This week is huge in beer. \u00a0We’re also busy on deadline for Feb. so apologies for lagging and posting this last minute.<\/p>\n
Blind Lady Ale House is throwing an outrageous multi-day celebration. <\/strong> MIHO Gastrotruck keeps on truckin’ <\/strong> AleSmith is dropping Barrel Aged Wee Heavy Wednesday 1\/26 (today) <\/strong> The Regal Beagle rules<\/strong> Small Bar and Hamilton’s Events<\/strong> Straight From the Tap<\/strong> O’Brien’s ConsumpTION
\nFor their 2nd, BLAH is having a crazy amount of events this week<\/a> starting tomorrow<\/a> (Thursday). The events include a Canned craft beer keep-the-cozy night as well as Automatic Brewing Co.’s release of the yet-unnamed imperial coffee brown ale\u00a0 (we got to taste it over the weekend, it is tremendous). <\/strong>Jeff Hammett<\/a> did a great little writeup over at SDBeerBlog<\/a>, and the complete listing of events is on their website<\/a>. Presale for 50 growlers of the first beer of 11 in ’11 member<\/a> Automatic Brewing Co. can be found here (they might already be sold out). <\/a><\/p>\n
\nKevin & Juan of MIHO<\/a> have effectively tuned in to our city’s beer circuit. Last week they did Phonography @ BLAH (we missed it, but Lee Chase said it ruled.). This week they’re going to be at AleSmith’s Wee Heavy release<\/a>, as well as the poor man’s chili beer pairing at Home Brew Mart<\/a> (we’re broke after The Lodge last week<\/a>). We’re actively hunting down MIHO because we want to learn more about the dudes who run the tastiest roach coach in town. \u00a0Story soon!<\/p>\n
\nTickets will be distributed at 10am, so if you just got to work, maybe now’s the time to duck out before anyone notices. Beer sales start at 2pm, and the tasting room will be open from 10am-5pm. \u00a0MIHO<\/a> will be there, and their fixings will surely ensure the patience of the masses.<\/p>\n
\nRun by two gentlemen with a keen eye for beer and no-nonsense<\/a>, there’s a wheel present that is beer’s version of Thunderdome (“Bust a deal, face the wheel!”) Instead of the gulag<\/a>, the worst you get is pint filled from a can of Coors. The best? Free pint of whatever! Chances are, however, you’ll randomly land on any one of their ~20 craft beer taps and that will be \u00a0your beer. Perfect for the guy who takes 30 minutes to stare at the chalkboard<\/a> before ordering.<\/p>\n
\nAllagash Brewing’s Rob Todd is going to be hosted at both Small Bar<\/a> & Hamiltons<\/a> tonight (Wednesday). On Friday, 11 in ’11 members<\/a> Iron Fist<\/a> will be @ Hamilton’s for Firkin Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nAnother 11 in ’11 member<\/a>, TapHunter<\/a>, has opened up their first Straight From the Tap of 2011<\/a> with Urge Gastropub<\/a>. $15 bucks gets you $30 worth of stuff. It’s just what we needed to get our lazy buns out of North Park to Rancho Bernardo’s premiere craft beer destination.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tom Nickel just fired this over via the O’Brien’s newsletter<\/a> (one of the best in town):
\n“Saturday and Sunday we celebrate our ConsumpTION weekend with 17 Russian River beers on tap with 11 different Belgian-inspired -TION beers.\u00a0 All of RRBC’s Belgian-style beers end in TION: Damnation, Salvation, etc..\u00a0 On tap we will have those two along with Supplication, Temptation, Consecration, Perdition, Sanctification, Mortification, Compunction, Redemption, Rejection, Little White Lie and all of the hoppy beers from the night before – Blond, Dead Leaf Green, RR IPA, Blind Pig and Pliny.\u00a0 Look for Lobster Mac n’ Cheese and Beer Onion Soup from the kitchen.”<\/p>\n