Author: Brouwer's Cafe

Thanks and a couple of events are around the corner.

Thank you to all of you who joined us for Zwanze Day, this past Saturday.  Lets all hope that we get to host this event in upcoming years.  Here are a few stats for you:
-The first people lined up  at 5:45, the door prize this year was a Cantillon Glass and Cantillon Zwanze shirt.
-We had given out all 140 buttons for a pour of Zwanze by 10:45.
-We had a great time…we hope that you did too.

 We are hosting a Speakeasy Brewing night on Friday, September 20th.  We will be tapping Untouchable Pale Ale, Fresh Hop Big Daddy, Big Matty firkin (a blend of Big Daddy and their Triple Ipa), and Scarface Imp Stout.  Please join us.

Hopfest, our celebration of all things hoppy starts on Thursday, September 26th and runs through the weekend.  We are working on getting as many fresh hop and one off beers as we possibly can for your imbibing pleasure.

Saturday, September 28th we are hosting one of a few Shelton Brothers launch parties.  We will be pouring the following beers:

Blaugues Darbyste
Baird Dark Sky Imperial Stout
De Ranke XXX Bitter
Struise Rio Reserva Bourbon
TO OL Sleep over Coffee
Thiriez Blonde
Nogne O IPA
Mahr’s Ungespundet Weiss
Ridegway Bitter
Mikkeller Spontanpeach
AEppelTreow Winery Barn Swallow
Kulmbacher Eisbock
Weissenohe Bonifatius
Trois Dame Saison Framboise

 Please join us in welcoming Shelton Brothers back to the Seattle Market.

Zwanze Day Details


We have amassed 20 or so sour beers for your imbibing pleasure.  Due to the nature of this event and the rarity of Zwanze, we anticipate that there will be a line, how early we don’t know.  In an effort to reward those of you that line up before the doors open at 11am we are planning on handing out numbered buttons 1-140 (that you can keep) and a raffle ticket that guarantees you the ability to purchase Zwanze when we tap it at noon. The first 3 people in line will receive a special door prize. Please do not cut the line, or hold spaces in line,  we will do our best to enforce line cutting, but ask that you be respectful and not engage in this behavior. All the other beers tapped in honor of this event will be available at the time that we open.
At noon when we start pouring Zwanze we will try to deliver them in ascending order to those folks that have a ticket and a button.  Please be patient with us.
There will be Zwanze T-shirts and commemorative glassware for sale at this event. Shirts will be $20 and glassware will be $6.
We will be pouring:
Cantillon– Zwanze
Cantillon –St Gilloise
Cantillon– Geueze
De Ranke– XXX Bitter
New Belgium– La Folie
Port/Lost Abbey—Red Poppy
Port/Lost Abbey—Frambiose De Ambrosa
Russian River—Temptation
Cascade—The Vine
Petrus– Aged Pale
Snipes– Quincenera Andrea
Commons/De Garde—Ortucky Common
American Brewing– Stupid Sexy Flanders
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Bokor Cuvee de Jacobins
Elysian Comtesse
Elysian Krokus
Black Raven — Corvus Kriekus
Bear Republic—Tartare
And possibly a few others that are yet to be determined…

Lots of events for September!

 

 

We will keep 8 draft ciders on draft, currently we have ciders from Finn River, Tieton, Seattle Cider Company, Schilling, Thatcher’s, 2 Towns, and Snowdrift.  We have a food special using oak chips from a cider barrel  available at our Schilling event on September 11th. All week we will have two craft cocktails that utilize cider.
 
 
Tuesday, September 10th Logsdon Farmhouse Brewers Night. @6pm.  Based on a farm in Hood River Logsdon is putting lots great beer.   We will be pouring 5 draft options,  Peche n Brett, Seizoen Bretta, Oak-Aged Bretta, Far West Vlaming and Abberant. 
 
             
 
  Wednesday, September 11th @ 6pm: An evening with Schilling Cider.  Colin will be  on hand to hangout with and answer questions of.  We will be pouring 5 delicious one off ciders Oak Aged Chocolate Nitro, Chocolate Nitro, Rooibos Chai, Spicy Ginger, and Radler.  We hope you plan on joining us.
 

