CU Beer Weekend: Sept 23 (Illini vs W. Michigan)

 

 

Seven Saints

 

Southern Tier Pumpking

 

 

Tuesday Brewsday: Pyramid Juggernaut $2

Whiskey Wednesday: Scotch

 

Radio Maria

 

1) Clown Shoes Eagle Claw Fist

2) O’fallon Wheach

3) He’Brew Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A

4) Breckenridge 72 Imperial Chocolate Cream Stout

5) Left Hand TNT Weizenbock

6) Two Brothers Hop Juice

7) Lagunitas Dogtown Pale Ale

8) Smuttynose Big A

9) New Holland Beerhive Tripel

10) Southern Tier Cuvee 3

11) Dark Horse Plead the 5th

12) Founders Double Trouble

13) Sierra nevada Ovila Saison

14) Breckenridge Christmas Ale

15) Crown Valley Worktruck Wheat

16) Wexford Irish Cream Ale

17) Left Hand Milk Stout

18) Monk’s Café Flemish Red Ale

19) Rogue Dad’s Little Helper Black IPA

20) EKU Pils

21) Stone Belgo Anise Imperial Russian Stout

22) Haand Bryggeriet Royk Uten Ild

23) Hofbrau Maibock

24) Smuttynose Barleywine

25) De Proef K-O

26) Brugse Zot

27) PBR

 

Monday: Beer Class, Adjuncts (beers with stuff other than Malt, Hops, Water, and Yeast)

 

Crane Alley

 

Left Hand Sawtooth Nitro 5.3%

Southern Tier Porter 5.6%

Founder's Centennial IPA 7.2%

Ertvelds Wit 5.5%

Weihenstephaner Fest Bier 5.8%

Dieu Du Ciel Peche Mortel 9.5%

Ommegang Belgian Independence 7.2%

Avery Karma 5.2%

Saison De Silly

Stone 15th Anniversary Black IPA 10.5%

Lagunitas New Dogtown Pale Ale 6.2%

Southern Tier Pumking 9.0%

Kulmbacher Kapuziner Weiss Bier 5.0%

Avery 18th Anniversary Dry-Hopped Saison 8.1%

Gulden Draak 10.5%

Original Sin Hard Cider 6.0%

Rogue XS Imperial IPA 9.5%

Ommegang Belgian Pale Ale 6.2%

 

November 10: Who's Your Bastard Night, 8pm

December 8: Barrel aged Black Party, 8pm

 

 

Blind Pig Brewery

 

Blind Pig Belgian Grand Cru

Blind Pig oatmeal Stout

Blind Pig American Pale Ale

Blind Pig Imperial IPA

Capital Oktoberfest; Middleton, Wisconsin, Oktoberfest, 5.5% abv

Avery The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest; Boulder, CO,Dunkler Bock, 10.01% abv

Rogue Love and Hoppiness;  Newport, Oregon, Pilsner, 5.8% abv

Schlafly Pumpkin; Maplewood, Missouri, Spice Ale, 5% abv

Southern Tier Harvest; Lakewood, New York, Premium Bitter, 6.4% abv

Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen;  Germany, Marzen, 5.8% abv

Hofbrau Oktoberfestbier;  Marzen, Germany, 6.3% abv

Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier; Germany, Weizen, 5% abv

Avery IPA; Boulder, Colorado, India Pale Ale, 6.5% abv

Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.1% abv

 

Destihl

 

Saison de Ruisseau

Belgian Pale Ale

Oktoberfest

Triton Barley Wine

Black Angel Stout

Frankengluten Belgian Sorghum Ale

Hoperation Overload Double IPA

Altercation

Jacob’s Ladder

Champaign Blonde Ale

Biere Brune

Weissenheimer Hefeweizen

Roadblock British Red Ale

Small Beer

 

Blind Pig

 

Firkin Friday: New Holland the Poet Stout

 

Southern Tier Pumking; Lakewood, New York, Spice Ale, 9%

Sand Creek Groovy Brew; Black River Falls, Wisconsin, Kolsch, 4.5%

Southern Tier Iniquity; Lakewood, New York, Black IPA, 9% abv

Lagunitas IPA; Petaluma, California, India Pale Ale, 6.2% abv

Pyramid Apricot; Seattle, Washington, Fruit Beer, 5.1% abv

Avery The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest; Boulder, Colorado, Dunkler Bock, 10.1% abv

Left Hand Milk Stout; Longmont, Colorado, Sweet Stout, 5.3% abv

Sam Adam’s Octoberfest; Boston, Massachusetts, Marzen, 5.3% abv

Fuller’s London Pride; England, Premium Bitter, 4.7% abv  

Delirium Tremens; Belgium, Belgian Strong Ale, 8.5% abv

Blue Moon; Golden, Colorado, Belgian White, 5.4% abv

Schlafly Pumpkin; Maplewood, Missouri, Spice Ale, 8% abv

Stella Artois; Belgium, Pale Lager, 5.2% abv

Pabst Blue Ribbon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pale Lager, 5% abv

