The 7th Annual Seattle Beer Week is a few short weeks away!

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Friday, May 8^thAll Day

Back in Black Stout Fest

We will be tapping 40 plus awesome Stouts from around the world. We have squirreled away some rare and one off kegs just for this event, from the likes of Alesmith, Breakside, Ballast Point, Black Raven, Boneyard, E9, Elevation, Elysian, Epic, Evil Twin, Firestone Walker, Evil Twin, Fremont, Green Flash, HUB, Iron Fist, Lost Abbey, Port, Midnight Sun, Mikkeller, Perennial Silver City, Upright and others.

May 12^th @ 6pm

“Rise of the Hop Monster” is an event with Boneyard, Barley Brown’s and Melvin at Brouwer’s Café on Tuesday, May 12^th starting at 6pm. We are sure that most of you are familiar with at least one of these breweries, as they are all well known for their love of hops, which will be the showcase of this event. They are collaborating on a beer dubbed “The Three Headed Hop Monster” which will be brewed at Barley Brown’s in early April. So join us in raising a glass in honor of hops, and celebrating these amazing breweries. Representatives from each brewery will be on hand. We are still working out the exact draft list, but it will make hop heads rejoice.

Thursday, May 14^th– All Day

Sour Fest

We replace every or just about every tap with a delicious sour beer from around the world.

We will have beers/ciders from 10 Barrel, Almanac, Bear Republic, BFM, Boulevard, Crux, Destihl, Double Mountain, E9, Elysian, Evil Twin, Finn River, Firestone Walker, Logsdon, Lost Abbey, Magic Rock, Mikkeller, New Belgium, Paradox, pFriem, Perennial, Russian River, Telegraph, The Bruery and others.

Slow Ride with New Belgium’s Jamie Mastin, Saturday May 16^t^h.

What better way to wrap up and wind down Seattle Beer Week than with a Slow Ride around town? Join New Belgium’s Jamie Mastin and Brouwer’s Nat Pellman for a laid back pedal around the north end, complete with entertainment, heckling, stories and more!

Oh you want the details? Get your cruiser out of the garage, pump up your tires, and meet us at the Burgundian @ 10am, where we will fuel ourselves with a delicious breakfast. At 11:30am we will head out for a short pedal to The Yard in Greenwood to quench our thirst, then make a few more stops before heading to the finish line at Brouwer’s Café. This is a leisure ride, with swag and surprises along the way! So come join in the fun!

Please join us in our 10th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, March 28th!

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Our 10^th Anniversary, on Saturday March 28^th, a major milestone for us! It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years already, or just how much Seattle and the Craft Beer Industry has changed! What were you doing in 2005? What’s your first (or favorite!) Brouwer’s memory? We’d love to know!

In honor of this 10-year milestone we have two very special beers to share with you. New Belgium was kind enough to open up their “wood forest” and allow us to blend a sour beer. We had a great time hanging out with Eric Salazar, on a sunny December day in Fort Collins, where we tasted close to 20 different fouders. We came up with a 50/50 fouder blend we think everyone will enjoy, but this is a draft only offering.

The second beer was brewed at one of our favorite Seattle Breweries, Reuben’s Brews. Adam, Mike and Thor were great hosts and allowed us to sit in on the brew, on a sunny Monday in early March. This IIPA, appropriately named Gobsmacked (a British slang term for astonished) is a blend of Citra, Mosaic and Galaxy Hops, and it will have your lips smacking.

We are also known for hiding beers in our cellar for a future, special day, and that day is upon us! So, we’ve been digging around looking for beers worthy of our 10^th Anniversary, including as many past anniversary beers (from both Brouwers and Bottleworks) as we can find. Attached is the list of the 17 beers we’ve come up with thus far, but we are shooting to put a total of 20 on draft for this event. 10 for the 10^thand 10 for the next 10 years!

Anchorage/Grass Roots Artic Soiree Saison

Allagash PNC Broken Elevator

Black Raven King Dandy

Hair of the Dog Matt ’10

HUB Copperworks Gin Barrel Aged A-bomb

HUB Oola Barrel Aged A-bomb

HUB Westland Barrel Aged A-bomb

Firestone Walker Hat Trick Sour

Firestone Walker PNC Buckwheat Stout

Fremont Old Bridgerider Brouwer’s 7^thAnniversary

Lost Abbey Bottlework’s XV

New Belgium Decenium Brouwer’s 10^th Anniversary Sour Ale

Reuben’s Brews Brouwer’s 10^thAnniversary Gobsmacked IIPA

Russian River Bottleworks IX Deviation

Stone Bottleworks 13

The Bruery Bottleworks XII

Flyer’s Brouwer’s 8^th Anniversary

13th Annual Hardliver Barleywine Festival March 14th and 15th

Is your liver ready? Have you provided it with sufficient punishment, or are you waiting for the festival? We are really close to finalizing the list, but most of the Barleywine is in the cooler and awaiting next Saturday’s event. How early will someone line up this year? How long will the line be? What is going to be the crowd favorite? We are full of questions… Only time will tell. On March 14th we will kickoff the 13th Annual Hardliver, it is older than we are, as our 10th Anniversary is just around the corner, on March 28th. There will be more details on that event in a few as well.
Lets get back to Hardliver, we are going to post the list here in a few, remember as with all things in life this is not to be taken as the law, things change, we make last min changes, but you can count on most if not all of what we post today to be on the draft at the festival. We are hoping to have some surprises for you as well. Without any more chatter here is most of what will be on draft..

