New Adds

A few new highly anticipated goodies this week:

+ Hill Farmstead Apollo Single Hop IPA 5 gal. keg - SOLD OUT
+ Ommegang/Achouffe Collaboration "Gnomegang" 750mL
+ Allagash Odyssey 2011 750mL
+ Dogfish Head Namaste 750mL
- Stoudt's Karnival Kolsch
+ Labatt Blue Light Lime

Cheers,
Jeff

Winnimere is at the Farmhouse

I feel like cheese and beer go hand-in-hand in Vermont, and I'm a big proponent of both. I drifted on down to The Farmhouse Tap & Grill in Burlington tonight and lo-and-behold they had Jasper Hill Winnimere as a special! This is a White Whale of a cheese for me. I first tried it about 3+ years ago at the Publick House Provisions in Brookline, MA (just outside Boston) and remembered it as being the stinkiest cheese I've ever smelled - washed in a lambic made by Shaun Hill (at the time) and wrapped in Birch bark - it was absolutely pungent. But on the palate it's super creamy and rich, delightfully delicate and beautiful.

And tonight I caught up with my Moby Dick - and it was every bit as good as I remembered it! It pairs beautifully with the 2010 Stoudt's Winter Ale (a hoppy red) and fought nicely with the Stillwater Cellar Door (wheat ale with sage).

This is a limited release from Jasper Hill and it won't be around for ever. If you like stinky delicious cheeses, get on down there and tell 'em Jeff sent ya!

Cheers,
Jeff

New adds and Closeouts!

Happy Halloween Weekend everyone! Got a few new goodies and some bad-ass additions to the Steals & Deals Room!

New:
+ Scaldis Noel 250mL bottles (12%, no spices!)
+ Scaldis Prestige 2009 750mL
+ Trout River Knight Slayer Imperial Stout 6 packs

And for super-awesome Deals:
- Rogue Double Dead Guy 2008 & 2009 750mL's...1/2 price!
- Rogue Imperial Younger's Special Bitter 750mL black swing-top's...1/2 price!
- Stoudt's Heifer-in-Wheat 6 packs $4.99 + dep.!!!

And although it's not beer, it's got bubbles:
- Yellow Tail Sparkling Rose $4.99! (Reg. $10.99!)

Have a happy, scary, relaxing, ridiculous, spooky, lazy, confusing, pretentious and satisfying Halloween weekend!

Cheers,
Jeff

PS> Monday marks the Vermont arrival of Stillwater Artisanal Ales - go to The Farmhouse Tap & Grill for the official kick-off party on Monday night!!

New Adds

Just a few:
+ Zatec Dark Lager .5L
- Berkshire Brewing Co. Oktoberfest 22oz
+ Stoudt's Gold Helles Lager 5 gallon keg (1 in stock!)
+ Hill Farmstead Edward IPA 5 gallon keg (extremely limited supply!)

Cheers,
Jeff

New Beer and New (Again) beer guy

So this weeks "adds" involve the return of my main-hombre Carl to our beer department as well as some nice beverages. Carl is "wise beyond his beers," impressively knowledgeable about rare, exotic and ridiculously hard-to-come by brews and I'm glad to welcome him back to the team for the Summer months! You can't miss him - dude's super tall!

As for new beer adds:
+ Rogue Imperial Younger's Special Bitter 7 ounce bottles (OR)
- Harpoon Big Bohemian Pilsner (MA & VT)
- Kriek de Ranke (Very Limited, Belgium)
- Duvel 4 packs with a Duvel tulip glass! (Belgium)
- Stoudt's Heifer-in-Wheat (PA)

And back from MIA:
- Negra Modelo 6 packs (Mexico)
- Heather Ales Historic Ales Variety 4 pack (Scotland)

Stop by and say "Hi!" to Carl this weekend! He doesn't know I'm writing this about him, so maybe it'll confuse him if everyone just suddenly knows his name!....

Cheers,
Jeff

New and More Steals & Deals

We got in a couple new brews and we re-stocked our "Steals & Deals" room with lots more goodies (and there's more to come)!

New Adds:
+ Victory Whirlwind Wit 6 packs
+ Rogue John John Juniper (aged in Gin barrels)

New Steals & Deals:
- Rogue Santa's Private Reserve 6 packs and 22oz
- Stoudt's Winter 6 packs
- Heavy Seas The Great Pumpkin 22oz
- Magic Hat Howl 6 packs

Cheers,
Jeff

Another reason we're the best!

Just in case you need one more reason why we're the hardest working beer store in the state, we grabbed another beer not otherwise available:

+ Sinebrychoff Porter (Finland) - A world-renouned Imperial/Baltic-style porter!

We're the only store that has any and there's only 24 bottles to go around...well, 22 really if you're picking up what I'm laying down...

We also added two Kolsch brews:

+ Stoudt's Karnival Kolsch 6 packs

+ Otter Creek Spring Ale Kolsch 6 and 12 packs

One other note - lots of people are asking about Stone Imperial Russian Stout 2009 22oz...they are all gone! We just placed our pre-order for the 2010 release which will be along sometime in the next few weeks. We do still have plenty of 12 oz 2008 Vintage IRS in the meantime.

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.

