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Second Sin Brewing Company Is Celebrating Their 3rd Anniversary Tomorrow (11.23.22)

B. Kline — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:05:00 +0000

The four beers being released as part of the Second Sin Brewery’s Third Anniversary Celebration

Time to Celebrate

Not only is it Drinksgiving tomorrow (Thanksgiving Eve), but its also Second Sin Brewing Company’s third anniversary celebration! Starting at noon tomorrow when they open til they close at 10PM tomorrow night, they will be hosting one heck of a festive celebration in Bristol Pennsylvania.

As they stated on their Facebook page for the event:

Well, tomorrow (11/23) is the big day! We want to recap all the info, so bear with the long post:⠀

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• Open Noon-10pm⠀

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• 4 New Beers – Our @breweriesinpa Collab The Philly Phantasmic, Birthday Boi, Big Nib Energy, and Snowbird Sour (see our previous posts for more details)⠀

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• Birthday Boi shirts for the first 45 people that buy a 4 pack of Birthday Boi (1pp, sizes limited)⠀

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• 2 Vintage Kegs – Thricecream and A Life Well Lived⠀

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• @elsabordelbajio and @mrbigstuffcookie on site for sustenance!⠀

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• As a reminder Second Sin will be donating $1 to @hopsvineshungerpa for every Pint and Liter Pumpkin Ale (2022) and Schwarzbier sold this month. ⠀

• We’ll also be welcoming the @trenton.animal.shelter Christmas Tree to the brewery starting tomorrow. Take a look at the tree and scan the ornaments to find some adoptable dogs!⠀

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We can’t wait to party with you all, we couldn’t have made it this far without you!⠀

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#craftbeer #beer #drinkinbucksco #secondsin #beerstagram #beernerd #instabeer #beerlover #pabreweries #visitbuckscounty #visitphilly #breweriesinpa #drinklocal #buckscounty #supportlocal #pabeer #candrop #lager #ipa #hazyipa #sourbeer #anniversary #party
Second Sin Brewing Company – Facebook Post

Beer Releases

They will be releasing four beers in honor of their anniversary. They are:

The Philly Phantasmic (a collaboration with Breweries in PA) – using Phantasm powder
Birthday Boi – a milkshake IPA
Snow Bird Sour – a sour ale with banana, pineapple, and coconut
Big Nib Energy – in bottle – bourbon barrel aged blended strong ale with single origin cocao nibs

The Philly Phantasmic, Birthday Boi, and Snow Bird Sour will be in 16oz cans whereas the Big Nib Energy will be in 500lm bottles.

Their descriptions for the beers as per their Facebook posts are:

The Philly Phantasmic

The Philly Phantasmic (photo courtesy of Second Sin Brewing Company Facebook)

The first Anniversary beer we’d like to announce is our latest Collab with @breweriesinpa The Philly Phantasmic! This DDH Phantasm IPA was brewed with Galaxy, Citra, and Simcoe, along with a special yeast strain to produce a tropical, juicy beer.

This will be available on draft and in 4 packs when we open on Wednesday, 11/23 at noon. We’ll be announcing the remaining 3 beers over the next 3 days, so stay tuned.
Second Sin Brewing Company – The Philly Phantasmic Post

Birthday Boi

Birthday Boi (photo courtesy of Second Sin Brewing Company Facebook Page)

Hey Ya’ll⠀

Birthdays come but once a year but this Wednesday we’re all going to be Birthday Bois!⠀

The second anniversary beer we’d like to announce is a new Milkshake IPA, Birthday Boi. We loaded this beer up with Citra, Mosaic, Sabro, Vanilla, and a touch of lactose for a different, smooth take on one of our Hazy IPAs.⠀

When we open at noon on Wednesday 11/23 we will have Birthday Boi shirts for the first 45 people who buy a 4 pack of the namesake beer. First come first served, sizes are limited.⠀

As an added Birthday Bonus at 4pm on 11/23 we’ll be tapping a Firkin of Birthday Boi conditioned on Funfetti Cake.⠀

Clear your schedule, come celebrate, and be a Birthday Boi! ⠀

#craftbeer #beer #drinkinbucksco #secondsin #beerstagram #beernerd #instabeer #beerlover #pabreweries #visitbuckscounty #visitphilly #breweriesinpa #drinklocal #buckscounty #supportlocal #pabeer #candrop #lager #ipa #hazyipa
Second Sin Brewing Company – Birthday Boi Post

Big Nib Energy

(Big Nib Energy pictures from Second Sin Brewing Company’s Facebook post)

The next beer that we’d like to announce was brewed before our first anniversary! Big Nib Energy is a strong ale that is a blend of Barleywine and Imperial Stout aged in a single Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrel for 22 months. Tasting this beer every few months for the last almost two years has been a wild ride. Each time we revisited the beer, new layers were developed from the slow oxidation through the oak.