Alesmith Old Numbskull ’14

Almanac Heirloom Pumpkin Barleywine ’14

Anacortes Old Sebastes ’07

Amnesia 10^thAnniversary BBL Barleyewine

Avery Hog Heaven ’14

Bainbridge Old Toe Jam ’13

Ballast Point Three Sheets BBl-Aged Barleywine

Big Sky Four Roses Old Bluehair ’12

Big Time Old Wooly ’14

Black Raven Old Birdbrain 2013

Deschutes Mirror Mirror ’09

Dogfish Head Olde School ’14

Double Mountain Off the Wagon Belgian Style ’14

Engine House #9 Barrel Aged Thunder Buddies ’13

Evil Twin Freudian Slip

Firestone-Walker §ucaba ’13

Gigantic Massive! ’14

Green Flash/Cigar City Candela Rye Barleywine

Heathen Reindeer Tears Barrel-Aged ‘14

High Water Old and in the Way ’14

Iron Fist Raisin’ a Fist ’14

Laguntias OldeGnarleyWine ’11

Laurelwood Santa’s Woody ’14

Lompoc Old Tavern Rat ’14

Lost Abbey Angel’s Share ’12

Mad Viking Pillage the Village

Midnight Sun Arctic Devil ’13

Midnight Sun Termination Dust Bourbon Barrel-Aged Belgian ‘14

Mikkeller Big Worster Barleywine

Old School House Barelywine ’14

Pelican Stormwatcher’s Winterfest Barleywine ‘14

Perennial Vermilion Barleywine ’14

Pike Old Bawdy ’11

Reel Ales 10²

Reuben’s Brews Auld Heritage ’15

Seven Seas BBL Old Wheelchair ’13

Sierra Nevada Big Foot Barleywine ’14

Silver City Old Scrooge

Sound Brewery Westland Aged Old Scoundrel ’14

Southern Tier Back Burner ’13

Telegraph Rhinoceros Hoppy Red Wine BBL Aged

To Øl Mine is Bigger than Yours’14

Triplehorn BBL Aged BYGGVIN ’14

Uinta Anniversary Barleywine

March is going to be awesome!!

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13^th annual Hardliver Barleywine Festival- March 14^th and 15^th

Our Hardliver Barleywine Festival, which had its first few years at the Phinney Ridge Neighboorhood Center will be back for its 13^th consecutive year. With over 45 barleywines pouring on draft, we suggest you start hardening that liver immediately! This year we plan on hosting all you lovers of that sticky nectar that is barley wine on Saturday, March 14^th and Sunday, March 15^th.

Go here for up to date information on the Facebook event page.

For Immediate Release: Brouwer’s 10^thAnniversary party Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29^th.

Wow! Do you remember 2005? We do! 2005 was the year we opened our doors and poured our first beer. Back in 2005, Matt “Vern” Vandenbergh brought what he had learned from Bottleworks bottleshop, at the time already into its 5^th year, and created Brouwer’s Café. On March 23, 2005, we opened our doors to the public, and the rest (as they say) is history. With over 60 taps, 300 bottles, a wide selection of whisky andwhiskey, and a menu based around the hearty and delicious cuisine of Belgium, Brouwer’s has remained one of Seattle’s premiere beer destinations for the whole of its (almost) 10 years. Every year since our first anniversary we’ve worked with a variety of breweries to create a unique anniversary beer. For our 10^th year of pouring pints and snifters to the beer lovers of Seattle and abroad we’ll have two beers to celebrate with. We teamed up with Reuben’s Brews’ Adam Robbings to create a hop-bomb of a beer that would be worthy of such a big milestone in our history. At the young age of 2 years old, Reuben’s has easily become one of our favorite breweries in town, as well as one of our friends. We’ve been happy to host their staff and patrons for both their 1^st and 2^nd anniversaries, and we’re honored to have them brewing our 10^th anniversary beer. Our 10^thanniversary beer is a 10% imperial IPA that we have named Gobsmacked and will be available in a very limited number of bottles, as well as on draft. For Bottleworks’ 10^th anniversary we worked with the one and only New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado. We thought it would be fun to Blend a Brouwer’s 10 as well, and we headed down hang out and blend a beer in early December. Eric and Lauren were kind enough to open up the wood cellar at New Belgium and we had an amazing day. We tasted somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 different fouders and came up with a beer that we are very happy with. New Belgium’s contribution will be a draft only affair, and we’ll be pouring it like it’s hot at our anniversary party. We will also be digging in to the cellar and pulling out some past anniversary beers. Mark your calenders and plan on having a great day!

Go here to stay in the loop on the Facebook event page.

We are proud to be hosting the Kickoff Party for the Washington Hop Mob Triple Ipa Roadshow on February 6th @3pm!

A Celebration of Washington’s Biggest and Hoppiest Brews

The Washington Hop Mob Triple IPA Roadshow celebrates hoppy beers and showcases the talents of Washington’s breweries

The 2nd Annual Washington Hop Mob Triple IPA Roadshow (Hop Mob) is a two-week celebration of the hoppiest of all Washington-brewed beer styles. Over 30 Washington breweries signed up to produce special batches of Triple IPA to pour at a series of events around the Puget Sound region during February.

Hop Mob begins with the official Hop Mob Kickoff at Brouwer’s Café in Seattle (400 N. 35th Street) on Friday, February 6 and concludes with the Hop Mob Finale at Pike Brewing in Seattle (1415 1st Avenue) on Saturday, February 21. Sandwiched between those dates, various beer-focused bars around the Puget Sound area will host Hop Mob Roadshow events.

