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    Get Your Craft Beer On for Cinco de Mayo

    Who said that Cinco de Mayo needs to be filled with piss colored beer in a clear glass bottle.  Well just the company that makes said beer, that’s who.  Well I go two South Florida events for the craft beer drinker to enjoy on Cinco tomorrow.

    First is what is becoming a regular thing over at the Funky Buddha when they release limited brews on Thursday nights.  Every Thursday they put on tap something very limited they made or something they haven’t made in awhile.  And this Thursday they are doing the same except with two special beers!  Starting at 6 pm they will have the return of Nib Smuggler, their chocolate porter that many might remember from the Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival.  They will also be debuting a Mango Chili Pepper Wheat Ale.  So after you have your Mexican food for dinner you will want one of those.  Also this one is very rare and there is only one keg of it so it will be gone fast.

    After you get to try both of those babies why don’t you head up north a few miles to Delray Beach and visit Coffee District where they will be having a Dogfish Head event that includes ultra rare kegs of the new Hellhound on My Ale and Black & Blue.  They will also have kegs of Palo Santo Marron, Midas Touch, 60 Minute IPA and 90 Minute IPA (which will be going through a Randell).

    Yours truly will be hitting both of these up and in that order that I mentioned so say “hi” if you see me.  And if you aren’t out at either of those you are truly missing out.

    Bar Review: Hulmeville Inn

    If you are anything like me sometimes you just like to go to bar.  It doesn’t have to have good beer there but for some reason you enjoy the atmosphere.  A wooden bar, jukebox and deep fried bar food.  But what if you could find that sort of bar and still get great beer?  That is exactly what Hulmeville Inn is.

    Right across the Neshaminy Creek from my hometown of Bensalem (I swear this place is 3 minutes from my house growing up), the Hulmeville Inn resides in a building that is over 200 years old.  It’s history includes being a hotel for stage coaches going between Phildalephia and Trenton.  It was an ice cream parlor during prohibition.  Now it is one of the Philadelphia area’s premier beer bars.  It won Best of Philly Beer Bar of the Burbs in 2010 and is up for the award again this year.

    Everything about the building itself screams old school and watering hole.  The whole Hulmeville area makes you feel like you may have stepped back in time a few years.  But the taps on are anything but ancient.

    The 18 tap draft list is constantly rotated with just a couple exceptions always being on.  There is almost always a brew on nitro and beer engine is behind the bar for Firkin Fridays (first friday of the month) and special events.  The bottle list is pretty impressive as well.

    The food menu is filled with bar favorites including wings, burgers and assorted sandwiches.  I have eaten almost every time I go here and enjoy it each time.

    The only slight downfall, and I’m only taking a very small amount away for this, is smoking.  While it may seem odd to folks in certain areas of the country that a bar with food allows smoking, Bucks County does not have any anti smoking laws of this sort.  If it is really crowded and a lot of people are smoking it can get smokey quick but if you go for happy hour or during the day there may only be one or two people in there lit up.  It’s then pretty insignificant.

    I know when people talk Philly beer the bars they tell you about are always Monk’s Cafe, Capone’s, McGillian’s and such.  But the Burbs have some gems too and the Hulmeville Inn is a shining one.

    Hulmeville Inn
    4 Trenton Rd
    Hulmeville, PA 19047
    215-750-6893
    http://www.hulmevilleinn.com/