 
 
Saturday, September 14th Cantillon Zwanze Day.  We are honored to be hosting  this worldwide event.  We are one of 46 bars around the world that is tapping this  beer.  We are getting Cantillon Gueuze, and St Guilloze and are trying to amass 15- 20 other sour beers for this great day.  We may dig in to the cellar and bring out some very rare bottle pours and limited bottles might be available for purchase, for in house consumption only.  We will not be selling tickets, we will be handing out numbers at the door based on your position in line.  Holding one of these tickets will mean that you will be able to purchase a 6oz pour of Zwanze. The doors open at 11am, we will begin pouring Zwanze at 12, we will pour in ascending ticket order .
 
 

Friday, September 20thSpeakeasy Big Matty Release.   A year or so ago when we hosted the re launch of Speakeasy here Matt Bonney the Operations Manager blended two beers and Big Matty was concieved.  Big Matty is a blend of Speakeasy Big Daddy, and their Triple IPA.  It is ¾ Big Daddy and ¼ Triple Ipa.  This one will be pouring from a firkin. We will be pouring other Speakeasy beers as well, thei list of exactly what is still being finalized.  There will be brewery representatives on hand..
HOPFEST Thursday, September 26-Sunday 29th Our celebration of all things hoppy, of course it is mainly Ipa’s of some variety, we are hoping that the hop harvest is early enough that we get some fresh hop beers for the festival.  Expect the food menu to reflect items that hop as well as it has in past years.  
 
 Saturday, September 28th all day.  We are proud to announce that we are one of the locations selected to host one of the Shelton Brothers Launch.  Shelton Brothers is coming back to Washington,  We will be pouring 14 offerings from them:

Blaugues Darbyste
Baird Dark Sky Imperial Stout
De Ranke XXX Bitter
Struise Rio Reserva Bourbon
TO OL Sleep over Coffee
Thiriez Blonde
Nogne O IPA
Mahr’s Ungespundet Weiss
Ridegway Bitter
Mikkeller Spontanpeach
AEppelTreow Winery Barn Swallow 
Kulmbacher Eisbock
Weissenohe Bonifatius
Trois Dame Saison Framboise
 
We hope you plan on joining us. 

Septmeber is a very full month!

 

 
Tuesday, September 3rd6ish pm MFG Cyclocross Kick off party. Cyclocross is the sport of Belgium, developed for the winter months to keep the road cyclist fit.  We have supported MFG Cyclocross since day one and have thrown a kick-off party each year.  This year one of our friends, Ryan Richardson, who has taken photos from many MFG races over the years will be showcasing some of his works.  They might even be available for purchase, we are still working out the details.  Since Cyclocross is all about the heckle this is your opportunity to heckle and share stories of past years and the upcoming season.
 
 
We will keep 8 draft ciders on draft, have a food special using oak chips from a cider barrel, highlight our ciders by the bottle and our cider glass pours.
 
             
 
  Wednesday, September 11th @ 6pm: An evening with Schilling Cider.  Colin will be         on hand to hangout with and ask questions of.  We will be pouring 5 delicious one off cider offerings from Schilling, including a Oaked Chocolate Cider on Nitro.
 
 
Tuesday, September 10th Logsdon Brewers Night. @6pm. We will be pouring 5 draft options we will be pouring Peche n Brett, Seizoen Bretta, Oak-Aged Bretta, Far West Vlaming and Abberant. 
Saturday, September 14th Cantillon Zwanze Day.  We are honored to be hosting  this worldwide event.  We are one of 46 bars around the world that is tapping this  beer.  We are getting Cantillon Gueuze, and St Guilloze and are trying to amass 15- 20 other sour beers for this great day.  We may dig in to the cellar and bring out some very rare bottle pours and limited bottles might be available for purchase, for in house consumption only.  We will not be selling tickets, we will be handing out numbers at the door based on your position in line.  Holding one of these tickets will mean that you will be able to purchase a 6oz pour of Zwanze. We plan on letting people get in get situated and then pouring the tickets for Zwanze in ascending order in a timely manner starting at noon.
Friday, September 20thSpeakeasy Big Matty Release.   A year or so ago when we hosted the re launch of Speakeasy here Matt Bonney the Operations Manager blended two beers and Big Matty was concieved.  Big Matty is a blend of Speakeasy Big Daddy, and their Triple IPA.  It is ¾ Big Daddy and ¼ Triple Ipa.  There will be brewery representatives on hand.
HOPFEST Thursday, September 26-Sunday 29th Our celebration of all things hoppy, of course it is mainly Ipa’s of some variety, we are hoping that the hop harvest is early enough that we get some fresh hop beers for the festival.  Expect the food menu to reflect items that hop as well as it has in past years. 

Coming in the not so distant future!

