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Beer Birthday: Scoats

July 11, 2025 By Jay Brooks

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Today is the 60th birthday — the Big 6-O — of Mike “Scoats” Scotese, who owned the Grey Lodge Public House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and as far as I know, he’s also still involved in the Hop Angel Brauhaus and Bonk’s Bar. Scoats is an awesome person, and I got to know him better when I took a trip to Belgium with a group of beer people from Philadelphia several years ago. He’s a terrific advocate for better beer, and helped make Philadelphia the great beer town it is today. Join me in wishing Scoats a very happy birthday.

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Scoats at the Grey Lodge [photo by Danya Henninger for Philly.com].
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Scoats at GABF with another of my favorite beer people, Jaime Jurado, then with Abita Brewing.
Tapping the firkin.
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That’s Scoats behind Tom Peters as I shared Belgian frites with everyone in Brussels a few years ago.

Filed Under: Birthdays, Just For Fun, Related Pleasures Tagged With: Bars, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia



Comments

  1. Scoats says

    July 12, 2024 at 7:40 am

    Thanks Jay! I’m not longer with Hop Angel or Bonks either. But I’m still in the beer biz.

    My brand Lucky Cat Beer is one of the founding members of Mutual Respect Brewers Co-op in Bensalem, PA.

    I hope we cross paths soon. Ideally in Belgium 🙂

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