When we finally removed the beer from the barrel, we selected some lovely single origin Ecuadorian cacao nibs from @etherealconfections to condition it on. The resulting beer is dense and complex, with an upfront sweetness, bourbony oak, and a raisin dark fruitiness, complimented by a slightly drying cacao flavor.

We’re very excited to share this beer with you all, and as an additional experience we have a limited number of chocolate bars from Ethereal, made from the same nibs that went into Big Nib Energy. The very dark chocolate balances amazingly with the sweetness of the beer. We will be selling bottles solo, or as a package with a bar of chocolate.

Come out on Wednesday 11/23 at noon to get your hands on some!
Second Sin Brewing Company – Big Nib Energy Post

Snow Bird Sour

Snow Bird Sour photo courtesy of Second Sin Brewing Company Facebook post

Without further ado we present the final 3rd Anniversary Release:⠀

Snow Bird Sour – Sour Ale with Banana, Pineapple, and Coconut⠀

It’s around that time of year that many, the so-called “Snow Birds” in our area, start migrating Southward. We brewed this beer as one last tropical fling before we’re plunged into the bitter cold of Winter, and as a reminder of warmer days.⠀

This beer as well as the 3 beers mentioned over the last few days will be available on draft and to go on Wednesday 11/23 at noon. This is a party you won’t want to miss!⠀

#craftbeer #beer #drinkinbucksco #secondsin #beerstagram #beernerd #instabeer #beerlover #pabreweries #visitbuckscounty #visitphilly #breweriesinpa #drinklocal #buckscounty #supportlocal #pabeer #candrop #lager #ipa #hazyipa #sourbeer
Second Sin Brewing Company – Snow Bird Sour Post

Hops and Vines for Hunger

Second Sin Brewing Company has partnered with Sara Bozich and numerous other breweries to be included in the Hops and Vines for Hunger program. You can read more about that here:

Hops and Vines for Hunger (Homepage)

As for what Second Sin Brewing Company is donating, they stated in their post:

As a reminder Second Sin will be donating $1 to @hopsvineshungerpa for every Pint and Liter Pumpkin Ale (2022) and Schwarzbier sold this month. ⠀
Second Sin Brewing Company – Facebook Post

Our Second Sin Brewing Company Articles

We’ve done several articles about Second Sin Brewing Company here at The Beer Thrillers. We’ve reviewed several of their beers, as well as covered some news. You can find out more below:

Beer Review: The Phantasm Menace (Second Sin Brewing Company)
Beer Review: Kolsch (Second Sin Brewing Company)
Beer Review: Dragged Into Sunlight (Second Sin Brewing Company)
Matrix Monday at Second Sin Brewing Company
Beer Review: I Voted for Kodos (Second Sin Brewing Company)
Beer Review: I Voted for Kang (Second Sin Brewing Company)

For More Information

For more information on Second Sin Brewing Company, you can check out their following links:

As per Untapped – Second Sin Brewing Company is a micro brewery from Bristol, PA. As of 11.22.22, they have 256 unique beers and 23, 400~ ratings, with a global unique rating of 4.09.

Brewery News

Interested in finding out about many other brewery openings, new locations, closings, movings, and in general brewery news? You can check out our links below:

Thanks For Reading

Once again, I would like to thank you all for reading! Cheers to Second Sin Brewing Company for their 3rd Anniversary! We’re hoping in 2023 (or maybe even in December of 2022, who knows), that we’ll get to come out and finally visit their brewery in Bristol. They have sent us some wonderful care packages in the past including the Phantasm Menace, Kolsch, and Dragged into Sunlight that we reviewed.

Tomorrow is also Drinksgiving (or Thanksgiving Eve). What is everyone getting into? With Scarlet Emma I don’t think we’ll be getting into anything, but who knows. Then of course on Thursday is Thanksgiving and we’ll be going over to my sister’s, and then on Friday we’ll be having a family party at my parent’s. So next few days should be pretty busy.

