Beer Week: It's Like When You Finally Have An Excuse To Do What You Always Do

Rogue Chocolate Stout gelato

Lambic Framboise gelato

Happy-they-stopped-in-on-Beer-Week customers :)

Come on Philadelphia, when isn't it a beer week for you? Oh, that's right, when Capogiro doesn't have our mouth watering Beer Week flavors!! Flavors like Rogue Chocolate Stout, or Lambic Framboise gelato.


I mean really though, haven't you been to the same old bars enough? Come try Beer Week a little differently, with your good friend Capogiro. No peer pressure or nothin', but it's what all the cool kids are doing.

BEER! BEER! BEER!!

So, it's Beer Week. Glorious Beer Week. Beer is something that I drink in the summer. Not that it is seasonal, it is just something that I do. I am a proletariat beer drinker. I embarrass John when I order my Red Stripe or a Corona Light. "Do you have some wheaty type beer on draught?" I ask at The Belgian Cafe in my neighborhood, shying away from the heavy hitters. Don't hate me Fergie! Some people go all Walmart with beer. Unfortunately, that would be me. I can recognize how bad certain beer is, so maybe I am just a lightweight. John's favorite beer is Coniston Bluebird Bitter. The only beer served at our wedding was Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale. It is not that I don't appreciate these beers, I do. It is just that I am not worthy. Yup, not worthy. I think it has something to do with the fact that I like stovetop percolator coffee and not espresso. I like my beer like stovetop percolator coffee, not drip. Don't try to figure me out.

Anywho, I think that I am allowed to make beer gelato. Why not? I have made gelato out of grass and some nasty cheese, why not beer? It's Beer Week homies. Come try the Rogue Chocolate Stoudt or the Guinness, or the Lambic! It is really fun. I know, I know, y'all are serious beer drinkers. Come on...go a little lightweight. Try the Beer Floats at Penn, have a cone of beer gelato. Dive in! The water is fine. Trust... I raise my clear bottle with a lime floating happily to you.

CONES!

GUYS IT'S TRUE! I SAW ONE! On this day, Friday June 4th 2010...RUN. Yeah I said run. And yeah, I know how hot it is. RUN to your nearest Capogiro...because they've got a cone for you. And it's fresh off the boat, wrangled through customs, and into your awaiting, humid, fingers. Because we love you, obviously.

So many good things happening.

Cones.

Strawberries STRAWBERRIES!

BEER WEEK! In honor of which, keep your hats on, we'll be surprising you throughout the week with beer flavors and some special treatsies over at Penn's bar. Chris keeps walking around muttering something about Dragon's Milk...

Yunk's backyard has its Christmas lights on and outdoor tables ready and their events are going to start rolling any day now - lookout, movie nights, record nights, mix tape exchanges...

The Penn kids are concocting the most amazing gelato cocktails they can think of, pulling out all the stops, really. Can anybody say, beer float?!

Guys I can feel it. It's gonna be a great summer.

xoxo,
Capo.

*Pic by Mike Mitchell