tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:52:29 +0000craft ale houseunion jackspbwbeersgivingbirthdayjack curtinlewtj'stnscfarmers cabinetfork and barrelortino'ssly foxtap and tabletndbookstoredraftng roomfooboozbctccaponesgabfhospitalparkerford brewingthe el veeallagashballast pointbear republicbeer festdr. joeljoe sixpacklost abbeymarkphilliespookierailroad street barrussian riversession beersierra nevadaslim shadysunflowertroegsABCFalling rockLiberty TaproomYou are a FOOLbctwcbeer yardbella vistablue dogbridgewalters pubbrothers kershnercalkins creamerycheeky monkcigar citycold war kidscraft beer buscrapdavid+sarahdixonsdock streetdogfishdraught linesebbfirst artflufoundersfreshcraftgeneralgooddog RAHgrey lodgehalloweenhappy new yearharry kalashill farmsteadhold steadyhopfestjose pistolaslater 2008leftoversnew hollandno ashtray tourno libsommengangpart fourpart onepart threepart twopart5portproblemspub crawlrehoboth beachresultsrl burnsideschwarzbiersidecar barsnoozesnowsouthamptonspring cleaningstandard tapstickmanstonesunnybrookuptown brothersvirtual farmwhole FoodswikioxmasJust another happy go lucky blog about beer and the world in which I live.http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)Blogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-375705650963474124Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:24:00 +00002024-02-22T18:24:52.609-05:00           October 14th 1978, President Jimmy Carter signs H.R. 1337 essentially legalizing homebrew. Not long after that, New Albion Brewing opens. The first new brewery in forever. And if you were of drinking age then, please don't forget to get a Medicare Part C plan to save you money on your health care. Or maybe you came of age during the mid 90's brewpub http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2024/02/its-not-your-grandfathers-micro-brew.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-9139502770424090772Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:31:00 +00002024-02-13T15:33:56.827-05:00brothers kershnerschwarzbier      No folks, it's not this great movie. Instead it's all the delicious versions of Schwartz bier that has been showing up at all the local breweries lately. From East Branch and Troubles End to Bier Hall and Von C,  one of my favorites styles for fall and winter, has been in great abundance lately. So, this past Saturday the 3rd, we http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2024/02/may-schwartz-be-with-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-7418335029865222914Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +00002024-02-01T10:00:29.395-05:00                    When you don't update places to go in 6 plus years, you may be in for a rude awaking. The amount I had to remove was the toughest. Lots of good times in a bunch of them. But soldier on we must... Much more to come as hard as it is to believe.http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-updates-are-slowly-beginning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-5433076568837164525Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:52:00 +00002024-01-30T10:52:15.463-05:00                  Well that's a mighty fine fine way of starting off your first blog post in 6 and a half years. Sorry folks, but the TLBL swimsuit issue just wasn't ready yet. One of the reasons I've been thinking about this for quite some time in the old noggin was two things in particular. One- the constant stories of the problems in the craft beer http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-beginning-of-end.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-1884179931671499719Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:14:00 +00002017-07-14T15:14:36.285-04:00                                                             Hidy ho neighbors!!         Mr. Dan here to tell you a couple of quick things. Number one is, I have begun updating various web sites on TLBL. Number two, the http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-walking-dead-blogger.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-8232370342363785163Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:54:00 +00002016-01-28T15:54:46.093-05:00    This will be the longest post ever, which is good for you folks because I ain't writing much of it. Pro Bowl or pre Super Bowl weekend has become a beer lover's dream or nightmare depending on how your liver and wallet feels. So, let's take a look at a few of the events going on. First up is Bru on the 31st. AMERICAN SOURS Allagash Nancy Allagash Tiarna Almanac Farmer's http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2016/01/only-strong-survive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-5626308133183491621Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:19:00 +00002015-12-18T19:19:44.456-05:00stickman     For those folks who grew up with WXPN in the 80's, you definitely remember that phrase. But we aren't talking about the band today, no kids, we are talking about a new brewery. Stickman Brewery is located in the old Sly Fox building in Royersford. The front of the building became the Lucky Lab, which turns out wasn't that lucky after all. This Saturday afternoon at 1 http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2015/12/get-stuck-with-stickmen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-6685241251756942986Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:12:00 +00002015-12-15T15:12:50.625-05:00     The very, very, very, very long overdue cleanup and additions have begun. Oh and that posting thing too. According to a New York Times Bestseller author , 2016 will be the return of the blogger. I was hoping for my liver and some foolish pride. I guess beggars can't be choosers. So, here I go once again, trying to be irrelevant in a relevant world, or something like that.http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2015/12/clean-up-in-aisle-5.