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Thinking about what beer related things you can do this weekend in Seattle? Aside from stopping by Naked City for their Session Fest, you can partake in the PNA (Phinney Neighborhood Association) Summer Beer Taste.

I love Phinney Ridge and all of their beer bars/bars: The Dray, Snowgoose Lodge, Park Pub to name a few. So get out there, enjoy local beers and support your local beer bars!

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 4-7 pm  – Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, WA .

 
Don’t miss the 6th Annual PNA Summer Beer Taste, Beervana, on Saturday, July 16, 4-7 pm. Beer tasting, music, pub snacks and fun takes place outside in the lower parking lot of the Phinney Neighborhood Center. Admission includes your choice of ten tastes from our favorite local microbreweries, pub style snacks and “dogs” by Barking Dog Alehouse.

Click here to order your tickets online or get them at the Phinney Neighborhood Center.
$25 PNA Members / $30 General Public / $10 Designated Driver
 
Confirmed Breweries To Date:

Baron Brewing Co 
Diamond Knot Brewery
Elysian Brewing Co
Epic Ales                                   
Fish Brewing Co
Fremont Brewing Co
Georgetown Brewing Co
Golden Hills Brewing Co
Hale’s Ales Brewery
Harmon Brewing Co
Lantern Brewing
Maritime Pacific Brewing Co
Naked City Brewing Company
North Sound Brewing Co
NW Peaks Brewery
Odin Brewing Company
Pike Brewing Co
Port Townsend Brewing
Snoqualmie Falls Brewery
The Ram at Northgate
Two Beers Brewing Co

When we were in Boston, a local beer bar was marketing their upcoming Session Fest and I thought it was such a good idea. There are so many quality brews out there at lower ABVs- we dont always need to drink big beers, do we?

When we got back to Seattle, I was thrilled to find out that Naked City Brewery and Taphouse was hosting a Session Fest of their own. It starts tomorrow and goes through July 24, 2011, does not have an entry fee- you just pay as you drink and will allow you to drink more without the consequences of getting too drunk. So Cheers!

Below is the draft list for Naked City’s Session Fest:

Session Beers at 5.00% Alcohol by Volume

Cascade Summer Gose German-style Gose
Chuckanut German-style Alt Bier
Roslyn Brookside German-style Lager
Big Al Summer Lager German-style Helles
Hale’s German-style Kolsch
Dogfish Head Namaste Belgian-style Wit
Anacortes American-style Pale Ale
Sound Dunkelweizen

Session Beers between 4.50% and 4.99% Alcohol by Volume
4.80% Wingman American-style Pale Ale
4.80% Anacortes Helles Festival-style Lager
4.80% Firestone Walker Pale 31 American-style Pale Ale
4.80% Sierra Nevada Kellerweis Bavarian-style Hefeweizen
4.70% Silver City Gee Whiz Black Koslch-style Ale
4.50% Slip Point Chito Cream Ale
4.50% Fremont Wandering Wheat American-style Wheat Ale

Session Beers between 4.00% and 4.49% Alcohol by Volume

4.40% Stone Levitation
4.40% Boulevard ZON
4.30% Widmer Brothers Citra Blonde American-style Blonde Ale
4.20% Fremont Universale American-style Pale Ale

Session Beers between 2.00% and 3.99% Alcohol by Volume
3.40% Foggy Noggin Bit O Beaver English-style Bitter Ale
3.00% Elysian Slight Return
2.99% Silver City Baby Fat 60 Schilling Scottish-style Ale

Report back on what your favorite beers were! For More information contact Paul Orchard (northwestbeerguide@gmail.com), follow the festival on Twitter (@sessionfest) or visit http://nwsessionfest.blogspot.com.

First it was harvest season and in celebration we indulged in glorious IPAs, then it was Halloween, so we attended a Pumpkin beer fest. Now, the first snow has fallen (sending Seattle into a state of disbelif, terror and general panic) and it is time for Christmas brews and Winter ales.

This year’s Winter Beer Fest will not dissapoint. Here are the details:

2010 WINTER BEER FEST

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DATES & HOURS

Friday, December 10th, 2010 5:30-9:30 pm
(WABL* Hour: 5:00-5:30 pm)

Saturday December 11th, 2010 12-4 pm + 5:30-9:30 pm
(WABL* Hour: 11:30-12 pm)

*Open exclusively to WABL members.

LOCATION

Hale’s Palladium
4301 Leary Way NW
Seattle, WA
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ADMISSION

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$23 advance/$25 at the door.
Admission includes a tasting cup and six 5 oz. beer tastes.
Additional tokens are available at $1.50 each.

Designated driver admission is $5 and available at the door only.
We accept cash and check only. Sorry, no credit cards!

Admission and token sales will end at 45 minutes before the end of each session and taps will close with 20 minutes left in each session.

This is a 21+ only event

Space is limited so get your tickets early!

Advance tickets are available online now.

Advance ticket sales end at 5:00 AM on Friday, December 10th, or whenever tickets allocated for advance sale are sold out. There will be additional tickets available at the door during the event.

