Mon, 16 Jan 2011

This Week at the Grey Lodge
Wednesday - Quizzo with Quizmaster Chris3. 8pm on our 2nd floor.

Friday - 120 on 01/20. If it's January 20th, then we must be tapping a sixtel of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA.

We try to overshoot on firkins for Friday the Firkinteenth; thinking that it is better to have too many than too few. We have three firkins that we didn't tap last Friday, so we'll tap them this Friday at 6pm. These are Dock Street Rye IPA, Ruddles County Ale, and Yards Brawler. Freshly tapped cask ale and 120, stop on by!

Saturday - We serve brunch every weekend. This Saturday will be extra special; it's Ommebrunch!

On tap we will have: Ommegang 2010 Adoration, Ommegang 2011 Adoration, Ommegang Gnomegang, Ommegang 2010 Three Philosophers, Ommegang 2011 Three Philosophers, and Ommegang Witte.

Yes!.. two years of Adoration and Three Philosophers, so you can see how these beers change over time. Ommegang's Megan McGuire will be here with Ommegoodies.


Photos of the Day
Steve Lyford posted pix from last Friday. Thanks Steve!

Draft Beer Update
Lancaster Winter Warmer replaced Manayunk St. Alpha Belgian IPA. It's cold, cold, cold outside. This big malty beer will warm you up.

Victory Export Lager replaced Stoudts American Pale Ale. Export Lager is Victory's Dortmunder style beer. Bill and Ron got their brewing training in Germany and their love of German style beers has been evident since the beginning of Victory. Beer is very local in Germany. Styles of beer are very local too with areas having mulitiple breweries making the same style of beer, and pretty much just that style. Many of these styles are variations on gold colored lager. Dortmunder is the style from the city of Dortmund; an example of a famous authentic Dortmunder from Dortmund would be DAB. So what makes a Dortmunder different from other gold lagers? BeerTutor.com tells us "Balance defines Dortmunders as they possess the malt profile of a Helles, the hop character of a German Pilsner, and are slightly stronger than both." So a Dortmunder is a hoppier Munich Helles.

Cigar City Jai Alai IPA replaced Sierra Nevada Torpedo. Jai Alai is this week's Beer Season Beer of the Week. For this Beer Season we are highlighting a different style each week with a world class example of that style. This week's style is India Pale Ale. Cigar City Jai Alai is indeed world class. We had the plan this one out a month ahead of time since the rest of the world has noticed how awesome Cigar City beers are, and they are now in short supply. We scored 3 halves, hopefully that will be enough to last us all week.

Stoudts Old Abominable replaced Philadelphia Shackamaximum Imperial Stout. This barley wine has been cellaring for a year in our basement. Barley wines tend to get better with age. I'm excited about this one.