Philly Loves Beer

03/04/2025

Spending a lot of time with groups of our dearest friends last week celebrating the life of an amazing human, Rich Colli, led to many conversations about how we could all bind together to help out the way Rich so often would ...

Check out the new City Connect and traditional Varga logo apparel, we also added some Rich Loves me gear. It’s a great way to have a physical keepsake of our buddy while raising money to help some of the people he loved most.

Every dollar of the profit from each item sold will go directly to the Varga crew. Please spread the word and help make this grow quickly.

03/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended the gathering for Rich Colli on Friday. Rich was also the main person who ran all the Philly Loves Beer social media accounts, as well as, Philly Beer Week setup.

While we're not sure what comes next - we think it involves a beer. Raise one up for Rich Colli!

02/26/2025

We'll be sharing stories and raising glasses on Friday. We love you Rich!!

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Rich Colli. If you know Varga then you know Rich. He was the center of the Philly beer community - hosting events at Varga, getting hundreds of us to gather for a tailgate and baseball game, and making sure that beer week is a time to remember. If we’ve learned anything over the last 24 hours, it’s how deeply he loved and was loved. He was an incredible son, brother, friend, colleague, and confidant and our days will be a little more dull without him.

A service will be held at McCann Healey Funeral Home in Gloucester, NJ, on Friday, February 28 from 10am - 11:30am to honor his memory. Following the service, we invite everyone to join us for a Celebration of Life at Varga from 2pm to 5pm. This will be an opportunity to share stories, memories, and raise a glass in his honor.

Let us come together to celebrate his life and the impact he had on our community. His legacy will live on through the countless lives he touched and the memories we shared with him.

02/25/2025

Raise a glass to one of the best— Rich Colli.
We love you, we will miss you, and you were the glue that held us all together.

Please share your photos and memories of Rich ❤️

02/20/2025

Philly Beer Week is 100 days away… start preparing! Ask your favorite brewery, brewpub, beer bar and restaurants what they have planned!

02/17/2025

We've been getting a bunch of questions about Lo-Key Lager, our new non-alcoholic beer! Keep reading for some answers to these FAQs:

🍌This drink has less alcohol by volume than some foods! It's not alcohol-free (it has trace amounts less than 0.5%), but ripe fruits and sourdough bread can have that much or more.

🪪 You have to be age 21 or older to purchase non-alcoholic beer. This is a rule handed down from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (take it up with them).

🧷Cans of Lo-Key Lager are pasteurized, so nothing harmful can grow and it won't accidentally re-ferment and turn into an alcoholic beer.

🍺 We keep draft Lo-Key Lager in a kegerator, completely separate from our other draft lines. This ensures that no one will accidentally serve you an alcoholic beer, and it allows us to clean the draft line daily to keep it bacteria free.

🚨 Having a non-alcoholic beer doesn't change the fact that we are a bar. Folks under age 21 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian to hang out here.

02/17/2025

02/17/2025

Put on your flannel and scrunchies because Wednesday, 2/19 is 90’s Themed Trivia Night in Conshy! From grunge to boy bands, Titanic to Pulp Fiction, Friends to Dawson’s Creek, Tamagotchis to Beanie Babies, join us as we celebrate the most tubular decade… no diggity ;)

📆: Wed, 2/19
⏰: 6:30pm

See you there!🍻

02/17/2025

02/14/2025

This weekend Sat 2/15-Mon 2/17 we are keeping the party going - because we’re turning eight & feeling great! To celebrate, we’ve got a weekend of even more (slightly chiller) fun for ya: annual bottle release, special kegs, NOLA-inspired food specials, vinyl spinning in the brewery, and maybe even a few other things... we’ll see what we’ve got up our sleeve.

In 2D birthday tradition, we’ll kick things off Sat 2/15 with our annual anniversary bottle release! Plus we’ll be tapping some vintage kegs from the brew farm cave.

Sun 2/16 The main event. It’s an all-day & into-the-night party with a special DJ set from the one and only 4pm-7pm. Special beers flowing & good vibes all around.

Monday 2/18 We’ll wind down easy. We open at Noon as usual, and it’ll be quite the Monday Holiday Happy Hour 4-6pm, with specially discounted anniversary drafts.

We’ll have Crescent City-inspired food specials from Chef Tim Kirkland all weekend long too - it is Carnival season after all!

We can’t wait to end the week right, and celebrate some more with our family & friends in South Philly and beyond. See ya this weekend!

Special thanks to for the artwork.

02/12/2025

That Broad Street Super Bowl Win feeling!!!

GO BIRDS 🦅