We cordially invite you to pull out your calenders and mark them with all these upcoming events:

One or our favorite new breweries, Reuben’s Brews, is turning 1 and we thought it would be fun to throw a party in their honor.  On Monday, August 5 we will be pouring some 4 draft beers to celebrate their anniversary, an Anniversary Session Pale, Rye IPA, and Roggenbier and one yet to be decided upon option as Adam is looking around to see what he has available.

–> Thursday, August, 15thFirestone Walker PNC #3 launch.  The PNC or Publicans National Committee is a small group of select craft beer bar owners that includes Tornado, Falling Rock, Monks Cafe and Apex and our 3 establishments here in Seattle.  This beer will only be available at these fine establishments.  This beer is a Buckwheat Stout aged in Tequila barrels that comes in at 13.7%.  Bottleworks will be selling Bottles and pouring draft all day, while supplies last.  Burgundian and here Brouwer’s will tap the beer at 11am.  We will probably have some other delicious Firestone options available as well.

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August 30th was the day that the Great Michael Jackson passed, and we are in the process of planning a special way to honor his passing.  Weather it is buy putting special beers on draft or special bottle pours.  We might see if there is a way to play old episodes of the Beer Hunter.
September is a big month:
Tuesday, September 3rd6ish pm MFG Cyclocross Kick off party.  
We will keep 8 draft ciders on draft, highlight our ciders by the bottle and our cider glass pours.
Tuesday, September 10th Logsdon Brewers Night.  5 draft options.  Hopefully we will have Peche n Brett, and one other rarer beer , we will also be pouring Seizoen, Seizoen Brett.  As soon as we have confirmation on the exact draft options available we will let you know.
Saturday, September 14th Cantillon Zwanze Day.  We are honored to be hosting  this worldwide event.  We are one of 46 bars around the world that is tapping this  beer.  We are getting Cantillon Gueuze, and St Guilloze and are trying to amass 15- 20 other sour beers for this great day.  We are may dig in to the cellar and bring out some very rare bottle pours and limited bottles might be available for purchase, for in house consumption only.  We will not be selling tickets, we will be handing out numbers at the door based on your position in line.  Holding one of these tickets will mean that you will be able to purchase a 6oz pour of Zwanze. We plan on letting people get in get situated and then pouring the tickets for Zwanze in ascending order in a timely manner starting at 11:30.
Friday, September 20thSpeakeasy Big Matty Release.   A year or so ago when we hosted the re launch of Speakeasy here Matt Bonney the Operations Manager blended two beers and Big Matty was concieved.  Big Matty is a blend of Speakeasy Big Daddy, and their Triple IPA.  It is ¾ Big Daddy and ¼ Triple Ipa.  There will be brewery representatives on hand. 
We are now finalizing Hopfest, we had scheduled it for October 3rd through 6th, but ran in to some scheduling conflicts so we are now making other plans, we should have a firm date by early next week.
BigWood, our celebration of all beers that have spent time in a barrel from Stout to Sour starts Thursday, December 5th and runs through the weekend.  Make your plans now.

 

Just a few things!

This Monday, July 22nd we will be closed for an employee appreciation party.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. 

Tuesday, July 23rd The Bruery is in town for the re-release of Bottleworks XII.  For those of you that are not familiar with this beer, here is the description of the first beer made two years ago for our bottle store Bottleworks 12th Anniversary.  If you are a fan of sour beers this is one you shouldn’t miss.
          
  Base beer: Imperial Witbier, 8% ABV, sour mashed 1-2 days, and fermented with a blend of Berliner Weisse culture and Belgian Witbier yeast. Beer is barrel fermented in large red wine barrels (132 gal. barrels). Raspberries are added to the beer towards the end of fermentation directly to the barrel, and aged on the raspberries for a minimum of 1 month. The Berliner culture contains souring bacteria and the raspberries will add acidity to the beer.

There will be events at all 3 of our locations starting at 11am when Bottleworks (located at 1710 N 45th St) will be selling bottles of the 2013 re release of this beer, there will be a 3 bottle limit per person on this beer.  They will not be pouring any draft of this beer that day.

After picking up your bottles, head on over to the Burgundian at 5pm as they will be tapping the Re Release of Bottleworks XII.  AT 7PM we will be tapping the re release as well as a few other draft options from The Bruery here including two rare sour options Tart of Darkness (a sour stout) and Sans Pagaie (a sour kriek).  Those of you that love sour beers will sure not want to miss out on trying these beers, we have very limited amounts of all 3.  Both restaurant locations will have bottles of the Re Release available for in house consumption only,  no to go at all.