We are planning trips to both Jackass Brewery to get to try out the Pulisic Pilsner as well as a trip out to The Alementary in Hackensack New Jersey, so we’ll be sure to write and post about that all as well.

As always, thanks for reading, and Happy Thanksgiving and Drinksgiving everyone!

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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Matrix Monday at Second Sin

BKline — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:36:50 +0000

Second Sin’s two beer releases for today – the Red Pils and the Blue Pils

Enter the Matrix

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.
Morpheus – The Matrix

A moment inscribed in all the brains of every 80s and 90s kids / teens growing up. A movie that blew our collective brains clear out of our skulls while we were in high school or middle school. …..And it’s back. This time – for a cash grab. Well, sort of, who knows? Maybe the movie will be fantastic. Maybe it’ll replace how bad the trilogy ended. Who knows. Lets keep our fingers crossed on Wednesday when Matrix Resurrections hits movie theaters and HBO Max that it blows our brains once again.

So… do you want to take the Red Pill or the Blue Pill?

Second Sin’s Matrix Monday

Today, in celebration, anticipation, and hopefully getting all of us 80s and 90s geeks and kids who lost our brains in and because of the Matrix, Second Sin is hosting ‘Matrix Monday’. Announced on December 15th, that they will be hosting Matrix Monday at their brewery today – December 20th, 2021.

Their initial Facebook post showed the poster of the two new Pilsners they are releasing with a brief intro to what the event will be:

Join us at the brewery on Matrix Monday (12/20/21 at 5pm) for this double release and see how deep the Pilsner Rabbit Hole goes.#craftbeer #beer #drinkinbucksco #secondsin #beerstagram #instabeer #visitbuckscounty #visitphilly #breweriesinpa #drinklocal #buckscounty #candrop #matrix #lager #pilsner #thechoiceisyours
Second Sin – Facebook

Second Sin’s Facebook poster

Yesterday they provided a bit more information on today’s event in another Facebook post:

You taste the Blue Pils, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe you had a delicious Italian Pilsner. You taste the Red Pils, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the lager rabbit hole goes.⠀⠀
We’ll be open at 5pm for Matrix Monday. Stop in, enjoy these two releases, and catch up on the original trilogy before the new movie is released. Both beers will be available for preorder starting at noon tomorrow.⠀
⠀#craftbeer #beer #drinkinbucksco #secondsin #beerstagram #instabeer #visitbuckscounty #visitphilly #breweriesinpa #drinklocal #buckscounty #supportlocal #matrix #redpill #bluepill #lager #pilsner #thechoiceisyours #downtherabbithole
Second Sin – Facebook

Second Sin – Facebook’s Matrix Monday event

Both the Blue Pils and the Red Pils is listed already on Untappd. Their descriptions are:

Beer: Blue Pils
Brewery: Second Sin Brewing Company
Style: Pilsner – Italian
ABV: 5.7%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: Blue Pils – Italian-Style Pilsner – Unfortunately, no one can be told what an Italian Pilsner is. You have to drink one for yourself…but I guess we can try. This beer starts with a simple, clean Pilsner base that is gently dry hopped twice with Halltertau and Loral, for a lovely floral hop character that is a nice change of pace from our other hoppy offerings.

Beer: Red Pils
Brewery: Second Sin Brewing Company
Style: Pilsner – Other
ABV: 5.6%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: Red Pils – American Dry Hopped Pilsner – As unbelievable as some (us included) may find it, there are people out there that don’t like lagers, and more specifically, pilsners. Well this one is for them. We start with a crisp Pilsner and hop it in the kettle and dry hop with Hallertau Blanc, Citra, and Mosaic for a twist on a great style. If you’re a hop head that doesn’t really care for lagers…Drink the Red Pils, and we’ll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Second Sin Brewing Company

Second Sin Brewing Company is a micro brewery located in Bristol, Pennsylvania. According to Untappd they have 196 unique beers and have a total of 16,657 ratings (as of 12.20.21). They have a global average rating of 4.09 and they made the Pennsylvania Top 10 Untappd Breweries for 2021 list. You can find them on Facebook here: Second Sin Brewing Company’s Facebook Profile. Their brewery is located at 1500 Grundy Lane, Bristol PA.

