monk's has achel beers, which are really pretty amazing. i haven't found them anywhere else, not even at chicago's fabulous map room or the hopleaf.
philly also has grace's tavern at around 22nd and south, which has a great (though smaller) selection of fine beverages and the monk's sour ale is usually on tap. when i was teaching nearby, i went there pretty often--it's far enough away that undergraduates are unlikely to go, and nothing sez buzzkill quite the way running into students of yours at a publick house does.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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