Mon, 07 Nov 2011

This Week at The Grey Lodge

Tonight - Eagles on Monday Night Football. I know what all of our TVs will be tuned to.

Tuesday - Lucky 13 Homebrew Club Meeting. 7:30pm. We will be talking about lagers. Homebrewers of every experience level are encouraged to join us. We have a very interesting and diverse group. Veteran brewer Jim Brennan will be our guest.

Wednesday - It's a General Quizzo with Quizmaster Chris 3. 8pm on our 2nd floor. As always, no cover.

Saturday and Sunday - Brunch. People are starting to discover our tasty brunch menu. We serve brunch every Saturday from 10am to 3pm, and every Sunday from 11am to 3pm. I usually stick with the ABC omelet with awesome home fries, but next Saturday I'll be trying Eric's freshly baked biscuits and gravy. If you haven't had brunch with us yet, why not discover us it this weekend?

Draft Beer Update

It was a crazy busy weekend... in a good way. So neither Chris nor I got a chance to update it on Saturday or Sunday; plus I forgot to FTP the update on Friday. Sorry for not getting the beer updated sooner.

Anywho, all of this kicked since the last blog update Friday evening: Philadelphia Harvest from the Hood, Sierra Nevada Ovila Saison (sixtel), Cigar City Hotter than Helles, Cottrell Safe Harbor Blonde Ale, Troegs Java Head Stout, Founders Red Rye and Manayunk Weizenbock.

Tapped are:

- Philadelphia Walt Wit, this hyperlocal Belgian style white ale is in fairly heavy rotation here at the Grey Lodge and it always flies out every time we tap one. Despite what Split Enz says, I expect history to repeat.

Victory Harvest Pilsner, Victory continues their tradition of brewing, not one but two wet-hopped beers each autumn. We already tapped and kicked their Harvest Ale many kegs ago. This is their fresh-hopped pilsner, an interesting and tasty take on a fresh hopped beer.

Weyerbacher Sierra, the latest in Weyerbacher's NATO letter series, which lets their assistant brewers make new stuff, is a milk stout. Milk stouts are brewed with lactose, giving them their name. Because lactose is unfermentable by beer yeast, it adds sweetness and body to the finished beer. Milk stout is one of the few styles Weyerbacher hasn't done yet. I look forward to trying this one.

Great Divide Fresh Hop - this wet-hopped beer from Denver is full of hoppy goodness.

Flying Fish ESB - Flying Fish has been brewing this one since they opened 15 years ago. Beer writer Michael Jackson loved it way back then, which remains incredibly high praise. With all the Fish seasonals we put on tap, we haven't had this in very much over the years, hardly ever really. With this keg, we rediscover what we've been missing.

Stoudts Karnival Kolsch - this is nice German style session ale. Just because it's yellow and easy drinking doesn't mean there isn't some there there. Cause there is.

Boulder Never Summer Ale - Boulder's fall seasonal always flies out of here. Yet another great beer from this rock solid brewery. It's a spiced ale. From my recollection of previous years, the spices don't really stand out, but their presence results in a really tastMan, we have some really great stuff on tap at the moment. But that ry beer.