The Hop Mob Kickoff and the Hop Mob Finale will each feature over 30 Triple IPAs on tap—all of the Hop Mob beers. Each Hop Mob Roadshow event features at least a dozen of the beers on tap. Locations currently signed up to host Hop Mob Roadshow events include Flatstick Pub in Kirkland; the Red Hot in Tacoma; and Naked City Brewery and Taphouse in Seattle. More locations and events will be added in the coming weeks. A complete calendar of events is available on the official Hop Mob website, www.wahopmob.com.

The event showcases Washington-brewed Triple IPAs, perhaps the most boldly hoppy of all beer styles. Typically this style of beer weighs in at more than 9 percent Alcohol by Volume and features profound hop character, whether in the form of bitterness, aroma, or both.

“Triple IPA is a difficult style of beer to master and breweries that do it well are highly revered,” says Kim Sharpe Jones of the Washington Beer Blog, which is helping organize and promote the events. “Some out-of-state Triple IPAs get an enormous amount of attention and cause beer enthusiasts to swoon like preteens at a One Direction concert. Our goal with Hop Mob is to show that Washington’s brewers can produce beers that stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any of those ballyhooed, out-of-state beers. Also, it’s a great excuse to drink some really excellent stuff.”

Beyond the beer, Hop Mob is a celebration of hops and the relationship between hop farmers and brewers. To brew a good Triple IPA, brewers use a substantial amount of malted barley, which provides the elevated alcohol content. To balance-out the malty sweetness and give the beer its requisite hoppy character, brewers rely on substantial quantities of hops.

In Washington, hops are more than an ingredient, they’re a way of life. The Yakima Valley produces between 75 and 80 percent of the nation’s hop crop each year and some of the farms are operated by families that have grown hops for four and five generations.

For more information about Washington Hop Mob Triple IPA Roadshow, visit the official website at www.wahopmob.com or contact Kendall Jones at kjones@wahopmob.com.

We are currently working on a list of the participating breweries…we do know that Fremont Brewing brewed theirs a couple of days ago.

Can you believe its the end of the year! Mark your calenders with some of this info.

Mark your calenders, we will be closed on December 24th and 25th so that our employees can enjoy the holiday. We will also be closed on January 1st, so that we can recover from the holidays. That said what follows is a rough idea of the next few months:

Wednesday, January 21st @6pm- “Off the Wagon” art show with local artists Kevin “Sensei 23” Sullivan and Solace Wonder. I bet you can guess the theme of the show. We are hoping to have a one of a kind mini pint glass for sale at the event, as well as many pieces from these two artists. The art will be up till the end of February.

Wednesday, January 28th- @6pm East vs West, Victory Brewing vs Elysian Brewing, the breweries will battle for best in show in 5 different beer styles. We are hoping to have a DJ on hand as well.

Friday, February 6th- @3pm Washington Hop Mob Triple Ipa kickoff party. Last year this event was on the Monday of President’s weekend and we had a total of 16 Washington Triple Ipas on draft. This year it has been moved to an earlier date, and has grown from 16 to 30 plus. We will be starting at 3pm, we will offer 6oz and 12oz options.

Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15 –13th Annual Hardliver Barleywine Fest– Get your livers ready.

Saturday, March 28th- 10th Anniversary Celebration– We will have a couple of Anniversary beers released this day as well as lots of special beers on draft from around the world.

That gets us through till April, we have some Seattle Beer Week plans in the works, but expect that Back in Black Stout Fest will be Friday, May 8th and Sour Fest will be Thursday, May 14th.

Our Bigwood Festival starts Thursday and runs through the weekend.

Here ye! Here ye! It’s Monday, this Thursday we are celebrating our 8th Annual Bigwood-Wood Aged Beer Fest. The doors open at 11am. This is one of our favorite festivals all year, maybe thats why we save it till the end. We feel that this years list is going to be very well received, we have worked over the years and especially over the past year to amass a wide variety of awesome. We will be doing some special tappings at 2pm, 6pm, and 8pm, they will be announced 15 mins before the time of tapping. Here you go:
There are a few changes from the last time this was posted—due to errors on our side– There will be no Tilquin, and we have changed the Almanac to the Sour Porter, we also added Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Narwhal.

