Flagship February daily feature - Second District Bancroft Beer

Today's featured Flagship February Beer is from a brewery even younger than yesterday's. Second District is coming up on its second anniversary and was opened by Curt Decker after settling on the location deep in the heart of South Philly after closing his Nodding Head brewpub in Center City in 2014. In this newest endeavor, Decker has perfectly captured the essence of a Philadelphia neighborhood pub, where the beers are made by seasoned brewer Ben Potts (Dogfish Head, Dock Street, and Tired Hands).

And the Bancroft Beer that I'm featuring here? It's their flagship and, actually, it's the only flagship of theirs. And it's pretty straightforward in its naming inspiration in that the brewery/pub sits on Bancroft Street. Sometimes one is just the right number of flagships to have if you do it really well.

Now click the picture below for a full feature on Second District's Bancroft Beer.

If you're just jumping in during the middle of this and want to know what this is all about, link back here to see the Flagship February overview as well as an ongoing list of all beers I'm featuring during the month of February.

Disclosure: For this project, I solely created the list of 28 beers featured here on The Brew Lounge. I was in contact with each brewery and neither required nor requested complimentary samples. Today's beer was provided by the brewery, when I stopped in for lunch and a chat with Decker.

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Weekly Brew Bits Update: 1/9/12

If you thought things in the beer world slowed down around the holidays, then you must have missed the following over the past week or so.

~ Lew Bryson has a potential production show brewing (get it?! er, never mind) with Green Leaf Productions and he's taken to the road to help drum up support. Well, and drink some good beer and talk about it along the way. Tonight he's at Devil's Den in South Philly.

~ Speaking of the big guy, Lew was on Beer Sessions Radio back in November along with the Vanberg & DeWulf duo Wendy Littlefield and Don Feinberg talking Belgian beer and the 30th anniversary of the V&D's business of bringing Belgians (the beer, not the people, well unless it was for a beer event) to America.

~ And now speaking of NYC-based Beer Sessions Radio vintage and Belgian beers were discussed the following week with Tom Peters. Both 45 minute long podcasts are worth the listen, even two months later. I only just got around to listening to them myself.

~ I've made some past reference to the Tröegs/Fegley's pending trademark dispute. During the holidays, Tröegs withdrew potential legal action. Lehigh Valley Live had the story.

~ Ben Potts recently relocated mash paddles from Philly (Dock Street) to Delaware (Dogfish Head, the pub). Here's a link to Food Informants at The Huffington Post where Ben provides a diary style peek at a week-in-his-life-at-DFH. I still haven't finished the article yet, but I trust you'll enjoy.

~ I wrapped up my three-part Top 10 list set in The Washington Times Communities section. The last one was the highly-anticipated, or debated, Top 10 Craft Beers. Check it out and weigh in.

~ Slowly, bit-by-bit, over time, things have been changing in Pennsylvania. Beginning yesterday, beer distributors are now permitted to open on Sundays for beer sales from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Additionally, restaurants serving Sunday brunch may begin serving alcohol at 9 a.m. Many distributors will not choose to stay open for the full twelve hours, citing not nearly enough incremental business to cover expenses (or aggravation) in the early and late hours of a Sunday. Around Philadelphia, Craft Beer Outlet has changed its Sunday hours to 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Exton Beverage and Goshen Beverage to 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

~ Nicole Erny recently became only the fourth certified Master Cicerone. The Cicerone exam will be hosted on March 15 by Hunterdon Distributors in Phillipsburg, NJ.

~ One of the most eagerly-anticipated beer festivals of the year on the East Coast takes place in Baltimore, Md. where Max's pulls together a reported 100+ draft and 175+ Belgian and Belgian-inspired beers for three days. February 17-19 from 11 a.m. 'til closing with no entrance fee is just about all you need to know. Their website has a running list of beers as they procure them.

~ Hot Specials. If you Like/Fan The Drafting Room on Facebook and show them proof in person at their Exton, Pa. location by 1/12/12 (this coming Thursday), you'll get a free appetizer.

Dock Street...pizza...saison...tonight

I'm going to the source tonight for some of their awesome hand-crafted and wood-fired pizzas and one of their very limited Brett-ed and Barrel-aged Dock Street Saison being released tonight. 50th and Baltimore in the Cedar Park neighborhood, the home of Dock Street Brewery to be precise. There's due to be a pin of it to serve on tap and a few take-home bottles available for sale. When the weather's nice, it's an enlivening walk from 30th Street Station to Dock Street Brewery. If you'd like to be dropped off at the front door without riding your bike, your longboard, or your car, you can take the '34' trolley across town from 13th/City Hall (or via a free transfer from the Market/Frankford El to the trolley at places like City Hall and 30th Street Station). There's a trolley stop immediately across Baltimore Avenue from the brewery. You say that you like the idea, but you don't want to go to the source? Three cases have made their way out to a few choice bars. Ben Potts, head brewer, provided the last of the series of clues that have been released via their website, Facebook ("dockstreetbeer"), and of course Twitter ("dockstreetbeer"). I tried singing this last clue to the tune of Downtown by Petula Clark, but it didn't quite work...and the dog covered his ears and ran away. "One of our favorite beer spots Found in the city Head downtown OR to No Libs Where you'll find our bottles looking pretty."