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-4316985327689131140Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:04:00 +00002015-12-14T10:04:57.376-05:00     There comes a time in life when you have to stop believing in childish ways. I have learned that lesson once again. Never trust a childhood idol. Especially one who was drinking too much and talking too much. The cold hard truth, The Fork And Ale will be open in January 2016,  with fingers and toes crossed. This guy however won't make it Thanks tohttp://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2015/12/bad-bad-bad-santa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-7982887619084943585Mon, 22 Dec 2014 13:32:00 +00002014-12-22T08:32:47.542-05:00     So the other night I was talking to Santa, and he was ho, ho, hoeing and all that stuff, which got me to thinking, doesn't the Green Giant do that too. Have you ever seen the both of them in the same room? Is this the giants vacation job? Or does Santa lose a lot of weight going on a vegetable diet after pigging out on cookies and milk all winter?http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2014/12/beery-claus-comes-to-douglasville.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-905820046839848816Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:35:00 +00002014-12-15T08:35:25.340-05:00  Can you believe it? No really, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? That's right boys and girls and other assorted beings, The Last Bottle Left is back in business! Blogging Santa dropped off a brand new computer to the famed Kepler Mountain Resort and Casino, and let me tell you, this machine is faster than Superman, (unlike me of course).  The old Gateway is no more. She served me well for most of http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2014/12/santa-blogger-came-to-town.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-5491495757978067822Thu, 02 May 2013 12:26:00 +00002013-05-03T07:56:43.894-04:00     It's time to begin the 30th anniversary of turning 25. For those of you that skipped math class for those 12 long years in high school, that means I'm turning 55 or I as like to call it, fifty fucking five. Now I know if I said it once,  I've said it a thousand times, but it sure beats the alternative, an eternal dirt nap. So, with all that being said, I amhttp://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-cant-drive-like-im-55.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-1483115482687241177Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:22:00 +00002013-04-22T19:22:25.992-04:00     I have come to the conclusion that I don't blog much. I know this may come as a complete shock to most of you, but it's true. I do that Facebook and Twitter thingamajig enough, okay, sometimes, but blogging with real fancy words and such, well, it just ain't happening much anymore. By the time I come up with an idea about a story I want to write, it is so far in the http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2013/04/lazy-is-as-lazy-does.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-2026031339920653755Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:32:00 +00002013-01-11T09:32:09.983-05:00flu                                                                         "Sick as a dog"      I take great pride in not getting as sick as much as everybody else does out there in beer land. When I http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2013/01/bow-wow-wow-yippee-yo-yippee-yay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-3304833591752579460Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:15:00 +00002012-12-13T19:15:45.715-05:00sly foxsunflower     In my world, there are two kinds of people, those who eat breakfast and the sorry sacks who don't. Now,  I can already hear the screams all the way up here on top of old Kepler Mountain. "But I don't have time for breakfast, I got to go to work" Well stop the presses!!! Get that Action News Van here stat! People have to get up and  go to work in the morning? Where ishttp://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/12/breakfast-of-champions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-1838640623034447907Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:51:00 +00002012-11-16T16:51:39.152-05:00     Don't even get me started. If you don't know by now, how lazy and disorganized I can get at times, well, you don't know me. There has been a few things on my plate since the last time we chatted, but this last week has been a royal pain in the....  