Alameda Bbl-Aged Ol’ Alger Barleywine Nitro (11%) Portland
Almanac Farmers Reserve Sour Porter (%) San Francisco
Avery Tweak No. 1 Bbl-Aged Coffee Imp. Stout (18.5%) Boulder
Bainbridge Island Broadhead Bbl-Aged Red (8.5%) Bainbridge Island
Boneyard Barrel-Aged Suge Knight Imperial Stout (14%) Bend
Boulevard Rye on Rye ’13 (12%) Kansas City
Cantillon Cuvée Saint Gilloise (5%) Anderlecht
The Commons Putin from the Wood (8%) Portland
Crux Fermentation Oud Bruin Cake/Freak Cake (10.5%) Bend
De Struise Blackberry Albert Imp Stout (13%) Oosvleteren
Deschutes Abyss ’14 (12%) Bend
Destihl Dekerra Strawberry Sour (7.5%) Normal
Elevation Rum Bbl-Aged Horchata Imp. Porter (8.5%) Breckenridge
Elevation Chardonnay Bbl-Aged Imp. Farmhouse Ale (9.86%) Breckenridge
Elevation Breckinridge Bourbon Quad (11.73%) Breckenridge
Elysian Gourdfather Bbl-Aged Pumpkin Barleywine () Seattle
Engine House #9 NEFILIBATA (5.8%) Tacoma
Finnriver Rye Fire Barrel Cider (8%) Chimacum
Firestone Walker Parabola ’11(12.5%) Paso Robles
Fremont Bourbon Bbl-Aged Darkstar Coffee Edition ’14 (11%) Seattle
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (12.5%) Chicago
Full Sail Top Sail Bourbon Bbl-Aged Imperial Porter (11%) Hood River
Hale’s Gold Rush ’13 (10%) Seattle
Hair of the Dog Ardbeg Adam from the Wood (10%) Portland
Iron Fist Rum Barrel Dark Day Imp Stout (14.3%) Vista
Logsdon Oak Aged Bretta (8%) Hood River
Lompoc Port Bbl-Aged Big Bang Red ’14 (8%) Portland
Lost Abbey Cuvée De Tomme ’13 (11%) San Marcos
LoverBeer Madamin Italian Sour (6.2%) Marentino
Midnight Sun Berserker (11.4%) Anchorage
New Belgium Coffee Sour () Fort Collins
North Sound BBL Imperial Red () Mt Vernon
Odin O&S Cabernet Barrel-Aged Saison (8%) Seattle
Old School House Oaked Imp Porter (9%) Winthrop
Pelican Mother of All Storms (13%) Pacific City
Perennial La Bohème Bbl-Aged Cherry Sour (6%) St. Louis
Pike Bbl-Aged Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale (8.5%) Seattle
Port Older Viscosity ’14 (12%) San Marcos
Propolis Prunus Malbec Aged Cherry Flanders Red (8.2%) Pt Townsend
Reuben’s Brews Bbl-Aged Imperial Stout (12%) Seattle
Russian River Supplication ’11 (10%) Santa Rosa
Schooner Exact Whiskey Dick Bbl-Aged Pumkin Beer (10%) Seattle
Seven Seas Bbl-Aged Imperial Stout () Gig Harbor
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Narwhal Imp. Stout (10.4%) Chico
Silver City Fat Woody ’14 (9.7%) Silverdale
Sound Brewery Barrel-Aged Ursus Spelaeus Stout (10%) Poulsbo
Surly Eight (???) Minneapolis
Surly Pentagram (6.66%) Minneapolis
Stone Barrel-Aged Arrogant Bastard (7.2%) Escondido
‘T Hofbrouwerijke Anarkriek (8.5%) Beerzel
The Bruery Bottleworks XII 2.0 Raspberry Sour (8%) Placentia
Victory White Monkey Bbl-Aged Belgian Golden (9.5%) Downingtown

Are you salivating? Get on over to the Big Time for an Old Wooly Barleywine that is getting released today!

Pumpkin Roadshow and some other events!

You like pumpkin beer? We do! All the pumpkin beers seem to come out too early, so we hang on to some each year and serve them up the day before Thanksgiving. This year the Roadshow kicks off Wednesday, November 26th @ 6pm. Elysian is the king of pumpkin beers, so we throw what we have called the Elysian Pumpkin Roadshow. The formula is pretty simple, we save 8 Elysian pumpkin beers and this year 9 other Pumpkin beers (including a cider). What follows is a list of what we are tapping for the event:

Wednesday, November 26^th at 6pm Elysian Brewing Pumpkin Roadshow

The formula for this one is pretty straight forward. Elysian does their Pumpkin fest we do a Roadshow edition here the night before Thanksgiving. We tap 8 Elysian beers and 8 or a few more from other folks. We are happy with the list this year.

Elysian beers:

Great Pumpkin

Night Owl

Punkacinno

Dark o the Moon

Mr. Yuck

Cohche Mexican Chocolate Amber

Gourdgia

BBL Dark o the Moon

Other Pumpkin Beers

Reuben’s Pumpkin Beer

Destihil Sam Hain Pumpkin Porter

Almanac Dark Pumpkin Sour ( or Heirloom)

Bainbridge Pumpkin beer

Southern Tier Pumpking

Midnight Sun Treat

New Belgium Pumpkick

Lost Abbey/Elysian Avant Gourde

A note about Turkey day. We will be closed on Thursday, November 27th. We would like our employees to enjoy Thanksgiving. We will reopen at 11am on Friday, November 28th. While you are out shopping, you can always get some relaxation here with a pint in between trying to find that perfect gift for the loved ones…or you might be going to Fremont Brewing for their B-Bomb release which starts Friday @ 5pm as well, so stop in before you go to Fremont for a pint and some food.

8^th Annual Big Wood Festival

Thursday, December 4^ththru Sunday, December 7^th

Our annual celebration of all things that have spent time in a barrel or with chips from Stout to Sour. This is one of , if not our favorite festival of the year. We work all year collecting some of our favorite beers around the world and put them on draft for your imbibing pleasure. I will be posting an almost full list of the beers being tapped by tomorrow afternoon. Stay tuned.

This year we have beers from:

Almanac, Avery Bainbridge Island, Ballast Point, Bear Republic, Black Raven, Boneyard, Boulevard, Crux Fermentation, De Struise, Deschutes, Destihil, Elysian, Engine House #9, Fremont, Full Sail, Great Divide, Hales, Holy Mountain, Jolly Pumpkin, Logsdon, Lompoc, Lost Abbey, Midnight Sun, New Belgium, Pelican, Perennial, Pike, Port, Reuben’s, Schooner Exact, Seven Seas, Sound, Surly, Stone

We have some upcoming events… to get you ready for the Holidaze!

Thursday, November 20^thstarting at 6pm, Firestone Walker Ugly Sweater Party. We have moved the date of this around and thought we would try earlier this year before the Holidaze take over and everyone of us has too many social engagements to stay on top of. The formula is pretty simple. We tap some Firestone Walker beers, invite people to join us, encourage them to wear Ugly Sweaters so that they can win prizes. In the past years, pretty much everyone that wore an ugly sweater has left with some kind of prize. Tom comes up with some games to keep the party going, last year there was lots and lots of limbo going on, and everyone in attendance probably is still sick of the limbo song. That’s the idea. This year there will be the option to cross stitch your own ugly sweater ornament. Supplies will be limited.

