Author: Brouwer's Cafe

Tonight at 6pm Boneyard Brewing will be joining us for a brewers night.  This will be the official  release,  in Washington,  of  their collaboration with John Harris, Aleias India Wheat Ale.  We will also be pouring Hop Venom IIPA, Bourbon Black 13, Armored Fist CDA, and RPM IPA.  Please plan on joining us.

    
Halloween is coming, for those of you celebrating it Saturday night we have an amazing night planned.  We partnered with Fremont Brewing, 21st Amendment and Laurelwood Brewing on this event.  We will be giving away a kegerator for Best Costume as judged by the brewery representatives,  so get creative!  Who doesn’t want the ability to have draft beer on in their own home!!  We will also be pouring some delicious beers, from Fremont Brewing we will have Whiny Brother IIPA (double Ipa aged in Merlot barrels), Abominable Winter Ale, Interurban IPA,  Darkstar Imperial Stout with Hazelnut, Oak, and smoked peppercorns on Nitro. We will also have a special IPA on Firkin from Fremont.  From 21st Amendment we will be pouring: Fireside Chat, Zambo Imperial Red, and Churchyard Imperial ESB.  From Laurelwood we have Stingy Jack Pumpkin Ale, Workhorse IPA and Moose and Squirrel Imperial Stout. There will also be a DJ, it all starts at  6:30pm….This night is going to be awesome!

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Halloween Event #2:  Halloween evening, October 31st.  Big Time (Unicorns) vs Gigantic (Ninjas) vs New Belgium (Pirates).  All 3 Breweries will be spinning their own music, and there will be shwag available for those that show their support for their Brewery by dressing up in a costume associated with their brewery.  The event kicks off around 6pm and the costume judging will be between 9 and 10.  Come out and show your support, or just dress up and come drink some great beers.  We might have a special New Belgium Sour, Big Time Hopgoblin will be here (their pumpkin beer) and Gigantic always pulls out all the stops.  We hope your choose to join us.

Lagunitas Brown Shugga is back!  We will be hosting the release party Wednesday, October 24th @6pm.  We will be pouring the first keg of Brown Shugga in Washington, along with Hop Stoopid. Maximus, and Daytime( their session pale ale).  We are happy that they had room in their production schedule to get this beer back in the rotation. 

Then on Friday, October 26th at 6pm Boneyard Brewing, from Bend,OR will be joining us for the release of Alias(a pale Wheat beer).  Alias is a collaboration with John Harris formerly of Full Sail.  We will also have Armored Fist Imperial Black IPA, Hop Venom Double IPA, and Bourbon Black 13.  We hope you plan on joining us.

Then its time to celebrate Halloween, we have been putting the finishing touches on two different events.  Event #1:  Saturday, October 27th DJ starts at 8pm.  Fremont Brewing, 21 st Amendment and Laurelwood join us for a the night.  Best Costume wins a Kegerator!  Costumes will be judged at 11pm.  There will be other give aways as well.  Fremont will be pouring a special Hazelnut Imperial Stout and Whiny Brother ( Brother Double Ipa aged in a Merlot barrel) as well as a few others, 21st Amendment will be pouring Fireside Chat, Zambo Imperial Red, and Churchyard Imperial ESB, and Laurelwood will be pouring Workhorse IPA, Moose and Squirrel Imperial Stout, and Stingy Jack Pumpkin ale.  This will be a really fun evening.

Event #2:  Halloween evening, October 31st.  Big Time (Unicorns) vs Gigantic (Ninjas) vs New Belgium (Pirates).  All 3 Breweries will be spinning their own music, and there will be shwag available for those that show their support for their Brewery by dressing up in a costume associated with their brewery.  The event kicks off around 6pm and the costume judging will be between 9 and 10.  Come out and show your support, or just dress up and come drink some great beers.  We might have a special New Belgium Sour, Big Time Hopgoblin will be here (their pumpkin beer) and Gigantic always pulls out all the stops.  We hope your choose to join us.

