LOS ANGELES, April 24 ― The actor who plays a bumbling but lovable TV dad on the US comedy series “Modern Family” has opened the doors to a new beer hall in Utah.
Ty Burrell, best known for his role as Phil Dunphy on the award-winning TV show, has teamed up with local food celebrity and Salt Lake City chef Viet Pham to open Beer Bar, Burrell’s second bar in the city he’s called home since 2008.
Beer Bar has opened next door to Bar-X, a speakeasy the actor restored with his wife and other members of the family. The historic bar opened in 1933, the year Prohibition was repealed, and serves artisanal cocktail recipes from the same era.
According to Food & Wine magazine, the idea for Beer Bar was born after Burrell dined at Pham’s restaurant Forage in Salt Lake City and became enamoured with his cooking. It turns out Pham was also a fan of Burrell’s Bar-X, paving the way for their future collaboration.
Punters at Beer Bar, meanwhile, will be able to wash down artisanal sausages and bratwursts, breads and Belgian-style fries with 150 different craft beers.
Burrell is the latest celebrity to parlay his fame into the beer business. The Hanson brothers released their Mmmhops brand out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, while folk band Mumford & Sons also helped an independent brewery in Sussex, England create a craft beer that was sold at a two-day music festival last summer. ― AFP-Relaxnews
