Music and Beer: World Cafe Broadcaster Ale

Music and beer, beer and music. They go together like Astaire and Rodgers ... Proscuitto e Melone ... Sacco and Vanzetti. The Philadelphia environs are a hotbed of craft brew activity, and the forecast for future growth is anything but flat, as Harold Brubaker's story in the Sunday Inquirer made clear.

And many a local brewer is in the synergy-with-the-music-business business. Sam Calagione's Milton, Delaware-based Dogfish Head put on a vinyl record fair this summer called Analog-A-Go-Go, and has released specialty brews tied in with Miles Davis and Robert Johnson re-issues.

This year, Philadelphia's Yard's Brewing Company released Yard's Folk Fest lager to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Philadelphia Folk Festival this August. And not to be outdone, Philadelphia Brewing Company is releasing World Cafe Broadcaster Brown Ale in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the WXPN (88.5-FM) based nationally syndicated show hosted by David Dye. Broadcaster Brown is "a medium bodied, deep red-brown hued ale" with a modest 5.0% alcohol by volume. More info on the beer here.

Every day next week, Dye will be playing bartender, pouring beer at two watering holes a night, with appearances Monday at Havana Restaurant and Catering in New Hope and the Princeton Sports Bar & Grill on Monday. Below, check out the amusing David Dye: Beer Gye promo video, featuring actorly performances by Lew Bryson, Joey Sweeney and kitten-loving Philadelphia band Prowler.

The World Cafe will be celebrating its 20th throughout October, with the party coming to a head at the World Cafe Live with John Hiatt, Indigo Girls and the Little Willies (that's Norah Jones' country side project) on Oct. 28 and, more impressively, Feist, Dawes and Robbie Robertson on Oct. 29.

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