We have reviewed two beers from them in the past:

So What Will It Be?

Will you take the Blue Pill and wake back up in your bed in the morning? Maybe a slight hangover. Maybe not. And go about your day as if nothings ever been changed and not knowing about the true reality behind it all….. or…. do you take that Red Pill and dive deep into the Pilsners, the Lagers, and the myriad of other beers that Second Sin has to offer?

OR…

Do you have both? And then continue to have every other beer Second Sin has to offer at their brewery?

See you today for Matrix Monday at Second Sin to find out!

For More Information

Trailers:

Official Trailer 1:

Official Trailer 2:

The Extended Official Trailer:

Thanks For Reading

This is probably the first post I’ve done with this many YouTube clips or videos embedded. Hopefully all that coding junk and HTML and javascript and WordPress and other high – falutin techy sounding words all work out right. Fingers crossed. Don’t want the Matrix to break down on us now do we? (See…. see what I did there? Get it….?)

Anyway, thanks for reading as always. Always love to hear from you guys. Will you be going to the Matrix Monday event today at Second Sin Brewery?

2021 is just about wrapped up and things are getting a bit busy and hectic around here at The Beer Thrillers headquarters. But 2022 is really looking to be an exciting year. (Finally after the last two years!) Lots of new and exciting things here, and a pretty varied and wide range of things will be happening. (More beer reviews, more beer travels, more travelogues and brewery reviews, podcasts, board game and card game streaming, more video game streaming and meet ups, book reviews, hikes and hike reviews, and lots and lots more beer and brewery news and notes.) We will also be pumping up our home brewing next year and will be doing a lot more articles and news and notes on that as well (with home brewing videos too!). Also hop growing, and all kinds of other things. So 2022 is really looking to be fun and exciting! I can’t wait!

For more links to some of our stuff, check out our archive pages:

As always though, thanks for reading. Let us know what you thought of this article, of Second Sin Brewing, of The Matrix, etc. Are you looking forward to the new movie? What did you think of the original trilogy? Excited for it all or just ‘bleh’ to it? Let us know!

Cheers everyone!

-B. Kline

Beer Review: I Voted for Kodos (Second Sin Brewing Company)

BKline — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:04:00 +0000

Don’t Blame Me…. I Voted for Kodos

As with everything, if I can push the blame off me (yet still take credit when I can), I will… so let me be the first to say: I voted for Kodos (Kodos Johnson to be exact), so you can’t blame me.

In one of the funniest bits from The Simpsons as a whole, and from the various Treehouses of Horror, the Citizen Kang segment from Treehouse of Horror VII. For the uninitiated, Kang and Kodos are aliens (Rigellians) from the planet Rigel 7. They appear (sometimes as main segments, sometimes as just cameos) in every Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons. The episodes; especially through the first years; are humorous parodies and looks at different horror movies, thrillers, or cultural cues. In later years they’ve begun to parody just about anything popular at the time.

We Must Move Forward, Not Backward, Upward, not Forward, and Always… Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom

Each Treehouse of Horror episode is broken down into three segments or acts. In Citizen Kang (which is the third act of Treehouse of Horror VII – season 8), Kang and Kodos abduct Bill Clinton and Bob Dole and basically steal their identity and ‘body snatch’ them and replace them with themselves. This ends up leaving people with no real chance of voting, because…. who can vote third party? (Sorry Ross Perot.)

Twirling… Twirling… Twirling

Should you ever see two combatant politicians hold hands as they walk around town… you should immediately know something is up. Could you imagine Donald Trump and Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton holding hands? Or Bush Jr and Al Gore? Or anyone with Putin? Not likely. So always be leery and on the lookout for tell tale signs like this. Also – if your politician tells you that you need to always be twirling… twirling… twirling towards freedom…. most likely he’s an alien in disguise… or a former cheerleader and gymnast who got stuck at a podium and is crying out for help.

Twirling Towards Freedom

Having grown up on a steady diet of Simpsons and pop culture and now in my fast becoming late 30s (le sigh) once I heard of these two beers being released (I Voted for Kodos and I Voted for Kang) by Second Sin Brewing Company; I got all the feels and the nostalgia and member-berries and had to have them. Like all of the Star Wars beers I’ve reviewed, I had to also get ahold of these to review as well. Luckily, from the brewery itself, I was alerted to the fact that there’s a Facebook group for Second Sin Brewing called Disciples of Second Sin. Since it was unlikely I would make it to Bristol PA before they were sold out, I was trying to trade / buy from someone who lived in the area and could ship or bring closer, and luckily Steve Orbanek contacted me with the hookup. So big shout out to him and major props and huge thank you’s go to Steve Orbanek for the hookup and to Second Sin Brewing for alerting me to the group.

