Flying Saucer Fall Fest Details

From FS:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Flying Saucer Hosts Fourth Annual Fall Beer Festival

Austin, Texas, Aug. 2, 2011 – Flying Saucer will host its Fourth Annual Fall Beer Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 2 to 9:30 p.m. at Triangle Park, located at 4600 Guadalupe St., directly behind the Saucer’s 815 W. 47th St. location.

Flying Saucer’s Fall Beer Festival will feature five beer tasting tents each with the featured brews carefully selected by the Flying Saucer’s own resident beer guru, Keith Schlabs, and Austin Flying Saucer general manager, Ted Rowell.

“Austin has an amazing craft beer scene that allows us to really showcase some rare and unique brews during this festival,” said Ted Rowell, Flying Saucer general manager. “With over 40 different craft beers on-hand for this event, we know that our customers will love sampling and experiencing some great brews.”

Rare and limited release beers will be tapped at staggered times throughout the day and will be announced via Twitter on the Austin Flying Saucer’s account, @FlyingSaucerAus, on the day of the festival. Festival-goers will be able to sample beers at tents with names coinciding with the beer selections available inside, such as East Coast, West Coast, Texas, Captain’s Picks and the Out of This World. Beer brats, kraut and Bavarian pretzels will also be available for purchase.

Tickets will be available for $25 if purchased online prior to the event and $30 at the door. Online ticket purchasing is available until Sept. 22, after which, ticket prices increase to $30 and will then be available for purchase at the Flying Saucer or at the door on the day of the festival. A ticket purchase allots guests a tasting card that is good for 10 samples of the more than 40 festival beers, some of which will be rare tappings available the day of the festival only, as well as a commemorative Fall Beer Festival tasting glass. A selection of full pour beers will also be available for purchase at the festival.

Belgian Beer Week

It's already started . . .

DRAUGHT HOUSE

Tuesday- Chimay Blue- glass with beer purchase
Wednesday- Ommegang Witte- glass with beer and free cheese sample
Thursday- St. Bernardus ABT 12- glass with beer purchase
Friday- Duvel Green- Free glass and cheese with beer
Saturday- Lindemans Framboise- Free glass with beer

FLYING SAUCER

Mon - Timmermans Glass Night
Tue - Blanche de Bruxelles Glass Night
Wed - Duvel Glass Night
Thu - Chimay Glass Night
Fri - Maredsous Glass Night
Sat - Hopus Glass Night

. . . putting tons of cool Belgian stuff on tap as the week progresses and more holes open up. Delirium Tremens, Houblon Chouffe, St Bernardus 12 and 8, Maredsous (Tripel, Blonde and Brune), Kwak, La Trappe (formerly Koningshoeven) Quad, BarBar . . .

7/24 - Adelbert’s Public Tasting

GINGER MAN

July 21st - 7pm

Come celebrate 180 years of Belgian Independence! Free glassware and swag with purchase of Chimay!

Flying Saucer Fall Beer Festival Date Announced

Not sure how I missed this, but Flying Saucer tweeted last week that their annual Fall Beer Fest will be happening October 1. See you in four months.

Flying Saucer: American Craft Beer Week-wise

Tuesday: Breckenridge Brewery 3-4-5 $3 Avalanche Pints, $4 471 IPA Snifters, $5 Agave Wheat Pints

Wednesday: Ommegang Belgian Pale Ale Fire Sale, Witte and Rare Vos Glass giveaways starting at 7 (Dont be late) and a special Ommegang/La Chouffe Collaboration "Gnommegang"

Thursday: Left Hand Polestar Pilsner for $3 all day and a TNT (Black Tea Weizenbock) tapping at 6pm

Friday: Ranger Creek OPA for $3 all day and a Cabernet Barrel Aged La Bestia Aimable tapping at 6pm

Spring Beer Dinnerat Flying Saucer w/ Deschutes

Dissident! Nice. I can't make it. We have something else going on (more on that later).

Chili Cookoff @ Flying Saucer

Think a vegetarian chili would go over well? I'm doing it (probably not).

Barleywine Week @ Flying Saucer

Nice list. F#$% me for being on a beer budget right now. Hey guys, can you push this week till after SXSW? Thanks.

Flying Saucer 3rd Anniversary Party

This Sunday. Not enough info for you? Ok. Sam just posted this on BeerAdvocate:

Original release 512 Bourbon Barrel Pecan Porter. It has been kept cold ~40 degrees since we got it, so I am not worried about that infection problem some people who warm cellared the beer ended up with. We had a dozen bottles and I drank one a month or two ago and there were no issues.

Avery Rumpkin - This beer is going to be bad ass. 13+% ABV Imperial Pumpkin Beer that has been aged in Gosling Rum Barrels. My fellow Cicerone Matt up at the Moth in Dallas has gotten to try it and says it phenomenal and I trust that dudes palate.

Sierra Nevada Grand Cru - A blend of Oak Aged Bigfoot, Celebration and fresh Pale Ale (hopefully bottle recipe but I dont know). This should be a tasty treat.

Other beers tapped will be:

St Arnold Altared Amber (Amber with Belgian Yeast)
Avery Samaels
Avery Mephistopheles
Allagash Four
Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu
Dogfish Head Pangea
Dogfish Head Theobroma
Sierra Nevada Jack and Kens Black Barleywine

Come out and see us for a delicious day of beer drinking. All beers will be served in 10oz pours (11.5oz snifters) so you should be able to have a few of them and still remember your name.

