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Beers for Asheville Rare & Wild Beer

Beer line up announced for Asheville Rare & Wild Beer Tasting on March 31st in Asheville, North Carolina

Against the Grain Port Barrel-Aged Bo & Luke, Tickle Me Alemo & Citra Ass Down
Allagash Smoke and Beards & Mattina Rossa
Asheville Ratri Double IPA, Bier de Mardi Garde & Big Thankful Porter
Bell’s Sweet Potato Stout
Big Boss Hell’s Bizz-ness sour cuvée
Blue Mountain Barrel House Sour Cherry Lager & Barrel Aged Mandolin
Boulder BFU (Be Forever Unknown)
Brooklyn There Will Be Black & Silver Anniversary Lager
Deschutes Burgschrund Black & The Dissident
Founders Panther Cub Imperial Stout
Goose Island Bourbon County Cherry Stout & 2012 Bourbon County Coffee Stout
Haw River Farmhouse Ales Cotton Pickin’ Farmhouse IPA, Sun Hands Tripel, Rusted Plow & St. Benedict’s Brunch
Highland 2008 Cold Mountain & 2009 Auld Asheville Ale
Jester King Viking Metal
Mother Earth Brewing 2012 Tripel Overhead Barrel-Aged
New Belgium Barrel-Aged Love Oscar
Brewery Ommegang Game of Thrones Iron Throne
Oskar Blues Red Fox Ale
Samuel Adams 13th Hour Stout
Sierra Nevada Wolfinanny Wheatwine
Stone 11.11.11 Vertical Epic Ale in Red Wine Barrels
SweetWater Gangsta IPA
Thirsty Monk Imperial Amber
Weyerbacher Sour Black Pinot Noir Barrel-Aged

The Asheville Rare & Wild Beer Tasting will be held at 66 Asheland Ave. in Asheville on May 31 from 6-9 p.m. Fewer than 50 of the 250 tickets for the Asheville Rare & Wild Beer Tasting are still available. They can be purchased online at: http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/venueSearch.jsp?venue_id=9521. Tickets are $75 and include admission to the event, beer sampling, commemorative tasting glass, program and heavy hors d’oeuvres. More information about the event can be found at www.arwbt.com. Each brewery will pour unique beers. Some will be rare and others will be “wild” featuring barrel aged, sours, cask conditioned and vintage beers. – See more at: http://ashevillebeerweek.com/blog/#sthash.RljVLJVY.dpuf

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Revere Beer Week

The Raleigh Times Presents Revere Beer Week. 5 nights of events leading up to the World Beer Festival in Raleigh.

On Monday the Fourth The Raleigh Times & Craft Beer Collective will give you a chance to taste four great Double IPA’s side by side. You’ll have a chance to vote for your favorite and while you’re there and decide which Double IPA of the four is the best! See below for the line up.

Other events include the debut of the Mother Earth / Carolina Distillery brew, Baltimore’s Brian Stumke of Stillwater Ales, the all North Carolina Cask night and Bell’s Expedition stout vertical.

14 E Hargett St, Raleigh, NC (919) 833-0999
raleightimesbar.com‎

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Barley’s Beer Week in Greenville SC

Gary Glancy from the “Hoppy Hour” blog reports that there are plenty of tickets left for the Top Of The Hops beer festival in Greenville, SC (Saturday, April 10 from 2 to 6pm). In conjunction with the big beer festival, co-sponsor Barley’s Tap Room, is hosting a series for beer lovers who cannot wait for the fest to start. Line up for Barley’s Beer Week:

Tuesday (April 6): Oskar Blues night. This Colorado brewery has established itself as one of the best in America, from the canned Dale’s Pale Ale and Old Chub to the amazing “Ten FIDDY” Russian Imperial Stout. On this night, Barley’s will be pouring GUBNA, a 10 percent alcohol double IPA, including both regular draft as well as a cask-conditioned version. For those who are new to cask-conditioned ales, they are lightly carbonated and served at room temperature, so it’s definitely a different taste experience, but all the flavors and nuances of a beer really shine through on cask.

Wednesday: Foothills Night. Oh, my, get ready for this, folks: This amazing brewery from Winston Salem, N.C., will present two casks – one of the People’s Porter and the other of Hoppyum IPA, which was given an addition of honey in the secondary fermentation and then dry-hopped with three hop varieties (dry-hopping is when a brewer adds frsh hops to the tanks, after the actual brewing process has taken place) – plus a special bourbon-barrel version of Festive India Brown Ale that was aged in 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle barrels, and, last but certainly not least, the brewery’s most famous and sought-after beer – the already legendary Sexual Chocolate, a cocoa-infused imperial stout. This is a rare beer – bottles of which are released one day a year (which occurred last month) only at the brewery, for which people come from around the country and line up early in the morning outside the brewery to get their hands on some. I was lucky to get two bottles of this treasure, and actually cracked one the other night at a party I hosted. It was incredible, especially paired with Brewey’s ice cream and Hershey’s dark chocolate. Yum!

Thursday: Thomas Creek Night. The local Greenville brewery will be pouring its “extremely” tasty Up the Creek Extreme IPA, which is a super-potent and hoppy imperial/double IPA, through a device called “Randall the Enamel Animal,” first made famous years back by cutting-edge Delaware brewer Dogfish Head. Sorry for the lack of a scientific explanation here, but the Randall is a filter thingy packed with fresh hops that is affixed to the beer line leaving a keg, so that the beer pours through and picks up even more hop qualities on the way to the glass. Thomas Creek will be using the noted Amarillo hop variety.

Saturday: Regional Cask Night. Barley’s is trying to get as many as four cask-conditioned beers – from Terrapin, Thomas Creek, Highland and Coast – for a post-festival party at the bar/restaurant. Wow.

More info:

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Top Of The Hops

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