First off next Wednesday, October 17th @ 6pm we welcome Speakeasy from San Francisco back to the market.  There will be a brewery representative on hand to answer your questions.  We will pour 8 draft options from them including, Big Daddy IPA, Double Daddy IPA, Butchertown Black Ale and XV Triple IPA to name a few.  We hope that your join us in welcoming Speakeasy. 

A week later on Wednesday, October 24th @6pm we will be the first ones in Washington to release everybody’s favorite Holiday Ale Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  It’s back after a year hiatus due to lack of brewing capacity.  We are really excited to have this beer back.  We will also be pouring Hop Stoopid, Undercover Shutdown, and one other delicious offering yet to be decided upon.  Please mark your calender and plan on joining us for this event.

We are also working on having Multiple Halloween Parties.  We don’t have all the details but on Saturday, October 27th we are planning an event with Fremont Brewing, 21st Amendment and Laurelwood, we will have a DJ starting at 7 and the brewery representatives will be judging a costume party at about 10:30.  Rumor has it that the grand prize will be a kegerator ( think badass stickered, and  brewery janitor certified, not clean,  polished and just off the showroom floor) .  Not a bad reason to dress up and join us.  Look for a few special rarer beers at this event.

To keep you in the Halloween spirit on Halloween, Wednesday, October 31 we will be hosting yet another Halloween event.  Pirates (Gigantic) vs Ninjas (New Belgium) vs Unicorns (Big Time) !  Dress up as one of the above to show your support for the Brewery representing there will be prizes and giveaways, we just haven’t hammered out all the details just yet as to what we will be giving away.

Now if that doesn’t give you something to look forward to, you my friend are not in to having fun!

We will be closed tomorrow, Saturday October 6th, for a Private party.  Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.  However,  Burgundian located at 2253 N 56th St (in Tangletown) is having a very Seattle centric festival, Coffee Beer Fest.  22 coffee beers, 5 coffee craft cocktails, and a coffee infused menu, all the fun starts at 10am when the doors open.

Here’s a few of the beers that we will be pouring: 

Big Time Marzen Oktoberfest W/ Ethipia Mordecofe (5.8%)
Fremont Dark Star Imperial Oatmeal Stout W/ Ganesha Tony’s Coffee (8%)
       (We included our Ganesha Espresso Blend in the Dark Star Imperial Stout.  This blend is comprised of three of our highest quality coffees; the base component (80%) is grown by the Pacas family on Finca San Joaquin in El Salvador, the fruitiness comes from the (10%) Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Konga Natural (see above), and the complex spice & acidity comes from (10%) Kenya Kiamwangi AA.  This blend rotates throughout the year, depending on which coffees are in season, but we always roast it to a medium level, which brings out a lot of sweetness, without masking the individual character of each coffee.)
Fort George Thundermuck Stout W/Thundermuck Indonesian Beans (9%)
 HUB Brouwer’s 6^thAnniversary Stumptown & Mexican Chocolate (9.5%)
       (Originally, made for Brouwer’s, we took base Brouwer’s Imprerial Stout blended it with Barrel aged Brouwer’s Imperial   Stout aka “Army of Darkness” and aged it on 2lbs of Stumptown coffee and 2 lbs of Mexican Chocolate.)
Gigantic The City Hasn’t Slept for Days Imperial Black Saison W/Cold Pressed House Blend from Portland Roasting(7.2%)

Naked City Sudden Impact Coffee IPA W/Dillanos Coffee (6%)  
Great Divide Oaked Aged Espresso Yeti W/Pablo’s Espresso (9.5%)

Cocktails:
Midnight Express: Hot coffee, Walnut infused Cognac, Simple Syrup topped with Fresh Whip Cream.
Coffee Cocktail: Port Wine, Cognac, One whole egg and simple syrup.
Brewers Breakfast: Sake, 100% Corn Whiskey, Galliano, and garnished with 8 Honey Nut Cherrios.

We look forward to seeing you at Burgundian.

Thanks to all of you, all the brewers and our staff for making a great Hopfest.  We still have quite a few hoppy beers on draft if you happened to miss it, you can still come in and drink the likes of Boundary Bay Imperial IPA, Silver City Whoop Pass, Firestone Double Jack, and many more.

