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Chocolate & Beer: A Valentine's Event

  • Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust 320 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA, 19106 United States (map)

Looking for a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day and Meet Quaker History? Join Arch Street Meeting House for an extraordinary craft beer and candy tasting on Friday, February 12th at 7pm!

Designed for two, enjoy a relaxing evening for you and your sweetheart as ASMH staff and volunteers create an amazing, personalized experience by hand-delivering your valentine’s treats the day before the event.

Tickets include a variety of craft beer from Conshohocken Brewing Company, Duclaw Brewing Company, and Breckinridge Brewing Company, as well as candies from the delicious and Quaker-founded, Cadbury Chocolates. For an added bonus, VIP ticket holders will also receive additional chocolates from Shane Confectionery, America’s Oldest Continuously Operating Confectionary shop that’s located right here in historic Philadelphia! With this thoughtful gift, you and your loved one will be ready to go for a 30-minute hosted tasting, prior to a 45-minute presentation from Dr. Katherine Turner.

Dr. Katherine Turner teaches US history and American Studies at Rowan University in New Jersey. Her book How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century (University of California Press, 2014) explored how industrialization transformed the job of making dinner, and the options for buying dinner, for America's immigrants, factory workers, and tenant farmers. She is currently working on a history of food in Pennsylvania. She will lead the audience on a Valentine's tour of chocolate: how this bitter bean from the New World became a sweet, milky European confection, the surprising role of abstemious Quakers in making it an affordable indulgence, and how we learned to say "I love you" with chocolate!


$50 GENERAL ADMISSION (Priced for two people): 1 x Love letter from Arch Street Meeting House volunteers 1 x 16oz Conshohocken Brewing Company, Oats Magoats Oatmeal Stout ABV. 5.7% 1 x 16oz Conshohocken Brewing Company, Cozy Slippers Winter Warmer ABV. 6.6% 1 x 12oz Duclaw Brewing Co., Sweet Baby Jesus! Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter 6.2% 1 x 12oz Breckenridge Brewing Company’s Vanilla Porter, 5.4% 2 x 26.1g Cadbury Crunchie Bar 2 X 20g Cadbury Flake Bar 2 x 21.2g Cadbury Wispa Bar


$60 VIP ADMISSION (Priced for two people): Includes everything from the General Admission ticket with an additional two pieces of chocolate from Shane Confectionery. ***VIP Tickets are currently sold out


Please Note: This product contains alcohol and must be of the age of 21 or older to purchase a ticket. This product cannot be sold to anyone under the age of 21.


*Prior to purchasing a ticket please be aware that we are only able to deliver within the Philadelphia Metro area, including Philadelphia County, Lower Bucks, Montco, Upper Delaware County and South Eastern New Jersey. If you are outside of this delivery radius and interested in this event, you may arrange a pickup from Arch Street Meeting House.

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