Pull up a stool and crack open a cold one with Joe Sixpack, beer reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News and the newest host at The Big Talker – 1210.
Joe Sixpack’s Happy Hour is a weekly call-in show focusing on America’s favorite adult beverage, beer! Ales and porters, microbrews and classic lagers – Philadelphia’s rich beer-drinking tradition makes for a fun, off-beat hour of conversation.
With his co-host and drinking buddy, standup comic Joey Callahan, Joe Sixpack keeps listeners up to date with all the latest, from beers from around the world and pubs around the corner.
Each week, Joe Sixpack’s Happy Hour takes a tasty tour of those flavorful styles. Each show includes the latest on new beers from microbreweries, a look at exotic beer styles, controversial beer-drinking laws around the country, beer festivals, favorite watering holes and, of course, phone calls from avid beer fans.
Joe Sixpack, a/k/a Don Russell, is America’s best-known beer writer. His weekly beer column has appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News for the past 10 years. Over the years, he has traveled to Belgium, France, Iceland, Israel, Austria, the Caribbean and throughout the United States and Canada in search of great beer, and great stories.
