Walk. Beer

The Riley & Friends Beer Walk: one day every summer, on foot, through the breweries of Fishtown and Kensington.

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One drink at each stop

Twelve breweries, noon to nearly midnight, all on foot. Try everything, pace yourself, survive.

Brick rowhouses and bare trees along Berks Street in Fishtown
Berks Street, Fishtown
Concrete arches covered in graffiti at Graffiti Pier on the Delaware River
Graffiti Pier, on the Delaware
Steel framing going up for the El's Beach Street power house in 1913
The El’s Beach Street power house going up, 1913

Every stop, ranked by momentum

Ink drawing from 1912 of a woman carrying six beer steins
Woman Carrying Beer Steins, F. Droimer, 1912

Not stars. How each place changes the pace of a twelve-stop day: Sprint, Run, Walk or Crawl.

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The 2026 route: 4.6 miles, twelve stops

The path is computed between stops with OpenStreetMap walking directions, in the order we hit them. Not a GPS track, but close.

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Play the ride

Ride the El

The Market-Frankford Line runs over Front Street and Kensington Avenue, right through the walk. Here’s the whole line, end to end, filmed by EO Transit Videos.

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Where
Fishtown & Kensington
Since
July 4, 2025
Next
Summer 2027

How it started

Fishtown and the edge of Kensington have more than twenty breweries, cideries and taprooms packed into a few square miles. On the Fourth of July, 2025, a group of us set out at noon to see how many we could reach on foot, one drink at each. It worked well enough that it couldn’t be a one-time thing.

No sign-up, no schedule beyond next summer. If you know someone who was there, you’ll hear about 2027. Until then, here’s what’s on the radar, or read the whole story.