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Brewtal Truth Book signing with Adem Tepedelen and Todd Haug from Surly Brewing. Saturday, December 7th @4pm

Adem wrote a book, has a blog and writes for Decible Mag,Adem likes metal music, and beer, to be exact extreme beer…Todd brews beer at Surly and happens to like metal music too, and just happens to be in Adem’s book…they got to talking and thought it would be great to do a book signing in our fine establishment. We were honored and more than happy to host this event.

This is a not to be missed event. The event will kick off at 4pm on Saturday, December 7^th. Adem, will have books available for $20 that he will be signing, metal music will be playing and Surly beer will be flowing. It might be the first and last time that Surly pours in this market, and the day is sure to be one for the record books. What follows is a blurb from Adem:

Former Seattle-based writer, Adem Tepedelen, will be signing copies of his newly released book, The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers: An All-Excess Pass to Brewing’s Outer Limits, at this very special book launch. The genesis of the book began with Tepedelen’s “Brewtal Truth” column in Decibel magazine, which he has been writing since 2009. The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers, the first guide of its type, features descriptions and ratings of more than a 100 insane beer from around the world—broken down into a handful of specific categories. These are outrageous brews with unusual ingredients, ridiculously high alcohol by volume (ABV), bizarre names and sometimes unsettling flavors.

Not only does the book focus on some of the most interesting and hardcore beers in the world, it also features profiles on craft-beer loving metal musicians and extreme craft beer brewers—including special guest, Todd Haug of Surly Brewing—making it a highly entertaining read. The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers also draws parallels and metaphors from the extreme music scene. Each beer profiled receives an “extreme” rating, tasting notes, information about the beer and what makes it extreme, and a musical pairing selected by the author. There are also numerous entertaining and informative sidebars detailing everything from how these beers are made to the emergent trends in extreme brewing.

Tepedelen won the Michael Jackson Beer Journalism award in late 2008 and has written about metal and beer for dozens of magazines and websites including Decibel, RollingStone.com, Revolver, All About Beer, Northwest Palate and Imbibe.

Surly from Minneapolis will be joining us. Todd from Surly will be sending us a few beers to compliment the event. Look for us to be pouring:

Pentagram

Misanthrope

Darkness

Smoke

Abrasive Ale

Coffee Bender

Furious

How is it already the middle of November?

My My how time fly’s when your having fun…I used to laugh when my dad talked about how fast life goes…now I know how he feels. That brings me to event number 1 on the horizon:

The Elysian Pumpkin Roadshow on Wednesday, November 27th at 6pm. We will be tapping 16 pumpkin beers, what better way to spend the day before Thanksgiving with our without your family. This is the second year that we have done the Pumpkin Roadshow the day before Thanksgiving and it looks like we will continue. We here feel that most of the pumpkin beers come out way too early, and that’s why we hold on to some and host this event right when we feel is a perfect time to enjoy them. We hope that you join us, there will be Elysian representatives in to hoist a pint with. We will be tapping Elysian beers as well as a few others we have held on to….
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Southern Tier Pumpking 9.1%

Dogfish Head Punk’n 7%

Elysian Dark o the Moon pumpkin stout 6.5%

Elysian Great Pumpkin 8.1%

Elysian/21 A He Said- 8.2% Belgian Triple with pumpkin, terragon and galangal

Elysian/21 A He Said- 8.2% Baltic Porter with pumpkin, Vietnamese cinnamon, and caraway

Epic Pumpkin Porter 8%

Midnight Sun Treat 7.8%

Porpolis Pumpkin Dubbel 7%

South Hampton Imperial Pumpkin 5.5%

Elysian Calatrava 6% Habenero Pumpkin Ale

Elysain Great Gherkin 3.94% Cucumber Pumpkin

Elysian Plumpkin 5.2% Plum Pumkin ale

Elysian Kurbitinus 6.65% Pumpkin Dunkelwiesse

Elysian Hopsquash IPA 6% collaboration with Ninkasi

Jolly Pumpkin La Parcela

We will be closed on Thursday, November 28th for Thanksgiving, see ya on Friday where we are open our regular hours.