We will be tapping:

15^th Anniversary

Parabola 2013

Mocha Merlin

Agrestic Sour

Merlin

Union Jack Ipa

Wookie Jack Black Rye Ipa

DBL Jack Imp Ipa

Pivo Pilsner

Opal

Wednesday, November 26^th at 6pm Elysian Brewing Pumpkin Roadshow

Elysian beers:

Great Pumpkin

Night Owl

Punkacinno

Dark o the Moon

The Port Lost Abbey Collab

Mr. Yuck

Cohche Mexican Chocolate Amber

Gourdgia

BBL Dark o the Moon

Other Pumpkin Beers

Reuben’s Pumpkin Beer

Destihil Sam Hain Pumpkin Porter

Almanac Dark Pumpkin Sour ( or Heirloom)

Gigantic/ Commons Pumpkin Dinner Not Dessert

Southern Tier Pumpking

Midnight Sun Treat

New Belgium Pumpkick

Seattle Cider Pumpkin

8^th Annual Big Wood Festival

Thursday, December 4^ththru Sunday, December 7^th

This year we have beers from: and are working on beers from others

Almanac, Avery Bainbridge Island, Ballast Point, Bear Republic, Black Raven, Boneyard, Boulevard, Crux Fermentation, De Struise, Deschutes, Destihil, Elysian, Engine House #9, Fremont, Full Sail, Great Divide, Hales, Holy Mountain, Jolly Pumpkin, Goose Island, Logsdon, Lompoc, Lost Abbey, Midnight Sun, New Belgium, Pelican, Perennial, Pike, Port, Reuben’s, Schooner Exact, Seven Seas, Sound, Surly, Stone

A look at the next few weeks

First off, this Saturday, October 25th we will be closed for a private party. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. We will reopen on Sunday at 11am. Thank you for your understanding.

We have few events next week. First off next Wednesday, October 29th @ 6pm John Harris from Ecliptic Brewing will be in town. You may or not know John Harris, but you have drank his beer before. He worked at both Deschutes and Full Sail and is now doing his own thing at Ecliptic Brewing based in Portland. We will have 5 unique draft beers. John will be here to hoist a beer with, answer your questions or just admire him from afar. We hope you join us.

Next Friday is Halloween! Fremont Brewing, Gigantic Brewing, and New Belgium Brewing are all getting together with Emerald City Soul Club to throw one hell of a party for you. We have some great prizes! Including a Sounders Package for 2, a New Belgium bike and lots of shwag. The costume contest will start at right around 10:15 or 10:30.

People’s Choice Tap Take-over at Brouwer’s Café.

A very special event featuring 10 drafts and 1 cask.

This Wednesday October 15^th at 6PM we will be pouring:

Uberliner Berliner Weisse and its cousins

Apricot Crush &

Cucumber Crush

German Sparkle Party German Berliner Weisse

Power to the People American Stout

Pilsner

ISA

The Boss Fresh Hop Harvest Ale

Coconut Baltic Porter

Dry Fly Barrel-Aged Wheat Wine

And on Cask: A blend of Pinot Noir Barrel-Aged

and Whiskey Barrel-Aged Dry-Hopped Pray For Snow Winter Ale.

This is a very exciting event especially for you sour beer enthusiasts. And a nice sneak peek at what our next big festival, Big Wood, is going to be like.

Hopfest is here!!!

Hopfest our annual celebration of all things hoppy, starts tomorrow October 8th at 11am and runs through Sunday, October 12th. We are very proud of the amount of Fresh Hop, and other hoppy gems that we have collected in the past few weeks. We made a few road trips and were able to amass some rare beers for the Seattle market. It sure is hard work driving around and meeting great brewers all in the name of this festival. Hard work I say! We have a little different format this year, usually we fill all the taps with a beer or cider that fits in with the festival. This year we are starting with 42 different hoppy beers. Throughout the 5 days of this festival we will rotate in other beers as the ones we start with blow. This gives you many reasons to come back day after day to enjoy a new fresh hop or hoppy beer that wasn’t on the previous day. It all so allows us to accommodate those folks that for one reason or another aren’t in to hoppy beer. We are really excited about the line up that will be on draft tomorrow upon opening, I’ve said enough. What follows is what you can expect to see on draft, remember sometimes we make game time decisions and things change, this here is mostly if not exactly what you will see on draft tomorrow.

Welcome to Hopfest! We have put together a list comprised of mostly Fresh hopped Beers, but also has some of our favorite hoppy creations as well. We hope you enjoy!

10 Barrel The Boss Fresh Hop Harvest (5.5%) Bend

Amnesia Mother Plucker Amarillo Fresh Hop (5.4%)

Anthem Cider Co. Cascade Fresh Hop Cider (6.5%)

Backwoods Brewing Cenntenial Fresh Hop Pale Ale (6.5%)

Bainbridge Island Brewing Amarillo Fresh Hop (5.6%) Bainbridge Island.

Bale Breaker Piled High Imperial Fresh Hop (7.3%) Yakima

Bale Breaker/Elysian Citra Slicker Wet Hop IPA (6.0%) Yakima.

Ballast Point Schooner Wet Hop Pale (5.5%) San Diego

Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin IPA (7.0%) San Diego

Barley Brown’s Hop Truck Crossing Mosaic Fresh Hop IPA (8.2%)

Barley Brown’s Tankslapper IIPA (9.2%) Baker City

Black Raven Fresh Hop Saison (6.2%) Redmond.

