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Blind Lion Scotch and Cigar Night and New Brew Thursday Episode

Another Blind Lion Scotch and Cigar night is coming up. Saturday April 16th at 7:00 pm we will close our doors for this closed door event. Tickets cost $100 and include a buffet, unlimited Scotch tasters for 2 hours, and a hand rolled cigar. If you are interested in obtaining tickets, contact Matt Bonney at mattb@brouwerscafe.com. For those of you that have not attended it is a not to be missed event. What more could you want than great food, amazing Scotch and the chance to enjoy a hand rolled cigar.

New Brew Thursday was here during Hardliver and did an interview with Matt Bonney, watch the episode below. We hope you enjoy it.

March 17 : Brouwer’s Cafe : on location with special guest Matt Bonney from New Brew Thursday on Vimeo.

And the Winners are:

This year at Hardliver more Barleywines were judged than in years past, and the winners are:
1. Anacortes Old Sea Bass 2010
2. Anderson Valley Horn of the Beer 2009
3. Glacier Brewhouse Old Woody 2010

A crowd favorite seemed to be Firestone Walker’s Abacus as well as Lost Abbey’s Angels Share.
We would also like to thank everyone for coming out to enjoy our festival. Everyone appeared to have a great time.

If you didn’t get your fill over the weekend or were hesitant to come out, we still have quite a few barleywines on draft. Additionally Today we are also having a mini Stone Old Guardian Vertical….We will be pouring 5 years starting with 2007 thru the current year. Look for them all to be on draft around happy hour.

Thanks again, and Cheers.

The New Hardliver List.

Now that Pliny the Younger has passed its on to Hardliver 9….here is what we will be pouring.

Hardliver 2011

Flying Dog Horn Dog 09

Fishtail 10 squared

Red Hook Trouble Hook 10

Alaskan Golden Nugget 10

Victory Old Horizontal 10

Sierra Nevada Big Foot 08

Sierra Nevada Black Barleywine 10

Avery Hog Heaven 10

Boulder Killer Penguin 10

Great Divide Old ruffian 10

Southern Tier Black Burner 09

Anchor Old Foghorn 10

Dogfish Olde School 10

Lost Coast Fog Cutter 10

Pike Old Bawdy 07

Anderson Valley Horn of the Bear 09

Ninkasi Critical Hit 10

Speakeasy Old Godfather 09

Stone Old Guardian 09

Stone Belgo Barleywine 10

Lagunitas Gnarleywine 10

North Coast Old Stock ale 10

Anacortes Old Sea Bass 10

Dick’s 05

Hales Rudyard’s Rare 07

Hood Canal Breidablik 10

Deschutes Mirror Mirror 08

Mad River John Barley Corn 09

Mad River Wheatwine 08

Hair of Dog Doggie Claws 10

Boundary Bay Old Bounder 10

Glacier Brew House Old Woody 10

Lost Abbey Angel Share 10 Brandy

Lost Abbey Angel Share 10 bourbon

Black Raven Old Birdbrain 09

Big Time Bill’s Bearded Wonderfulness 09

Big Time Bill’s Bearded Wonderfulness 10

Elysian Cyclops

10 Ram Mall Walker 10

Fullsail Old Board Head ??

Hub Noggin Floggin 10

Bigsky Old Blue Hair 10

Bigsky Old Blue Hair 10 Cask

Firestone Abacus 11

Smaltz Jubilation Blend 14

7 Seas Wheel Chair 10

Moylan’s Old Blarney 10

Marin Old Dipsey 10

Scuttlebutt Old No. 1 09

Naked City Cluster Cuss 10

Eel River Triple Exultation 10

Snipes Roza 10

Old Lampoc Tavern Rat 09

Old Lampoc Unsettler Belgo Barleywine 10

Laurelwood Old Reliable

Port Towsend 10

Pliny the Younger!!!!


If you haven’t already tasted it, or missed an opportunity, or just want to drink more of it, We Will be tapping Pliny the Younger at 10pm tonight, Tuesday March 1st. As I am sure you are all aware it won’t last long. We will not be selling tickets.

Also don’t forget Wednesday Night at 6pm we will be pouring :
Belgium
Contreras, Valeir Extra-Belgian IPA 6.5%
t’Gaverhopke, Extra-Quadruple 12.5%
Hof Ten Dormaal, Winter-Belgian Strong 8%
De Dochter Van De Korenaar, Embrasse-Dark Strong 9%

Netherlands
Emelisse, Imperial Russian Stout 11%
Emelisse, Espresso Stout 10%

Sweden
Hantverksbryggeriet, Kosacken-Stout 7.5 %

Seven total drafts spanning three countries from six breweries.
The website for 12 percent is: 12percentimports.com

We look forward to seeing you.

Attention Beer Geeks!!!Attention Beer Lovers!!!

We received this email yesterday :
National-

Tell the cyber nerds to call in sick on Thursday because we have a sweet lineup of brand new, never before tasted fancyness for Wednesday night.

The beers:

Belgium
Contreras, Valeir Extra-Belgian IPA 6.5%
t’Gaverhopke, Extra-Quadruple 12.5%
Hof Ten Dormaal, Winter-Belgian Strong 8%
De Dochter Van De Korenaar, Embrasse-Dark Strong 9%

Netherlands
Emelisse, Imperial Russian Stout 11%
Emelisse, Espresso Stout 10%

Sweden
Hantverksbryggeriet, Kosacken-Stout 7.5 %

Seven total drafts spanning three countries from six breweries.
The website for 12 percent is: 12percentimports.com

Let me know if you have any more questions or need anything else. Have a great weekend!

