Featuring the Bethlehem and Allentown Brew Works Restaurants
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NO COVER CHARGE!
DJ Chris Baraket spinning music along with a dazzling light show! This guy is the real deal, with mashups that will make your head spin…
Allentown is electrified!
Every Friday in Silk. NO COVER CHARGE!
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Happy Birthday to yooooou!
They say it’s your birthday!
It’s my birthday too, yeah!
Yes we’re goin’ to a party, party! Yeah we’re goin’ to a party, party!
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance and come to the Brew Works on the Green for the First Friday Birthday Bash!
Bring in your ID on the First Friday of the month of your birthday from 7-10pm and enjoy your first drink on us!
Bethlehem brewer and friends to trek by motorcycle to the Canadian Arctic to brew a historic beer
July 02, 2010 | By Daniel Patrick Sheehan, OF THE MORNING CALL
Later this month, Chris Bowen of Bethlehem and a couple of his friends will lead a motorcycle expedition north — far, far north — to the Canadian Arctic, where they plan to set up a portable brewery and make 100 gallons of a hoppy, potent beer that is exceeded in richness only by its own fanciful history.
We’ll get back to Bowen in a moment, but first, the beer. It’s called Allsop’s Arctic Ale. The first people ever to drink it were British sailors dispatched to the Arctic by Queen Victoria in 1852 to discover the fate of an earlier expedition to that frozen realm.
They brought thousands of bottles of the beer, which had been specially crafted by Allsop’s Brewery with loads of hops and a bracing alcohol content — 12 percent, compared with 5 percent in your Budweiser — to ward off scurvy and withstand freezing.
Alas, the rescuers fared little better than the explorers they were sent to rescue. Led by Sir Edward Belcher, they were forced to abandon four of their five ships in the ice and return to England, where Belcher was court-martialed — though acquitted — for his failure.
That might have been the end of it, but one of the ships, the HMS Resolute, broke free from the ice and drifted thousands of miles into the path of an American whaling vessel, which towed it back to Massachusetts. It was restored at a Brooklyn shipyard and returned to the British as a gift, and served the Royal Navy a dozen more . (Beams from the ship, incidentally, were turned into two desks: one for Buckingham Palace, the other for the Oval Office).
Now, back to Bowen. In 2007, the 43-year-old financial planner read about an eBay auction in which one of two bottles of Allsop’s Arctic Ale known to exist sold for $500,000.
It turned out to be a false bid, but Bowen — a craft beer brewer who has been honored with national awards and built his own private brew pub in a cottage near Stabler Arena — was hooked by the Allsop’s story. He set about investigating its history and, over the course of 2 1/2 years, discovered a couple of things. One was the second Allsop’s bottle, which he now possesses.
The other was the recipe for the beer.
“This was the Tang of its day,” Bowen said, likening Allsop’s to the powdered orangeade touted as the astronaut’s choice in the heyday of the space program.
Being the sort of man he is — a curious tinkerer with an adventurous streak — he decided the Allsop’s story needed to be told in dramatic fashion. He’s been riding a motorcycle for years, so a plan evolved: ride to the Arctic, brew the beer and turn the epic journey into a documentary film.
“How am I going to tell the story? I’ll tell it from the back of a motorcycle,” he said as he stood astride the burly BMW bike that will carry him from here to there.
You don’t do this sort of thing alone. Bowen asked friends, John Chay and Dick Gethin, to ride along, and enlisted the services of some Russian filmmakers whose work he had seen and admired at a Bethlehem film festival. Also on board are a Chester County photographer, Dan Savage, and Lance McKay, a motorcyclist and adventurer from Maryland.
They depart July 25 and expect to reach the shores of the Hudson Bay in about a week.
“Life’s about adventures, and I’ve had a lot of them over the years,” said Gethin, 63, who lives near Binghamton, N.Y. “It’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s also going to be a lot of hard work.”
No doubt. In addition to the saddle-sore 2,000-mile ride — with stops along the way at Indian villages, French Canadian breweries and other sites — the team will have to set up Bowen’s portable brewery. They will spend two days brewing Allsop’s in its two 50-gallon vats — about 500 bottles’ worth —before heading home.
