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  • Oh My Gosh – It's Frothingslosh! The 15th Annual Iron City Brewing Oberbrau Haus Beer Collectibles Show

    Olde Frothingslosh
    Image by garboden via Flickr

    Looking for some friends who also like to collect beer stuff – well it turns out that Pittsburgh has a club for that too.  Olde Frothingslosh is a Pittsburgh beer can and breweriana collecting club and they are always open to new members.  I want to join because they have such a great name.  In case you weren’t sure about the legitimacy of this organization – please note that Olde Frothingslosh happens to be the 11th 11th Chapter of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America (BCCA) and a Chapter of the National Association of Breweriana Advertising (NABA).

    A little history on  the name “Olde Frothingslosh” (thanks to a comment on Flickr)

    Miss Frothingslosh 1969
    Image by shannonpatrick17 via Flickr

    Long story. A popular KDKA morning drive-time DJ named Regis Cordic had this gag about a beer with the foam on the bottom. He did fake radio commercials for it for several years, until the Pittsburgh Brewing Company (makers of the long-defunct Tech Beer line – yes, the name references Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon) decided to actually market the stuff every Christmas. The parody label changed annually.

    More information about the beer Olde Frothingslosh can be found here.

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  • Steeler Bar Tour Update – Next Stop Chicago

    TAMPA, FL - JANUARY 30: A woman has a drink n...
    Image by Getty Images via Daylife

    I just wanted to post a brief update about the Steeler Bar Tour before the game tomorrow.  First of all thank you to everyone who has helped to get this project going – when I first posted about this in August I had no idea we would get this much support- I promise I will get lots more links and thank yous posted in the next few days.

    A quick recap of what happened thus far:

    • Awesome Steelers Bar Map has been added to the site – people have already submitted bars all over the country and even one in London. – http://iheartpgh.com/steeler-bar-map/
    • We watched the first game of the season here in Pittsburgh at Sidelines in Millvale – more photos coming soon.  Thanks to everyone who submitted their favorite places to watch the game in Pittsburgh.
    • Created our own hash tag for all things Steeler Bar #STLRbar – please share your tweets, photos and blog posts by adding #STLRbar
    • Thanks to an IheartPGH reader we learned about Ken Hypes who is making a film about these Steelers Bars.  Last week we used our JetBlue All-u-can-jet pass to meet up with Ken in New York – of course we met him at a Steelers Bar.  Check out the trailer here.
    • Had a great conversation with the folks from Iron City about their Steeler Bar website – http://www.onecityonenation.com/ and the Steel City Mafia.

    Next stop CHICAGO! tomorrow – we are meeting up with Ken and his crew in Chicago to check out the Iron City/Steel City Mafia tailgate and to watch the game at the Dark Horse. If you are going to e in Chicago for the game let us know iheartpgh – at – gmail.com.

    Lots more to come!!!! (more…)