Boneyard Notorious IIIPA (10.5%) Bend

Breakside Citralust Fresh Hop Wanderlust (6.4%)

Crux Fermentaion Crystal Zwickle Fresh Hop Belgian Pale (6.0%)

Deschutes Hop Trip Fresh Hop Pale (5.9%) Bend

Double Mountain Killer Red Fresh Hop Perle,Mosaic Cask (7.2%)

Elysian Brewing 50 Shades of Green Fresh Hop Mosaic Pale (6.0%) Seattle

Finnriver Fresh Hop Cider (6.0%) Chickamin

Fremont Cowiche Canyon #1 Simcoe and Citra(5.5%)

Fremont Cowiche Canyon #2 Simcoe, Citra and Mosaic (5.5%)

Fremont The Brother IIPA w/ Fresh Mosaic Hops & Oak Cask (8.5%) Seattle

Gigantic Sodbusted 2: Simcoe Boogaloo (5.6%) Portland

Heathen Simcoe Fresh Hop (6.0%) Vancouver

Holy Mountain Equinox Fresh Hop (5.0%) Seattle.

Icicle Brewing Bootjack IPA (6.5%) Leavenworth

Island Hoppin’ Ferry Rider Fresh Hop Pale Ale (5.5%) Orcas Island

Kulshan Cascade and Citra Wet Hop (6.0%) Bellingham

Laurelwood Fresh Hop Workhorse (7.5%) Portland

Logsdon Fresh Hop Seizoen (7.5%) Hood River (bottle pour)

New Belgium Le Terroir Dry-Hopped Sour (7.5%) Fort Collins

North Sound Amarillo and Citra Fresh Hop IPA (6.6%) Seattle

Oakshire Bout a Hundred Wet Hop Centennial (5.6%) Eugene

Old School House Ruud Awakening (8.5%) Winthrop

Perennial Artisan Ales IPA #9 (7.0%) St. Louis

pFriem Citra Fresh Hop (5.5%) Hood River

Port Brewing Hop–15 (10.0%) San Marcos

Reuben’s Brews Amarillo Rye Fresh Hop Pale (6.0%) Seattle

Schooner Exact Amarillo Fresh Hop (6.0%) Seattle

Triplehorn Fresh Hop Bjorn Kelm (8.8%) Woodinville

Victory Dirtwolf IIPA (8.7%) Downington

We are excited to be hosting the launch of Perennial Ales on September 25th

Perennial Artisan Ales out of St Louis is coming to the Seattle Market and we are hosting the launch event here on September 25 starting at 6pm. The owner/brewmaster will be on hand. Perennial is know for their Belgian Style Ales as well as their barrel aging. We will be pouring their 3 flagship beers Saison de Lis, Hommel Bier and Aria (a belgian style ale with Brettanomyces Bruxellensis). In addition to this we will be pouring The Last Word ( a tart ale with key lime, wintergreen, and wormwood), Loomiweisse (a 4% black Berliner Weisse brewed with omani limes in collaboration with Evil Twin), Hopfentea (a Berliner Weisse), and Woodside Honey Triple. We are working on the menu but we will be using some of these beers in special menu items for the event.

Hopfest–our annual celebration of all things hoppy will start on Wednesday, October 8th and run through the weekend. We are changing the format a bit this year in an attempt to provide as many fresh hop options as we can. We are going to start on Wednesday with 20 fresh hop beers plus 12 or so other hoppy options, and keep a rotating cast of 20 fresh hop beers on draft throughout the festival. We hope to see you on more than one of the days…due to the nature of these beers the list of beers is still a work in progress. As it gets closer we will update you as to what will be available.

Goose Island Migration event Wednesday, September 3rd

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We are pleased to announce that Goose Island Brewing out of Chicago has chosen us to host a Goose Island Migration event. What is the Goose Island Migration you ask? The simple answer is this: Goose Island sends brewers, and many rare beers and host events in multiple locations in a market. This is the first time that our market has been included in The Migration and we are one of those chosen locations. We will be hosting a Migration event on Wednesday, September 3^rdstarting at 6pm. As we mentioned before there will be brewery representatives on hand. What rare offerings are we talking about? The brewery digs deep for these events they are sending us:

Bourbon County Proprietors

Bourbon County Coffee 2012

Bourbon County Backyard Rye

Juliet

Sofie

Matilda

Gillian

Lolita

Ipa

312 Wheat

This will certainly be the first time that we have seen many of these beers on draft in this market.

We celebrate Reuben’s Brews 2nd Anniversary !

We are very excited to host an event for Reuben’s Brews 2nd Anniversary on Tuesday, August 5th at 6pm. We will be pouring:
Crikey IPA on cask
Kenya Cream Ale–Cream Ale with Coffee
Imperial Ipa
Balsch
Irish Stout on Nitro
Please come downshow your support, hoist a pint or two for this awesome Seattle Brewery, Adam and the crew will be in attendance.

Thursday, August 7th at 6pm we will be hosting a re-release of Midnight Sun Barfly Smoked Imperial Stout, as well as pouring a few other offerings from this Anchorage Brewery. This is a rare opportunity to taste this delicious beverage.

Here’s what Midnight Sun says about the beer:

ABV: 11.6%
IBU: 45

Somber and smoky, BarFly Smoked Imperial Stout saunters into the room slowly. Thick smoke. Cool swagger. Good wood. Bit of bourbon. Sticky leather. Slow glances. Lingering looks. Vanilla. The only thing that didn’t make the glass was maraschino cherry. Bring your own and…wear out your welcome.