It started off with a last minute trip to the Doctor's last Friday and I ended up with my once every 10 year bottlehttp://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-railroad-evolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-746134967134842658Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:16:00 +00002012-09-21T12:18:32.925-04:00From our good friends at Foobooz today, it looks like it will be "the last bottle left" Ernesto Anastastio III Says:  September 21st, 2012 at 10:34 am For your viewing pleasure “Greetings- Sadly, I am writing to inform you that Bella Vista has ceased doing business in any capacity with the people behind the Farmers Cabinet/Boilermakers retailers immediately. Bella Vista has dealt http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/09/from-our-good-friends-at-foobooz-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-3645042767732476591Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:43:00 +00002012-09-18T08:43:54.329-04:00                                                        I drank good beer. The end. Mr. Bengel, you get back in this classroom and write a proper post or you will be sitting in the principals office until winter! Yes Mrs. Dingleberry, I promise I will get http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/09/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-4609468194993158440Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:36:00 +00002012-07-19T11:36:00.616-04:00bookstorefarmers cabinetfooboozfork and barreltap and tablethe el vee                                           What would you do, if you got this opportunity? "The Crazy Ass Bar and Grill,  is proud to announce that on Labor Day weekend, for the first time ANYWHERE in the world, we will be pouring every Trappist beer, ever made, ON DRAFT! &nbsphttp://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/beer-morals-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-2570109841349429649Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:07:00 +00002012-07-16T10:07:02.993-04:00bookstorefarmers cabinetfooboozfork and barreltap and tablethe el vee     Once again I sit at my very cramped desk, with the same damn thought that I have had for quite some time now. Why are these idiots still in business? Why oh why do I have to carry the torch of common sense? And trust me folks, that is saying a lot right there. Where are the pitchforks and vigilantes? Where is the holiest of all beer folk rising up to http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/beer-morals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-5426001357688494181Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:37:00 +00002012-06-21T11:37:59.407-04:00      Ah, memories, like the corner of my liver. Distant flowing beery memories, of the way it was. Mr Curtin's trip down memory lane sparked this thought inside my empty head. Has anyone seen those many long lost photos of Jack on a stick? I don't think so. Now for the first (and hopefully the last) time, you too can revel in the glory that was the short, but quite http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/jack-on-stick-redux.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-5573364092823278890Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:27:00 +00002012-06-10T10:27:16.958-04:00     That title alone should garner a few blog hits over the next couple of weeks. Yes indeed,  it is almost the end of Philly Beer Week. Today as a matter of fact. One more trip into the city before I begin some type of cleansing/detoxing/dieting to remove all the evilness I have been putting in my body since Suburban Beer Week and two weeks in Belgium. And of course PBWhttp://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/end-is-near.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-2132658173260616705Thu, 31 May 2012 12:43:00 +00002012-05-31T08:43:25.474-04:00 The one and only  Here he is, in all his unknowing glory. I helped con Mr. Rubeo last week in Belgium, by making him go into 2BE to buy beer with me for a so called happy hour. But I had a more devious plan. Make him drink a beer with me while a surprise party was being planned for him back at the apartments. Some people have all the tough jobs. Was I worried that he would say no to a beer http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/05/other-one-and-50.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-3973257796638625067Fri, 18 May 2012 07:36:00 +00002012-05-18T03:36:00.548-04:00And so begins another week in Belgium. The weather this time has not been as wonderful as the last time, but all in all, it ain't that bad. But it has been cool enough at times, that just about everyone here has at least a head cold. That ain't fun. But we shall soldier through the best way we know how. Who wants to take a guess what that is?http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/05/day-eight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337907711104178778.post-7227258093379774665Sun, 13 May 2012 05:44:00 +00002012-05-13T01:44:28.750-04:00Geode morgen! Welcome my friends to the vacation that I hope nevers ends. Day three getting ready to begin. Today is our first beer trip. It shall be a long one. We start at Abbaye des Rocs and then take a side trip into Ieper to see part of the famous cat festival. And of course, stop by a pub or two. Then for the grand finale, a trip to de Hoppeshuur. There is much more to say, but I have to http://thelastbottleleft.blogspot.com/2012/05/home-sweet-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel)0