Because he isn’t a licensed seller, Bowen will give the beer away to promote the film. But beer fanciers needn’t wait until then to taste it. The Bethlehem Brew Works is hosting a “cask night” July 8 where Bowen’s version of Allsop’s, will make its debut. The brew pub will also host an auction of antique beer memorabilia and other items to raise money for the project.
The Arctic Beer Adventure
•For more information, and to follow the Allsop’s Ale journey online, visit http://www.arcticalchemy.com
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The event will be hosted on Sunday July 4th in the seductive Silk Lounge at the Allentown Brew Works. Allentowns D.J Jay Tee will be spinning up the hits form 9 pm until 2 am.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $20 at the door.
For tickets and information contact:
Jay Tee @ 484-221-0873 or
GeeGee at @ 610-462-3702.
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Thursday, July 8th, 5pm at the Main Bar at Fegley’s Bethlehem Brew Works:
Support Chris Bowen and the Arctic Alchemy Riders at a special cask night on Thursday, July 8th as they plan to embark on their journey later this month.
100% of all sales dollars generated from this cask goes to support the Alchemy Adventure, and the independent film project surrounding this endeavor.
Allsopp’s Arctic Ale was brewed by commission of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to ensure health and nutrition to a team of explorers searching for the Northwest Passage. It was carried north by the HMS Resolute, which became trapped in the frozen sea only to be found vacantly drifting a year later by the U.S. and returned to England. The ship was retired and made into two ornate desks, as gifts for the Queen and for the President of the United States.
The Resolute Desks remain in use in the Oval Office and in Buckingh am Palace today. In an inspired collaboration with homebrewer, adventurer & beer historian Chris Bowen, Fegley’s Brew Works recreated this fine ale from a 158 year old recipe under the direction of Brewmaster Beau Baden. The Bowen/Baden team, which previously won a 2007 GABF Gold medal together in the Pro-Am category, sails once again into beer history with this Arctic Ale. For more information visit www.arcticalchemy.com
By: JOHN ANASTASI
The Intelligencer
The Fegleys are hosting a beer-tasting event today at Wegmans in Warrington.
Michael Fegley walked into Wegmans at Warrington’s Village Square Shopping Center Thursday and made a beeline for the beer.
“Do you know where we are?” he asked, scanning the shelves.
When he spotted the Fegley’s Brew Works selections, including the Insidious Imperial Stout Ale and the Space Monkey Raspberry Saison, he whipped out his camera phone and snapped some pictures of them sitting on the top shelf.
Thursday’s trip to Wegmans was a homecoming of sorts for the 41-year-old, who grew up in Warrington with his three brothers. Seeing the Fegley family’s beer at Wegmans gave him a thrill.
“These are our old haunts,” said Fegley. “This was all fields and woods where we used to go on our dirt bikes.”
The Fegley brothers and their parents – Peg and Dick Fegley – run Bethlehem Brew Works and Allentown Brew Works, two Lehigh Valley brewpubs. They also bottle and sell six of the more than two dozen beers they brew. The craft beers sell regionally.
Wegmans recently began stocking some of the beers at the Warrington supermarket, but the Fegley brand’s real coming-out party at Wegmans is scheduled for today when the Fegleys host a beer-tasting event there from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The sampling is one of a series of Friday afternoon craft beer tastings Wegmans holds to allow local brewers to introduce their products to potential customers.
“It gives people a chance to try something they might never purchase otherwise,” said Wegmans merchandising manager Mike Kahmer, who added that brewers have already booked tastings through October.
Grocery manager Dave Hemmer said it’s nice to be able to offer customers the opportunity to talk to brewers about the beers and get advice about pairing beers with foods and occasions. It also helps the sale of the beer.
Entrepreneurship is in the Fegley family blood.
