Friday Crackberry: A History Lesson and Beer

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I pass this historic inn every day on my way to work. It is the General Lafayette Inn and Brewery. It is located in Lafayette Hill, PA. You can probably guess who the town and the Inn are named for, General Lafayette (duh). Here is some history about the place. If you don’t have time to hit that link, General Lafayette spent time here and in the town which was called Barren Hill during the American Revolution (for you readers in the UK, that scuffle that happened after Concord and Lexington. BTW, HBO’s John Adams taught me more about history than any history class). He fled at one point b/c the British had a plan to capture him there. They didn’t (FAIL!) and he came back. He spent time in the Inn with his fellow strategists but history does not tell us if he slept there…maybe he just passed out at some point.

Anyway, now it is an eating and drinking establishment. They brew their own beer which is quite good. They have a Sunset Red which seems to be P’s drink of choice but I like to sample the others when they come out. The Chocolate Porter is a thing of beauty and if you 1/2 it with the Red Velvet, well you have a really nice beer you can sip on for a good long time. P and his friend W spent many a night in this bar before I came along and a bit after. They even had their own mugs and thought themselves kings of the pool table. Now that W has a child and P plays flippin hockey or soccer every day (ok maybe not every day) their trips there are much fewer. I will always remember it as the first place I met my future SIL and was insanely nervous and the first place I was jealous (from of the attention P got from the female bartenders). Ah memories.

We have not been in awhile but I love looking at the building and thinking about the spirits of many generations past going on about the place. Maybe someday I’ll catch a ghostly pic with my Crackberry. :)
  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/06723115517394978327 THE Stephanie

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  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/14660401535856930165 KC

    Is this the place where Ghost Hunters went to try and find some spirits?If not, it looks exactly like one they did not that long ago.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/14911826980781124597 scargosun

    kc – I don’t think they have been there but there were at the General Warren Inn which is about 3 miles from where I grew up. It’s a nice place.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034502861887090912 JWilson

    The Inn looks lieka pretty cool place. I love historical buildings and history. I loved the John Adams movies and I too learned a ton from them.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/18347808984516754982 Party of 5

    I love that place. (the way it looks I’ve never been there…LOL) I could think of a million stories about it.I’d love to just go exploring in the rooms (if htey were still in tact and not all messed up by the brewery and stuff.(here from SITS)

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/15517091699073793924 Mom2FiveBratz

    I bet its haunted. I thought this before I read the last paragraph to your blog. Im psychic that way. Our new house is haunted. Ive seen shadows that move and hear weird things like a basketball being dribbled outside. My kids are asleep when this happens, and they dont own a basketball, just soccerballs. Seeing and hearing ‘ghosts’ is a normal thing for my family.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/14403140121785234428 Z's Mom

    Very nice….thanks for the history lesson too….very interesting. Now you’ve made me want to watch John Adams too…I missed it!

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/11421804696146084068 Candid Carrie

    Nice post, you make me want beer. Thanks for that.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/03040475544263267089 Judy Haley

    I used to think chocolate beer sounded gross, but then I tried it. the brand I tried was Young’s Double Chocolate Stout – amazing from the keg, less awesome yet still good from the can.I have yet to find it in a local microbrew.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/00892293258799500751 Heather

    Oooooo…a ghosty crackberry. I can’t wait!!

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/11724526923343865256 EmBee

    Do they have a reception hall here? Because I think we attended a wedding reception here… Then again, there are a lot of similar looking establishments in the area.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/07635883243058872110 Mrs. R

    You know I have my degree in History right? You make me so jealous, driving these streets seeped in Americana!!!!

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/04257126641387033673 stephanie (bad mom)

    I so love history (and I learned much more from well-done media & books than most of my classes – although one prof in college was a genius with the lessons), and especially like to think about the possibilities of hauntings…Your coast is far more rife with this kind of cool stuff than ours. I’ll have to visit someday.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/10399156539354549499 Jen

    Interesting very interesting. The part about the beer was my favorite. mmmmm….beer.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/05000384127075772584 Lex the mom

    I love going into historic buildings. They just have a feeling in them. Not finding my words very well, tonight. heh.That place looks and sounds great! It’s cool to have those memories attached to it, too.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/12928664767760648499 Hullaballoo

    OMG Red Velvet beer sounds the best. I am a huge, if not very serious fan of real ale.I know all about the American Revolution and that, we did it at school. It’s where you kicked our arses and spilt tea in Boston harbour some time in the 18th century.Looks like an interesting hostelry, somewhere I would like to go.And fancy P flirting with a female bartender when gorgeous you were around. What was he thinking of, silly boy?