Sat, 27 Feb 2010

Draft Beer Update
Yowsa. Founders Centennial IPA kicked in about a day and half. And that's a 1/2 barrel. Unless otherwise noted, we only tap 1/2 barrels. Sixtels are for babies. Replacing Founders Centennial is the first of 5 Microstar Mystery Kegs. We think the first one is Magic Hat No. 9.

Microstar Mystery Kegs: First a little background about Microstar. Microstar is a nationwide company that rents kegs to microbreweries. The advantage to breweries is that they can send their beer all over and not worry about getting the kegs back. About half of nationally distributing breweries seem to use Microstar. Somehow one local wholesaler wound up with 5 untagged Microstar kegs. So not only do they not know what beer is in the keg, they not sure what brewery made it. Though the wholesaler is pretty sure these are mix of Ithaca and Magic Hat. We got a deal on these and we’re passing along the savings. Mystery beer is just $3 a pint. Growler fills are only $8.

Brooklyn BackBreaker replaced Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. The deal with BackBreaker is that our Facebook friend Garrett Oliver, who is also Brooklyn's head brewer, went to England to see how the malt used to make beer was/is created the old school way. Turns out it's back breaking work. Garrett took the malt back with him to Brooklyn and they made this beer. And we got a keg. Ain't that cool?

A quarter barrel of High and Mighty Two Headed Beast replaced Roy Pitz Old Jail, which kicked pretty quickly. Two Headed Beast is a hoppy chocolate stout. Dang doesn't that sound wonderful? If we had known it is only a quarter barrel, we wound have ordered two to keep our 1/2 barrel only policy. But some things you don't learn until the keg is the basement. This one won't last long.


Food Specials
As usual, we have several food specials up on the blackboard. One that I've had twice this week is Chicken Salad Wrap. Let me say, "yeah!" The subtle bit of apple pushes it over the top.