Many thanks to Peter “Bear” Brett for coming by on short notice to represent Lancaster Brewing Company on Wednesday. If you don’t know Bear, come by next week when he will be helping out Roy Pitz Brewing. He is a joy of a human being, and is chocked full of knowledge and a willingness to
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Month: April 2010
Breakfast for Dinner
by Melanie Fortino It is a shame that such a wonderful meal as breakfast gets shoved into that tiny space of time between getting up and running out the door to work. To address this meal injustice we have in our home an event called “breakfast for dinner.” This allows us to appreciate the deliciousness
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Beer and Cheese Recap: Iron Hill Brewery
How fortunate are we? Iron Hill, winner of Best Large Brewpub at the World Beer Cup in Chicago last week, joined us last night to sample some of the beers that helped them claim the award. Two rather unconventional pairings were featured, but everything worked, and as usual, a good time was had by all.
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Steak-Out Saturdays at Rittenhouse
by Jason Ruch Here at Di Bruno Bros. on Chestnut, we like to celebrate a little something called “Steak-Out Saturday” the first Saturday of every month. What is this special day? To put it simply, we select a steak of the month and offer it to customers as a buy-2-get-1-free deal. With the grilling season
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Beer and Cheese Recap: Troegs
When a company as reputable as Troegs comes to do a tasting, you can anticipate a great variety of high-quality beers. But last night, Nick hooked us up with the Scratch #27, a beer that is exclusive to the brewery and rarely found outside Harrisburg. It served as one half of our most surprising pairing
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The King of Kings: Wild New Zealand King Salmon
by Jason Ruch For all you salmon lovers, the Di Bruno Bros. Seafood Department now offers high quality, fully sustainable, wild King Salmon fillets. These fish come directly from New Zealand, which we receive several times a week. Not to be confused with the Alaskan King, these salmon from “down under” run all year-round and
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Gilda’s Biscotti
by Dan Taylor We here at DiBruno Brothers always take great pride in bringing quality, not-so-typical products into our line, and offering them to our very valued customers. When it comes to biscotti, the delicious, crisp traditional Italian cookie, we make no exceptions. This is why Gilda’s Biscotti is a very important part of our
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Beer and Cheese Pairings annunced through May!
Our free beer and cheese Happy Hour on Wednesday nights from 5-8pm are now scheduled through the end of May. 9th Street location only. Thank you to all our enthusiastic brewers and representatives who will be joining us. Here they are: April 14th: Nick from Troegs BreweryApril 21st: Chris from Iron HillApril 28th: Angela from
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Beer and Cheese Recap: The Foodery
This week Glen and the boys from The Foodery (see pic) came by with four Spring seasonals to sample to our loyal customers. While you might interpret this as four wheat beers, each variety was distinctly different; their only uniting characteristic was that they were all delicious. Agave Wheat with Ewephoria: From Breckenridge Brewery in
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March Madness of Cheese Winner Announced
Midnight Moon blew out Montgomery’s Cheddar in the final of Di Bruno Bros.’ March Madness of Cheese yesterday. The underdog pulled off a major upset in grand fashion, taking an 11-1 lead and forcing Montgomery’s to resign under the laws of the Mercy Rule. It was an appropriate way to conclude a tournament filled with
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