First brewed as part of our 2010 Pop Ten Series, BarFly was added to our Alaska’s Most Wanted line-up in 2014. Bourbon barrel-aging requires a long leisure so this beer is not on a set schedule but we hope to get a batch out about once a year.
Availability:
AK – 22-oz bottles and very limited draft (Summer 2014)
WA, OR, CA, NY – 22-oz bottles (Summer 2014)
ALASKA’S MOST WANTED
Midnight Sun crafts some of the most sought-after beer in the world. This ongoing and ever-growing line—called Alaska’s Most Wanted—includes creative successes from our themed beer series as well as amazing one-offs. The beers in this line-up will be produced and released as time and tank space permit but they will be repeated.
We hope you love our extra special brews as much as we do. A gracious thank-you to our long time “every weather” fans for years of love and support. And an open-armed welcome to the new aficianados who are just discovering our very characterful beers.

photo credit plus russ

You like hops? We like hops…this year we are changing up the format of Hopfest, we moved the date a little further back in to October. October 8th- 11th, to be exact, in an attempt to get more fresh hop beers. We are going to plan on having a rotating cast of 20 fresh hop beers on draft as well as a few other hoppy beers throughout the entire time. We hope you plan to join us each day, as we get a better idea of exactly what we will have on hand we will keep you posted.

A Night with Logsdon on July 22nd.

Today, Friday, July 18th at 4pm we will be tapping a firkin of London Calling British Pale Ale from Reuben’s Brews in Ballard. Adam is a football (soccer fan), follow this link for the story behind the beer. We will also be playing the Clash at the time of the tapping.
Here are the beer details– 4.7% ABV– 35 IBU’s–This beer was brewed with Gorilla FC and Seattle Spurs Supporters Club. Notes of toffee and blueberry are wrapped in a smooth, caramel body with a lightly bitter, crisp finish. A percentage of the proceeds of this batch will be donated to Street Soccer Seattle.

See you today at 4pm.

photo taken from Washington Beer Blog

We have a Logsdon Farmhouse Ales Event on , Tuesday, July 22nd starting at 6pm. What better time to drink We thought it would be a great time to pour some of the Logsdon Beer in the cooler. We will be pouring:

Far West Vlaming (6.5%)

Our organic red ale is brewed in traditional West Flanders style. A combination of light, crystal, and dark barley malt, wheat, and oats are brewed with local whole-cone hops and a variety of select yeast and lactic bacteria. We age our red ale in oak barrels for a period of time to develop complex richness, soft tannins, and fruity tart character. The aged beer is then blended with young beer to create the desired balance of malt sweetness with a dry finish.

Seizoen Bretta (8%)—we will have ’13 and ‘14 vintages

Our organic farmhouse ale is brewed in small batches on a traditional farm brewery as it has historically been made for hundreds of years. This unfiltered bottle of seizoen, with its beeswax seal, is naturally refermented and carbonated with select yeast strains producing fruity and spicy flavors that are balanced by hops and a soft malt character. Special Brettanomyces yeast provides added dryness and crisp complexity. For the most satisfying results, store upright in a cold, dark place and enjoy in a proper glass.
Certified Organic

The Conversion Ale (7.8%)

Logsdon’s first wild ale, this is a tart, juicy ale brewed in the farmhouse tradition and opened to wild fermentation.

And their newly released Tripel.

Please join us on Tuesday, July 22nd.

On Wednesday, July 30th we are hosting a Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Across America event. Sierra undertook the momentous task of getting 12 breweries to collaborate on 12 individual beers and put them all in to a 12 pack. At our event we will have all 12 beers available on draft, for your imbibing pleasure. There will also be an opportunity to win a trip to Sierra Nevada Beer Camp to brew a beer with other Beer Camp winners. Here’s a trailer that tells the story better than we can.

You want to drink Chimay Red on draft!

We invite you to join us tomorrow, July 9th, to drink a Chimay Red or Chimay “Première” on draft. This is the first time that it has been available on draft in Seattle. This is an exciting opportunity to drink a great Trappist Bier.

What follows is a blurb from their website:

The Chimay “Première” was the first beer brewed at the Notre-Dame de Scourmont Abbey by the Trappist fathers in 1862.

Its current recipe was crafted by Father Théodore when he recreated the brewery after World War II. He was directly inspired by the original recipes from the beginnings of the brewery.

We have a couple of other events coming up in the near future as well:

A night with Logsdon Farmhouse Ales from Hood River, on Tuesday, July 22nd @6pm. We will be pouring multiple vintages of Seizoen Bretta, their new Tripel, Far West Vlaming and Conversion Ale.

Seizoen Bretta (say-soon‘-brett’-ah) GOLD at the Great American Beer Festival, 2012

This unfiltered bottle of seizoen, with it’s beeswax seal, is na.turally refermented and carbonated with select yeast strains, producing fruity and spicy flavors that are balanced by hops and soft malt character. Special Brettanomyces yeast provides added dryness and crisp complexity to the Seizoen Bretta. Bottle conditioned with pear juice for a natural carbonation.

8.0% ABV, 35 IBU

Far West Vlaming (far-west-flam‘-ing) >Voted as 20 best sour beers in 2014<

This Red Ale is brewed in the ‘Vlaming’ or West Flanders style. A combination of pale, crystal, and dark roasted barley malt, wheat, and oats are brewed with local whole-cone hops, with a select variety of yeast and lactic bacteria. We age our Red Ale in oak barrels for a period of time to develop complex richness, soft tannins, and fruity, tart character.The agest beer is then blended with young beer to create the desired balance of malt sweetness with a dry finish.