On the heels of the roadshow and Thanksgiving, comes one of our favorite festivals all year, Bigwood. The event starts Thursday, December 5th at 11am when we open, and runs through the weekend. We are putting together a great list this year, look for this years list to be fantastic, we are hoping to have some surprises for you. We will be posting a tentative list in the next week or so, so stay tuned.

On the same weekend we have another event that we are still in the planning stages of, we need a few ducks to fall in line before we can tell you about it. It will be on either Friday, the 6th or Saturday the 7th. Stay tuned, as soon as we can release the details we will.

Everybody’s favorite the Firestone Walker Ugly Sweater Party is on December 12th at 6pm. There will be games, gifts and prizes for the ugliest sweater. The judging of the sweaters will probably take place at about 9pm. We suggest you get here eat, drink, play some games all in your ugliest sweater. We will be tapping a bunch of the regular suspects, such as Pivo Pils, Union Jack Ipa, Wookie Jack Black Rye Ipa to name a few…we will be pulling some vintage beers from the cellar, and Firestone is sending us something special. Beer geeks find your ugliest sweater and prepare your pallet for flavor country. This is always a super fun event with lots of ways to walk away with a prize.

Virtue Cider and Left Hand Brewing will join us this week

We have been experiencing technical difficulties with our Web hosting, please bare with us. We haven’t had an up to date list for a couple weeks, but we were able to update it today, again we apologize for any issues this may have caused you.

Wednesday, November 6th at 6pm Virtue Cider out of Michigan will be joining us. We will be pouring two of their draft options, Cidre de Nava (a very tart Spanish Style Cider) and Percheron (a French Style Cider that has spent some time in second use Wine Barrels). There will be a Virtue Representative on site. We hope to see you on Wednesday.

Thursday, November 7th at 6pm we will be hosting a Fade to Black, Left Hand Brewing event. They decided to brew all the past Fade to Black series of beers and we are pouring 5 Fade to Black beers and 3 other offerings: Fade to Black beers are as follows: Foreign Export Stout, Smoked Baltic Porter, Pepper Porter, Rocky Mountain Black Ale(Black IPA) and Black Rye Ale. We will also be pouring Mother Lode Scotch Ale, Munich Black Lager and Polestar Pilsner. We hope that you choose to join us.

Towards the end of the month, on Wednesday, November 27th, we will be hosting Elysian Brewing and their Pumpkin Road Show. We have saved some pumpkin beers throughout the season, Elysian will be providing some of their limited pumpkin beers, we will be tapping right around 16 different pumpkin beers. This should be a fun evening, what better way to spend the evening before Thanksgiving, with or with out your family. All the fun starts at 6pm.

Bigwood our celebration of all beers that have spent in a barrel starts December 5th. Mark you calenders and plan on joining us. We are working on a getting a preliminary list up in the next week or so.

Halloween rings in the month of November…Then its on to December…

Halloween is this Thursday, October 31st, and we will have The Sons of Huns from Portland presented by Gigantic and New Belgium. The beer from these breweries will start flowing at 6pm, and the band will start at 9:30pm. There will be a $7 cover charge. There will be a costume contest judged by the brewery representatives around 10:30 while the band takes a short break. Here is a video so you get an idea of what they will be bringing.

After that we head full steam in to November. We already have a few events planned.
Wednesday, November 6th we will have an evening with Virtue Cider. We will be pouring two of their ciders, Percheron (French Style) and Sidra De Nava(Spanish Style). Virtue is headed up by Greg Hall, the former Head Brewer at Goose Island.

Then on Thursday, November 7th at 6pm we will have an evening with Left Hand Brewing and their Fade to Black series. We will be pouring Foreign Export Stout, Smoked Baltic Porter, Pepper Porter, Rocky Mountain Ale(Black IPA) and their Black Rye Ale as well. There will be brewery reps on hand.