Mike Fegley’s grandfather started a paper tubing company in Philadelphia. In the early 1980s, his parents capitalized on the home computer boom by opening Software ‘N Stuff in the Warrington Mews Pavilion Shopping Center. In the late 1990s, Mike Fegley’s oldest brother Rich, who was an avid home brewer, drew up a business plan and convinced his parents the family should open a brewpub.
As an actor in New York City, Mike Fegley had worked in restaurants before and now serves as director of marketing and public relations for Fegley’s Brew Works. Youngest brother Jeffrey Fegley, now the company president, knew Bethlehem because he had attended Lehigh University. The third oldest brother, beer connoisseur David Fegley, was co-owner and treasurer until he died in 2006 at the age of 33.
The family opened the Bethlehem Brew Works in 1998, where, in addition to selling drafts of its beers to patrons, it sold kegs to other restaurants in the small city and bottled beers on a small scale. In 2007, when the family opened the Allentown Brew Works in a much larger building, it was able to ramp up its bottling operation.
The beer, in its 25-ounce corked bottles, now is sold at Wegmans, Spinnerstown Hotel in Milford and Isaac Newtown’s in Newtown. It’s also selling in Burlington County at the Wine Works in Marlton and Red, White and Brew in Mount Holly.
In a statement, Jeff Fegley said his brother David would get a real kick out of seeing the family’s beer at Wegmans.
“I’m sure he’s smiling about the thought of all of this,” he said. “We’ve been working so hard for years to succeed and grow, and moments like this really mean a lot to all of us.”
John Anastasi can be reached at 215-949-4170 or janastasi@phillyBurbs.com.
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This Friday from 4pm-7pm, Fegley’s Brew Works will host a tasting of their beers at the Warrington Wegmans in the Valley Square shopping center. It is a homecoming for the Fegley family, as these are hometown folks straight out of central Bucks county. Peg and Dick Fegley raised their family of four boys just off Bristol road in what was then the new Fox Hollow Woods development that was cleared from among farmers’ fields and wooded acres. Though things have changed greatly over the years, there has been one constant – the family always worked together to make things happen: they worked together as teammates for 17 years on the Warrington Dragons Swim team, at the dawn of home computing in the early 1980s they opened one of the first 50 stores in the United States (“Software -N- Stuff”) at the Warrington Mews with the boys helping out, and after high school and college they went into business together formally as partners to open a Brewpub restaurant.
“We were so close to opening our Brewpub in Doylestown, but the opportunity to be the anchor store at the corner of Main and Broad in Historic Bethlehem was too good to pass up,” says Rich Fegley, the oldest of the boys, and the one who put together the successful business plan that has served the family for over a dozen years. “We hit the ground running, and have worked together to keep improving an growing. Now we get the chance to finally see our beers in Warrington!” The family has branched out with two additional locations in Allentown, and has begun packaging their award winning beers in kegs and bottles. The craft beers from Fegley’s Brew Works are distributed throughout the greater Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley markets, and the company has made headway east into New Jersey and west towards Harrisburg.
“Dave would get a big kick out of this,” says Jeff Fegley, the baby brother who now is the company’s President. David Fegley, one of the founders, passed away in his sleep at age 33 three years ago. “I’m sure he’s smiling about the thought of all this. We’ve been working so hard for years to succeed and grow, and moments like this really mean a lot to all of us.” He added, “We’ve won gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival and medals at the World Beer Cup, and I’m proud to say that I still have a swim team record at the Warrington Swim Club!”
Tasting:
Space Monkey, Raspberry Saison,
and Hop’Solutely, Triple IPA.
4-7pm at Wegmans Warrington (1405 Main Street, off Easton and Street roads)
Meet owners (Mom and Dad) Peg and Dick Fegley from 4-5pm.
Fegleys 1976 and 2001
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Great Beer, great BBQ, and lot’s of outdoor fun! Dinner’s ready and comin’ off the smoker around 5:30pm. We’ll be watching the fabulous evening sky change colors over the fairway as we have a summer celebration! Bert’s gonna be smokin’ beef briskets, chickens, and clams by the dozen!
Get in the swing and play Quoits and other fun BBQ games!