Beers to look out for (and by look out for, I mean drink)-

7 Seas Saison

Airways Hot Chocolate Ale

Big Al Penut Butter Stout

Big Time Yulefest Winter Ale

Black Raven Old Birdbrain Barleywine

Black Raven Bourboun Barrel la Petite Mort

Boundary Bay 2008, 2009 and 2010 Cabin Fever

Elysian Bifrost Winter Ale

Flyers Brewery Daybreak Breakfast Oatmeal Stout

Fremont Brewing Bourbon Barrel Aged Abominable

Naked City Bing Spiked Cherry Ale

Schooner Exact Hoppy the Woodsman

Silver City Brewing Old Scrooge Christmas Ale

There are so many amazing beers being poured at this event- check out the full list here!

What beer puts you in the holiday spirit??

SBW continues today with Firkin Firkin- yes this is a picture of a firkin.

We are neighboring states, we enjoy beer together and make good beer together, but tonight at Elysian Brewing Co.’s Capital Hill location, Washington beers will be up against Oregon beers at Seattle Beer Week event, Firkin Firkin. All beers will be in cask conditioned firkins.

Drum Roll Please: the Firkin Firkin match ups are…..

Pale: WA-Ram 71 Pale Ale OR-Hopworks Crosstown Pale

IPA: WA-Elysian Prometheus OR-Double Mountain Hop Lava

2x IPA: WA-Naked City IIPA OR-Ninkasi Tricerahops

ESB: WA-Silver City Ridgetop Red OR-Laurelwood Organic Deranger Red

Porter: WA-Black Raven Brown OR-Bend Cherry Baltic Porter

Hybrid: WA-Big Time Trombipulator w/Agave OR-Beer Valley Black Madness

Seaaion: WA-Pike Dry Wit OR-Pelican Kiwana Cream Ale

Strong: WA-Fremont Bourbon Abominable OR-Rogue Imperial Younger’s Special Bitter

Look out for the top competitors from both states (Pelican Brewing Co.- go there someday; Black Raven Brewin Co- WA Rookie of the Year; Double Mountain- quality brews and Fremont Brewing Co.- the Center of the Universe)and no matter where you are from, remain unbias- good beer is good beer!

May the best city win!!!

Tonight Beer Blotter hangs with some of the best brewers in the USA at East meets West- more on our encounter with beer royalty later!!

d.b.a. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn- stop by for cask fest!

After a weekend of Hoppin’ Frog, Jolly Pumpkin, Naked City’s own brews and Rodenbach, I present to you, the next week of beer events.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Great Lakes Beer Tasting: Oakdale, Minnesota

4:30PM-6:30PM @ Cork and Barrel Wine and Spirits

Stop by and sample one of the greats from the Mid-West: Great Lakes Brewing Co. from Cleveland Ohio will be serving Dortmunder Gold (Dortmunder), Edmund Fitzgerald (Porter), Eliot Ness (Dark Amber), Burning River (Pale Ale) and Commodore Perry (IPA). Bring a business card and drop it in the bucket, at the end of the tasting we will draw a name for a six pack of beer.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

BrewDog Tasting: Hooksett, New Hampshire

4:30PM-7:30PM @ Bert’s Better Beers

Try out BrewDog from Scotland. Punk IPA, Rip Tide Stout, Dogma, Paradox Smokehead and Paradox Isle of Arran will be sampled.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Day of the Dogfish: Cincinnati, Ohio

5:00PM- 10:00PM @ Catskeller
Samples flights from Dogfish Head Brewing, a innovative brewery out of Delaware. On draft will be: Red & White; Black & Blue; Burton Baton; Chateau Jiahu; Palo Santo Marron and Midas Touch. Fingers crossed, as there might be some 90 Minute & Raison D’Etre available.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Southern Tier Brewery Night: Tampa, Florida

7:00PM- 10:30PM @ Mellow Mushroom

Southern Tier Brewing Co. ‘s IPA, 422, Unearthly Imperial IPA, and Iniquity Imperial Black Ale will all be on tap along with other Southern Tier bottles. GOOD TIMES.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Smuttynose Tasting: Somersworth, New Hampshire

4:00PM-6:00PM @ Somersworth Village Market

New Hampshire’s very own Smuttynose Brewing Co. is on the board tonight. Although the beers available for tasting have not been listed, fingers cross for their IPA and Wheatwine!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Williamsburg Cask Ale Festival: Brooklyn, New York

1:00PM-1:00AM @  D.B.A.

Great place in BK (there is also one in New Orleans) – tonight (according to ratebeer.com) expect about 16 rare and tasty cask beers to be pouring over the weekend, all tapped at once, including beers not normally seen in cask in NYC. Beer range is courtesy of Alex Hall (BA: Imbiber) in conjunction with Ray Deter of ‘dba’.  Beer will come in half pint and 16oz measures, there’s no entry fee and you pay by the glass.

Italian Beer Festival: Seal Beach, California

11:30AM-11:30PM @ Beachwood BBQ

Italians are known for pizza, art, pasta and wine- but tonight, come sample 18 different Italian brews.

Great Week! At least three of my top ten breweries are having a tasting this week. This weekend we had the conversation of our top 10 US breweries. I could only come up with 9 off the top of my head.  What are your favorite breweries? Leave a comment or email me at jess@beerblotter.com with an event you want us to post or to just start a dialogue about your favorite brewery!