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13th annual Hardliver
Barleywine Festival- March 14th and 15th
Our Hardliver
Barleywine Festival, which had its first few years at the Phinney Ridge
Neighboorhood Center will be back
for its 13th consecutive year. With over 45 barleywines pouring on
draft, we suggest you start hardening that liver immediately! This year we plan
on hosting all you lovers of that sticky nectar that is barley wine on
Saturday, March 14th and Sunday, March 15th.
For Immediate Release: Brouwer’s 10th
Anniversary party Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29th.
Wow! Do you
remember 2005? We do! 2005 was the year we opened our doors and poured our
first beer. Back in 2005, Matt “Vern” Vandenbergh brought what he had learned
from Bottleworks bottleshop, at the time already into its 5th year,
and created Brouwer’s Café. On March 23, 2005, we opened our doors to the
public, and the rest (as they say) is history. With over 60 taps, 300 bottles,
a wide selection of whisky and
whiskey, and a menu based around the hearty and delicious cuisine of Belgium,
Brouwer’s has remained one of Seattle’s premiere beer destinations for the
whole of its (almost) 10 years. Every year since our first anniversary we’ve
worked with a variety of breweries to create a unique anniversary beer. For our
10th year of pouring pints and snifters to the beer lovers of
Seattle and abroad we’ll have two beers to celebrate with. We teamed up with
Reuben’s Brews’ Adam Robbings to create a hop-bomb of a beer that would be
worthy of such a big milestone in our history. At the young age of 2 years old,
Reuben’s has easily become one of our favorite breweries in town, as well as
one of our friends. We’ve been happy to host their staff and patrons for both
their 1st and 2nd anniversaries, and we’re honored to
have them brewing our 10th anniversary beer. Our 10th
anniversary beer is a 10% imperial IPA that we have named Gobsmacked and will
be available in a very limited number of bottles, as well as on draft. For
Bottleworks’ 10th anniversary we worked with the one and only New
Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado. We thought it would be fun to Blend
a Brouwer’s 10 as well, and we headed down hang out and blend a beer in early
December. Eric and Lauren were kind enough to open up the wood cellar at New
Belgium and we had an amazing day.
We tasted somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 different fouders and came
up with a beer that we are very happy with. New Belgium’s contribution will be a draft only affair, and
we’ll be pouring it like it’s hot at our anniversary party. We will also be digging in to the
cellar and pulling out some past anniversary beers. Mark your calenders and plan on having a great day!