Prizes and giveaways from our friends at Coors Light with Blueberry Belch and Fegley’s Lager available in the pavilion under the tent.
Free samplings of Smirnoff vodkas, Parrot Bay rums, and ice cold margaritas.
Our partners at Cigars International will be doing special pricing on 3 of their best selling cigars (all under $5)- the Represado which comes in Connecticut, Habano and Maduro wrappers.
Sponsors:
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The Bethlehem Brew Works & Steelgaarden Lounge will be closed the evening of July 14th for the Iron Pigs All-Star Post Game Party.
Lunch service will operate as normal.
Here’s a post worth reading! What a delight to see this great beer writer is liking what we’re doing and compares us to one of the great beers available.
By Joe Sixpack
Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Beer Reporter
AS A REPORTER, I’m the one asking the questions. This week, I’m giving the readers a chance.
Q: I read your article about the hard-to-find Pliny the Younger. Please recommend something of a similar taste that one may be able to get hold of – just so I can have an idea what people think is the best beer in the world.
A: One of the reasons PTY is rated so high, I think, is its rarity. California’s Russian River brews the intensely hoppy imperial India pale ale only once a year and distributes it sparingly.
There are plenty of other, easier-to-find, high-octane double IPAs. Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA leaps to mind; but its cortex-rattling 18 percent alcohol by volume is a whole ‘nother thing.
Two of the closest rivals come from Michigan: Bell’s Hopslam Ale, which is a bit more citrusy without Pliny’s malt notes, and Founders Devil Dancer, which is malty like Pliny but with a boozier bang in the finish.
Lately, I’ve been digging Hop’solutely from the Brew Works. The Allentown, Pa., brewpub is now distributing both kegs and large bottles of this sticky, sweet, earthy charmer in the east.
Are any the equal of the famous Pliny? That’s up to you to decide.
Read more from this post here.
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The Allentown Brew Works will be hosting the Miserable Men 
Comedy Show at 9pm, featuring comedians from the Howard Stern Show and The Miserable Men Radio Show. Hosted by Mark Byrnes.
This awesome show will consists of:
Shuli – Host of Miserable Men, Co-host of The Jay Thomas Show and Howard 100 News Reporter.
Shuli just might be the hardest working man in show business. Shuli is a radio personality who works on Sirius Satellite Radio on Howard 100 and Howard 101. He is a reporter for the Howard 100 News, co-hosts Miserable Men with Reverend Bob Levy and Jim Florentine.
Mike Morse – Co-host of The Miserable Men Show
You may recognize Mike from his television appearances on MTV, VH-1, Comedy Central, and E! Entertainment Network. He was a winner on ABC-TV’s long- running show America’s Funniest People, and was the host and head writer of FOX-TV’s stand-up/sketch comedy show The Comedy Cabaret. He was recently a part of the New York Underground Comedy Festival, and for the past two years, he has been the opening act for Comedy’s Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli.
John won the first round of the Could You Be A Killer Contest and has toured nationally with the Killers of Comedy.He has also been featured on The Miserable Men Show on Sirius Satellite Radio on Howard 101 and The Rawdog Comedy Channel also on Sirius. He was a finalist in the Funniest Comic in Dallas and is the self proclaimed “Nicest Most Offensive Comic in the World”.
There is a 2 drink minimum including soft drinks, bottled water and all bar drinks.
Tickets will be $15 dollars and must be purchased online!
For ticket info, visit www.cleanboxentertainment.com
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Golf Fans!
In the tradition of The Puttle Tour, come on out and compete during the final round of the four majors for a $20 gift certificate to On The Green, Puttle and serious bragging rights.
Sunday afternoons, 3-6 p.m., April 11, June 20, July 18 + August 15
Brew Works on the Green
Tell your friends, bring your buddies.
$5 • SOCIAL • CHARITABLE • FUN
PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY
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Girls Gone Golfing is a fabulous summer series and social league that meets every Wednesday through September! You can sign up to learn the basics in golf fundamentals and then relax on the patio overlooking the scenic Allentown Municipal Golf Course with an included glass of wine.