We will be closed this Saturday, October 6th for a Private Party.  We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause you.

Next Wednesday, October 10 at 6pm we will be tapping Hair of the Dog/De Proef Flanders Fred, Hair of the Dog Fred, and Bockor Publican Lambic (the lambic sourced in the Fred Flanders Blend).  This will give you the opportunity to taste all the components and blend your own version of Fred Flanders. 

Hopfest is a mere 2 days away, we have been working as hard as we can to secure all the last kegs.  I can tell you it was a bit of a balancing act but we feel we have put together a really nice sampling of hoppy beers for your imbibing pleasure.  I will provide a short list of what will be on draft.  Well… scratch that I just posted the list to the hopfest tab…if there isn’t a price next to an item it means that we don’t have it in the cooler.  I usually shy away from posting info about stuff unless its actually in the cooler, but I’ll take a chance on it.  Hope that wets your appetite.  See you Thursday.

Hopfest is just around the corner.  Our cooler is starting to fill up with delicious hoppy beers.  We are hoping to have a wide variety of Fresh Hop beers in addition to the Imperial and Double Ipas. Here is a short list of what we already have:
Big Al Hop Soup
21st Amendment Hop Crisis
Russian River Pliny the Elder
HOD Blue Dot
Dogfish Head 120
Evil Twin Femme Fatale Brett IPA
Mad Viking Stingray Imperial
Emillese Black IPA
Southern Tier Gemini
New Belgium/Alpine Super IPA
Green Flash Imperial IPA
Just to name a few…the hops are being harvested as we speak and most of the brewers have started brewing with them…now all we had to do be patient.  We look forward to seeing you for Hopfest.

Have you heard?  Right Craftbeer.com is having their Best Craft Beer Bars contest and we are in the running.  Please follow the link and vote for us. 

It’s that time again, can you believe it, fall is coming…the first MFG race is this Sunday in Kirkland.  We love cross and for the third year in a row we are helping ring in the coming of cross by hosting the Kick Off party here from 6-10 tonight.  The party will be upstairs.  The buffet will start around 6:45.  Look for Schooner Exact beer specials upstairs.  Please join us. 

Another friendly reminder.  Hopfest starts September 27th and runs through the weekend.  This is our annual celebration of all things hoppy.  We are hoping that the harvest is early enough that we can have a better fresh hop presence at the festival than we have in past years.  We invite you to join us, cause you live in the northwest and there’s probably a good chance that you enjoy hoppy beers.  The T-shirts are already here, we went with an olive green shirt this year with the above logo on it.  We really like em, and hey they aren’t black like most of our shirts.  We hope you plan on joining us.

On Tuesday, September 4th from 6-10 we will celebrate the arrival of cross season.  Bikes and Beer go together that’s why we have been a proud supporter of MFG Cyclocross for 3 years now.  We invite you to come on down and rub elbows, heckle and just hang out and share stories.  We will provide a complimentary buffet at 6:45.  New to the scene this is a great way to meet some folks.  The first race of the season is Sunday, September 9th out in Kirkland.

We have been calling around and are starting to fill our cooler with delicious hoppy beers for Hopfest that starts on Thursday,  September 27th and runs through the weekend.  We moved the date to a bit later in hopes that we could get a few more fresh hopped beers.  It is looking like we will have a few at the festival this year.  Mark your calenders and join us.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday, August 22nd from 3-6pm for a Happy Hour with Eric Salazar form New Belgium.  We will be pouring New Belgium’s Super Ipa ( a collabeeration with Alpine Brewing in San Diego) and Tart Lychee as well as a few other New Belgium Beers.   We hope you take the time to come in and join us.

Next, Thursday, August 23rd starting @ 6pm we will be pouring the perfect crime American-Style Blond side by side with the perfect crime European-Style Blond.  perfect crime is a collaboration between Stillwater brewing and Evil Twin brewing.  They are pretty elusive with the details of the whole project, and we are very excited to have these rare beers side by side on draft together.  We hope that you choose to join us.  Perfect beers for a hot summer day.