Cantillon Zwanze Day has been announced!

Cantillon has announced the bars around the world and the date, Saturday, September 14, that will host Zwanze Day 2013 and we are honored to have been selected this year.  We were one of 46 locations in the world and one of 4 on the west coast to be selected.  We are currently figuring out all the details and as we do so we will keep you posted.  We were excited and wanted to let you so that you can save the date.  Here is a link from their website about last years Zwanze Day.

We have a few events coming in the near future!

We are excited to tell you about an upcoming event that we are planning with The Bruery.  A few years ago they made a beer for Bottleworks Twelth Anniversary, that was a favorite among sour beer
lovers.  We are proud to say that they are Re- Releasing this beer. Tuesday, July 23rd we will have events at all 3 of our locations.  They event will go like this:
Bottleworks will be selling bottles starting at 11am when they open.  They will not have it available on draft at this time.
Burgundian Draft release @ 5pm.
Brouwer’s Draft release @ 7pm with other sour draft options from the Bruery as well.
We are also planning an event for Monday, August 5th to Celebrate Rueben’s Brews 1st Anniversary.  We will be pouring some 4 draft beers to celebrate their anniversary, an Anniversary Session Pale, Rye IPA, and Roggenbier and one yet to be decided upon option as Adam is looking around to see what he has available. 
Here is a reminder of all the specials we run regularly.

Seven Days a week:  (excluding festivals) we have a power hour that runs from 3-6pm, special menu and a dollar off draft beer and well drinks.

Monday nights:  20% off our bottled beer collection.  Monday is also our Industry Night.  Sow up your food handler’s card, or class 12 liquor license and we will give you a $1 off your draft, wine or cocktail.

An evening with Finn River

Get ready for the 4th and enjoy a glass of good ol’ American hard cider from the PNW frontier with Finn River’s farmcrafted and fermented variations on the classic apple.  Finnriver founders Keith & Crystie Kisler will be at the counter to share tales of farm life and cider making.  Finnriver’s award-winning craft ciders are authentically handcrafted on their 33 acre organic family farm on the Olympic Peninsula.  Special cider guests include their bourbon-barrel aged Fire Barrel, Seasonal Botanical Lavender Black Currant, along with their popular Pear and Dry Hopped Ciders.
Check out the Facebook Event page here.

Everybody’s favorite celebration of America is July 4th.  We will be closed on July 4th so that our staff can enjoy the holiday.  Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you, and that you get out and enjoy the holiday yourself.

Let me tell you about some events.

We are proud to announce that we will be part of the Washington Launch of Ballast Point Brewing on Wednesday, June 19th @6pm.  We are proud to welcome this San Diego brewery to the market.  We will be pouring 3 of their Ipa’s:

Big Eye IPA 7% abv & 75 IBU’s
Sculpin IPA 7% abv & 70 IBU’s
Dorado IPA 9.6% abv & 90 IBU’s

We hope that you join us in welcoming Ballast Point to Seattle!

Tuesday, July 2nd @ 6pm we will be hosting Finn River Cidery, what better way to kick off your July 4th celebration!  We will be pouring 4 delicious ciders, (Black Currant Lavender, Dry Hopped, Pear and the release of the 2013 Fire Barrel, descriptions to come) and their will be a Finn River Representative on hand to answer questions, hang out with and have a good time with.  We here she is excited to be coming to the Big City.  
 Watch a short film about Finn River here.

 Burgundian has a great event coming up as well.  Brett Fest, A Celebration of Brettanomyces, takes place Thursday, June 27th and runs through the weekend.  They have put together a great list from the likes of Upright, Boulevard, Vicaris, Elysian, Fremont, the Ram, and many more.  The event kicks off at 10 am when they open.  The theme of the whole event is funk, funky food, funky music, we think you get the point.

We think that you might want to save these dates.

We are planning some events in the near future which we are putting the final details on, we are working on an event with Finn River Cidery (Early July) and Ballast Point (probably sometime mid to late next week) is coming to the market soon as well.  We will keep you apprised of all the details as we finalize them.  In lieu of that we will take this time to tell you about our next large events.

Hopfest will start on Thursday, October 3rd and run through the weekend.  We are hoping to have a few more fresh hop beers this year, than in past years, that hop harvest is a tricky beast to time right.  As we get closer to the event we will keep you posted with all the details.

Big Wood will start on Thursday, December 5th and run through the weekend.  We know its a long way off, but these things take time to put together and we know you all appreciate a heads up. 

