I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Tom Peters of the Monk's Cafe on the show. Hello sir, how are you?

I'm doing well Levy, how are you?

Thanks for being here.

Yeah, thanks for inviting me. I'm really looking forward to this.

So you really helped change the Philadelphia beer scene and maybe the beer scene in the United States,

but what happened to get you there?

I mean, what was the original experience with beer?

You know, if I were in Europe, it would be totally legal for me to have a beer at 14, but since I was born here in the States,

my first beer was at 14 out of my grandfather's beer refrigerator and I had a dortmunder union

That set the playing field for me that was the

special place in my heart still.

So was he kind of a beer person that he had that around?

Yeah, he's an old railroader.

His family came from Northeastern Netherlands, so really close to Germany.

And they all drank beer. It's above the grape wine, so they all drank beer up there.

Oh, I get it, so they couldn't grow grapes for wine so they would drink beer.

Yes.

And he had some in the fridge and every so often you would be by his house?

I would go buy and mow the lawn one of those old-timey rotary reel mowers.

Thank goodness it was a small yard.

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