Duchesse De Bourgogne; Belgium, Sour Ale, 6.2%

Hofbrau Original; Germany, Helles, 5.1% abv 

Tucher Helles Hefe Weizen; Germany, German Hefeweizen, 5.3%

Capital Oktoberfest; Middleton, Wisconsin, Marzen, 5.5%

Weihenstephaner Festbier; Germany, Marzen, 5.8%

Affligem Abbey Blonde; Belgium, Belgian Ale, 7% abv

Kostritzer Schwarzbier; Germany, Schwarzbier, 4.8% abv

Lindeman’s Framboise; Belgium, Lambic, 2.5% abv

Ballast Point Sextant Nitro Stout; San Diego, California, Dry Stout, 6.8%

Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.2%

The Cause Behind the Reinheitsgebot

The Reinheitsgebot, or “Bavarian Purity Law” was a regulation about the production of beer in Germany. It became law on April 23, 1516. Most people believe it’s about regulating what can go into beer. That’s partly true, but, I believe the law was mostly put forward to protect prices of other grains and to help the bread makers (this is not a new concept).

I’ve heard before that the law was enacted because brewers didn’t know what caused fermentation to happen. That they would use whatever they thought worked to get the process started, from shoes, to bones, to whatever was lying around.

This isn’t exactly true. Even though YEAST hadn’t been microscopically observed by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, it had been around, and known, for thousands of years. (van Leeuwenhoek first saw it in 1680), the term had been around as gist, or gyst in Old English, for years, meaning “boil, foam, or bubble”. In Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (by Richard W. Unger) it mentions that in Munich in 1551, airborne yeast was defined as a cause of infection. This is still 131 years before van Leeuwenhoek first discovered it was a single celled organism. So to say that they didn’t know what yeast was, is absurd.

It is mostly common assumption to believe that the yeast was transferred from one batch to the next, by scraping off the foam from the old fermentation vessel, and placing it into the new. Another method would be stirring the old, then transferring the paddle to the new.  A google seach for brewers magic paddle will provide 2 million results. To claim that the brewing process wasn’t understood by ordinary people, is counterintuitive to all the stories you hear about the origins of styles. Farmhouse ales required every farmer to have his own brewing operation. In Egypt, days wages included beer. The common man, may not have known exactly what it took, but they made bread, which also required yeast, and they made beer, so to say yeast didn’t exist, or that people didn’t understand the role of yeast, prior to 1680, is nonsense.

Why would it be left off the Reinheitsgebot then? Why limit the process to three ingredients? Water, barley, and hops? What else could these people use to make beer? The process requires a liquid, other things than water (in theory) could be used. Could milk be added to the process? Yes, think milk stouts. Can other liquids be added? Obviously; yes, syrup, honey, grape or any fruit juice, could be added. You can also use any sugar source either from malted grain, sugar, or honey in your beer, so barley (if you are going to limit it to barley) has to be there. It is true that people were using various things as bittering agents, the wiki article mentions stinging nettle and henbane. Henbane is a psychoactive drug. It can be toxic or fatal. Stinging nettle injects histamines, which causes an allergic reaction. Yeast (or foam) is obviously the only thing you can’t replace with something else. Also, if you only used your three ingredients in your previous batch, and you are only using the three ingredients in this batch, then moving your paddle from one batch to the next and taking the foam with it, can not be against the rule.

So, what caused the law? It wasn’t because people were doing stupid things making their beer. It wasn’t because people were making bad beer. Other people have said, and I agree, that it was a law to protect bread makers. Bread can be made with all the grains that are used in making beer. But, the most common grain used in bread is wheat, although pumpernickel is a rye bread. It’s commonly stated that barley doesn’t make good bread. It tends to clump more than the other grains. The common grains used for beer, prior to the Reinheitsgebot were: barley, wheat, and rye. Wheat and rye make a good grain from brewing too, and make some excellent beers. Wheat beers (under the Reinheitsgebot) were limited to being made only by specific breweries and for the king’s consumption (Konig).

So what would cause Germany (Bavaria) to create a law to limit the ingredients used in beer? The answer is crop failure.

If you look at a timeline of famine, and crop failures, you’ll notice that in Germany in 1515 there was severe flooding. There was prolonged rainfall that caused July to September flooding of the Danube (in Bavaria). In fact, most of central Europe during 1515 suffered from 6 weeks of rain. Couple that with a diminished work force that was fighting with Charles V against Francis I, and you’ve got less people available to work the fields, along with bad fields. The law was first proffered in 1487. Looking back at the timeline, in 1482, you see that Germany had cold/poor growout, which affected vintages from 1482 to 1493. If the law was first put out in a time when there was bad growth, but not approved, and you have people who are tired of food shortages, and prices rising for bread because of bad harvests; the next time there is significant crop failure, (1515) it’s going to lead to a reaction causing you to pass a law to protect the people.

