After a rousing victory for North Wales in the cask challenge (thankfully, we needed it after getting our butt kicked in Lancaster) we have been busy brewing German beers for the upcoming Oktoberfest and sending beers to GABF for competition. Our next cask for our “First Friday” September 3rd, will be Saison Du Hill dry hopped with whole leaf Cascade hops provided straight from my unofficial assistants Steph and Tim’s backyard. They are growing their own hops and i thought this would be a cool way to try them out!
Other than that we have a 5 course beer dinner coming up September 28th starting at 7 o’clock. Each course was specifically paired with one of our beers to create a great overall menu. If you haven’t been to one of our beer dinners, i highly suggest coming out. You always leave full and happy. If you’d like to reserve a seat please call the restaurant at 267-708-2000 and we will sign you up. That’s all i have for now, feel free to email me with any questions.
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With the Great American Beer Festival right around the corner, Kyle and I are finally opening some of our barrel aged beers for the competition. The picture you see is of Sour Abbey Dubbel. As the title says, it’s like christmas morning for the two of us. You will definitely see a keg of Dubbel Trubbel on tap soon!
As we do every first friday of the month, we will have a cask on tap this Friday the 6th. The twist this Friday is that we will have TWO casks on tap. One cask from North Wales, our double ipa affectionately dubbed “Something Hoppy” and one from our Lancaster location, “Coffee Imperial Porter”. This will be the first tasting of this year’s Something Hoppy, it won’t be on tap until the 9th. As i previously reported Lancaster whooped up on us when we had our first cask challenge at their location. Now it is time to return the favor! We will be tapping both casks at 5 p.m. and Paul and I will both be on hand chat about the beer. Feel free to heckle Paul endlessly, he had his staff and mug-club members put a nice verbal lashing on me the moment i walked into Lancaster! Here is a great link to Wikipedia’s information on cask conditioned beers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cask_ale
Here are the dates we are looking at for upcoming beer releases:
Baltic Porter=8/4
Something Hoppy on tap, NOT CASK=8/9
Saison=8/19
I hope to see you here on Friday!
