Getting out of the house is often hampered by the fact that most houses are located inside a bigger and fancier house. Step outside of the house outside of your house with today's Groupon: for $6, you get one food-only admission to Millvale BrewFest (a $12 value for advanced purchase; a $15 value at the door).
The fifth-annual Millvale BrewFest is a charitable summer festival that brings together live music, brews, and tasty eats. The food-only Groupon option gets ticket holders admission to the festival and a spread of picnic-style food prepared by local chefs, which also includes vegetarian and vegan options. Proceeds from the festival go to Millvale MainStreet and Millvale Borough Development Corporation, a nonprofit helping the Millvale area recover from Hurricane Ivan damage by developing housing and business projects.
Pouring frothy brews and lassoing kegs with hop vines, the festival’s local breweries include Pennsylvania Brewing Company, Erie Brewing Company, Roy Pitz Brewing Company, Iron City Brewing Company, and Beaver Brewing Company. Pick up some brew-related gear and enter to win prizes such as beer, gift certificates, and beer goggles. Groupon holders can upgrade to a beer-tasting ticket to enjoy a sampling of suds in a free tasting glass ($20 extra).
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The Groupon Guide to: Choosing Produce
There's no worse feeling than when you buy what you assume is perfectly ripe produce only to discover it's too hard or have it dissolve into a pile of ashes in your grocery bag. Here are some tips for filling your basket with ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables:
- Broccoli: Drag the vegetable florets-side-up across your arm. Each should be firm enough to rid your forearm of unwanted hair.
- Cherry: You'll have to tear through the tasteless, inedible outer layer to test the cherry's high-protein, peanut-like core. Once you expose the cherry nut, swallow it and rate the pain you feel as it gradually moves down your throat. If it's less than a seven, it's too ripe.
- Apple: Smell an apple. Does it smell apple?
- Cantaloupe: Knock on it to determine if it's hollow. If it is, there's a gerbil living inside subsisting on the fruit's ripe core. Hurry up! You'll have to eat quickly to beat the gerbil.
- Pumpkin: This orange, round gourd shouldn't deflate easily, so repeatedly stab it with something sharp, such as a hunting knife or the tools doctors use to open their mail.
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