After last weeks big-up to the Pro-Tap, we’ve been spending much more time in the Nameless Neighborhood (we don’t like Loft District or Spring Garden, but would be partial to a Prince-like symbol if we could vote on it) looking for places to love. We found ourselves at The Institute at 12th and Green, just steps from Mad Decent’s Mausoleum. They’re a work in progress with an already stellar beer list known as ‘The Big Fucking Beer Atlas’. Current bottle faves there are Founders Backwoods Bastard and Dragon’s Milk. Oh, and while you’re getting drunk off craft beer, The Institute has paid for an extended PLCB license so they can distill their own bourbon in-house. Look for it in 2009, along with a menu highlighting the flavors of Puerto Rico.

What we’re REALLY stoked for, though, is the upstairs lounge which promises to be the most unique barspace in town. Slated for completion by New Year’s Eve, owners Carlos and Heather Collazo have built highbacked booths lining both walls of the room, creating a sense of table privacy that all lead to a dancefloor in the front of the house. The DJ booth is raised above the crowd and looks like a podium out of a Star Trek epsiode, but kept rustic and constructed of wood. Installed into each booth will be a Nintendo Wii with Wii Sports. We imagine these cozy seats will be coveted like none other in town, so check back with us on a definitive launch date.

Just when Philadelphia has squeezed the hotness out of every seemingly unhot corner of the grid, we’ve found a new one. With the opening of Prohibition Taproom and The Institute, this neighborhood is shaping into yet another place to hide from suburbanites and the Dirty Jerz. You can never have too many.

The Institute, 12th and Green Sts.