We know there are a bunch of folks out there that really enjoy Pumpkin beers. Throughout the fall season we save some pumpkin beers, then right around Thanksgiving we tap between 10 and 16 pumpkin beers for the Elysian Pumpkin Roadshow. This year this event falls on Wednesday, November 27th and starts at 6pm. Do you need a better excuse to get away from the family, or celebrate with them?

Bigwood our celebration of all beers wood aged from Stout to Sour starts on Thursday, December 5th and runs through the weekend. We are compiling the list and hope to have a rough draft in the next couple of weeks.

Pelican Brewing Night!

On Monday, October 21st at 6pm we will be hosting Pelican Brewing out of Pacific City, OR. You may have seen some of their bottles and a draft here and there over the last year, but on Monday we will have 8 draft options pouring. We will be pouring Kiwanda Cream, MacPelican Scottish, Imperial Pelican, Tsunami Stout, Silverspot IPA, Stillwell #1, Life on Marzen, and a Vintage Stormwatchers Winterfest. A few of the brewers will be in town to chat with if you have questions. We hope to see you Monday. Monday is also 20% off bottle night, so now you have two reasons to join us this upcoming Monday.

A reminder that we will be closed tomorrow Saturday, October 19th for a Private Event. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

On Thursday, October 31st we have Halloween Party presented by Gigantic Brewing and New Belgium Brewing featuring Sons Of Huns outta Portland. Look for 4 or 5 beer options from each brewery. The cover will be $7 dollars. What does that $7 dollars get you, it gets you a 12 oz pour of certain beers from each of the presenting breweries. The Band will start playing around 9:30. There will be a costume contest of some sort between sets at around 10:30 the winners will be decided by the brewery representatives on hand.

Should be a rocking good time!! What better way to spend your Halloween!

We have a few smaller events scheduled for November:

Wednesday, November 6th a night with Virtue Cider from Michigan.

Thursday, November 7th Left Hand Fade to Black Brewers night. We will be tapping 5 beers from their Fade to Black series and a few from their regular line up. All this will start at 6pm. More details coming soon.

We are putting the final touches on our Pumpkin Road Show which will be sometime around Thanksgiving. Look for more details next week as well. We will be tapping about 16 different pumpkin beers from Elysian and others.

September was great! Here’s whats coming in October.

First off, we are amazed that it’s already October. What happened, and mother nature has surely shown us that Fall is headed our way. Well enough about that, soon it will be December, and we will all wondering where October and November went.

We have a few events lined up in the upcoming weeks and months:

Tuesday, October 8th at 6pm: 10 Barrel/Bluejacket/Stone Suede Imperial Porter Release.

What follows is a brief description:

This was such a fun collaboration. Megan first brought forth the idea of an imperial porter, which we all immediately agreed to, and Tonya provided the malt bill. From there, we decided to add some ingredients from Southern California. The avocado honey provided a very rich, intensely floral flavor. The addition of the honey and jasmine reminds me of Southern California summers, while the calendula flowers hail from Stone Farms and bring a nice floral note and hint of bitterness. I’m very pleased at how well these flavors came through in the finished beer.

Not only will we be releasing Suede, we will have some other beers available from Stone and 10 Barrel, here are the other beers we will be pouring:

Stone Reason Be Damned Belgian Style Abbey Ale aged in Red Wine Barrels

Stone Double Bastard Ale with Dark Toasted Oak

Stone Ruination

Stone Levitation

10 Barrel OG Wheat Ipa (Firkin)

10 Barrel Pumpkin

10 Barrel Pray for Snow

October 10th we will be tapping Stone Vertical Epic 10/10/10:

This ninth edition of our Stone Vertical Epic Ale series takes two interesting left turns. A Belgian-style golden triple is the starting point of this beer, but the first left turn is nearly immediate with the addition of dried chamomile flowers, triticale, and Belgian amber candi sugar. The second, and rather unusual left turn takes us half an hour up the road from Stone to Temecula courtesy of the addition of just-pressed Muscat, Gewurztraminer and Sauvignon Blanc grapes from our friends at South Coast Winery. As the Stone Vertical Epic Ale series has moved through the calendar, we found that the brewing schedule for a 10.10.10 release coincided nicely with the grape harvest, neatly providing an interesting twist in this epic ale.

