playlist | Best New Music of 2016

2016 has already packed itself full of some pretty great new music. Here is a playlist to get you grooving to some of the best new songs and most anticipated albums of the year so far. Read More

Beerstagram | July 14th – July 21st

Did you get to try out some new breweries or beers this past week? It seems like it from the looks of Instagram this week. Be sure to keep tagging us in your photos to have a chance to be featured! Cheers! Read More

Event Preview | Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival 2016

What: Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival
Where: Omni Interlocken Resort – Broomfield, Colorado
When: Saturday, August 20, 2016 – 1pm-6:30pm, 12pm-6:30pm for VIP

The Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival is located in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountain Front Range. For its third consecutive year, the RMCF will be held once again at the world-renowned Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado! The festival attracts consumers that are geared toward premium high-end product – including premium cigars, hand-crafted brews, unique wine and spirits, fine automobiles, excellent food and everything encompassing the finer things in life.

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PorchDrinking Playlist | Red Rocks Summer 2016

Regardless of where you live, seeing a concert at Red Rocks should be on your bucket list. Between the sound quality, the views and the insane roster of touring musicians playing the venue, Red Rocks is one of the best places in the world to catch a show. Though it’s mid July, there’s still plenty of time left to catch a show this season. To help get you prepared, we put together a playlist to take you through the rest of the lineup this summer. Read More

Beerstagram | July 7th – July 14th

Damn, we are back at it again with those sweet Instagrams! We are already halfway through July. Please slow down summer, we still need to drink you in for a bit longer! Cheers to another week of nice photos including a shot from the MLB Allstar Game that happened on Tuesday!

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The Coca-Cola Company | Hi-C Ecto Cooler

Haunting the shelves again like a rerun of your favorite television show from your youth is Hi-C Ecto Cooler. That’s right, Slimer’s favorite refreshment is, yet again, within reach. It is no coincidence either that the citrus flavored juice drink is available to sneak into movie theaters for Ghostbusters.
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PorchDrinking Playlist | Summer Sounds 2016

This playlist is dedicated to the sun-kissed skin, beer-filled bellies and music-fed ears of summer! With the help of countless barbecues and beach brews, we’ve had the opportunity to bulk up our seasonal stockpile of sounds. We’ve pulled together a collection of musical discoveries featuring tracks that have caught our ears while soaking up the best of all things under the sun. Read More

QUIZ: Craft Beer or Pokémon?

Because you haven’t been living under a rock, you know that Pokémon GO has taken over the world. The new app lets people walk around in their neighborhoods, offices, traffic and public areas trying to catch digital Pokémon which appear in augmented reality using the camera on their smartphones. (Translation for my parents: remember those Pokémon cards from the mid-90s? Everyone’s playing that again, except now it lives inside their phones.)

I have a confession: I don’t really get Pokémon. When I was 8 years old, I was one of the ONLY kids in third grade who DIDN’T play the game, collect the cards, or watch the show. So the names of the hundreds of Pokémon now in existence are a bit over my head. And yet everyone is trying to “Catch Em All” and bragging about the newest addition to their collection.

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Beerstagram | June 30th – July 7th

Here we are in July already! We hope that you had a nice long holiday weekend and celebrated Independence Day in the best way possible! From the looks of Instagram this week some more tasty beers were consumed, lots of food was eaten at BBQs, several breweries were visited, plenty of traveling adventures were had, and many fireworks were set off! Be sure to keep posting those nice photos and be sure to tag us in them if you’d like a chance to be featured! Cheers! Read More

Square Roots Festival kicks off in Lincoln Square Friday

The Square Roots Festival makes its annual visit to Lincoln Square this weekend. The event is hosted by the Old Town School of Folk Music and the Lincoln Square Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce and runs from Friday July 8th-10th.

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PorchDrinking Playlist | Darker Shades of Sound

Endless summers have earned their nicknames for a reason; with the persistence of light come late nights and early mornings. Despite the vibrancy of this eternal sunshine, I personally live for the hours when the sun makes way for the moon. There’s something enthralling about sinking back into the shadows to embrace the darker shades of sound. Go ahead and tuck yourself into the night as you explore this playlist, its artists, and their uniquely haunting arrays of work.

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Beerstagram | June 23rd – 30th

Somehow it is already the last week of June?! Where is the year going? With the looks of this week’s Beerstagrams many of you are again out and about exploring nature and taking in the views with a craft beer in hand! We also have a few nice shots from breweries and there is even a beer-inspired nod to Shark Week in this week’s round up as well! Cheers! Read More