We suggest you mark your calenders, talk to your bosses and let them know that you will be taking a little me time on those days.

Help us Help the Burgundian out!

Sorry for the late notice on this one, we were picking up the pieces of our livers and putting the place back in order after a great Seattle Beer Week.  Tonight the Burgundian (located at 2253 N. 56th St) is hosting an event, “Tap Out Cancer”.  We invite you to take down a few beers to take down Cancer, all proceeds go to Fred Hutch Cancer research. Again we apologize for this late announcement.  There will be beers from Fremont, Elysian, Firestone Walker, New Belgium and Boulevard.  We all know that Cancer Sucks!

We are in the planning stages with events, the next major event is Fremont Summer Solstice Parade, June 22nd and 23rd.  Then summer will hopefully be in full swing and we should have some other events planned.  Thanks again for your support in making Seattle Beer Week here at Brouwer’s a success.

Who loves good digestion?

We do!!! The Underberg Back in Black Stout Fest kicks off today at 11 am when we open.  We are happy with this years line up and hope that you are too.   We hope to see you soon.  Here is the full list…as of this moment the two items in bold are not in our cooler, but I have been assured they will be here by the time for the opening of the doors.
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Underburg Back in Black Stout Fest:  All 12oz pours unless otherwise noted:
Alaskan Perseverance Russian Imperial Stout (9%) Alaska
Anderson Valley Wild Turkey Bourbon Stout (6.9%) California
Avery Mephistopheles ’12 (16%) Colorado(6oz)
Black Raven Ravenous Imperial Stout Nitro (8.4%) Washington
Boneyard Suge Knight (14%) Oregon
Boulder Obovoid Oak-Aged Oatmeal Stout Nitro (6.8%) Colorado
Deschutes The Abyss ’10 (11%) Oregon 
Deschutes The Abyss ’11 (11%) Oregon.
Djævlebryg Gudeløs Imperial Stout (8.9%) Denmark.
Djævlebryg Pride of Nekron Imperial Stout  (10.2%) Denmark
Double Mountain Formidable (11%) Oregon
Ellezelloise Hercule Stout (9%) Belgium.
Elysian Dark O’the Moon Pumpkin Stout ’12 (6.5%) Washington
Emelisse Ardbeg Black & Tan (10.5%) Netherlands
Emelisse  Russian Imperial Stout ’12 (11%) Netherlands
Evil Twin/Westbrook Mini Growler (12%) Denmark
Evil Twin Yin and Yang (12%) Denmark
Fanø/Hoppin’ Frog Natasha Rocks Denmark (7.5%)  Denmark
Firestone Parabola ’12 (12.5%) California
Firestone PNC Buckwheat Stout (12.5%) California
Fort George Coffee Girl Stout (8.2%) Oregon
Fort George Rye Cavatica Stout (9.2%) Oregon
Fremont Coffee Darkstar Nitro (8.5%) Washington
Great Divide Belgian Yeti  (9.5%) Colorado
Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti (9.5%) Colorado
Green Flash Double Stout ’11 (8.8%) California
Green Flash Silva Imperial Stout (10.1%) California
Howe Sound Mega Destroyer Imperial Licorice Stout (10%) Canada
Howe Sound Pothole Filler Imperial Stout (10%) Canada
HUB Army of Darkness (11%) Oregon
Lost Abbey Serpent’s Stout ’12 (10.5%) California
Mad River Rorschach Imperial Oatmeal Stout (7.5%) California
Midnight Sun Moscow Rye Imperial Stout (11%) Alaska
Nectar Black Xantus Coffee Stout ’13 (11%) California
Ninkasi Vanilla Oatis (7.2%) Oregon
Oskar Blues Ten Fiddy ’12 (10.5%) Colorado
Pelican Tsunami Stout (7.5%) Oregon
Pike Entire Wood-Aged Stout (9.5%) Washington
Port Brandy Bbl Aged Santa’s Little Helper ’12 (10.5%) California
Port Older Viscosity (12.5%) California
Reuben’s Brews Imperial Russian Stout (9.7%) Washington
Seven Seas Bourbon Barrel Aged Port Royal Stout (7%)Washington
Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imperial Stout (10.2%) California @7pm
Silver City Imperial Stout (9.2%) Washington
Skagit River Trumpeter Stout ’12 (9.2%) Washington
Snipes Mtn. Terror from Texas Stout (10
Speakeasy Scarface Imperial Stout (9.5%) California
Stone Bourbon Imperial Russian Stout ’08 (10.5%) California.
Stone Imperial Russian Stout ’10 (10.5%) California
The Bruery Mrs. Stoutfire (9.5%) California.(6oz)
To Øl Goliat Imperial Coffee Stout (10.1%) Denmark
 Don’t like Stouts? Try one of these:
Ace Joker Apple/Pear Cider (8%) Sebastopol
Anacortes IPA Cask (6.1%) Anacortes
Flyers Pacemaker Porter (5.5%) Oak Harbor
Fremont Trifecta IPA (5.5%) Seattle
Hoegaarden Wit (5%) Hoegaarden
Petrus Aged Pale Sour (7.3%) Harelbeke-Bavikhove
Port Townsend Reel Amber (5.2%) Port Townsend
St. Bernardus Abt 12 (10.5%) Watou
Veltins Pilsner (4.8%) Meschede-Grevenstein