So, the Reinheitsgebot was not set out to protect brewers, it wasn’t to protect consumers from bad beer, it wasn’t because the brewing process wasn’t understood, it was because crop failures had driven up prices of bread (which is more important for survival than beer… although that’s debatable).

So, to sum up, the Reinheitsgebot  wasn’t put into place to protect people from bad beer, it was a government reaction to historic rains that caused the failure of crops throughout much of Bavaria. 

 

 

CU Beer Weekend: Sept 16 (Illini vs Arizona State)

Where are you drinking before and after the game this weekend? You aren’t limited to just the parking lots.

 

CU Beer Club

 

Wednesday: September Beer Club, Crane Alley upper mezz. Beer and Cheese (bring beer, bring cheese)

 

Seven Saints

 

Southern Tier Pumpking

 

Tuesday: Brewsday Tuesday: Coney Island Lager and Mermaid Pilsner $2

Wednesday: Whiskey Wednesday: Bourbon and Rye

 

Radio Maria

 

1) Clown Shoes Eagle Claw Fist

2) O’fallon Wheach

3) He’Brew Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A

4) Capital Fest Beer

5) Left Hand TNT Weizenbock

6) Two Brothers Hop Juice

7) Lagunitas Dogtown Pale Ale

8) Smuttynose Big A

9) New Holland Beerhive Tripel

10) Southern Tier Cuvee 3

11) Dark Horse Plead the 5th

12) Smuttynose Gravitation Quad

13) Avery Maharaja

14) Samichlaus

15) Crown Valley Worktruck Wheat

16) Wexford Irish Cream Ale

17) Left Hand Milk Stout

18) Monk’s Café Flemish Red Ale

19) Rogue Dad’s Little Helper Black IPA

20) EKU Pils

21) Anderson Valley Winter Solstice

22) Haand Bryggeriet Royk Uten Ild

23) Hofbrau Maibock

24) Smuttynose Barleywine

25) De Proef K-O

26) Brugse Zot

27) PBR

 

Crane Alley

 

Boulder Mojo Nitro IPA 7.2%
Smuttynose Robust Porter 5.7%
Founder's Centennial IPA 7.2%
Ertvelds Wit 5.5%
Krusovice Czech Pils 5.0%
Stone Imperial Russian Stout 10.5%
Ommegang Aphrodite 8.9%
Avery Karma 5.2%
Saison De Silly
Stone 15th Anniversary Black IPA 10.5%
Lagunitas New Dogtown Pale Ale 6.2%
Southern Tier Pumking 9.0%
Erdinger Hefe Weizen 5.4%
Avery 18th Anniversary Dry-Hopped Saison 8.1%
Gulden Draak 10.5%
Original Sin Hard Cider 6.0%
Founders Devil Dancer 12.0%
Ommegang Belgian Pale Ale 6.2%
PBR 4.2%

Blind Pig Brewery

 

Blind Pig Belgian Grand Cru

Blind Pig Oatmeal Stout

Blind Pig American Pale Ale

Blind Pig English Mild Ale

Two Brothers’ Domaine DuPage; Warrenville, IL, Amber Ale, 5.9% abv

Schlafly Pilsner; Maplewood, Missouri, Pilsener, 4.9% abv

Rogue Love and Hoppiness;  Newport, Oregon, Pilsner, 5.8% abv

Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat; Eureka, California, Fruit Beer, 5% abv

Southern Tier Harvest; Lakewood, New York, Premium Bitter, 6.4% abv

Rodenbach Grand Cru;  Belgium, Sour Ale, 6% abv

Stone 15th Anniversary;  Escondido, California, Black IPA, 10.5% abv

Capital Island Wheat; Middleton, Wisconsin, Wheat Ale

Avery IPA; Boulder, Colorado, India Pale Ale, 6.5% abv

Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.1% abv

 

Destihl

 

Saison de Ruisseau

Belgian Pale Ale

Oktoberfest

Triton Barley Wine

Black Angel Stout

Frankengluten Belgian Sorghum Ale

Hoperation Overload Double IPA

Altercation

Jacob’s Ladder

Champaign Blonde Ale

Biere Brune

Weissenheimer Hefeweizen

Roadblock British Red Ale

Small Beer

 

Blind Pig

 

Unibroue Trois Pistoles; Canada, Belgian Strong Ale, 9%

Sand Creek Groovy Brew; Black River Falls, Wisconsin, Kolsch, 4.5%

Southern Tier Iniquity; Lakewood, New York, Black IPA, 9% abv

Lagunitas IPA; Petaluma, California, India Pale Ale, 6.2% abv

Pyramid Apricot; Seattle, Washington, Fruit Beer, 5.1% abv

Two Brothers’ Dog Days Lager; Warrenville, Illinois, Dortmunder, 4.9% abv

Left Hand Milk Stout; Longmont, Colorado, Sweet Stout, 5.3% abv

Flossmoor Station Pullman Brown; Flossmoor, IL, Porter, 6% abv

Fuller’s London Pride; England, Premium Bitter, 4.7% abv  

Delirium Tremens; Belgium, Belgian Strong Ale, 8.5% abv

Blue Moon; Golden, Colorado, Belgian White, 5.4% abv

Schlafly Pumpkin; Maplewood, Missouri, Spice Ale, 8% abv

Stella Artois; Belgium, Pale Lager, 5.2% abv

Pabst Blue Ribbon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pale Lager, 5% abv

