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Links Worth a Look - September 18th

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Post Date: Sep.18.08

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

• Raise a glass its time for Oktoberfest. - For nineteen years the Penn Brewery has brought Munich to Pittsburgh with our annual Oktoberfest celebration and this year will be no exception. Held the same weekends as its German counterpart, the Penn Brewery offers the most authentic Oktoberfest celebration in Pittsburgh.

  Friday and Saturday nights the party starts at 5:00 p.m. with live German entertainment, a delicious variety of German foods and our craft made, award winning beer highlighted by our annual Oktoberfest Bier.

• FORTY UNDER FORTY - November 7, 2008 - Save the date - Pittsburgh Magazine and PUMP will honor 40 people in Pittsburgh under the age of 40 who are doing great things in the city.
• Should I Drink That? Brewcast » Blog Archive » Episode 44 - Steel City Big Pour 2008 - My friends from the best Podcast in town are back with a new episode from the Steel City Big Pour (and a snazzy new website)

  Join us for the second annual Steel City Big Pour which is once again the greatest beer fest in the land. Featured breweries are:
  Scott Smith from EastEnd Brewing
  Brandon from Rock Bottom
  Mike from Troegs Brewing Matt from Voodoo Brewing Jim from Erie Brewing
  Fred from Hoppin Frog
  Woody from Ale Street News
  Chris from Bocktown
  Drew from Pipers Pub
  Aaron from Stone Brewing

  We're still giving away FREE TICKETS to the Brewing UP A Cure beer festival! Check out the contest page for details!

• IheartPGH.com » Blog Archive » PARK(ing) Day - Parking Spots become Parks for a day - Friday, September 19,2008 - check out this comment on this history of Parking in Pittsburgh.

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Git Aht Special Edition: Get Your German On (Or, hey make sure you try the Yinzer Torte!)

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Post Date: Sep.18.08

Where was I? Oh right, drinking. In Pittsburgh. On the weekends.

This weekend is the always enjoyable, always exciting, always humid under the tents (that sounds sorta filthy, yar? “Hey baby, let’s get humid under the tents.”) Oktoberfest at Penn Brewery, 5 to Midnight Friday and Saturday, and the more family-friendly 4 to 10 p.m. on Sunday. Git Aht recommends this event highly. Why? Not just for the beer, which is plentiful, delicious, relatively cheap, and plentiful (Yes, twice, ’cause it’s important), but also because the Hardest Working Polka Band In Show Business Alpen Glow will be performing. If you’ve never heard them, you’re doing a great disservice to not only yourself, but your family, your city, your country, and possibly your liederhosen. (God, I want some liederhosen, but do you have any idea how expensive those damn things are?) If you love the chicken dance in the same way I do, which is to say when you hear the first melodic strains of it you’ll gladly spill your rigs, pigs, and bird to get to the fire hall dance floor at any wedding you attend in Western Pennsylvania, you simply must hear Alpen Glow with, oh, let’s say, a half-gallon of beer in your hand.

Pictured (l to r): Das Hornenplayer, Das Birdensqueezer, und Das Buttonboxentek

Here is an example of their important work, and may I say it brings a tear to my eye, and a sort of dull yet lovable ache to my liver:

If you can’t make it this weekend, fear not because they’re making enough beer for next weekend too.

More on this situation as it develops, or rather, more on this situation as I wake up Saturday morning somewhere in an alley on The North Side wondering where the hell my pants and/or dignity might be, and asking the Aviary if I can use their phone to call a cab.

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