New beers, closeouts and more about Rock Art

First, newly added:
+ Sam Smith Yorkshire Stingo (strong ale aged in oak, brewed in 2008)

Closeout deals! All half the original price or less!
- Stoudt's Double IPA 6pk
- Stoudt's Abbey Ale 6pk
- Stoudt's Smooth Hoperator 6pk
- Stoudt's Heifer-in-Wheat 6pk
- Troubador Obscura (stout) and Blond 4 pk
- Wittekerke Wit 6pk
- Blue Moon Honey Moon 12 packs

As for Rock Art vs. Monster, WCAX went to Morrisville and Winooski to cover the story on tonight's 11pm news. If you missed it, you can see it at 6am Saturday morning.

I've been on the phone all day burning up my cell minutes talking to everyone who will listen and even a few people who won't about protecting Vermont Independent Businesses. More businesses are getting on-board and it's good to see that others are willing to stand with Matt and Renee.

Cheers and Viva la Vermonster!
Jeff

Rare keg and glasses

It's a rare-kind-a-week at the Bevy. We just scored a 5 gallon log of Stoudt's Double IPA! At around $15 a six-pack, this beer is no slouch. It has a B+ on BeerAdvocate.com from user reviews and an A from "The Bros," as well as a 96/100 from Ratebeer.com users! If you love IPA's and you have a home system, you don't want to miss out on this one.

In rare-glassware, we received a very limited amount of Spaten Oktoberfest Willy Becker .5L glasses. And since 'tis oktober, I pulled in some other German beer mugs - .5L dimple mugs from Erdinger and .5L "barrel" mugs from Spezial Rauchbier.

Prost!
Jeff

New, Super Limited and Closeout deals

Hooray! We just got in a small, but stellar shipment of new and exciting brews! Check these out:
+ Fantôme (Belgium) "Hiver" 750mL - Super limited!
+ Cantillon (Belg.) Gueuze and Kriek 750mL - Limited
+ Dieu du Ciel! (Montreal) Rigor Mortis Abt 12oz - Limited
+ Otter Creek Imperial IPA 22oz
+ Olde Burnside (CT) Dirty Penny growlers
+ Olde Burnside Ten Penny Ale growlers
+ Olde Burnside Ten Penny Ale Reserve swingtop bottles
+ Stoudt's Smooth Hoperator 6 packs
+ Kona Brewing 6 packs

We've also got HUGE deals on some closeout beers like Modelo Especial 12pks, Jolly Pumpkin Calabaza Blanca 6 packs, Corona 6 pack cans, Smirnoff Ice Light 12 packs, Stoudt's Winter Ale 6 packs (a robust porter), and Berkshire Brewing Co. Holidale 22oz (Barleywine ale).

Don't miss out! A lot of these won't even make it through the weekend.
Cheers,
Jeff

Free Pint Glass Friday continues this week!

Hi gang,

Sorry for the lack of posts...Holidays throw off beer delivery schedules and everyone puts things on hold. But this week, we're happy to announce STOUDT'S Brewing of Penn. will be added to our shelves. And to help in the Kick-Off Celebration, we're throwing another installment of "Free Pint Glass Friday" this Friday, Dec. 5th from 5pm-8pm. Swing through, taste 6 of the new additions from Stoudt's, chat with myself and Shawn Dunn of Global Brewers Guild, and keep the full-sized pint glass! Just another way for us to thank you for supporting our "habit" of bringing in every single beer available in Vermont!

Stoudt's six-packs arriving this week:
+ American Pale Ale
+ Pils
+ Gold Munich Style Helles
+ Scarlet Lady Ale
+ Fat Dog Stout
+ Winter Ale
+ Tripel Abbey-Style Ale

In other new beer news:
+ Sam Adams Imperial Pilsner 4 packs
+ Redhook Double Black Stout with Coffee 22 oz
+ O'hara's Celebration Stout swingtops are back in stock!

See you Friday!
Jeff

For more on Stoudt's, check out their website by clicking here.

Things to Come and Things That Came

I spoke with the head beer buying honcho at G-Housen (Scott) today about all things to come and I have some updates for you. Bullet-point style, of course!

• Stone is releasing more Vertical Epic 2008 fairly soon.
• Erdinger Oktoberfest Weizen is coming in later this week, but a 6pk, not a 5oomL as previously announced.
• Rogue Double Dead Guy, Old Crustacean Barley Wine Ale and Imperial IPA are all due in this week.
• Stoudts (PA) and Victory (PA) are both finishing up the final paper work and delivery will be within three weeks or so.
• Pennichuck Brewing (NH) is going through it's final label approval with the state.
• Stone Double Bastard will probably be released closer to Thanksgiving.
• Specialty glassware will be made available to us (and therefore you) within the next couple of weeks. (I'm personally really excited about this!)
• G-Housen is wrapping up talks with B-United Imports and will be bringing in Japanese craft beers, more European offerings and possibly sakés in the near future. No ETA yet though.
• More Smuttynose (NH) bombers are coming! Very, very soon.
  
• Bear Republic (CA) is on the horizon. As is Southern Tier (NY).

In other NEW BEER news, we just received our first shipment of Southampton Publick House brews - Altbier, IPA, and Double White, all in 6 packs, $7.99 +dep, all delicious and a great value. We also just released a small amount of Stone Vertical '08 and Stone Imperial Russian Stout '08. Get 'em while they last! Wolaver's Pumpkin Ale is on the shelves, as is the new Otter Creek Sphinx bomber.

And lastly, I'd like to announce officially that we've started a beer cellar and will be aging various vintage-dated gems to be re-released at later points in time. I know this doesn't do anyone much good right now, but you'll be thanking us in a year or so!
Cheers,
Jeff