Duchesse De Bourgogne; Belgium, Sour Ale, 6.2%

Hofbrau Original; Germany, Helles, 5.1% abv 

Tucher Helles Hefe Weizen; Germany, German Hefeweizen, 5.3%

Schlafly Hefe Weizen; Maplewood, Missouri, Wheat Ale, 3.9%

Krusovice Imperial 12; Czech Republic, Bohemian Pilsener, 5%

Affligem Abbey Blonde; Belgium, Belgian Ale, 7% abv

Kostritzer Schwarzbier; Germany, Schwarzbier, 4.8% abv

Lindeman’s Framboise; Belgium, Lambic, 2.5% abv

Ballast Point Sextant Nitro Stout; San Diego, California, Dry Stout, 6.8%

Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.2%

 

 

CU Beer Weekend; September 2 (Labor Day)

Where are you drinking this extended weekend?

Seven Saints

Brewsday Tuesday
Whiskey Wednesday: Canadian and Micro American

Radio Maria

Clown Shoes Eagle Claw Fist
O'fallon Wheach
Founders Red's Rye
Capital Fest Beer
Left Hand TNT Weizenbock
Founders Dirty Bastard
Bell's Hopslam
Smuttynose Big A
Southern Tier Creme Brulee
Southern Tier Cuvee 3
Dark Horse Plead the 5th
Smuttynose Gravitation Quad
Avery Maharaja
Samichlaus
Crown Valley Worktruck Wheat
Wexford Irish Cream Ale (nitro)
North Coast Old Rasputin (nitro)
Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Red Ale
Rogue Dad's Little Helper Black IPA
North Coast Scrimshaw Pilsner
Flying Dog In Heat Wheat
Goose Island Matilda
Hofbrau Maibock
Smuttynose Barleywine
De Proef K-O
Brugse Zot
PBR

Friday: Happy Hour with free appetizers 4:30 - 5:30,
Saturday: Salsa, 10 pm, no cover before 11
Sunday: $2 wells, $1.25 PBR; Bloody Mary Bar
Monday: Labor Day, no Beer Class
Tuesday: 1/2 price wine by the glass
Wednesday: $1 off all beers on draft; Open Decks
Thursday: Chillax

Crane Alley

Boulder Mojo Nitro IPA 7.2%
Smuttynose Robust Porter 5.7%
Left Hand 400lb Monkey IPA 7.0%
Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale 5.5%
Krusovice Czech Pils 5.0%
Lost Abbey Serpent's Stout 10.5%
Ommegang Aphrodite 8.9%
Avery Karma 5.2%
Saison De Silly
O'Fallon Wheach 5.1%
Stone Levitation Ale 4.4%
Ommegang Witte 5.1%
Erdinger Hefe Weizen 5.4%
Avery 18th Anniversary Dry-Hopped Saison 8.1%
Gulden Draak 10.5%
Original Sin Hard Cider 6.0%
Mikkeller 1000 IBU 9.6%
Ommegang Belgian Pale Ale 6.2%
PBR 4.2%

Blind Pig Brewery

Blind Pig Hard Cider
Blind Pig English Summer Ale
Blind Pig Replicale 2011-BPA
Two Brothers’ Domaine DuPage; Warrenville, IL, Amber Ale, 5.9% abv
Schlafly Pilsner; Maplewood, Missouri, Pilsener, 4.9% abv
Southern Tier Crème Brulee; Lakewood, New York, Imperial Stout, 9.2% abv
O’Fallon Peach Wheach; O’Fallon, Missouri, Fruit Beer, 4.75% abv
Ommegang Aphrodite; Cooperstown, New York, Fruit Beer, 8.9% abv
Dieu du Ciel Rosee dHibiscus; Canada, Spice Ale, 5.9% abv
Stone Levitation; Escondido, California, Amber Ale, 4.4% abv
Hofbrau Weisse; Germany, German Hefeweizen, 5.1% abv
Stone IPA; Escondido, California, India Pale Ale, 6.9% abv
Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.1% abv

Destihl

Saison de Ruisseau
Belgian Pale Ale
Oktoberfest
Triton Barleywine
Black Angel Stout
Frankengluten Belgian Sorghum Ale
Hoperation Overload Double IPA
Altercation
Champaign Blonde Ale
Biere Brune
Weisenheimer Hefeweizen
Roadblock British Red Ale
Jacob's Ladder
Tripel