We think that beer and bikes go hand in hand, and really what’s more Belgian than Cyclocross,  that’s why we have been a proud supporter of MFG Cyclocross for the past 3 years.  We always host an opening series party (which will be Tuesday, September 4th this year) and a party after the Woodland Park race in November.  Those of you that plan to race over the next season should join us on September 4th @6pm to tell stories, heckle one another, enjoy each others company.  It all starts at 6pm and food will be served at 6:45 pm.  We hope you join us.

The next major festival that we have coming up is Hopfest (our celebration of all things hoppy).  It starts on Thursday, September 27th and runs through the weekend.   Above is a mock up of this years t-shirt.  What do you think?  We like it.  We are starting to fill the cooler with delicious options for your drinking pleasure. 

This Thursday, August 16th at 6pm we are hosting a Big Sky/Four Roses event.  We will be tapping Centaur(Big Sky Noel aged in our Four Roses Barrel).  There will be cocktail specials as well, Peach Smash anyone?  Come on down and join us.

Next Wednesday, August 22nd we will be hosting Eric Salazar, one of our favorite brewers,  from New Belgium Brewing for happy hour from 3-6pm.  We will have their Super Ipa a collabeeration with Alpine Brewing in San Diego, and Tart Lychee as well as a couple others.  We hope you join us.

On Thursday, August 16th @ 6pm we will release Big Sky Centaur Ale (their Noel aged in a Four Roses Barrel).  Since Beer and Whiskey go together like peas and carrots, we felt that we should celebrate both Big Sky and Four Roses by making a night of it.  We will have a few cocktail specials, hows a a peach smash  for a summer night sound?  Mark your calenders and come on down.

Or at least what we call summer in the Northwest!  Our patio is open everyday, come on down and enjoy it with us.

In other news, Hopfest, our celebration of all things hoppy, starts Thursday, September 27th at 11am and runs through the weekend.  We moved the date back a bit in hopes that we could get a few more fresh hop beers in the rotation.  We hope that you are planning ahead, we will attempt to have at least a partial draftlist up earlier than we have for other events, we understand that this helps people plan ahead.  We also feel that part of the fun is showing up and seeing what we have been able to procure for you.  We feel that giving away the whole list takes away from the fun of the event or events. In the past this has lead us to not putting out the draftlist till the day of.  We will make a conscious effort to get at least half the list out this time a week or so in advance.  Thank you for your cooperation.

We like bicycles, that is why for the past 2 seasons, and now a third season, we have supported MFG Cyclocross by having a season Kick Off  party and an after Woodland Park party.  It feels so early to be doing this, as summer feels like it has just arrived, The season Kick Off party will be held Tuesday, September 4th from 6 pm- 11.  We will provide a complimentary limited buffet,  at 6:30 with enough food for 60 or so people.  No need to RSVP, just show up head upstairs, we will have beer specials for you as well.  We really can’t believe that it is already the time of year that we start thinking about cross, but here we are already talking about it.  We hope you join us for this fun event.
 

Happy Hour (Power Hour) is from 3-6 everyday, festivals not included. I$1 off all draft beer and well.

Vern’s Warm Nuts
Assorted nuts seasoned with smoked sea salt,
Spices, topped with Zoe’s bacon crumbles. 3
Vegan upon request.

Power Hour Frites
Medium pomme frites with choice of sauce. 3

Power Hour Frites Deluxe
Small pomme frites, Belgian beer-cheese sauce
Curried ketchup, diced onion. 5

Soup & Salad

Brouwer’s salad & a cup of soup. 7

Pretzel

Fresh baked pretzel, beer-cheese sauce
Stone ground mustard. 5

Sausage a la Carte
One house-made sausage Du Jour
Stone ground mustard. 5

Lingcod a la Carte
Beer-battered & fried lingcod, remoulade. 5

Carbonade Sliders
Traditional Belgian braised Kobe beef with Bacon and St. Bernardus Abt 12.
Topped with beer-cheese sauce, Mini brioche. 8

Falafel “Fries” Spiced and fried falafel sticks, Bourbon dragon sauce, Hop-apricot chutney 5
Pasta Bolognese

House-made traditional meat sauce
Shaved parmesan, garlic baguette. 5

Chef’s Choice
See server for current small plate offerings.

