Brewtopia Thursday

Coming up today at Central Market for Brewtopia:

NORTH LAMAR

Thursday, September 23, 2010
4 – 6 p.m. Boulevard Brewing Company, Sampling in the Beer Department
Steven Pauwels, Brew Master
Cost: Free

6:30 – 9 p.m. The Boulevard Gastropub, Cooking class in the Cooking School
Steven Pauwels, Brew Master, Boulevard & CM Cooking
School Staff
Cost: $60 per person
Class description: Founded in 1989, Boulevard Brewing Co. is the
Midwest’s home for fine ales and lagers. The Brewmaster will
discuss the mission (to produce fresh, flavorful beers using the
finest traditional ingredients and the best of both old and new
brewing techniques) as you enjoy: Unfiltered Wheat Beer, a GABF
gold medal winning brew and the best selling craft beer in the U.S.
that will be paired with Panzanella Salad; Single Wide IPA, an
American version of a style that originated in 18th C Great Britain,
that has a prominent flowery, grapefruit hop aroma, a moderate
caramel malt flavor and should pair perfectly with Indonesian-style
Shrimp Salad; Bob’s 47 Oktoberfest is a medium bodied, Munichstyle
lager and will be paired with Polpette (Fried Torpedo Shaped
Meatballs); Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale begins with fruity aromatics and
grapefruit hoppy notes that taper off to a peppery, dry finish and
complements Chicken Roulades with Taleggio Cheese; and The
Sixth Glass, a Belgian-style Strong Ale, is full bodied and will be
presented with Chocolate Mousse.

WESTGATE
Thursday, September 23, 2010

4 – 7 p.m. Victory Brewing Company, Sampling in the Beer Department
Cost: Free

Uncle Billy's Pils Fest

Info here.

Thursday at 3:00pm - August 26 at 2:00am

The Pils Fest is a celebration of arguably the best style of beer, the classic Pilsner. We will kick off our celebration of the Pils Fest on Thursday the 12th with the release of our award winning Hell In Keller Pils.

During the two week festival, customers will be able to sample some of the best Pils brewed in the US!

On tap along with the Hell In Keller will be:
...
Real Ale Han's Pils
Saint Arnold Summer Pils
Live Oak Pilz
Trumer Pils
Victory Prima Pils

"Whether you are a Pils fan or looking for something beyond the ales, drop in and enjoy the lagers that changed my life." - Brian Peters

July 4, Done Come and Gone

We were in South Florida for the Fourth of July weekend. I was able to slip away from the family for a bit to stop into Total Wine in Boca Raton and pick up some brewskis.



Two Hearted is my go to six pack whenever I am in FLA. It's one of the better widely available beers there. Even the crappiest of grocery stores usually has it. All around good beer.

Drank these there:







Brought these back home:



Been wanting to try this one for awhile.



This can't be bad, right?

South Austin Beer Search #1

We recently moved down to South Austin. The last two years we've lived up north, a hop, skip and a jump from Draught House and Flying Saucer. And a quick zip downtown to Gingerman. When I say south, I mean wayyy south. I was worried. Worried good beer would be hard to find. And that is what this little series is about. Our first exploration was to Red's Porch.



It was Saturday night and the place was jammed packed. They had a pretty decent tap selection. Something for everyone - even beer dorks.



NXNW Pale Ale?? They had it. Someone explain to me why they are allowed to have this. I am not complaining, I just thought this was not possible, beer-law-wise.



My Yakima Twilight. We also had a Green Flash IPA and Brooklyn Lager.

The food was pretty good too. My Border Burger was spicy as hell. Sofia liked her Chicken Fried Chicken, but her sides were soaked in garlic.

We will be back.

Three New Beers in Town

At Whole Foods, and beyond surely.

Two of these I have had at the flying saucer, the other is not actually new just a seasonal that is in town.




This is one of the beers I had at Flying Saucer. Not so good. But Lee liked it. I think this is the first beer from Sierra Nevada that I have not enjoyed. Just not what I am looking for in a bock. An ideal bock for me - Saint Arnold Spring Bock.



Not a new beer. But new in 2010, as it is a seasonal. Maybe a hint of what is to come from Ranger IPA.



Not sure if this actually new to Austin. It's new to me anyway. I enjoyed one at Flying Saucer. So good. Seek it out. To me it tasted like a hybrid of Prima Pils and Brooklyn Lager, two of my favorite lagers.

Hop Wallop Cask II - UPDATED

**UPDATE: My dear readers. I misinformed you. Draught House will not have Hop Wallop for Firkin Friday. Sorry. They will have it TONIGHT. Directly competing with Flying Saucer. Oh, what an epic battle of bars! So what is on for Firkin Friday.

Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye, dry hopped with Cascade and Columbus hops. Boo yeah!

Please disregard the rest of the post below.

Now you have two opportunities to grab a cask drawn pint of Hop Wallop. Tonight at the Flying Saucer and tomorrow at the Draught House for their Friday Firkin. You snooze you looze.

Flying Saucer will be pulling the beer through their beer engine. Usually for Firkin Friday at Draught House the casks are gravity casks. It will be interesting to compare the difference. Unless maybe for some reason the DH is also drawing it through their engine, which then means this paragraph is bollocks.

Hop Wallop Cask

Flying Saucer is tapping a cask of Victory Hop Wallop @ 7pm tomorrow night (Thursday). Looks like daddy might have to go for a little bike ride.

Wild Devil

Someone spilled geuze into my Hop Devil and I loved it.

Not Thirsty Thursday **update below**

No Thirsty Thursday. But I did have two of the Sam Adams' Longshots this week and they would have made fine additions. Possibly next week. Or I'll just do one later, maybe with Victory Wild Devil, which is available now reportedly.

**UPDATE: wiggy's on sixth has it for around 10.50

Pils(e)ners

Trumer Pilsner now available in Austin. I just had some at the Flying Saucer. Is this new to TX? According to this - no, it has been here since 2007. But I have never seen it, or heard of it in Austin until now. Paul, have you had this up in yr area for awhile now? I did about a minute of googleing and thought it would be so much easier to just pose the question to you.

This was the first time I've had it. It's good. A helluva lot better than Live Oak's. Oh man, people around here rave about their pilsner, but I just can not stand it. Don't get me wrong I love Live Oak, just not their Pils, or their IPA. Everything else, spot on! My favorite domestic pilsner available here is definitely Victory's Prima Pils. I think Trumer just put me on a lager kick...