Blind Pig

Unibroue La Terrible; Canada, Belgian Strong Ale, 10.5%
Breckenridge Amber; Denver, Colorado, Amber, 5.4%
Victory Hop Wallop; Downington, Pennsylvania, Imperial IPA, 8.5% abv
Lagunitas IPA; Petaluma, California, India Pale Ale, 6.2% abv
O’Fallon Peach Wheach; O’Fallon, Missouri, Fruit Beer, 4.75% abv
Two Brothers’ Dog Days Lager; Warrenville, Illinois, Dortmunder, 4.9% abv
Stone Arrogant Bastard; Escondido, California, American Strong Ale, 7.2% abv
Avery Ellie’s Brown; Boulder, Colorado, Brown Ale, 5.5% abv
Fuller’s London Pride; England, Premium Bitter, 4.7% abv
Delirium Tremens; Belgium, Belgian Strong Ale, 8.5% abv
Blue Moon; Golden, Colorado, Belgian White, 5.4% abv
Rogue John John Hazelnut; Newport, Oregon, Brown Ale, 5.6% abv
Stella Artois; Belgium, Pale Lager, 5.2% abv
Pabst Blue Ribbon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pale Lager, 5% abv
Duchesse De Bourgogne; Belgium, Sour Ale, 6.2%
Moylan’s Hefe Weiss; Novato, California, Wiezen, 7% abv
Tucher Helles Hefe Weizen; Germany, German Hefeweizen, 5.3%
Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat; Eureka, California, Fruit Beer, 5%
Krusovice Imperial 12; Czech Republic, Bohemian Pilsener, 5%
Duvel Green; Belgium, Belgian Ale, 6.8% abv
Southern Tier Porter; Lakewood, New York, Porter, 5.6% abv
Lindeman’s Framboise; Belgium, Lambic, 2.5% abv
Ballast Point Sextant Nitro Stout; San Diego, California, Dry Stout, 6.8%
Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.2%

Friday: Cask tapping at 5, Stone Sublimely Self Righteous

No updates from Quality or Black Dog

CU Beer Weekend, Aug 26

Seven Saints

 

Brewsday Tuesday: Cellar Sale, All Brewsday beers $2 (Left Hand Stranger, Smuttynose Pale, Abita Jockamo, Left Hand Sawtooth)

Whiskey Wednesday: Scotch

 

Radio Maria

 

Clown Shoes Eagle Claw Fist

Founders Cerise

Founders Red's Rye

Capital Fest Beer

Left Hand Fade to Black Vol. 2

Founders Dirty Bastard

Bell's Hopslam

Left Hand Week Sauce

Southern Tier Creme Brulee

Southern Tier Cuvee 3

Dark Horse Plead the 5th

Smuttynose Gravitation Quad

Moylan's Hopsickle Imperial IPA

Samichlaus

Crown Valley Worktruck Wheat

Wexford Irish Cream Ale (nitro)

North Coast Old Rasputin (nitro)

Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Red Ale

Dark Horse Boffo Brown

North Coast Scrimshaw Pilsner

Stone Levitation

Goose Island Matilda

Hofbrau maibock

Smuttynose Barleywine

De Proef K-O

Blanche de Bruxelles

PBR

 

Friday: Happy Hour with free appetizers 4:30 - 5:30,

Saturday: Salsa, 10 pm, no cover before 11

Sunday: $2 wells, $1.25 PBR; Bloody Mary Bar

Monday: Beer Class, $10, 10pm; 6% or less ABV beer

Tuesday: 1/2 price wine by the glass

Wednesday: $1 off all beers on draft; Open Decks

Thursday: Chillax

 

Crane Alley

 

Victory Donnybrook Stout 3.7%

Moylan's Orange & Black Congrats Ale 6.0%

Lagunitas IPA 6.2%

Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale 5.5%

Krusovice Czech Pils 5.0%

Lost Abbey Serpent's Stout 10.5%

Founders Blushing Monk 9.2%

Left Hand Sawtooth Ale 5.3%

Bier du Boucanier 7.0%

O'Fallon Wheach 5.1%

Stone Levitation Ale 4.4%

Ommegang Witte 5.1%

Erdinger Hefe Weizen 5.4%

Avery 18th Anniversary Dry-Hopped Saison 8.1%

Scotch de Silly 8.0%

Original Sin Hard Cider 6.0%

Avery Samael's 14.5%

Two Brothers Hop Juice 9.9%

PBR 4.2%

 

 

Blind Pig Brewery

 