P.H. Cheese Plate

Daily selection of two cheeses
Traditional accompaniments. 5

Thursday, July 12th at 6pm we are pleased to announce that Sea Cider from Victoria, BC will be joining us.  We will be pouring all 5 of their cider offerings by the glass for $7.  There will be a representative from Sea Cider on hand to answer questions, chat with or just lift a glass with.
Flagship 6%
German-style ultra dry cider, notes of star anise and cinnamon, 100% organic, no sulfites added.

Kings & Spies 8.5%
Italian-style, off-dry, autumn notes, tart, ripe flavors, sales benefit non-profit local food advocates.

Wild English 7.2%
English-style, ultra-dry, robust, earthy, made with brettanomyces, reminiscent of an apple lambic.

Pippins 9.5%
New-England style, off-dry, pineapple notes, aromatic, refreshing, made with Newton Pippins.

Prohibition 12.5%
Aged for 6 months in rum-soaked bourbon barrels, brown sugar notes and deep rum overtones

Friday, July 13th at 6pm we are pleased to release for the first time in Washington on draft Gigantic Brewing, from Portland.  Gigantic Brewing is owned and operated by Van Havig (Master Brewer and Ben Love (Brewmaster).  We will be pouring their IPA and The City Never Sleeps (Imperial Black Saison) and the Gigantic Brewing + Three Floyds Collaboration beer- Axes of Evil (Coal Fired Anitipodean Pale Ale)  Ben Love and Van Havig will be spinning records starting at 9pm.  This will make for a great way to celebrate Friday the 13th.

Sorry for the late notice, this was just information was just passed off to me.  Tonight, June 6th at 6pm at all 3 locations, Bottleworks, Burgundian and here we will be tapping a great beer HUB Brouwer’s XI Anniversary Imperial Stout.  We love this beer!  10.5% with the body of Robitussin, what more could you want on a hot day in June.  We hope your Friday is open enough to come in and enjoy this delicious beverage at one of our locations.  The Burgundian will also have Galacitc Imperial Red and a few other HUB beers on draft.

Next week is a busy one here for sure.  On Thursday, July 12th, our friends from Sea Cider in Victoria will be joining us for the evening.  We have been pouring quite a bit of their Prohibition which is a 12% barrel aged cider, and we thought it would be a great idea to provide an opportunity to try their other offerings.  We will be pouring Prohibition,  Flagship, Pippins, Kings and Spies and Wild English.   We look forward to seeing you.  There will be a representative from Sea Cider on hand to answer questions etc.  We hope you choose to join us.

Friday, July 13th at 6pm we are pleased to release for the first time in Washington on draft Gigantic Brewing, from Portland.  Gigantic Brewing is owned and operated by Van Havig(Master Brewer) and Ben Love (Brewmaster) We will be pouring their IPA and the City that Never Sleeps Imperial Black Saison and The Axis of Evil( a delicious stout).    Ben Love will be spinning records starting 9pm.  This will make for a great way to celebrate Friday the 13th.

And last but not least, We will be closed all day on Monday, July 16th  for an employee appreciation event.  We hope you enjoy the day.

                                                    photo courtesy of newschoolbeer blog.

 We are excited!  Gigantic Brewing is new to the market, in fact they just shipped beer to Seattle yesterday, so it is yet to hit the shelves. On Friday, July 13th at 6pm we welcome you to join us for the initial draft release of Gigantic Beer:  IPA, City that Never Sleeps (Imperial Black Saison) and maybe a 3rd yet to be determined beer.  Click here for a little history on Gigantic courtesy of Brewpublic.   Brewer/Owner Ben Love will be on hand to answer questions and hang out.  Starting around 8:30 or 9 he will be spinning some records for your listening pleasure.  This is sure to be a great evening, please join us.  It is Friday the 13th after all we might have some great old movies playing on the tv too.

