Pop-up beer garden series coming to Fairmount Park

We're a mobile society. Now even pop-up beer gardens can move, too.

Parks on Tap - a new partnership among Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, Fairmount Park Conservancy, and Avram Hornik of FCM Hospitality - sends a mobile beer garden from park to park in the city for 14 weeks, starting Wednesday, June 29.

The two trucks - one with regional craft beers, wine, and nonalcoholic drinks, and the other with snacks and sandwiches on a menu created by chef Mitch Prensky - will visit 14 parks in the pilot year. Most sessions will be Friday to Sunday, though some will be open from Wednesday through Sunday.

The first stop is Schuylkill Banks at the Walnut Street Bridge, giving great views of the July Fourth fireworks. Also, trucks will be outside Aviator Park, by the Franklin Institute, at the start of the Democratic National Convention.

At each stop, Parks on Tap will provide seating, restrooms, and additional amenities, including live music, games, and prepackaged picnics on site, in addition to each park's activities and events.

The city is not spending anything to mount the program, representatives said. Hornik - who created Morgan's Pier, Winterfest at Penn's Landing, and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's first pop-up beer garden in 2013 - is laying out the investment. A portion of the proceeds from Parks on Tap will benefit city parks.

Prensky's menu includes hot sliders on house-made Parker House rolls (meatball, brisket, roasted pork, or portobello mushroom) and cold dishes (vegan chilled soba noodles, chopped Greek salad, quinoa salad with tofu, and fusilli with summer vegetables); grab-and-go items such as cinnamon candied nut and raisin mix, and Mexican corn snacks with chile lime salt, and desserts such as chocolate chunk sea salt cookies, yogurt with fruit and granola, and a biscuit pudding parfait of the week. Prensky's menu also will include some brunch items from his Scratch Biscuits shop on Saturdays and Sundays.

The schedule (those denoted by an asterisk have been extended for longer than a weekend):

June 29-July Fourth*, Schuylkill Banks at Walnut Street Bridge.

July 7-10, Shofuso Japanese House and Garden.

July 15-17, Belmont Plateau.

July 20-15*, Aviator Park in front of the Franklin Institute.

July 27-31*, Clark Park.

Aug. 3-7*, Jefferson Square Park

Aug. 12-14, Playing Angels at Kelly Drive and Fountain Green Drive.

Aug. 19-21, Penn Treaty Park.

Aug. 26-28, Paine's Park.

Sept. 1-5*, FDR Park.

Sept. 7-11*, Fairmount Water Works Side Lawn.

Sept. 16-18, Mount Pleasant mansion.

Sept. 21-25*, Powers Park.

Sept. 30-Oct. 2, Lemon Hill.

Hours of operation are 1 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, with extended hours of 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at certain locations where noted, and subject to change. On July Fourth and Sept. 5, extended holiday hours are noon to 10 p.m.