May I have your Attention Please! We are announcing partial lists for Stout and Sour Fest!

 
 
 For those of you that need a reminder Seattle Beer Week is just around the corner, the celebration of all things beer in Seattle kicks off next Thursday, May 9th and runs through Sunday, May 19th.  We have 4 events during the 10 day celebration here.  They are as follows:
          
Underberg Back in Black Stout Fest, Friday, May 10th, Who’s a fan of good digestion?  Starts when we open the doors at 11am.  It’s just like it sounds we replace just about every tap we have with some delicious stouts from around the world.  We will have some special T-Shirts for sale at this event.
Here are a handful of the offerings that we will be pouring, this is not a finalized list, there will be things available that are not here and a few of these might not make it on, but most of them will.
 

Deschutes The Abyss ’10 (11%) Oregon
Deschutes The Abyss ’11 (11%) Oregon
Djaevlebryg Gudelos (8.9%) Denmark
Djaevlebryg Pride of Nekron (10.2%) Denmark
Double Mountain Black Irish Stout (4.5%) Nitro Oregon
Double Mountain Formidable (11%) Oregon
Ellezelloise Hercule Stout (9%) Belgium
Elysian Dark of the Moon ’12(6.5%) Washington
Emelisse Ardbeg Stout Milk Stout (10.5%) Netherlands
Emelisse  Russian Imperial Stout ’12 (11%) Netherlands
Evil Twin/Westbrook Mini Growler (12%) Denmark
Evil Twin Yin and Yang(12%) Denmark
Fano/Hopping Frog Natasha Rocks (7.5%)  Denmark
Fort George Coffee Girl Stout (8.2%) Oregon
Fort George Rye Cavatica Stout (9.2%) Oregon
Firestone Parabola ’12 (12.5%) California
Fremont Coffee Darkstar (8.5%) Nitro  Seattle
Full Sail Black Gold ’11(11.4%) Oregon
Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti (9.5%) Colorado
Green Flash  Double Stout ’11 (8.8%) San Diego
Howe Sound Mega Destroyer Imperial Licorice Stout (10%) Canada 
Howe Sound Pothole Filer Imperial Stout (10%) Canada
HUB Army of Darkness (11%) Oregon
Lost Abbey Serpent’s Stout ’12 (10.5%) California
Mad River Rorschach Imperial Oatmeal Stout (7.5%) California
Midnight Sun Moscow Rye Imperial Stout (11.%) Alaska
Nectar Black Xantus Coffee Stout ’13 (11%) California
Ninkasi Vanilla Oatis (7.2%) Eugene
Oskar Blues Ten Fiddy ’12 (10.5%) Colorado
Pike Entire (8%) Washington
Port Older Viscosity (12.5%) California
Silver City Imperial Stout (9.2%) Washington
Skagit Trumpeter Stout ’12 (9.2%) Washinton
Speakeasy Scarface Imperial Stout (9.5%) California
Stone Bourbon Imperial Russian Stout ’08 (10.5%)California
Stone Imperial Russian Stout ’10 (10.5%) California 
The Bruery Mrs. Stoutfire (9.5%) California
To Ol Golitat Imperial Coffee Stout (10.1%) Denmark

Beer and Burger Battle, Tuesday, May 14th.  Are you Ready to Rumble!!!  New this year it starts when the doors open, at 11am,  we are asking the brewers to be here by 5pm at the latest.   The formula is simple, each brewery designs a burger centered around beef patty, and brings 3 to 5 special beers, after that the sky is the limit.  We have had breweries bring in Voodoo Donuts to be used as the bun.  We have some really delicious options that will be available this year.
The returning champ is 21st Amendment and the contenders this year are Big Time, Double Mountain, Maui, Green Flash and Snipes.  The winner is determined by highest sales.
          