Blind Pig Hard Cider

Blind Pig English Summer Ale

Blind Pig Replicale 2011-BPA

Two Brothers’ Dog Days  Lager; Warrenville, IL, Helles, 4.9% abv

Schlafly Pilsner; Maplewood, Missouri, Pilsener, 4.9% abv

Southern Tier Crème Brulee;  Lakewood, New York, Imperial Stout, 9.2% abv

O’Fallon Peach Wheach; O’Fallon, Missouri, Fruit Beer, 4.75% abv

Ommegang Aphrodite; Cooperstown, New York, Fruit Beer, 8.9% abv

Dieu du Ciel Rosee dHibiscus;  Canada, Spice Ale, 5.9% abv

Stone Levitation;  Escondido, California, Amber Ale, 4.4% abv

Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier; Germany, German Hefeweizen, 5%abv

Founder’s Centennial IPA; Grand Rapids, Michigan, India Pale Ale, 7.2% abv

Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.1% abv

 

Destihl

 

Saison de Ruisseau

Belgian Pale Ale

Raspberry Wheat

Triton Barleywine

Black Angel Stout

Frankengluten Belgian Sorghum Ale

Hoperation Overload Double IPA

Hawaii Five Ale

Altercation

Baldock IPA

Champaign Blonde Ale

Biere Brune

Weisenheimer Hefeweizen

Roadblock British Red Ale

Jacob's Ladder

Tripel

 

Blind Pig

 

Rogue American Amber; Newport, Oregon, Amber Ale, 5.1%

Breckenridge Amber; Denver, Colorado, Amber, 5.4%

Victory Hop Wallop; Downington, Pennsylvania, Imperial IPA, 8.5% abv

Lagunitas IPA; Petaluma, California, India Pale Ale, 6.2% abv

O’Fallon Peach Wheach; O’Fallon, Missouri, Fruit Beer, 4.75% abv

Two Brothers’ Dog Days Lager; Warrenville, Illinois, Dortmunder, 4.9% abv

Founder’s Porter; Grand Rapids, Michigan, Porter, 6.5% abv

Avery Ellie’s Brown; Boulder, Colorado, Brown Ale, 5.5% abv

Fuller’s London Pride; England, Premium Bitter, 4.7% abv  

Delirium Tremens; Belgium, Belgian Strong Ale, 8.5% abv

Blue Moon; Golden, Colorado, Belgian White, 5.4% abv

Unibrou Trois Pistoles; Canada, Belgian Strong Ale, 9% abv

Stella Artois; Belgium, Pale Lager, 5.2% abv

Pabst Blue Ribbon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pale Lager, 5% abv

Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale; Newport, Oregon, Specialty Grain, 4.8%

Moylan’s Hefe Weiss; Novato, California, Wiezen, 7% abv 

Tucher Helles Hefe Weizen; Germany, German Hefeweizen, 5.3%

Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat; Eureka, California, Fruit Beer, 5%

Krusovice Imperial 12; Czech Republic, Bohemian Pilsener, 5%

Ommegang Cup O Kyndness; Cooperstown, New York, Scotch Ale, 6.6% abv

Southern Tier Porter; Lakewood, New York, Porter, 5.6% abv

Lindeman’s Framboise; Belgium, Lambic, 2.5% abv

Moylan’s Nitro Special Bitte;r Novato, California, English Pale Ale, 5.2%

Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.2%

 

Black Dog Smoke and Ale House

 

Two Brothers Resistance IPA

Dark Horse Crooked Tree

Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale

Port Brewing Anniversary Ale

 

Quality Beer

 

Green Flash Imperial IPA

Goose Island Sofie

Lagunitas A Little Sumpin Wild

Sand Creek Hard Lemonade

Scrimshaw Pilsner

 

CU Beer Weekend; August 12

Where are you drinking this weekend? I'm going up to the Great Taste of the Midwest.

Seven Saints

Brewsday Tuesday: Abita Jockamo IPA $2
Whiskey Wednesday: Irish

Radio Maria

clown shoes eagle claw fist
founders cerise
New Holland Imperial Hatter
southern tier hopsun
left hand fade to black
founders dirty bastard
Founders Devil Dance
left hand week sauce
souther tier chokolat
southern tier cuvee 3
Dark Horse Plead the Fifth
Smuttynose Gravition
moylans hopsickle
Samichlaus
Crown Valley Worktruck Wheat

North Coast Old Rasputin
Petrus Oud Bruin
Dark Horse boffo brown
Atwater Voodoo Vator
stone levitation
Founders Curmudgeon
Bitburger Premium Pils
oaked arrogant bastard
poperings hommel bier
Blanche de Bruxelles
PBR

Friday: Happy Hour with free appetizers 4:30 - 5:30,
Saturday: Salsa, 10 pm, no cover before 11
Sunday: $2 wells, $1.25 PBR; Bloody Mary Bar
Monday: Beer Class, $10, 10pm; Midwest Beers
Tuesday: 1/2 price wine by the glass
Wednesday: $1 off all beers on draft
Thursday: Chillax