Cheers
The event starts at 6pm this upcoming Wednesday night March 2nd.
If you don’t already know this years Hardliver list has been posted over on the site. Check it out…We expect to see you all waiting patiently in line outside on Saturday, March the 12th.
Don’t hold your breath, and please, please don’t pick up the phone and call, keep your eyes glued to this page or our facebook page for information about Pliny the Younger. Some of you wait all year round and we get so many calls about this beer, it’s in the cooler just chillin. We plan on tapping it soon, and with a little twist. In other Russian River news we also just received Sanctification a Belgian Pale with 100% Brettanomyces, 6.25%ABV and Redemption a Blonde Ale, 5.0% ABV . We find them quite delicious.

I know this is a lot of info to take in in one post, Matt Bonney had an idea to brew another beer for Bottleworks 12th Anniversary, a few months back he traveled to down to San Diego to put that idea to kettle with Patrick Rue of The Bruery. On Sunday that beer will be released on draft and in the bottle at Bottleworks. We sampled it yesterday and let me tell you we had good things to say. It is an 8% Wit that has raspberries in it, that spent some time in a barrel leaving it quite tart, and the color is this great orange/auburn color. This beer goes on draft here at 5pm on Sunday night.

Happy Hour with Rob Tod from Allagash, Wednesday, February 23 3-6pm

FEB 23 3-6PM Happy Hour with Rob Tod, Founder of Allagash Brewery. Come drink White, Curieux, Black, Hugh Malone. Also, (hopefully if it arrives in time) taste both versions of Vrienden (one brewed in CO the other in ME). Each used same ingredients but did their own twists. New Belgium family is also rumored to be in attendance. Good times. See you there.

Don Remembered, By Tom Dalldorf of Celebrator Magazine

Here is an excerpt of a great ode to the late Don Younger, written by Tom Daldorf of the Celebrator Beer News. Don was a great publican and will be missed by all of us here at Brouwer’s Cafe.

Don Younger, famed publican extraordinaire and legendary beer evangelist, died early Monday morning, January 31, 2011 of complications from a fall a few days earlier. He was 69 years old.

Don was a “larger than life” character with an enormous passion for beer, brewing and beer culture. He loved meeting new people and spreading the word of good beer but eschewed “phonies” and poseurs. He also eschewed people who would say “eschewed.” He was not a model for the healthy lifestyle preferring beer, whisky (make it MCCALLAN 12 please, 18 if ya got it) and cigarettes (Sprits will do) to more conventional comestibles. It is suggested that both he and Patsy from the BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous had not had solid food since 1977. That is not true, of course, but close.

To  read the entire column please visit http://celebrator.com/specials/donyounger/

Ring in the New Year

As the ball drops for news years eve, we’ll be dropping some interesting drafts.
On Tap at 6pm
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Russian River Supplication
On Tap at 7pm
Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
Midnight Sun Obliteration VII American Imperial Stout
On Tap at 8pm
Firestone Walker 14
 
 On Tap at 9pm
Hair of the Dog Matt (Bottleworks 10th anniversary)
On Tap at 10pm
Russian River Deviation (Bottleworks 9th anniversary)

First look at Bigwood

Alaskan Oak Aged Smoked Porter ’08
Allagash Curieux
Allagash Oddeysey
Big Al Sourlicious
Boulder BBN American Red
Boulder BBN Hazed and Confused
Boulder BBN Killer Penguin
Boulder BBN Mojo Risin
Boulder BBN Never Summer Ale
Boulder BBN Singletrack Copper Ale
Boulder BBN Spiced Never Summer Ale
Boundary Bay Imperial Oaked Oatmeal Stout
Bridgeport Nightcap
Cantillon Framboise ’06
CantillonSt. Lamvinus
CantillonVignerone
Cascade ???
Cascade ???
Deschutes Dissident
Elliot Bay BBN Imperial Pumpkin Porter
Elysian Oak Frost
Firestone Walker 14
Fremont Bourbo A-Bomb
Full Sail Wassail Blended W/ Bourbon Porter
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti
Great Divide Rumble Oak Aged IPA
Hales Rye Whisky Aged Imperial Stout
Harviestoun Ola Dubh 18
Hitachino Classic
Hair Of The Dog Matt
HUB Pile Driver in Wood Firkin Tapped at 6pm
JW Lees Harvest Ale Cask
Left Hand Oak Aged Imperial Stout
Lost Abbey Angels Share Bourbon Barrel
Lost Abbey Barrel Fermented Serpant’s Stout
Midnight Sun Beserker
Naked City Le Dude
New Belgium Bourbon Barrel Sahti
New Belgium Eric’s Ale
New Belgium La Folie
New Belgium Sour Blackberry Whiskey
Ninkasi BBN Sleigher
Old Lompoc ???
Peoples Barrel Reserve
Port Brewing Older Viscosity
Port Townsend Mabel’s Best BBN Imperial Stout
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Deviation
Russian River Supplication
Russian River Temptation
Schooner Exact Hoppy the Woodsman
Sierra Nevada Brew Masters Reserve
Sierra Nevada Oak Aged Porter
Sierra/DFH Life and Limb
Siver City Fat Woody
Skagit Oak Aged Gospel
Snipes ???
Southern Tier Cuvee 2
Southern Tier Oak Aged Unearthly
Stone BBN 12th Anniversary
The Bruery Cotton
The Bruery Three Freench Hens
Widmer BBN Brrrrr

Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Party

The Beer Line-up is looking good for the 30th Anniversary Party on Monday the 15th.

Fritz & Ken’s Imperial Stout
Charlie, Fred, & Ken’s Bock
Jack & Ken’s Barleywine
Our Brewers Reserve Oak-Aged Ale
Life & Limb Strong Dark Ale
Organic Estate Ale CASK!
Celebration
The Empire Strikes Black
& Pale

The Nationwide toast is at 6pm, this Monday, November 15th.