We took a mini vacation last weekend to our great neighbor state of Pennsylvania. We drove first to Philly and got a free hotel room (courtesy of credit card points, so maybe not really 'free', but...) right on the river by the Ben Franklin bridge. We stopped at a beer distributor and grabbed a case of Summit Red Ale (which is unavailable in Maryland) and to date we only have a few left after sharing (and drinking) the beloved MN brew.
We ate dinner at one of our fave spots right on South St,
Brauhaus Schmitz, an authentic German watering hole (and eatery). I think this was the 3rd time we went and while I am sure there are many great restaurants in Philly, we can't pull ourselves away from this Wurst and Bier oasis. We ordered sauerkraut fritters and homemade leberwurst (liverwurst) to start, and continued on with the massive Butcher's Plate that included pork shank, a huge pork chop, a bratwurst and spicy sausage, some more leberwurst, all on top of a mountain of sauerkraut and a huge potato dumpling. In addition, we couldn't resist ordering a couple sides of spaetzle and cucumber salad. Naturally, we sipped a few beers with this feast after having to select from a massive beer list. Then we topped it all off with an Apfel Strudel and Apfel Schnapps. The only downside is that we couldn't really save our leftovers since we were traveling! We were STUFFED so the 30 minute walk back to our hotel helped:)
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| Post eating, on our 'balcony' table at Brauhaus |
The next day we hit the road to Coates, PA to visit Shelly (my mom's cousin, so second cousin??) who I haven't seen in what we think is 20 years!!! She has a great place in the country with a nice spread of land, beautiful gardens, and it was great to see she is a solar panel user!! She made us a wonderful lunch and we got to play with her 3 energetic dogs, who would squeal with anticipation until the ball was thrown:) She also has a huge trampoline that the girls got the hang of pretty quickly and spent a good chunk of time jumping and rolling around on. There was a really neat and intriguing cemetery (very small) next to her house with old grave stones dating from the early 1800s (maybe earlier), but really cool to explore.
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| The trampoline electrified their red hair as they were jumping- cute! |
We look forward to heading out to her place again, it doesn't hurt that we found out that
Victory Brewing Company is just minutes from her house as well! Thanks again Shelly!
We took a mini vacation last weekend to our great neighbor state of Pennsylvania. We drove first to Philly and got a free hotel room (courtesy of credit card points, so maybe not really 'free', but...) right on the river by the Ben Franklin bridge. We stopped at a beer distributor and grabbed a case of Summit Red Ale (which is unavailable in Maryland) and to date we only have a few left after sharing (and drinking) the beloved MN brew.
We ate dinner at one of our fave spots right on South St, Brauhaus Schmitz, an authentic German watering hole (and eatery). I think this was the 3rd time we went and while I am sure there are many great restaurants in Philly, we can't pull ourselves away from this Wurst and Bier oasis. We ordered sauerkraut fritters and homemade leberwurst (liverwurst) to start, and continued on with the massive Butcher's Plate that included pork shank, a huge pork chop, a bratwurst and spicy sausage, some more leberwurst, all on top of a mountain of sauerkraut and a huge potato dumpling. In addition, we couldn't resist ordering a couple sides of spaetzle and cucumber salad. Naturally, we sipped a few beers with this feast after having to select from a massive beer list. Then we topped it all off with an Apfel Strudel and Apfel Schnapps. The only downside is that we couldn't really save our leftovers since we were traveling! We were STUFFED so the 30 minute walk back to our hotel helped:) 
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