Mon, 20 Dec 2011

This Week at the Grey Lodge
Wednesday - Quizmaster Pete will host a Holiday Quizzo. Q's about all of December's holidays, including Festivus. 8pm on our 2nd floor.

Thursday - This will be fun! It's a Book Singing; that's not a typo.
- Local beer writer Lew Bryson will be selling and signing books and leading us in Christmas carols. Besides being an internationally respected writer, Lew, a longtime fixture of his church choir, is also a singer. We are told he has quite a set of pipes on him. Anyone who has heard him laugh, and if you have ever been within a city block of him, you couldn't have missed it, knows that we can expect great things from his singing.
- Still need some gifts? Lew will be selling and signing copies of Pennsylvania Breweries and New Jersey Breweries.
- For this festive event, we will have Troegs Mad Elf, Sly Fox Christmas Ale, Anchor Our Special Ale, Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale, Great Lakes Christmas Ale, and loads more holiday beers on tap. 7:30 to 9pm.

Friday - Open regular hours. Loads of Christmas beers will be on tap.

Saturday - The bar and kitchen will be open regular hours for Xmas Eve. The bar will cranking until 2am, though the kitchen may close a little before our usual 1am Saturday kitchen hours.

Sunday - We will spend the day doing family stuff, and will open the first floor at 8pm on Xmas Day, which is more like Xmas Night. The kitchen will be closed.


Draft Beer Update
This week's Beer Season Beer of the Week is a spiced Christmas beer. We have four kegs of the ever-popular Sly Fox Christmas Ale to get us to and a probably a little past Christmas Day. Tasting like a ginger snap, this beer is Christmas in a glass. Sly Fox Christmas replaced Troegs Mad Elf. Don't worry, we have another keg of Mad Elf, which we get tapped for Thursday night's Book Singing, Christmas Caroling with Lew Bryson (info above)

Lost Abbey Gift of the Magi replaced Yards Thomas Jefferson Tavern Ale. Man Tommy Jefferson kicked fast. Gift of the Magi is gold in color, bittered with the bark of frankincense, and uses the smallest amount of myrrh, an herb that has roots in ancient winemaking. I guess we really should have saved this one for the Feast of the Epiphany, which is January 8th (if my Catholic education has stuck), well maybe 2013.

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale Ballast Point Sculpin which didn't last long, no surprise. Celebration is an old school Christmas ale. In the old, old days, breweries would make an amped up version of their flagship beer for the Christmas season. Sierra Celebration is their flagship Pale Ale dialed up to 11.

Abita Christmas Ale replaced Sixpoint Diesel and Gritty McDuff Christmas Ale replaced Duck Rabbit Milk Stout. Two different Christmas Ales from two very different places.

Gritty's is from Maine. It's an ESB with no fruits, spices or any of those reindeer games. Abita's is from Louisiana, across the causeway from NOLA. Abita changes up the recipe for their Christmas Ale every year; expect some reindeer games.



This Week in Mayfair
Here is what is going in our neighborhood this week.