Crane Alley

Victory Donnybrook Stout 3.7%
Boulder Hazed & Infused 4.8%
Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA 7.0%
Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale 5.5%
Bells Lager of the Lakes 5.0%
Djaevlebryg Gudelos 8.9%
Founders Cerise 6.5%
Left Hand Sawtooth Ale 5.3%
Bier du Boucanier 7.0%
O'Fallon Wheach 5.1%
Flossmoor Station Impromptu Pale Ale 5.3%
Lost Coast Great White Ale 4.8%
Erdinger Hefe Weizen 5.4%
Ommegang Rare Vos 6.5%
Scotch de Silly 8.0%
Weston's Premium Cider 4.5%
Avery Samael's 14.5%
Two Brothers Hop Juice 9.9%
PBR 4.2%

Blind Pig Brewery

Blind Pig American Dark Ale
Blind Pig American Pale Ale
Blind Pig Imperial Stout
Blind Pig Replicale 2011-BPA
Two Brothers’ Dog Days Lager; Warrenville, IL, Helles, 4.9% abv
Left Hand Polestar Pilsner; Longmont, Colorado, Pilsener, 5.5% abv
Mikkeller Rauch Geek Breakfast; Denmark, Smoked, 7.5% abv
O’Fallon Peach Wheach; O’Fallon, Missouri, Fruit Beer, 4.75% abv
Silly Saison; Belgium, Saison, 5.2% abv
Goose Island Matilda; Chicago, Illinois, Belgian Ale, 7% abv
Flossmoor Station Rail Hopper; Flossmoor, Illinois, India Pale Ale, 7.5% abv
Flossmoor Station Half Day; Hefeweizen Flossmoor, IL, Hefeweizen, 5.6%abv
Boulevard Collaboration #2; Kansas City, Missouri, India Pale Ale, 7.4% abv
Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.1% abv

Destihl

Saison de Ruisseau
Small Beer
Tripel
Triton Barley Wine
Black Angel Stout
Frankengluten Belgian Sorghum Ale
Altercation
Quadrupel
Baldock IPA
Champaign Blonde Ale
Biere Brune
Weissenheimer Hefeweizen
Roadblock British Red Ale
Hawaii Five Ale

Blind Pig

Rogue American Amber; Newport, Oregon, Amber Ale, 5.1%
Rogue Chatoe OREgasmic; Newport, Oregon, American Pale Ale, 7%
Avery Karma Ale; Boulder, Colorado, Belgian Ale, 5.2% abv
Lagunitas IPA; Petaluma, California, India Pale Ale, 6.2% abv
O’Fallon Peach Wheach; O’Fallon, Missouri, Fruit Beer, 4.75% abv
Rogue Dad’s Little Helper; Newport, Oregon, Black IPA, 6.8% abv
Stone Imperial Russian Stout; Escondido, CA, Imperial Stout, 10.5% abv
Avery Ellie’s Brown; Boulder, Colorado, Brown Ale, 5.5% abv
Fuller’s London Pride; England, Premium Bitter, 4.7% abv
Delirium Tremens; Belgium, Belgian Strong Ale, 8.5% abv
Blue Moon; Golden, Colorado, Belgian White, 5.4% abv
Unibrou Trois Pistoles; Canada, Belgian Strong Ale, 9% abv
Stella Artois; Belgium, Pale Lager, 5.2% abv
Pabst Blue Ribbon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pale Lager, 5% abv
Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale; Newport, Oregon, Specialty Grain, 4.8%
Celis White; Webberville, Michigan, Belgian White, 3.9% abv
Tucher Helles Hefe Weizen; Germany, German Hefeweizen, 5.3%
Boulder Sweaty Betty; Boulder, Colorado, Wheat Ale, 5.9%
Krusovice Imperial 12; Czech Republic, Bohemian Pilsener, 5%
Ommegang Cup O Kyndness; Cooperstown, New York, Scotch Ale, 6.6% abv
Flying Dog Gonzo Porter; Frederick, Maryland, Imperial Porter, 9.2% abv
Lindeman’s Peche; Belgium, Lambic, 2.5% abv
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout; England, Stout, 5.2%
Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.2%

Black Dog Smoke and Ale House

Flossmoor Station Le Chien Blanc Wit
Chimay Blanche
Ballast Point Sculpin IPA
Smuttynose Imperial Stout
Moylan's NorCal IPA
Porterhouse Irish Red
North Coast Red Seal

CU Beer Weekend; August 5

Where are you drinking this weekend?


