Beergate in Phillie

There's a woman who covers wine for The Inquirer. And Joe Sixpack covers beer for The Daily News.

Anyway, Joe (his real name is Don Russell) was at Veterans Stadium, which is city-owned, and bought a glass of beer. He expected it to be warm. He expected it to be bad. And his experience as a beer drinker told him that this was not the advertised 18 ounces of beer. In fact, it was 16 ounces of beer for, I think, $4.75.

So Joe goes on a tear with a lot of civic involvement. He had a lot of fans who really got invested in this story. There was a City Council investigation. Underneath all of this there was a very smelly 15-year vending contract...In the end, this year the concessionaire dropped the beer prices and is now serving the full 18 ounces of beer. So it was a great victory.

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