An Evening with 12% featuring Stillwater.  12% imports, importers of Evil Twin, Hof ten Dormal to name a few will join us.  We will have 8 draft total, 4 from Stillwater, and other offerings from Evil Twin, Hof Ten Dormal and De Dochtor.
        
Everybody’s favorite Sour Fest, Thursday, May 16th, starts when we open the doors at 11am. We replace as many taps as we can with a sour beer for your imbibing pleasure.  Here is some of what we will be pouring, there will be more, but we never like to release what we are pouring until it is in our cooler. Again this is not a finalized list, there will be things available that are not here and a few of these might not make it on, but most of them will.

BFM Abbaye De Saint Bon Chien .
American Brewing Stupid Sexy Flanders
Anderson Valley Feahter Leggy Bulrusher
Bear Republic  Tartare Berlinerweisse
Bockor Cuvee De Jacobins  
Bockor Publican Lambic  
Cantillion St. Lamvinus
Cantillion Vigneronne
Cascade Vine
Cascade Shrieking Violet
Cascade Supracot
De Proef/HOD Flanders Fred
Firestone Lil Opal
Firestone Slo Ambic
Freigeist Abraxxxas
Freigeist Sauer Porter
Gulpener Mestreeche Aajt 
Jolly Pumpkin Noel de Calabaza
Liefman’s Goudenband
Logsdon Cerasus
Mort Subite White Lambic
New Belgium  Clutch 
New Belgium  La Folie

Ommegang Biere D’Hougoumount 
Ritterguts Gose
Rodenbach  Grand Cru
Russian River Consecration ‘11
Russian River Supplication ‘12
Russian River Temptation ’11
Schooner Exact No Sac Sour Brown
Snipes Quinceanera Andrea
Snipes Quinceanera Concepcion
Snipes Quinceanera Prieta
Struise Weltmerz Blonde Sour Ale
Tilquin  Gueze Batch #2
The Bruery Sour in the Rye 2013

 

Just a couple of things….

Today, is the release of our 7th Anniversary Old Bridge Rider Barleywine brewed by Fremont Brewing, in wax dipped bottles, at Bottleworks (1710 N. 45th st Suite #3 in the Wallingford neighborhood).  They open at 11am.  The image above is the label.  There is a bit of a story behind this bottle release, if you are thinking “didn’t they just have their 8th Anniversary?”  You are correct.  We made this beer with the intention of releasing it last year, but then just felt that it wasn’t quite ready, so we waited and waited and waited and finally the collaborative minds here and at Fremont Brewing decided that it was ready.  Today is your first chance to purchase bottles of this delicious barleywine at Bottleworks….it will not be on draft, only available at this time in bottles, we have a few kegs stashed for later dates.  We invite you to stop by Bottleworks and pick up some bottles to age and drink now!

This is the last Tuesday in April, and we have 3 more beers that we are pulling from the Cellar for your imbibing pleasure.  With out further adieu here they are:
Great Divide Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti
Deschutes Abyss ’11
Fort George Roses on Roses
We would also like to let you know that some how we still have Stone Double Bastard and Deschutes Black Butte XXI still on draft as I am typing this…no telling how much longer they will last, but as of this moment they are still on tap.

 

 For those of you that need a reminder Seattle Beer Week is just around the corner, the celebration of all things beer in Seattle kicks off next Thursday, May 9th and runs through Sunday, May 19th.  We have 4 events during the 10 day celebration here.  They are as follows:
          
Underberg Back in Black Stout Fest, Friday, May 10th, starts when we open the doors.  Its just like it sounds we replace just about every tap we have with some delicious stoutsaround the world.
Beer and Burger Battle, Tuesday, May 14th.  Starts when the doors open, we are asking the brewers to be here by 5pm at the latest.   The formula is simple, each brewery designs a burger centered around beef patty, and brings 3 to 5 special beers, after that the sky is the limit.  We have had breweries bring in Voodoo Donuts to be used as the bun.  We have some really delicious options that will be available this year.
The returning champ is 21st Amendment and the contenders this year are Big Time, Double Mountain, Maui, Green Flash and Snipes.  The winner is determined by highest sales.
          
An Evening with 12% featuring Stillwater.  12% imports, importers of Evil Twin, Hof ten Dormal to name a few will join us.  We will have 8 draft total a couple of offerings 4 from Stillwater, and other offerings from Evil Twin, Hof Ten Dormal and De Dochtor.
        
