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- May 21, 2009
Next time you see the boxes, let me know what type of Victory they're drinking ... lager, Hop Devil, Golden Monkey??? It's amazing what you can tell about a person by the type of beer they drink They made thier name with Hop-Devil
Victory is a Philly burb's Sam Adams style success story. They set-up shop in Downingtown in the mid-90's in the old Pepperidge Farms factory and bottled and created a killer brew-pub before anyone in the area was really doing anything similar. Not only that, but thier recipies were world class.
Attending University of Delaware in the mid to late 90s as a Chemical Engineer, I spent many a weekend chatting up the brewers at Victory and Dogfish Head (out of Rehoboth).
Truth be told, Victory tend to over-hop thier beers (hops adds more bitterness), but thier Oktoberfest was a staple of homecoming for me, and is still one of my favorite beers.
So, while the Philly area has a ton of great brewers like Troegs (Harrisburg), Stoudt's (Adamstown), Weyerbacher (Easton), Yards (Philly), Flying Fish (Cherry Hill) etc ... Victory was one of the pioneers to go big and get wide distribution.
Ohh thanks for the tutorial.. will definitely tell a friend (NH_Bubba) about this he loves his beer!