Oskar Blues is in the house tomorrow night with a whole bunch of beer for your Asheville Beer Week Training! Join us from 5:00-7:00 p.m. FREE Anne Fitten Glenn of Oskar Blues will on hand to talk beer and sign copies of her book, “The Intoxicating History of Asheville Beer.”

Mama’s Little Yella Pils (19.2oz Stovepipes): “Oskar Blues’ Mama’s Little Yella Pills is an uncompromising, small-batch version of the beer that made Pilsen, Czech Republic famous. Unlike mass market “pilsners” diluted with corn & rice, Mama’s is built with 100% pale malt, German specialty malts, and Saaz hops. While it’s rich with Czeched-out flavor, its gentle hopping (35 IBUs) and low ABV (just 5.3%) make it a luxurious but low-dose (by Oskar Blues standards) refresher.”

Dale’s Pale Ale (19.2oz Stovepipes): “America’s first hand-canned craft beer is a voluminously hopped mutha that delivers a hoppy nose, assertive-but-balanced flavors of pale malts and hops from start to finish. First canned in 2002, Dale’s Pale Ale is a hearty (6.5% and 65 IBUs), critically acclaimed trailblazer that has changed the way craft beer fiends perceive canned beer.”

Deviant Dale’s: “Deviant Dale’s IPA (8% ABV, 85 IBUs) was born at the crossroads, in a juke joint, as if Dale’s Pale Ale sold its soul to balance Deviant’s foreboding aromas of citrus, grapefruit rind and piney resins with a copper ball-of-fire color and inscrutable finish. The 2011 GABF Silver Medal Winner (American IPA Category) is the Devil incarnate with untold amounts of malt and hedonistic Columbus dry-hopping. Oskar Blues’ southern spirit caught a northbound blues bus to ColoRADo to deliver the boundary bustin’ brewery’s first 16 oz. tallboy can.”

G’Knight Imperial Red: “Our “Velvet M-80” is a hefty, dry hopped double-red ale with a nose full of aroma, a sticky mouthfeel, a malty middle and unctuous hop flavors. G’Knight sports a surprisingly sensuous finish for a beer of its size (8.7% ABV, 60 IBUs). It’s brewed in tribute to a fellow Colorado craft beer pioneer and Vietnam vet who died fighting a 2002 wild fire outside of our Lyons hometown. G’Mornin’. G’Day. G’Knight.”

Gubna: “Gubna was inbred from Oskar Blues Brewery’s hankering to confront 100+ IBU’s with a single hop to emphasize that complexity of character can arise from simple elements. This time around, GUBNA (10% ABV, 100+ IBUs) cranks up the complexity of hops by piling Cascade hops on top of copious amounts of Summit hops, balanced by the backbone of German Dark Munich Malt and Rye Malt. North American 2-row barley combines with the other grains to lay the foundation for the hop onslaught to come. Post-fermentation dry-hopping allows this monstrosity to gently coax the citrus rind and grapefruit aroma while providing a rye malt-induced, spicy-yet-round middle, and a brisk, clean bitter finish.”

BISON BREWING Hop Cuvee
EVIL TWIN Falco
EVIL TWIN Naked Lunch
GREEN MAN NIB Chocolate Black Ale (growlers)
HOFTEN DORMAAL No. 12 (Ardbeg)
JENLAIN St. Druon
JENLAIN Printemps
MEANTIME Barleywine
NEW BELGIUM Pluot
NEW BLEGIUM Paardebloem
TWISTED PINT Le Petite Saison

It’s almost Asheville Beer Week! At Bruisin’ Ales, we’ve planned a bunch of events at humble storefront and with some colleagues about town. A few details to work out, but we’re all in! We hope you’ll join us!

Sunday, May 26, 2:00 p.m. & 4:00 p.m.
What: LaZoom Sunday Beer Run
Where: On the big, purple bus!
Tickets: $25.00/pp, Buy online

Hop on the big, purple bus! Asheville’s Feral Chihuahuas, Bruisin’ Ales and LaZoom team up to bring you a beer and comedy explosion tour not to be missed. Wrap your mind around the area’s beer history—as told by local funny guys, The Feral Chihuahuas. Includes beer on the bus and at least one brewery stop along the way! **This is event is close to selling out. 

Tuesday, May 28, 6:00 pm
What: Asheville Tourists & Bruisin’ Ales present “Belgian(style) Beer at the Ballpark”
Where: McCormick Field, Oskar Blues Party Pavilion
Tickets: $60/pp, http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6804463333#

Asheville Tourists and Bruisin’ Ales bring Belgian pub food and Belgian-style beer to the Tuesday, March 28 home game at McCormick Field. Nine innings–Nine breweries! Beers so far, below. More a’coming!