When I got home from my Indy trip, the package was on my doorstep which was all the cooler as a nice return gift. Steve even threw in a third beer for me (for free) for a future beer review, so I’ll keep you all in suspense and just say that you all will get a bonus beer review soon thanks to Steve.

Second Sin Brewing Company is a micro brewery from Bristol Pennsylvania. According to Untappd they have 138 unique beers and a global average rating of 4.07 (as of 11.26.20). Their Untappd description is blank.

I Voted for Kodos by Second Sin Brewing Company

Beer: I Voted for Kodos
Brewery: Second Sin Brewing Company
Style: IPA – New England
ABV: 6.7%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: I Voted For Kang and I Voted For Kodos, conceptually, are like two peas in a pod. They both started with the same base of 2 row malt, Malted Oats, and light Crystal. Both are supported with Galaxy and Idaho 7 hops to round out their flavor profiles.

However, don’t let anyone tell you that these candidates are the same…oh, no. Kang is primarily hopped with the tropical and fruity Citra, while Kodos is loaded with dank and melony Mosaic.

Steve was kind of enough to trade me both I Voted for Kodos and I Voted for Kang; so be on the lookout soon for the second of these two reviews (as well as the bonus beer that Steve sent). I started with Kodos (primarily just for the “don’t blame me I voted for Kodos” line).

Appearance is a very golden New England IPA look, hazy, opaque, no sediment, bright golden brew. This looks like a slightly darker and heavier looking orange juice. It has a foamy, creamy, white head, with great carbonation, and varied and diverse bubbles; and left a beautiful lacing on the glass.

Aroma is a bouquet of hops, a buffet of hoppy smells, like diving your nose right into a bag of the good stuff. The galaxy, Idaho 7, and Mosaic hops create a wonderful hop aroma, heavy, dank, melon, some grapefruit, stone fruit, some citrus, and a whiff of pine. Some peach, some passionfruit rounds out the cornucopia of hop aromas and mouth watering smell.

Now lets get to the fun part of this… drinking this beauty. And hmmmmm is this tasty. It is a dank, juicy, New England IPA, with a lot going for it. It has an interesting mild ‘spice’ kick, subtle, but you get it as you drink, its an interesting note that adds to the beer. The primary flavors though come from the blend of hops used – Galaxy, Idaho 7, and Mosaic. Strong flavors of the stone and tropical fruits, a heavy dose of peach and passionfruit, light grapefruit notes (which could also provide a bit of the kick too), and the faintest lingering taste of sticky pine and a small dollop of earthy notes and tones (faint, ever so faint, but slightly discernible). This is a smooth drinking beer too. It has just the right mouthfeel and texture, and slick and smoothness to the drink. A four pack of this could easily be crushed sitting out, or mowing, or reading, or hanging out with friends, or even sitting around a campfire. At 6.7% its a good buzz inducing beer that won’t knock you right out either, so its perfect to sit around with friends or mowing. The hop blend is really wonderful here, the peach, to passionfruit, to citrus, to melon, and melon rinds, with the hint of grapefruit, pine, wee bit of kick at the finishing touches, leaves a great taste in your mouth, and makes this just a delicious brew all around. This was my first beer by Second Sin Brewing, and I am totally sold by them, and can see why they have a 4+ average rating. This is smooth, silky, nice mouthfeel, not watery, hoppy, dank, juicy, and with a blasting amount of flavors. This is just a well crafted beer through and through.

My Untappd Rating: ****
Global Untappd Rating: 4.19 (as of 11.26.20)

Thank you everyone for taking the time out on Turkey Day – Thanksgiving – to give this a read. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving, either with friends, family, or with your own small(er) gathering this year. This is certainly a different Thanksgiving for most of us than we’ve been used to. It has been quite the challenge this year, but hopefully everyone can stay safe, healthy, and have a happy Thanksgiving, as we push towards the end of the year and the merrier time of the year.

Cheers everyone!

-B. Kline

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For more info on Kodos: