Clown Shoes, Stone, BFM and more!

This just in!!! CLOWN SHOES is now available at the Beverage Warehouse! We're co-releasing it tonight with the Farmhouse Tap & Grill to welcome them to Vermont!

Here's the line-up:
- Hoppy Feet Black IPA 22oz
- Clementine Wit 22oz and 4pk
- Lubrication (Black ale with Orange peel) 22oz and 4pk
- Tramp Stamp Belgian IPA 22oz
- Eagle Claw Fist Imperial Amber 22oz
- Brown Angel 22oz

The Farmhouse put up three of these beers, but you'll have to stop down there to see which three!

Also in today, the much anticipated Stone 15th Anniversary "Escondidian Imperial Black IPA" and their collaboration brew "Cherry Chocolate Stout."

Other adds include:
+ Strongbow Cider 6pks
+ Ayinger Oktoberfest 500mL
+ BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien 2010 (blended) 750mL
+ De Koninck 4pk
+ White Birch Farmhouse Red Ale
+ White Birch "2" Anniversary ale (Belgian dark ale aged on wood)

Lots going on!
Cheers,
El Jefe

New Adds and Glassware

It's been a while since I've done a Glassware post. I've been working hard to get in more rare and unique stemware, goblets, tulips, snifters and other brewery endorsed vessels and they're finally coming in. Here's a list of some notable glasses:

+ Ayinger Celebrator Dopplebock
+ Dogfish Head snifters
+ Pinkus .5L Hefe glass
+ Ayinger .5L Willibecker glass
+ Kwak 1/4 yard with stand
+ Lindemans Lambic flutes
+ Lawson's Finest Liquids pilsner glass (Limited)
+ Unibroue .5L Willibeckers
+ Stiegl .5L glasses
And of course, many more! Check out the glassware cabinet up front between the registers.

As for the beer room:
+ McNeill's Tartan Ale
+ Scaldis Triple 750mL
+ Harpoon 100 Barrel Series Single Hop ESB (Delta hops)
- Rochefort "10" is back in stock
- Schneider beers back in stock
- Schlenkerla beers back in stock

And if you haven't heard, we're running some AWESOME sales on some tasty items! A couple of the beers in the Rare & Vintage Cabinet are on sale including the remaining bottles of BrewDog's Atlantic IPA and Scaldis Prestige de Nuits. But the biggest sale of all right now is on SIERRA NEVADA 6 PACKS! $6.99 plus deposit...oh, and yeh, it includes Torpedo!

See you soon.
Cheers,
Jeff

B-town's very own German Ski Chalet

This past Saturday night my-coworker Adam and I ventured forth in to the frigid cold to check out the newest beer spot in Burlington. Down at the bottom of Church St., past Manhattan Pizza but before Big Daddy's Pizza stands the newly constructed, 3 story beige-stone-faced Das Bierhaus. The first thing you notice is that there's no front door. A black iron gate bears a sign in German announcing to enter through the alley, something common in Montreal but rarely found in Burlington. ID'ed and on up the stairs, we headed to the Ski Chalet-themed 2nd floor bar. This place is packed with boisterous and happy young professionals. This is no college bar, but a respectable and clean establishment. And who do we find sitting at the bar but our co-worker Andrew! We ordered .3L Ayinger Celebrators from Colin behind the bar and set about enjoying the ambiance.

Before too long we were chatting with proud owners Nick and Chad. Nick explained that he wanted to bring a bit of the Alps to Burlington, which proved to be somewhat difficult. Sourcing delicious wurste and hand crafted suds were not readily available locally. After a lot of set backs, Nick and Chad forged ahead establishing connections with importers, distributors and all manner of beer-o-philic folks. And I'm glad they did!

I've always been a fan of the Germanic approach to beer and have long felt that most people haven't been properly introduced to how amazing German beers can be. For many years, the only beer people knew from German resembled Beck's: pale, crisp lagers in green bottles. But there are so many other styles unique to Germany that Das Bierhaus is introducing to the Burlington area: smoked beers, weizen doppelbocks and kolsch just to name a few. You can order draft beers in three traditional sizes, .3L, .4L and .5L and will have them delivered to you in the proper glassware.

My Celebrator gone, I moved on to the illustrious Schneider Aventinus and fell in love with it all over again. Delicious and creamy, smooth yet textured, it was what some would call a "religious experience."

Long story short, this place is great. If you love beer (and/or sausages), you should pay Das Bierhaus a visit and explore some exotic yet traditional suds. (I've included the current beer list below.)

Prost!
Jeff

"Die Draft Liste"
Lagers: Becks, Spaten Premium, Weihenstephan Original, Ayinger Celebrator.
Ales: Reissdorf Kolsch, Weihenstephan Hefeweiss, Erdinger Hefeweiss, Schneider Aventinus.
"In der Flasche" (bottles)
Includes selections from Schlenkerla, Pinkus Organic, Uerige, Franziskaner, Weihenstephan, Schneider, Duvel, Sierra Nevada, Stoudt's, Victory, Stone, Dogfish Head, Haproon, Long Trail, Otter Creek/Wolaver's, Rock Art and Sam Adams.

It's Harvest time!

The pumpkin beers are already flowing and today we started to receive Harvest and Wet Hop beers! Harvest/Wet Hop beers are brewed once a year, right after the harvesting of this year's hop crop to showcase the freshest hop flavors and aromas possible. These beers have recently been dubbed Wet Hop to differentiate them from other "harvest" (small "h") beers that are simple fall amber ales. The term refers to the practice of using wet, un-dried hop flowers or cones in the brewing process. The hops are picked, overnighted to the brewery in refrigerated trucks, and the beer is brewed within about 24 hours to capture the most flavor. The process must happen rapidly because hops are fragile and succeptible to mold and rot if not handled properly (read as "dried quickly").
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My favorite example of the style arrived Friday:
+ Sierra Nevada Harvest Wet Hop Ale 24oz

Coming soon:
- Harpoon 100 Barrel Series Wet Hop 22oz

Other arrivals:
+ Southern Tier Harvest (a big, hoppy ESB) 6 pack
+ Ayinger Oktober Marzen 500mL
+ Sam Adams Coastel Wheat 6 pack

I love fall!
Cheers,
Jeff

Newbies and close-outs

A coupla heads-up for this week and next:

New already:
+ Wolaver's All-American Ale 6 packs (very tasty with a floral hop wallop!)
+ Leinenkugel's 1888 Bock 6 packs

New Friday:
+ Otter Creek Russian Imperial Stout 22oz (Perhaps the best beer they've ever made! I'm sipping on one right now, and it's big and dark as night. A little bitter, a little creamy, but very dry on the finish. Brewed with brown sugah! How come ya taste so good?)

And starting on Friday and going into next week we'll be receiving a MASSIVE amount of tasty close-outs from the distributors. Everything from kegs of Alexander Keith's (CAN) to 30 packs of MGD (USA) to Ayinger Oktoberfest (GER) bombers! Keep an eye on the "Specials" page on the main website for details regarding pricing, etc.

Hurray for deals!
Jeff