Spring House Brewing Company is also one of our favorites! Even our bar serves their Seven Gates Pale Ale! They brew all of their many beers! So try out Seven Gates Pale Ale at our bar, and if you love it go give them a try and taste the others!

The Lancaster Brewing Company is a historic working microbrewery right here in Lancaster! With a menu with a great selection of food and casual and friendly place to dine!

Bube’s Brewery is a 19th century brewery complex; a series of buildings which collectively performed the various functions needed at a brewery operating at that time. Bube’s is one of the only breweries from the early days of the great American breweries that has been left intact. Today, Bube’s operates as not only a microbrewery, but also as an entertainment and dining mecca.

Rumspringa Brewing Company offers the best in craft-brewed beers in the heart of Lancaster County. Located between Intercourse and Bird-in-Hand, PA so if you plan on visiting Amish Country this will be the perfect location!

Stoudt’s Brewery is Pennsylvania’s first micro brewery. Free tours every Saturday 3PM and Sunday 1PM.

Swashbuckler Brewing Company became the first brewery ever to be located on the fair grounds of a Renaissance Faire. Great place to dine if you’re visiting the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.

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June 25th-June 26th 11am-10pm celebrate traditional and contemporary Celtic heritage with music, dance, games, arts, crafts and foods at the 12th annual Celtic Fling and Highland Games. Purchase your tickets online for the lowest prices, click here. Just a great place to experience a bit of Scotland and a touch of the Irish, and have fun!

Click the links to see schedules for entertainment, Saturday, June 25th Schedule & Sunday, June 26th Schedule.

The Country Inn & Suites by Carlson Manheim is located south of the Mount Hope Estate and PA Renaissance Faire grounds. For hotel accommodations please visit our website or call us toll free at 877-720-1202.

June 25th-June 26th 11am-10pm celebrate traditional and contemporary Celtic heritage with music, dance, games, arts, crafts and foods at the 12th annual Celtic Fling and Highland Games. Purchase your tickets online for the lowest prices, click here. Just a great place to experience a bit of Scotland and a touch of the Irish, and have fun!

Click the links to see schedules for entertainment, Saturday, June 25th Schedule & Sunday, June 26th Schedule.

Don’t forget to like us on facebook and keep up with our updates @ Hilton Garden Inn Lancaster and Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire!

In punch bowl combine berries, sugar and wine. Let stand for 30 minutes. To serve, add lemonade concentrate and pineapple juice and soda. Serve over ice. Enjoy!

Pink Lemonade
4 oz. Mount Hope Pink Catawba
2 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
2 oz. Orange Juice
2 oz. Simple Syrup
Lemon Slice
Cherry

Serve over ice in goblet. Garnish with lemon slice and cherry. Enjoy!

Mount Hope Sangria Wine Punch
1 Bottle Mount Hope Sangria
1 Quart grape juice
1 Quart pineapple juice
1 Quart cranberry juice
1 Can Lemon/Lime Soda
Splash Vanilla Extract
Orange, lemon and lime wedges

Combine all ingredients. Serve over ice. Garnish with fruit. Enjoy!

Sample some great wine and experience the PA Renaissance Faire when you book the PA Ren Faire package at the Country Inn & Suites Manheim.  Package includes hotel accommodations, deluxe continental breakfast, 2 adult tickets to the Faire, $10 gift card for the Mount Hope Wine & Gift Shop, and $20 in Coins of the Realm to be redeemed on the faire grounds.  Contact us at 717-665-5440, toll free at 1-877-720-1202, or online at www.countryinns.com/manheimpa.  Long live the Queen!

PA Renaissance Faire

Brewfest at Mt Hope Estate

Brewfest at Mt. Hope Estate and Winery will take place Saturday May 15, 2010. The Swashbuckler Brewery and Restaurant will be open on May 14 ahead of Brewfest. For those visiting Lancaster, the Mt. Hope Estate and Winery is just 15 minutes from the Route 283/30 split, north on Manheim Pike (Route 72).This is just the first of many summer events at the Mt. Hope Estate and Winery for 2010. For more information on Mt. Hope Estate and Winery, Brewfest, Celtic Fling and the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire please visit http://www.parenfaire.com.

Those who plan to wear a kilt this Celtic Fling and PA Renaissance Faire season should recognize that a kilted man inevitably attracts admiring spectators drawn like moths to the flame, or termites to a caber.  These admirers, who are often given to calling out such endearments as “Kiltie, kiltie, cauld bum, cannae keep a warm one!” or “Donald! Where’s your troosers?” see a kilted Scot as an adventurer who walks the thin line between Presbyterian and prurient, between bard and barbarian, between tradition and tramp.  However, to avoid inadvertently offending the delicate sensibilities of spectators, men should observe the following rules of kilt etiquette:

1. Walk, do not run, when heading for an ale at O’Malley’s or to claim a front row seat at a Wailing Bansheee performance.  If you must walk quickly, keep both hands on your sporran.  If your sporran is up around your neck, you’re walking much too fast.
2. Do not walk up the Globe stairs for an autographed CD.
3. Do not stoop, crouch, or squat to pick up anything from the floor.  Have a friend pick up the object for you.  If your friend will not oblige, kick the object to a secluded place before you retrieve it.  If you have no friends, then stooping, crouching or squatting in a kilt may only worsen your lonely condition.
4. Do not wear shiny new shoes.  Dull them a little (perhaps with mud or mince) or wear spats and establish your credentials as the fashion trend setter that you are.
5. Do not stand at the edge of reflective fountains, or any mirror-like puddles.  On those formal events where you must wear silver buckles on your shoes, do not stand still for longer than five seconds at a time.  Dance instead.
6. However, dance nothing more boisterous than a slow waltz.  Reserve wild reels, jigs, and flings for family gatherings where your identity requires no further elaboration, or for those occasions when your anonymity is assured.  Limbo dancing in a kilt at any time definitely breaches kilt etiquette.
7. Respond only with an enigmatic smile to any questions about what is worn under your kilt.  Avoid responding with the tired cliché “Nothing is worn under my kilt, everything is in fine working order.”  Similarly, do not offer any demonstrations of what is worn under your kilt.  An offer such as “I’ll show your mine if you show me yours” can be misconstrued as the opening salvo in an ever escalating series of challenges and exhibitions which might be illegal in public places, even between consenting adults.
8. Shaving of one’s legs is unnecessary.  However, hirsute highlanders who elect to wax the hair from their legs should wax the whole leg and not just the knee area displayed between kilt and hose.  Such false economies only contribute to the myth of the cheap Scot.  Also, it is considered in poor taste to suggest private viewings of your “kilt-line”.
9. Do not sit with one leg crossed over the other.  This position requires you to un-cross your legs later, a tricky maneuver mastered by only a select few after years of training.  Always sit with your knees no more than six inches apart, thus creating enough shadow for mystery and discretion.  Avoid soft recliners, swings or rocking chairs where the sitter’s knees may move above shoulder level.
10. Be sure of the context of the conversation before making comments about global warming, air conditioning, or the ozone layer; none of these topics necessarily pertains to the creature comforts of a kiltie.

Observance of these simple guidelines allows one to wear the kilt with panache and ensures your own confident decorum, all while providing your adoring audience with a stirring but not unsettling spectacle.

Kilts