Liefmans: Goudenband, Cuvee Brut, Fruitesse
Het Anker Gouden Carolus: Hopsinjour, Easter Ale, Cuvée van de Keizer Blauw
Allagash Brewing: Blonde, James Bean (Curieux w/ coffee), Midnight Brett
Brewery Ommegang: Biere d’Hougoumont, Rare Vos, Gnommegang
The Bruery: Saison Rue, Mischief Golden, Tradewinds Tripel w/ Thai Basil
Boulevard Brewing: Tank 7, Nommo, Sixth Glass
Pisgah Brewing: White Ale, Solstice Tripel, Baptista
New Belgium Brewing: Biere de Garde, Peach Porch Lounger, Cascara Quad
Weyerbacher Brewing: Verboten, Quad, Tiny

Menu:
• Chicken Leg Quarters marinated in New Belgium Biere de Mars
• Fresh Greens with Raspberry and Rare Vos Vinaigrette
• Choucroute Garni Nommo: A traditional Belgian “stew” with bratwurst, kielbasa, sauerkraut, and potatoes sauteed with onions, tomatoes, and caraway, cooked with Boulevard Nomma Dubbel.
• Weyerbacher “Tiny” Brownies

All breweries are bringing THREE selections. Brewery reps will be on-hand and we’re excited to welcome the brewer of Boulevard Brewing to Asheville for the first time. Join us for a casual night in the brand new Oskar Blues Party Pavilion at McCormick Field while we cheer on The Tourists! $60/pp, includes game ticket, private seating area, all-you-can-eat buffet, and beer samples (while they last).

Tuesday, May 28, 12:00 pm
What: Retail Bottle Releases of ABA Hoppy Saison Collaboration Beer & Green Man Brewing Raugupatis
Where: Bruisin’ Ales

The ABA Hoppy Saison—made with North Carolina honey, and around 6.5% abv—is the first-ever collaborative brew to come from the Asheville Brewers Alliance. Twenty different breweries came together for this creation: Altamont Brewing Co., Asheville Brewing, BearWaters Brewing Co., Blue Mountain Pizza and Brew Pub, Burial Beer Co., Catawba Valley Brewing Company, French Broad Brewing Company, Green Man Brewery, Heinzelmannchen Brewery, Highland Brewing Company, Lexington Avenue Brewery, Nantahala Brewing Co., New Belgium Brewing, Pisgah Brewing Company, Riverbend Malt House, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Southern Appalachian Brewery, Thirsty Monk, Tipping Point Brewing, Wedge Brewing Company, Wicked Weed Brewing.

Green Man Brewing’s 750′s of Raugupatis, Baltic Porter Aged in Whiskey Barrels will also be released that day.

**Please note: Both beer releases are on-premise only for Asheville Beer Week attendees. No shipping. No pre-orders or hold-by-phone. Quantities per person will be announced as soon as we receive our allocation numbers. **

Wednesday, May 29, 6:00-8:00 pm
What: Meet-n-Greet & Book Signing with Brewmaster Mitch Steele of Stone Brewing
Where: Bruisin’ Ales

Join us for a tasting and meet-n-greet with Mitch Steele, Brewmaster of Stone Brewing Company, California. He’ll be signing his new book, IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes and the Evolution of India Pale Ale. Get a signed copy of the book (while supplies last) and a flight! Stone’s flagship IPAs: Stone IPA, Stone Ruination, Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous, and Stone Cali-Belgique.

Thursday, May 30, 6:00-9:00 pm
What: The Market Place & Bruisin’ Ales present: Small Plates & Allagash Pairing
Where: The Market Place
Tickets: $40/pp w/ tax + gratuity. http://abw-marketplace-allagash-eorgf.eventbrite.com/

The Market Place and Bruisin’ Ales welcome Allagash present a casual, small plate tasting and beer pairing. Come mingle! Bring your reservation anytime between 6-8:30, at your leisure, and chill out in the bar area good eats, great beer and live Moog jazz and funky beats by Ben Hovey.

Tasting Plate:
Single lady oyster, Allagash white mignonette, toasted coriander, seaweed & cucumber salad. | Paired with Allagash White.

Looking Glass Creamery chocolate lab cheese, local lavender flower honey, sorghum glazed hazelnut & arugula salad. | Paired with Allagash Victoria.

Braised pork shank & mushroom ragu, local chevre & spring onion grits. | Paired with Allagash Dubbel.

