Another beautiful autumn week full of delightful dark ales is behind us, the culmination of the 2021 IPA Challenge sits before us, and communal feasting just around the corner — tis a grand season. Franz Solo here, for another round of all things beer and the like. The final round of the 2021 IPA Challenge…
Category: The Week Ahead in Beer
The Week Ahead In Beer: IPA Challenge 2021 Arrives
Greetings all, Franz Solo here, returned from adventures in Chicago and a week lost to a lingering cold. As the “hop head” of our fair group (I have been known to brew 300+ IBU IPAs and if you’ve ever asked if you could add more hops to a beer, the answer is yes), I’m always…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Embrace the darkness in its many forms
A smooth stout appears in cans, an epic imperial stout returns in bottles, we celebrate the dead, dance to a certain spooky family’s theme, and blast our souls into oblivion with local metal. Yeah, it’s our kind of week. New Draft: Boese Brothers also joins this darker setting with Soul Stealer Extra Stout. (UPDATE) Bombs…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Halloween takes center stage, as expected
There is a certain holiday this weekend that has all the breweries sticking to a theme. Shocking, huh? New Draft: After last week’s barrage, things are a bit quieter this time. Canteen tapped Munich Dunkel and Grundy Thunder Porter. Casa Vieja rolled out the aptly-named Spooky Vanilla Stout. Ex Novo expects to tap Mind Mischief,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Spooky Events Emerge in Advance of Halloween
After kind of a lull the week after the Balloon Fiesta, this week looks to be chock full of new brews and a plethora of weekend events. New Draft: Bosque added Perpetual Sunset, a strawberry lager. Boxing Bear recently tapped Loose Seal Pale Ale and Falcon Mountain IPA. (UPDATE) Brew Lab 101 took some Boo-Berry…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A harvest of good causes abounds at breweries
The week after Balloon Fiesta is a bit quiet, and a few breweries have even given their staffs a day off or two. Sobremesa will be closed today (Wednesday) and reopen Thursday. ReSource is closed this Sunday. Casa Vieja is also closed Sunday, albeit for a private event. Let us move on as there are…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Local music takes center stage at Lava Rock
It is only fitting that I, Stoutmeister, decided to write this edition of our weekly roundup of beers on tap and special events … and Comcast knocks out the internet for my entire neighborhood. Good thing the wi-fi at Canteen is working! What, did you expect me to go to Starbucks? Anyway, on with the…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Balloons Take to the Skies as We Celebrate the Season of the Malt
Well, this is pretty cool. After a year and a half of waiting, events arrive like an avalanche this week to bury us in delicious beers, foods, and good times aplenty. So grab your stein, put on your Dirndl or Lederhosen, and let’s get right to it shall we. New Draft: Boese Brothers gets into…
The Week Ahead In Beer: Autumn Arrives As Oktoberfest Rolls On
Hails dear readers, Franz Solo here to give you the latest in all things beer for this week, the first of Autumn. How it is Autumn already is beyond my comprehension. Time lost to a myriad of light lagers and hoppy ales perhaps? Difficult to say. In any event, here we are in the midst…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Oktoberfest is upon us, raise your steins!
Greetings all! Franz Solo here, filling in on the Week Ahead in Beer to keep us all up to date on the beers flowing and beer events happening in our fair neck of the woods. Mid-September is one of my favorite times of year. It signals the traditional start of Oktoberfest (sadly the Oktoberfest was…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 