SD Beer Week Update!!!
Hello Beer Week Beer Freaks!
Here is an update on the rest of our upcoming San Diego Beer Week Events. We have added a cask of Sierra Nevada Celebration for Wednesday the 11th and we now have 5 IPAs from Bear Republic for Saturday night the 14th. Tickets are still available for the Chefs Celebration of Beer on Sunday the 15th.
We have Green Flash Imperial IPA, Coffee Double Stout, West Coast IPA and Hopless still on tap from Monday. Alpine Duet IPA, Tuatara, Captain Stout, Pure Hoppiness and Mandarin Nectar are on tap from our Alpine Weekend. Tonight we already have AleSmith Nut Brown and Speedway Stout on tap for our AleSmith night. We will be adding the new Winter YuleSmith, Horny Devil, Little Devil and the Kopi Luwak Speedway Stout as well. We will be limiting the Kopi Luwak Speedway to one sample per person – keg taps at 6 pm. The cask of Green Flash Palate Wrecker will also be out around 5:30 pm as we still have some left from last night.
Here is the rest of the week…
Wednesday the 11th is Belgian Night and we will have Rodenbach Grand Cru and regular Rodenbach on tap along with Het Anker Lucifer (new from the brewers of Gouden Carolous), De Halve Maan Tripel (brand new in San Diego) and Scaldis Noel. We will also be featuring 10% off any Belgian bottle for Wednesday night. Lindsey will have a Flemish Stew made with a sour brown (likely Rodenbach) for this night. Just Added – Cask of Sierra Nevada Celebration at 5:30 pm!!!
Thursday the 12th is a double cask night with Alpine O’Brien’s IPA and Ballast Point Sculpin. It will also be Ballast Point night with at least 5 specialty beers on tap. We have an amazing line up of Ballast Point beers on draft including Sculpin IPA, 2008 Victory at Sea, Schooner Wet Hop Ale, Sour Wench, Reef Rye and Barrel Aged Sea Monster Stout. We will also have Chimay on tap and specials on Chimay cheese plates. Be sure to check out Lindsey’s insane Mac n’ Cheese.
Friday the 13th will be a Best of Beer Week night. We will be tapping more good beer than we can possibly consume in the first 7 days of Beer Week, so on Friday we will be highlighting great beers from throughout the week in one gigantic night of San Diego specialty beer. Expect beers from Green Flash, AleSmith, Pizza Port, Ballast Point, Alpine, Port Brewing, Russian River, Bear Republic and many more great breweries.
Saturday the 14th will be Bear Republic night with FIVE DIFFERENT IPAS including a special O’Brien’s Blend from the brewery and the new Ken and John’s IPA along with Rebellion IPA, Nor Cal IPA and of course Racer 5 IPA. We’ll have brewer/owner Rich Norgrove down to share a few beers with us and tell us stories about his race cars.
Sunday the 15th is our annual Lost Abbey Rare Bottle tasting which is now sold out. The pub will be open normal hours Noon to 6 pm and the Chargers will host the Eagles at 1:15 pm. If you are looking for something Beer Week related to do, I will be at the official Beer Week closing event – Chefs Celebration of Beer, which will be a beer and food event at Irwin Jacobs Hall at Qualcomm in Mira Mesa from 1 to 4 pm. The event will feature local breweries teamed with chefs to create sublime beer and food pairings. The event will also feature several short educational talks, one by yours truly. I missed the Cooks Confab beer dinner, so I am really looking forward to this event. Tickets can be bought at either the Beer Week or Brewers Guild websites, which were previously listed.
San Diego World Cup Bid
The USA is hoping to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022. San Diego is one of 27 cities being considered to host games. The USA bid committee has started electronic petitions to help garner support for each city. Even if you are not a soccer fan, having games here with 60,000+ fans over several weeks will be good for our city. Please show your support by visiting: http://www.gousabid.com/city/local/san-diego-ca/. All you need to do is type in an email address and a zip code. If you have multiple emails, you can enter them all. Please get your friends and family to help support this effort to bring one of the world’s greatest sporting events to our home town.
Euro Pub Crawl
And as if all of this was not enough for you, our good friend Bill Snider of Ciao! Travel has released the amazing itinerary for the 2010 Great Belgian Beer Trip. There are four incredible options that include Amsterdam, Ghent, Bamberg and Munich. This is the 6th year that we have partnered with Ciao Travel for a European Pub crawl and every year the trip has been a ton of fun. I am really looking forward to going in 2010. There are flyers at the pub with discount offers valid through November 15th, 2009. You can also check it out online at www.ciaotravel.com. And you can almost always find Bill around the pub willing to talk about trip and its many wonderful destinations.
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