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The Food Drink and Travel Report Blog – 8.10.11

Spirit Preview: Rhuby It’s not often that we have the opportunity to experience a brand-new flavor combination. In that sense, the world of food and drink bears a striking resemblance to that of music: By now, more than a decade into the 21st century, we seem to have heard it all and tasted it all [...]

Uwishunu.com – 8.8.11

Art In The Age Launches A New Spirit, RHUBY, A Rhubarb-Based Liqueur Art in the Age, the local artist collective-cum-organic spirits producer, has announced the creation of its latest liqueur, RHUBY. Like ROOT and SNAP before it, the rhubarb-based spirit engages with centuries-old Pennsylvania history. RHUBY is based on an old Philadelphia recipe for Rhubarb [...]

Heritage Radio – 8.2.11

Unfiltered – Episode 86 – Root First Aired – 08/02/2011 04:00PM This week on Unfiltered Brian and Erin are joined Steve Grasse of Art in Age of Mechanical Reproduction and creator of Root, a pre-Prohibition style root beer liqueur. They talk about the history of root beer, building a distillery, and whiskey as currency at [...]

National Geographic – 8.1.11

Along Third Street in Old City, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction sells merchandise made using pre-Industrial Age methods: quilts crafted in Lancaster County; desk caddies made of wood reclaimed from local buildings. A drink named Root – a spirit based on the 18th century root beer – is made on site (but sold [...]

Philadelphia Weekly – 7.29.11

Old City’s Art in the Age Takes Brewing Tradition to New Orleans The first official flavor of this year’s Tales of the Cocktail, New Orleans’ annual celebration of the art of the mixed drink, was rhubarb. On Wed., Aug. 20, at the Hotel Monteleone, Philadelphia’s Art in the Age hosted the first tasting room of [...]

Tasteologie – 7.28.11

Rhuby ~ A new rhubarb flavored liquor from Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. It is a great use of the seasonal favorite, rhubarb, and as their cute video explains, it goes back to the plant’s past as a medicinal tonic! Rhuby is a new certified organic spirit from Art in the Age of [...]