So I was just working on the Beer Special sheets. There are three new beers coming on tap right now!

India Black Ale

Belgo Blonde

Sasquatch.

FYI

It’s final….we totally have the beer menu wrapped up and Here It Is! The schedule this year will be as follows:

Mug Club Only Preview 12:00p.m.

Beers on Tap for General Public: 1:00p.m.

I will warn everyone that we will run out of beer this year, and that it’s likely to be early based on how quickly we went through everything last year. In case you don’t recall, there was a snowstorm and we  were still out of beer by about 6:30 p.m. I am super excited ’cause there is quite a bit of ‘un-gettable’ beer in there. Yum.

It’s Belgium Comes to West Chester season again. Jordan  and I just finished hanging the Belgian flags here and that’s when it usually starts to get real for me. Giddyup. In case you didn’t get a ‘save the date’ mark your calendar for Saturday January 29th 2011. Mug club only preview will be starting at 12:00pm sharp this year with the event opening up to the general public at 1:oopm. The list of beers is quite impressive, and will be posted here shortly. Looks like we have over 24 different beers from breweries all over the greater Iron Hill Brewery area. Now leaving on runway 5…..!

It’s ready to go. Gerardus Maximus will be on tap starting tomrrow, Saturday January 8th at 2:00pm. Gerry will be here to tap a firkin of the nectar at 4:00p.m. on the dot. Free Gerry Beer pints for mug club members. Come celebrate the snow and hoppy beers with us. Yeah Beer!

In case you haven’t heard the Abbey at Rochefort burnt down! Man, if the monks can’t catch a break then who can? My wife Whit and I have been talking about planning a Belgian Beer Vacation for a while now and this just reenforce the urgency of the matter. True Trappist beer is likely to go the way of the Dodo in my lifetime.  These beers have inspired the brewing of Abbey style beers here at Iron Hill. Over the years we’ve won many awards for theses beers, and our thoughts go out to the monks of Rochefort.

Update: I just heard that the library and the brewery were spared in the fire! Weeeeeee!

They folks over at Philly Beer Scene have posted a review of IHB West Chester. How nice of them! Man, do we live in a cool beer market or what?!

For having his name randomly drawn from all of the winning entries of the ‘Pick your favorite Oy!to the world beer’ Kevin has won 1000 Mug Club Points! Thanks to everyone who came out to the event and to the crews from Sly Fox, Schmaltz, and Southampton brewing for sharing holiday pints with us.  Good times for sure. We will most likely run the same type of drawing for the Gerardus Maximus tapping party on January 8th so make a plan to come by for that. (details later). Happy Holidays to all!

We are totally brewing Gerry’s Beer GERARDUS MAXIMUS right now! He rolled in this morning to brew with us wearing his ‘Charity Begins at Foam’ t-shit. Gotta’ get one of those! Gerry is here just about every day, and we figured it was totally time to brew a beer in his honor. GM will be a Double Red Ale, which is big, hoppy, and alcoholic. Gerry wouldn’t have it any other way. We are going to have a toga / beer release party in January to kick off this bad boy. Date to come. Check out Gerry in action!

It’s official. Belgium Comes to West Chester will be held Saturday January 29th 2011. More details to come, but I can tell you that all of the usual suspects are coming along with a few really cool wild cards. Mark up your calendars! Woo hoo.