Ladies, join us on Wednesdays for a glass of wine and a fun and informative small group lesson with Zach Fischal, the Assistant Golf Instructor. See below for specific class dates and times.
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Live in Silk Lounge.
The music has a 1960’s jingle jangle feel to it. Think of the Byrds…. Add in some soul ala Van Morrison or Ray Charles. Now add to that a band that creates momentous low-fi energy, such as Dr. Dog or Delta Spirit. Finally, a spoonful of Dylan, and a dash of John Lennon. That is The Fallen Troubadours sound. Like a prism of colors passing through the glass, coming out something familiar, but new and unheard.
Special Guest: Masculine/Feminine 
With songs bouncing between innocent love & indecent lust, Masculine Feminine’s dance rock is driven by pulsing, pounding beats & colorful guitar work. Live performances are spectacular displays of energy, the songs are instantly catchy, ringing familiar but never formulaic. Masculine Feminine want you to dance–shake yr hips, stomp yr feet, swing yr arms. Be there. Full 7 track demo available on Last.fm!
This is shaping up to be a hot show!
Doors open @ 8pm $5 Cover
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Sunday July 25th, 10AM at the Bethlehem Brew Works:
Support Chris Bowen and the Arctic Alchemy Riders as they plan to depart for the Canadian Arctic and re-create the historic and mysterious Arctic Ale.
Arctic Alchemy Brunch:
Brunch includes: Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, Spinach & Ricotta Frittata, French Toast, Fresh Fruits, Danish, Muffins, Bagels & Cream Cheese, Baked Ziti, and Assorted Desserts
I know I overuse this sentence, but we really did have a great time, on the Friday Beerbuzz, today. First off we welcomed Scranton’s own Beau Baden, Brewmaster for Allentown Brew Works, Bethlehem Brew Works and Brew Works on the Green in the Lehigh Valley area. Beau not only brews some fantastic beers but a wide variety of beers AND some really special beers…and today we were lucky enough to sample one. 
Back in 1852 Allsops Brewery in England brewed a beer called Allsops Arctic Ale and this beer was sent off with Sir Edwin Belcher in search of the northwest passage to the Canadian Arctic. Fast forward to 2010 and Chris Bowen, Dick Gethin, and John Chay are working with Brew Works to commemorate the voyage and more importantly the beer. Chris, Dick, & John are departing on a 2000-mile motorcycle ride on Sunday July 25th from Bethlehem, PA to the Canadian Arctic where they will use primitive brewing equipment to brew a batch of Arctic Ale based on the Allsop’s recipe.
So how does this all relate? Well as it turns out our beer of the day is Arctic Alchemy, a brew that Beau and Chris Bowen brewed at Allentown Brew Works in commemoration of the 1852 Allsops Ale and the 2010 motorcycle ride. Needless to say at 12% ABV this beer is big and flavorful like a classic English Barleywine, but rich like a classic olde ale.
Bethlehem Brew Works will be holding a special event this Sunday (July 25th) to send the riders off on their journey and release the Brew Works Arctic Alchemy beer. Also bottles will be released and sold only at the brewery….and take my word for it….this is a beer well worth seeking out.
This was a wonderful beer and a very fun visit by Beau Baden. All in all a very fun show and
once again I want to say thank you to Beau, John, Nancy (we missed you Nancy!), Joe & Bosco for yet another fun Friday.
The Friday Beerbuzz…bringing good beers and good people together.
As always you can check out the video on-line at the WILK Friday Beerbuzz page by clicking HERE.
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Live music at the Allentown BrewWorks – Friday night!
$5 cover
Doors @ 8
Ryan James Bradley @ 9:30ish
…The Beings @ some point after that.
Drag your lazy ass out for a night of good beer and great music. Bring Grandpappy!
The Beings - Nate Breininger (lead guitar/vox/), Dan McGonagle (rythym guitar/vox), Justin Tagg (bass/harp) Scott Clark (drums/percusion).
Also, there are two shows next month, August 13th and 27th. As of September–that’s right–shows will be every Friday night.
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