FS Holiday Party

Bring a coat, drink some beers. Win, win.

Black Beer Week at Flying Saucer

I almost forgot about this. Thanks to Sam for posting it on BA. You are probably reading this on Tuesday morning, so you missed Monday. No worries, plenty of stuff to come.

BTA/CA Pub Crawl and Some Beer Olympics Too

Austin Beer Week was great. Can't wait till next year. If you don't count Saturday, this was one of the kickoff events for ABW. Our meet up point was Flying Saucer.



Bikes.



We had a great turnout. I'd say there were 50-55 in attendance. We did not really all ride together, some would leave a bar early to get to the next spot and some would hang back. Next time I want a massive movement of bikers. My brother said we should have been more nazi-like in keeping the group together. But that's not really my style.

Also, when we got to Flying Saucer there were two other bike pub crawls meeting there at the same time. WTF. I think a few of our riders ended up with those groups.



Next - Draught House.





Beer Olympics were in full effect.



Matt got in on the action. I don't think he did very well.



I did worse. I bet Chris that I could throw a keg further. Worst bet ever.



Santiago is going to sweep all the events next year.



Then Billy's on Burnet.









Thunderbird.



I ordered a Lone Star here. Don't hate. It was only a dollar and it's basically water. Perfect for a bike pub crawl.



Our last stop, the recently opened Black Star Co-op.



No house beer yet, but plenty of good local and not-local stuff to hold you over.



Fries were great. The veggie burger needs a retooling. It fell apart as I was eating it.



Just waiting for some action.

Thanks to everyone that came out. I hope you all had fun. I did.

FS Fall Beer Festivaling

I know we are in the midst of Austin Beer Week, but let's take a quick look back to last week.



Beer festing. First, I missed the Treehugger. Damn. Grabbed a Boulevard Dopplebock instead. What stood out for you? I loved the (512) Barrel Aged One and most everyone else seemed to as well. Brooklyn Blast, yeah. Green Flash Double Stout, great. Had some Thirsty Planet too, ummm, what else....Some other local stuff too, standard fare.

Did not have any food, smelled good though.

I used the port-o-potties, I liked how they had hand sanitizer stations. That was a nice touch. It was reassuring knowing the people serving beers did not have peepee sprinkles on their hands (too far?). Or at least they were sanatized peepee sprinkles.



I thought I had more pictures, but it looks like only two came out not horrible. So you have to look at my goofy ass serving up some Victory brews. Enjoy.

Good time. Better than last year. More beer (I think), shorter lines, better weather.

ABW: More Bike Pub Crawl Stuff

First, thanks to the Design Shaman for the awesome poster.

Second, these are the discounts confirmed for the crawl so far. More to come:
Billy's on Burnet: $2.75 Texas beers
Black Star Co-op: $3 Texas beers

Come join us. RSVP at Facebook and/or BeerAdvocate.

Even More Info on FS Fall Beer Fest

This is like a never ending saga. Ted, Sam and Co. need a vacation after planning this year's fest.

Still want VIP tickets to the Flying Saucer Fest? Act fast, you only got three days.

FS FBF

FS FALL BEER FESTIVAL Change Up

Remember the whole two-sessions-one-price-unlimited-samples thing happening at the Flying Saucer Fall Fest. Well that's changed. Oh, well. I'm sure it will still be a good time. Thank TABC. New info:

3rd Annual - 2010

FALL BEER FESTIVAL

SAT, OCT 16th noon-10pm

30+ Breweries

50+ Craft, Import, & Specialty Beers

12- Beer Sampling Card

and Tasting Glass $12

Full Pint Tent

Food Trucks

No Cover!!

H/T: Liquid Austin

Mikkeller Chipotle Porter Keg @ Flying Saucer

Flying Saucer is tapping a keg of Chipotle Porter tonight. Get some, it's right.

BeerTownAustin/Craft Austin Bike Pub Crawl

This is happening. Obviously, it will be the CAN'T MISS event of Austin Beer Week. More details to follow, but go to BA and let us know if you are attending.

Ommegang Dinner @ Flying Saucer (plus a note on FS expansion)

This from Sam at Flying Saucer:

Hopefully our expansion will be finished by then and we can have it in our new sweet 1000 sq foot private room. Fingers crossed.

Witte: with some mussels, I will be putting together a sauce/broth for these mussels that incorporates the witte.

Hennepin: Intermediate course with a cheese pairing. Triple Creme Brie

Rare Vos: A fried pork and banana won ton with a sweet/spicy sauce, I would definitely want to keep the spice low on this one. Pork has a savory aspect that works well with sweetness and I wanted to hone in on this aspect of the beer and food.

BPA: For this another intermediate cheese dish. This time, step up the funk a bit and go to a stilton.

Abbey: A full flavored brew like this needs some full flavors to keep up with it. Nothing too spicy that will over power the brew, gotta let those delicate flavors come out. I am going with a Beef and mushroom stew with Abbey added.

Three Philosophers: Brownies made with the beer a la mode.

Jason has also said he will be bringing some goodies from the brewery for "after dinner tasting" He mentioned some specifics but Im keeping my mouth shut until I see them.

Flying Saucer Fall Beer Fest Tickets

Buy yr tickets now. It looks like they are going to do the flat-cover-and-unlimited-tastings thing. I like that.