Audio and Video Files:





·         Engel & Wolf's brewery at Fountain Green

·         Bergdoll Brewery

·         Bergdoll workers' houses on Newkirk St.

·         Lager Beer Vaults in and near Fairmount Park

·         See the latest videos from “The Philadelphia Brewery Tour Revistited” on YouTube.

·         Stephen Metzger's film Philly Pale Ale.

·         Hear radio interviews with former workers and ads from Sunshine and Reading breweries.

· Philadelphia’s Early Taverns and the Beers They Served.” Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

·  “Creatively Speaking” (Temple University radio WRTI 90.1 FM) is a 30 minute program, Rich's interview is the third of four seven minute segments. Creatively Speaking December 13, 2009. Tom Keels on Brewing in Philadelphia, past and present.

·  Sue Henry's 47 minute documentary: Beer Gardening in Northeastern PA” aired on WILK 980 AM in October 2007. The show includes interviews with Rich Wagner, who drove around for a day showing Sue some of the old breweries of the Wyoming Valley, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. Also included is her tour with the Lion Brewery's Leo Orlandini and a visit with local breweriana collector Al Kogoy in his basement brewery musuem. Al supplied some vintage radio ads dating back to the fifties and sixties from the region's breweries.

·         Hear Radio Rick Spector interviewing Rich Wagner on The Philadelphia Brewery Tour Revisited, aired on the Milestones Radio Show, July 29, 2006 on 1340 AM WHAT Philadelphia!

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 1 (May, 1987) Schmidt

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 1 (May 1987) Poth, Bergner & Engel, Brewerytown

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 1 (May 1987) Germania Brewery Opera House

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 1 (May 1987) Weisbrod & Hess

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 4 (July 1994) Samuel Adams Brew House

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 4 (July 1994) Dock Street Brewery & Restaurant

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 9 (Fall 1996) On the bus, Rich Dochter narration

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 9 (Fall 1996) Morris Brewery Vault

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 11 (Fall 1996) Yards Brewing Co. Umbria St. plant

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 11 (Fall 1997) Yards Brewing Co. Brandon Greenwood

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 11 (Fall 1997) Red Bell Brewing Co. Jim Cancro

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 10 (Fall 1997) Independence Brewing Co. Bill Moore

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 10 (Fall 1997) Finkenauer

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 11 (Fall 1997) Yards Brewing Co. Departing

Philadelphia Brewery Tour 10 (Fall 1997) Poor Henry's



Colonial Brewing Demonstration Now on YouTube:

Writer/Film maker Jeff Linkous created a video entitled Ancestral Ale – Brewing in Colonial America from the Rich's colonial brewing demonstration at the Camden County Historical Society last fall. Check out his blog: http://beerstainedletter.blogspot.com/







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