We will be closed on Saturday, October 19th for a private event. Please plan accordingly.

Monday, October 21st we will be hosting a Pelcian Brewing event. More information will be available when the details are finalized.

Big Wood our celebration of all things wood aged from Stout to Sour starts Thursday, December 5th and runs through the weekend. We have some great beers hidden away in the cooler, this is a not to be missed event.

Hopfest is upon us!

Your palettes have waited long enough! Hopfest 2013 starts tomorrow, Thursday, September 26th! Without further adieu here is a list of most of what will be available on draft tomorrow at 11am. Remember that there might be a few changes or additions but most of what you see will be pouring tomorrow.

10 Barrel—The Boss Fresh Hop

Almanac Fresh Hop Cluster

Almanac—Fresh Hop Cascade

American —Imperial Ipa–firkin

Avery–Dugana

Backwoods —Triple IPA

Bainbridge Island –Fresh Hop

Bainbridge Island —Barrel aged IPA

Ballast Point—Habenero Sculpin

Beer Valley Black Madness

Big Al—Fresh hop

Big Time—Cask Decade 2.5 cask

Black Diamond—Fresh Hop

Black Raven—Wisdom Seeker

Boneyard—Notorious

Double Mountain—Triple Pale Ale

Dugges –Imp IPA

Elysian—Kama Citra

Epic –Imp IPA

Evil Twin-Yang

Finn River—Fresh Hopped

Firestone—Double Jack

Fort George—Omegatex

Fremont – Trifecta Firkin

Fremont—1/2 Cowiche Canyon Fresh Hop

Goodlife—Fresh hop

Green Flash—Green Bullet

HUB—Ace of Spades

Kulshan –Imp IPA

Lagunitas—Maximus

Laughing Dog—Devil Dog

Laurelwood —Warhorse

Logsdon—Fresh Hop

Mad River – Humbolt Haze Imp Wheat

Naked City—Crossfire IPA

New Belgium –Dry Hopped Ranger Firkin

New Belgium—Le terroir

Ninkasi—Gin Barrel Maiden the Shade

Nøgne –Ø–Rhubarb IPA

North Sound—Fresh Hop

Old School House—-Fresh Hop

Omnipolo –Nebuchadnezzar

Oskar Blues—Dry Hopped Deviant Dales

Pelican Experimental Fresh hop

pFriem Secret Single Hop Pale

pFriem—Mosaic

Port—Hop 15

Reuben’s—Fresh Hop

Schooner Exact– Fresh Hop

Seven Seas—Hop Prophet (cascade and Citra)

Sierra Nevada —Hoptimum

Silver City—St. Florian

Snipes/ Black Raven —Fresh hop collab

Sound—-Humulo Nimbus

Speakeasy — Blind Tiger Triple IPA

Stone —Enjoy By 10.25.13

Tieton –Dry Hopped

Two Beers—Fresh Hop (centennial and Als hop)

Urban Family—Meadows French IPA

We hope to see you in the morning.

Please don’t forget that on Saturday we will be hosting a Welcome back party for Shelton Brothers imports. We will be tapping:

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 them back to the Seattle Market.

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:

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!

Washington CiderWeek Runs September 5-15th

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 14^th 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 20^thSpeakeasy 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 3^rd6ish 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.

Washington CiderWeek Runs September 5-15th

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 14^th 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.

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, 15^thFirestone 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 3^rd6ish pm MFG Cyclocross Kick off party.

Washington CiderWeek Runs September 5-15th

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 14^th 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.

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 23^rd 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 5^th 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.

We are closed for the 4th of July!

That’s right, we are closed for the 4th of July so that our staff can enjoy the holiday. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you. Our bottleshop Bottleworks is open for limited hours tomorrow to help meet your beer needs. Enjoy the holiday. We are open regular hours on Friday, July 5th.

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.

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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.

We have some bad news…

Tonight, Thursday, June 6th we are closed due to circumstances out of our control. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.