Everybody’s favorite Sour Fest, Thursday, May 16th, starts when we open the doors at 11am.  We replace as many taps as we can with a sour beer for your imbibing pleasure.

Brouwer’s 7th Anniversary Release Party at Bottleworks, Tuesday, April 30th!

A few things are happening.  Right now we wish we were in Olympia protesting the proposed beer tax. 

We are finally releasing our 7th Anniversary Barleywine!  On Tuesday, April 30th at Bottleworks.  ( located at 1710 N. 45th st #3)  We’ve got a little story to tell, it goes a little something like this.  We brewed this beer going on 16 months ago, thinking that we could bottle and release it quickly.  Then we tasted it, aged some of it in Bourbon Barrels and waited, and waited.  We blended it, bottled it and waited again.  We decided that it is now ready to be released, after our 8th anniversary but before our 9th Anniversary.  Bottleworks will be hosting the release party on Tuesday, April 30th.  The bottles are wax dipped and we feel will age well for a long time, or taste great right now. 

We have a few upcoming events we would like to share with you:

Every Tuesday in April we are tapping beers from the Cellar.  We announce these beers the day of and they are on draft at 5pm.

Thursday, April 25th @6pm we are hosting the release party for a new Washington Cidery, Schilling Cider.


Our Story
In 1881, my great great-grandfather, August, founded the Schilling Spice Company in San Francisco. His goal was to bring pure, natural spices to everyone in the west. Over one hundred thirty years later, Schilling Cider carries on this tradition of accessible, premium quality. We believe in making fantastic cider and sharing it with the world!
Our Values
We believe in using local ingredients and taking steps to minimize our impact on the environment. All of our apples come from Washington State and we are offering our cider in aluminum cans and kegs. Using cans instead of glass bottles helps protect our product from light.  In addition, cans have the highest recycling rate and the same aluminum is often back on the shelf as a new can within 60 days.
When it comes to making ciders, we strive to be truly innovative. We believe yeast selection and process play a major role in the characteristics of the final cider, so we carefully select our yeast strains after extensive trial and tasting. We also always choose whole ingredients, such as whole leaf hops, raw ginger puree, and whole clove and cinnamon sticks, for our specialty ciders.
Our Launch Party Ciders
Flagship – Our standard cider is a semi-dry cider with deep complexity. Tasting notes include grapefruit, apple, and oak with a very smooth finish.
Oak Aged Cider – Our barrel aged cider is fermented on French oak and aged on American oak. This cider has notes of oak but is not overpowering. It is very smooth and is ideally served above 40 (F) degrees to release its full flavor profile.
Ginger Cider– Our ginger cider is semi sweet with a strong ginger bite. The large ginger profile is complemented with a sweet caramel finish.  This cider serves well over ice for those who wish for an extra refreshing beverage.
Dry Hopped Cider – Our hopped cider uses a number of northwest hops to achieve a floral aroma, citrus flavor, and slightly bitter finish. A nice choice for any ‘hop head.’
Black Caramel Nitro – This high-gravity cider is a one-of-a-kind combination of hand-caramelized brown sugar, dark oak, a rich apple flavor, and a touch of bittering hops. Served on nitro, this complex cider takes on a creamy mouth feel to further enhance its bold character.
After that we all take a deep breath and get ready for Seattle Beer Week, May 9-19th.

Look at what we are pulling out!!!

I hope everyone is liking our From the Cellar Tuesday Nights in April.  Tonight we are pulling out some goodies.  Instead of dragging this on I will just list them here right now, so you can start planning your trip here later this afternoon.  Tonight we will be tapping:
New Belgium La Folie 2011
New Belgium Tart Lychee
New Belgium Brett Beer
Russian River Sanctification
De Dochter Peated Oak aged Embrasse

All these will be available by 5pm. 

Wednesday, April 17th at 6pm we are hosting a Bison Brewer’s night.  Daniel, the head brewer and owner will be joining us.  We will have a couple of food specials, and are pouring their Chocolate Stout, The Belgian Tramp (a belgian Quad), Honey Basil, Hop Cuvee (a hoppy pale), and Cocoa Bretta (a collaboration with Logsdon). 

Thursday, April 18th we are hosting Pike Brewing for the release of their Morning After Pale Ale.  We are donating $1.00 from the sale of each pint to Planned Parenthood.

Thursday, April 25th we are proud to be hosting the launch party for a new Washington Cidery, Shilling Cider.  We will be pouring 5 unique offerings from them.