Pecan tart, caramel sauce, bourbon macerated raspberry. | Paired with Allagash Bourbon-barrel Black.

BOULEVARD Coffee Ale
BRASSERIE du BOCQ Blanche de Namur
DUCK RABBIT Hoppy Bunny
EVIL TWIN/WESTBROOK Plastic Twin
HEAVY SEAS Holy Sheet
NATTY GREENE’S Wildflower Wit
PISGAH BREWING Vortex II
SMISJE Oudenaarde Imperial Sour
SOUTHERN TIER Live Pale Ale
WEYERBACHER White Sun Wit

Cider fans, rejoice! Tomorrow, we’ll be sampling Foggy Ridge Cider from Virginia. About Foggy Ridge: “At Foggy Ridge Cider in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Cidermaker Diane Flynt grows heirloom apples and makes award winning hard cider. Located near the Blue Ridge Parkway, Foggy Ridge Cider hosts events spring through early winter celebrating apples, local food and music, growing trees and, of course, cider.” Join us Thursday, May 16, between 5:00-7:00 p.m. Let’s sip some fermented apples!

Foggy Ridge First Fruit Cider: “Foggy Ridge’s First Fruit cider blends early season American heirloom apples to create a rich fruity cider with lively acidity to drink, like Thomas Jefferson, on its own or with a meal.”

Foggy Ridge Serious Cider: “Serious Cider mixes traditional English cider apples like Tremlett’s Bitter and Dabinett with tart American favorites like Ashmead’s Kernel and Roxbury Russet. This crisp light food friendly cider is a refreshing aperitif paired with cheesy nibbles.”

Foggy Ridge Sweet Stayman Cider: “The famous Virgnia Stayman apples ripen late in mountain orchards but are worth the wait. Our Sweet Stayman Cider blends the original Stayman apple with heirloom varieties like Grimes Golden and Cox’s Orange Pippin to create a lightly sweet cider to sip on its own or with spicy food.”

Foggy Ridge Handmade Cider: “Our latest hard cider is Foggy Ridge Handmade, bottled in baby champagne bottles and for sale only at restaurants and retailers. This crisp cider made from Newtown Pippin apples has beautiful soft tannins and a delicate apple flavor with light pear notes.”

We’ve had a little trouble with our WordPress. Apologies. Here’s a huge, happy list of things that have arrived in the past two weeks.

Abita Spring IPA
Alvinne Cuvee Freddy Zymatore Edition
Anderson Valley Summer Solstice (cans)
B. Nektar Evil Genius
B. Nektar Necromangocon
Cisco Brewer’s Island Reserve Double IPA
Cisco Brewer’s Island Reserve Russian Imperial Stout
Cisco Baggywrinkle Barleywine Ale
Crazy Mountain Cara de Luna
Crazy Mountain Hookiebobb IPA
Crazy Mountain Horseshoes & Hand Grenades ESB
Crazy Mountain Old Soul Belgian Style Ale
Dark Horse Dekoorc Eert IPA Falconers Flight
Dark Horse Dekoorc Eert IPA Citra
Dark Horse Dekoorc Eert IPA Cascade
De Glazen Toren Saison d’Erpe Mere Lentebier
Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu
Dogfish Head Positive Contact
Dogfish Head Namaste
Duck Rabbit Doppelbock
Emelisse Imperial Espresso Stout
Epic Brown Rice Ale
Evil Twin Femme Fatale Blanc
Evil Twin Ryan & The Beaster Bunny
Flying Dog Citra Hop Imperial IPA
Founders Double Trouble
Great Divide Chocolate Oak Yeti
La Trappe Oak Aged Quadrupel Batch #11
La Trappe Oak Aged Quadrupel Batch #12
Le Baladin Xyauyu Gold 2008
Lagunitas Imperial Stout
Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-Down
Lone Rider Cowboy in Black
Mother Earth Tripel Overhead
Natty Greene’s Cannonball Double IPA
New Belgium Rolle Bolle
No-Li Silent Treatment Pale Ale
No-Li Born & Raised IPA
No-Li Crystal Bitter ESB
No-Li Jet Star Imperial IPA
No-Li Wrecking Ball Imperial Stout
Olde Mecklenburg Fruh Bock
Oskar Blues Gubna
Pisgah West Coast IPA (growlers)
Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Banana
Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale
Smuttynose Really Old Brown Dog
Stone Enjoy by 5.17.13
Stone Imperial Russian Stout 2013
Sweetwater Some Strange
Terrapin Hopzilla
Terrapin Tree Hugger Ale
The Bruery Trade Winds Tripel
The Bruery White Oak
The Bruery Hottenroth
Uinta Baba (Cans)
Uinta Hop Notch (Cans)

Tomorrow! Natty Greene’s in the Tasting Room. We’ve got Taylor McDermott from the brewery on-hand to serve you a flight and answer any questions. Join us tomorrow from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Southern Pale Ale: “A medium-bodied, deep golden ale with distinct, bitter character and a hoppy, piney, citrus finish.”