6.5% ABV, 16 IBU

The Conversion

Northwest Sour Ale, brewed in the farmhouse tradition opened to fermentation with wild yeast and bacteria. malt sweetness with a flavorful hop character gives way to layers of acidity and tartness. This beer represents our transition to wilds ales: tart and juicy with lots of traditional farmhouse goodness. Our conversion to the wild side.

7.7% ABV, 25 IBU

Then on Wednesday, July 30th we host the Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Across America event. Sierra Nevada has for awhile released a Beer Camp box set, where they highlighted their favorite beers brewed at their Beer Camps. This year instead of picking they decided that they would pick 12 breweries from around the country that they wanted to Collabeerate with and make a mixed 12 pack that would have every one of the collaborations in it. The 12 pack is scheduled to be released in the area soon, on July 30th we will be tapping all 12 beers here. Here just watch this trailer….

Then we are in to August! Bring it on Summer!

Barley Brown’s Pallet Jack tapping!

The title says it all.. Barley Brown’s have you heard of them? The are from Baker City, OR and produce some rad IPA’s, Gold Medal winning IPA’s for that matter. We were fortunate enough to receive one of their Pallet Jack IPA kegs and will be pouring it on Tuesday, July 1st. You will want to put this in your face for sure. What better way to say good bye to June and hello to July?

Barley Brown’s & Baker City Brewing Co. snag 5 medals AND Brewery of the Year at GABF 2013!

Pallet Jack IPA took home Gold in the largest category judged – American Style IPA

Shredder’s Wheat – Gold – American Style Wheat Beer

Hand Truck Pale Ale – Gold – International Style Pale Ale

Don Vanuchi “The Killer” – Silver – Foreign Style Stout

Fresh Hop Pallet Jack – Bronze – Fresh Hop Ale

Baker City Brewing Company and brewmasters Marks Lanham and Eli Dickison were named Brewery and Brewers of the Year in the small brewery category

As you can see this is a not to be missed opportunity to drink a Gold Medal winning beer. See you next Tuesday!

An opportunity to drink rare Anchorage Brewing Beers!

We welcome you to join us for this rare opportunity to enjoy a few offerings from Anchorage Brewing.

For those of you not familiar with Anchorage here is a short description taken from their website:

Founded by brewer Gabe Fletcher, Anchorage Brewing Company is one of the newest breweries to open in Alaska. Specializing in barrel fermentation with brettanomyces and souring cultures. Blurring the lines between new and old styles of beer and brewing procedures, we take extreme steps to produce some of the most unique beers ever made.

“WHERE BREWING IS AN ART & BRETTANOMYCES IS KING!”

On Wednesday , June 18^th @ 6pm we will be pouring 4 different beers from them, 3 from bottles-these will be limited—and one on draft.

Deal with the Devil Barleywine: 17%you should remember this one from Hardliver..it’s awesome, here is the commercial description:

1 hop, 1 malt, aged in giant freshly emptied Cognac Barrels. –

Available 3oz for $9

Artic Saison: (Grassroots Brewing) 6% a collaboration with Shaun Hill and Gabe from Anchorage

This ale embodies the spirit of perpetual creative collaboration in conjunction with disciplined brewing endeavor. We trekked to Alaska and helped craft this rustic Saison, bring with us the essence and imagination of our Vermont Farmstead Family. Share. Consider. Enjoy…

Available 6oz for $7

Between the Staves: (a collaboration with Crooked Stave) 7%

A sour collaboration with Crooked Stave.
Sour ale fermented in fouders with 3 strains of brettanomyces, aged in cognac barrels 11 months with a funky bunch of bacteria.

Available 6oz for $7

Calabaza Boreal ( a collaboration with Jolly Pumpkin) 7%– Available 12oz for $10

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. -Nietzche

When introspection fails, it’s time to look outward for inspiration, perhaps Northward! One of the people who inspired me this past year is my friend Gabe Fletcher, of Anchorage Brewing Co. We brewed this beer together. I hope it inspires you. Northward!

Please come and join us and taste some great beer from the state of Alaska.

We survived Seattle Beer Week….and have planned a Brewery Launch

Thanks to all of you for your support in making this Seattle Beer Week a roaring success. Thank you for making Back in Black Stout Fest, Beer and Burger Battle and Sour Fest awesome this year. How nice was it to be drinking sour beer in the sun on Thursday, May 15th? Lets do it again next year. Here’s to more great events!

That said we have a new brewery from Vancouver, WA that is coming to the Seattle market and we are pleased to be hosting the launch of Heathen Brewing on Thursday, June 12th @6pm. Here is there story:

Heathen Brewing is a small craft brewery that was created from the soul of home brewing. The realization that we as a people want to break the corporate strong hold on the beer industry and get back to using local ingredients in small craft batch brewing has demanded the formation of Heathen Brewing. At Heathen Brewing we make small batches of “Progressive Ales for the Promiscuous Palate”. It all begins with fresh, high quality ingredients and that means sourcing those ingredients from those in our community. The freedom to create seasonal and experimental beer will allow Heathen Brewing to truly test the palate of our community. The Heathen way will move quickly towards the new hops and malts that are being introduced as science, technology and the American spirit create new versions of classic recipes. This forward thinking will create new and unique recipes that will tantalize the tongues of the Heathen Faithful. Through the love of travel and the appreciation of different cultures many beer recipes can now be formed or re-born 10 barrels at a time.

We will be offering 4 beers from their portfolio. We are still finalizing what those offerings will be.