Seven Saints

Brewsday Tuesday
Whiskey Wednesday: Micro American and Canadian

Radio Maria

clown shoes eagle claw fist
founders cerise
New Holland Imperial Hatter
southern tier hopsun
left hand fade to black
founders dirty bastard
Bells Expedition
left hand week sauce
souther tier chokolat
southern tier cuvee 3
dieu du ciel aphrodite
Smuttynose Gravition
moylans hopsickle
Samichlaus
original sin
moylans nitro english bitter
North Coast Old Rasputin
Petrus Oud Bruin
Dark Horse boffo brown
Dos XX amber
stone levitation
Founders Curmudgeon
kostriker
oaked arrogant bastard
poperings hommel bier
north coast scrimshaw pilsner
PBR



Friday: Happy Hour with free appetizers 4:30 - 5:30,
Saturday: Salsa, 10 pm, no cover before 11
Sunday: $2 wells, $1.25 PBR; Bloody Mary Bar
Monday: Beer Class, $10, 10pm; Belgians
Tuesday: 1/2 price wine by the glass
Wednesday: $1 off all beers on draft
Thursday: Chillax

Crane Alley

Victory Donnybrook Stout 3.7%
Boulder Hazed & Infused
Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA 7.0%
Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale 5.5%
Bells Lager of the Lakes 5.0%
Djaevlebryg Gudelos
Founders Cerise
Left Hand Sawtooth Ale
Bier du Boucanier 7.0%
Bell's Oberon 6.0%
Flossmoor Station Impromptu Pale Ale 5.3%
Lost Coast Great White Ale 4.8%
Erdinger Hefe Weizen 5.4%
Ommegang Rare Vos 6.5%
Scotch de Silly 8.0%
Weston's Premium Cider 4.5%
Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard 7.2%
Two Brothers Hop Juice 9.9%
PBR 4.2%

Blind Pig Brewery

Blind Pig Samburro Chili Beer
Blind Pig Imperial Stout
Two Brothers’ Dog Days Lager; Warrenville, IL, Helles, 4.9% abv
Schlafly Pilsner; Maplewood, Missouri, Pilsener, 4.9% abv
Schlenkerla Eiche Doppelbock; Germany, Smoked, 8% abv
O’Fallon Peach Wheach; O’Fallon, Missouri, Fruit Beer, 4.75% abv
Glazen Toren Jan De Lichte; Belgium, Belgian White, 7.5% abv
Moylan’s Orange and Black; Novato, California, Fruit Beer, 6% abv
Port Brewing Anniversary; San Marcos, California, Imperial IPA, 10% abv
Spaten Optimator; Germany, Doppelbock, 7.6%abv
Boulevard Collaboration #2; Kansas City, Missouri, India Pale Ale, 7.4% abv
Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.1% abv

Destihl

Saison de Ruisseau
Small Beer
Tripel
Triton Barley Wine
Black Angel Stout
Frankengluten Belgian Sorghum Ale
Altercation
Quadrupel
Baldock IPA
Champaign Blonde Ale
Biere Brune
Weissenheimer Hefeweizen
Roadblock British Red Ale
Hawaii Five Ale

Blind Pig

Sierra Nevada Estate; Chico, California, India Pale Ale, 6.7%
Rogue Chatoe OREgasmic; Newport, Oregon, American Pale Ale, 7%
Flying Dog Doggie Style; Frederick, Maryland, American Pale Ale, 5.5% abv
Lagunitas IPA; Petaluma, California, India Pale Ale, 6.2% abv
O’Fallon Peach Wheach; O’Fallon, Missouri, Fruit Beer, 4.75% abv
Rogue Dad’s Little Helper; Newport, Oregon, Black IPA, 6.8% abv
Stone Imperial Russian Stout; Escondido, CA, Imperial Stout, 10.5% abv
Avery Ellie’s Brown; Boulder, Colorado, Brown Ale, 5.5% abv
Fuller’s London Pride; England, Premium Bitter, 4.7% abv
Delirium Tremens; Belgium, Belgian Strong Ale, 8.5% abv
Blue Moon; Golden, Colorado, Belgian White, 5.4% abv
Duchesse de Bourgogne; Belgium, Sour Ale, 6.2% abv
Stella Artois; Belgium, Pale Lager, 5.2% abv
Pabst Blue Ribbon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pale Lager, 5% abv
Flossmoor Station .357 Pils; Flossmoor, Illinois, Imperial Pilsener, 12%
Celis White; Webberville, Michigan, Belgian White, 3.9% abv
Tucher Helles Hefe Weizen; Germany, German Hefeweizen, 5.3%
Avery White Rascal; Boulder, Colorado, Belgian White, 5.6%
Krusovice Imperial 12; Czech Republic, Bohemian Pilsener, 5%
Dieu du Ciel Route des Epices; Canada, Spice Ale, 5% abv
Flying Dog Gonzo Porter; Frederick, Maryland, Imperial Porter, 9.2% abv
Lindeman’s Framboise; Belgium, Lambic, 2.5% abv
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout; England, Stout, 5.2%
Guinness; Ireland, Dry Stout, 4.2%

Black Dog Smoke and Ale House

Southern Tier Farmers Tan
Duvel
Ska Modus Hoperandi
Smuttynose Imperial Stout
Moylans NorCal IPA
Porterhouse Nitro Irish Red Ale
North Coast Cask-conditioned Red Seal Ale



Art Mart

Saturday tasting has artisinal cheeses, pickles, olive oils, and Steiglmeire sausages; Along with wine.