Buckshot Amber: “A full-bodied amber ale with rich, smooth flavor and notes of caramel and toffee.”

Elm Street IPA: “Smooth,easy-drinking English-style India Pale Ale, crisp on the palate with a subtle aroma of East Kent Golding hop flowers.”

Cannonball Double IPA: “Strong-style India Pale Ale, deep copper in color witha a big, malty, hoppy palate and dry hopped with Centennial & Antanum for a spicy, citrus aroma. What better name for a big, strong beer than one of the biggest, strongest weapons of the Revolutionary War—the cannonball.”

Anderson Valley Bourbon Barrel Stout
Avery Maharaja
Big Boss Saucy Pants Saison
Caldera Rose Petal Imperial Golden
Caldera Vas Deferens
Dogfish Head Sixty-One
Foggy Ridge First Fruit Cider
Foggy Ridge Serious Cider
Foggy Ridge Sweet Stayman Cider
Foggy Ridge Handmade Cider
Great Divide Heyday
Green Man Zero Dank Thirty Black IPA (growler)
Green Man Storm Trooper IPA (growler)
Goose Island Summer Time
Natty Greene’s Elm St. IPA
Olde Hickory Daniel Boone
Olde Hickory Hefeweizen
Pisgah Hellbender 22oz
Ska Mexican Logger
Smuttynose Baltic Porter
Smuttynose Gravitation
Smuttynose Noonan Black IPA

21st AMENDMENT Hell or High Watermelon
BALLAST POINT Indra Kunindra
CORSENDONK Tempelier
EPIC BREWING Brainless IPA
EPIC BREWING Brainless Raspberries
DE TROCH Apricot Lambic
DE TROCH Banana Lambic
DE TROCH Pineapple Lambic
DE TROCH Plum Lambic
DE TROCH Strawberry Lambic
FLENSBERGER Pils
FLENSBERGER Dunkel
GENESSEE Beer
GREEN MAN Pale Ale (growlers)
HEAVY SEAS Big DIPA
HEAVY SEAS Riptide White IPA
HIGHLAND Imperial Kashmir IPA
HOF TEN DORMAL Barrel Series (Ardbeg)
OSKAR BLUES Mama’s Little Yella Pils (Stovepipe)
PISGAH BREWING Spring Wheat (growlers)
ROGUE Chipotle Ale
SWEETWATER Road Trip
VAN DE KORENAAR Finesse
VAN DE KORENAAR Embrasse
VAN DE KORENAAR Peated Embrasse (Ardbeg barrel)
WELL’S Bombardier
WILLIAMS BROTHERS Scottish Ginger w/ Lemon Juice
WILLIAMS BROTHERS Fraoch 22

Pisgah Brewing Company is in the Tasting Room tomorrow from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Here’s what’s on deck for the flight:

Spring Wheat Hefe: “Brewed with 64% malted white wheat and bittered with the American noble hop Mt Hood, the pale orange hue compliments zesty citrus notes in this unfiltered Spring Wheat Ale. Designed by the Pisgah Brewers to be a refreshingly light ale for the coming spring months, enjoy on tap and in growlers.”

Equinox: “This harvest-style ale celebrates the bounty of the seasons. Deep mahogany in color and evenly hopped, released now for the first day of spring. This beer comes in at a comfortable 7.5% abv.  Happy Equinox everybody!”

Valdez: “Adhering to the strict philosophy of the Pisgah brewers, this mouth watering coffee stout is brewed just miles downstream from America’s most beautiful watershed. Brewed with coffee beans from Dynamite Coffee Roasters, and weighing in at a respectable 6.8% abv, the aroma of fresh coffee leaps from the glass, and finishes slightly dry. Treat yourself to the finest coffee stout this season. Unfiltered for your enjoyment.”

Baptista: “This Belgian Noel takes its name from Jan Baptista Van Helmont, the Flemish chemist and physician who first discovered CO2 and coined the word ‘gas’ by recognizing the existence of gases distinct from air. This energy luminary was the founder of pneumatic chemistry and also the first to bridge alchemy and early chemistry. Hats off to the man behind the bubble! Made with homemade candy sugar.