The night before Sea Cider, from Victoria is in the house.  They don’t do draft cider, we will be offering bottle pours of their 5 ciders that are in the market, Flagship, Pippins, Prohibition, Kings and Spies, and Wild English.  There will be a representative on hand to answer questions and hang out. 

Also just a friendly reminder.  We will be closed tomorrow July 4th so that your employees can enjoy the holiday.  Don’t lose a finger.  We will also be closed on Monday, July 16th for an employee appreciation event.  Thanks and we hope you enjoy your days.

Our friends from Sea Cider in Victoria are coming to town on Thursday, July 12th, and we are please to host them for an evening, the event kicks off at 6pm.  We will be pouring all 5 of their ciders from the bottle.  They do not do draft cider.  We love their cider, our boss, who is not a big cider drinker, drank Prohibition their 12% Barrel aged cider that we have been pouring for awhile and it changed his opinion of what cider could be.  What follows is a list of their ciders.  We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, July 12th for this event.

Flagship: (7.1%) Very Dry, and free of sulphites with smokey, citrus, and herbaceous flavors.
            Suggested Food Pairings:  Lingcod and Fries
Kings and Spies: (8.0%) Reminiscent of Prosecco, and delicate and off dry.
            Suggested Food Pairings:  Brouwer’s salad and traditional mussels with frites.
Wild English:  (7.2%)Sharp, phenolic, earthy and grassy, fermented with yeast present on the apple skin.
            Suggested Food Pairings:  Apple blossom, frites with curry ketchup and Falafel sandwich.
Pippins: (9.5%) Citrus, apple, lemongrass, and pineapple flavors.
           Suggested Food Pairings:  Lamb burger and frites with dragon sauce
Prohibitions (12.5%)  Molasses, apple butter and rum flavors.
          Suggested Food Pairings:  Stoovlees, steak with bleu cheese, and Gaufre Liege

Also just a reminder we have a couple of upcoming closures.  We will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th so that our employees can enjoy the holiday, and we hope you do to.  We will also be closed on Monday, July 16th for an employee appreciation event.  Thank you for your cooperation.

This is a friendly reminder that this Thursday, June 21st at 6pm we will be hosting the boys from Astoria, OR for a Fort George Brewer’s Night.  They are pulling some beers from the cellar.  What follows is a list of what they are bringing:
South:  A strong Summer Fruit Ale with raspberries aged in Pinot Noir Barrels.
Magnifera Indica Belgae: aka a Mango Beer.
Quiet Rye-it:  A pale ale with a heavy dose of Rye malt and Zythos hops.
Bad JuJu: An IPA with Centennial and Summit Hops.
Spruce Budd Ale: exactly what it sounds like a beer made with Spruce tips, and 2 Row malt.
Quick Wit and Oatmeal Pale will be available as well.

We will also be closed on the Fourth of July so that all of our employees can enjoy the holiday.  We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause you.  We hope you have a BBQ planned.  We hope that you make it through the day without losing a finger.  We know just how fun it is to blow stuff up.

Attention!! Attention!!!  We are pleased to announce that this years Hopfest will start on Thursday, September 27th at 11am when we open, and run through the weekend.  We moved the date to a little later in September in hopes that the hop harvest coincides better with this date and we are able to have a few more fresh hop beers on the menu. 

We have a very special keg that we are tapping this evening.  Brewed for the 2nd Anniversary  of our friends at Apex in Portland by Bear Republic, Double Apex a 10% Double IPA.  Come down and try this limited release, I am sure that you hop heads will not be disappointed, we just tried it and all of us were very pleased.

Our friends from Fort George in Astoria, OR will be in town on Thursday, June 21st at 6pm for a Brewer’s Night.  We will have more details on the exact draft beers that they are pulling from the cellar, but we have been told they have some goodies.   There will be a representative on hand from the brewery, and we will raffle off some shwag.  We invite you to join us.