Strangeways debuts their sour saison tonight at 6pm at the brewery and 8pm at Mekong. There will be a special curiousity and Andall at each location, respectively.
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Celebrate Belgian Independence Week With Belgian Brewed & Inspired Beers
Once again it is time for a week long celebration of the Belgian Independence from King Leopold starting today July 15th to 21st. Of course Mekong has you covered but Popkin Tavern is also getting in on the fun.
Popkin Tavern
UPDATE: Christmas in July at Popkin means all drafts are $3 each.
To celebrate, Popkin is going all Belgian all week. Not exactly sure what it means yet but Popkin will have Christmas in July draft pricing in effect as well. Here is what Popkin will have on tap to start the week, in no particular order:
Strangeways Phantasmic
Parkway Belgian Blonde
Bavik Petrus Winter #9
Bavik Petrus Aged Pale
Terrapin Monk’s Revenge
Flying Dog Raging Bitch IPA
Stone Cali-Belgique IPA
Victory Golden Monkey Tripel
Hardywood Singel
Hardywood Dubbel
Hardywood Tripel
Hardywood Quadrupel
St. Bernardus Abt 12
St. Bernardus Prior 8
St. Bernardus Christmas Ale 2012
St. Bernardus Wit
Duvel
Liefmans Goudenband
Ommegang Three Philosophers Quad
Ommegang Double White (Belgian Independence Day brew)
Sierra Nevada Belgian Blonde IPA
Allagash Black Belgian Stout
BFM Square Root 225 Sour Saison
Boulevard Saison Brett
With more to come:
Delerium Tremens
Goose Island Matilda
Heavy Seas Holy Sheet
Devils Backbone Congo
Weyerbacher Merry Monks
Check out the Facebook event here.
Mekong
Belgian beers and Mekong. Oh yeah! Here are the Belgian breweries being featured this week at Mekong:
Chimay
St Bernardus
Bosteel
Van Steenberge
Roman
Troubadour
Dupont
Duvel
Ommegang
Lindemans
D’Achouffe
Liefmans
Verhaerghe
Petrus
Smisje
Vicaris
Val Dieu
Caracole
Leffe
Enjoy music from Richmond bands Monday thru Wednesday from 9pm-12am:
Monday — Mekong XPress
Tuesday — The Southern Belles
Wednesday — DJ Willaims Project
Stay up to date with at the Facebook event here.
Boulevard Brewing June Launch Events In The River City
Boulevard Brewing hit the Richmond area in a few retail stores last week but the month of June is when the real fun starts. Here is some basic event information to get you started on where to go.
Monday 3rd
Commercial Taphouse Kick Off Event — 5pm
Commercial will welcome Boulevard to Richmond by tapping three of their kegs:
Double Wide DIPA
Tank 7 Saison
80-Acre Hoppy Wheat
They will also have some special bottles.
Tuesday 4th
Whole Foods Short Pump Boulevard Night — 3 – 6pm
Whole Foods will be running a special on Boulevard beers from 3- 6pm including some half price growlers
Wednesday 5th
Mekong Release Party — 5pm
Boulevard comes to the #1 craft beer bar with three draft and two extra special bottles. Here is what they will have:
Draft
Double Wide DIPA
Tank 7 Saison
80-Acre Hoppy Wheat
Bottles
Saison Brett
6th Glass Quad
Thursday 6th
Capital Ale House Boulevard Launch Party — 5pm
All three Richmond Cap Ale locations will host a Boulevard Brewing Steal the Glass Night. Come out and try some of the beers crafty enough to rate a 100% on Beer Advocate
The Big Payback, a James Brown tribute band will take the Downtown Music Hall stage at 7pm for some live booty shakin’ music sure to make you feel good. No cover charge!
Friday 7th:
Friday Cheers — 6pm
Boulevard beers will be available to the public at Friday Cheers starting this week.
Beer Sampling @ Once Upon a Vine North — 5 – 8pm
Saturday 8th:
Beer Bourbon and BBQ Festival
It is only natural to serve beer brewed in a barbecue town. Chances Kansas City style barbecue wins the day?
Beer Sampling @ Total Wine West Broad
Tuesday 11th:
Sedona Taphouse Tap Takeover & Steal the Pint Night — 5pm
Friday 14th:
Beer Sampling @ Total Wine Robious Rd
Tuesday 18th:
Fat Dragon Beer Dinner — 6:30pm
UPDATE:
This just in from Fat Dragon:
Tuesday, June 18th at 6:30, we will welcome Boulevard Brewing to Richmond. New to town, this Kansas City brewery has achieved worldwide acclaim. Since The Fat Dragon is on the Boulevard, we thought it fitting to host a dinner with their incredible beers. Look for classic styled IPA’s like their “Single & Double Wide IPA’s” and big Belgian flavor found in their “Sixth Glass”. $50 per person.
Not a lot of details on this other than the date but I’m sure you are going to want to get in on this. So call (804) 354-9888 and make your reservation now.
Mekong Welcomes Perennial Ales To Richmond
Head over to Mekong today Thursday April 18th as they host the Richmond release party for Missouri brewery Perennial Artisan Ales. Perennial is a small batch brewery in St Louis, MO focusing on farmhouse ales, seasonal beers using local ingredients, and barrel aged varieties. Perennial has the adventurous craft beer drinker in mind with each batch brewed.
Here are the beers Mekong will be tapping today:
Aria — Belgian Style Ale with Brett
Saison de Lis — Belgian Style Saison
Hommel Bier — Dry-hopped Belgian Pale
Black Walnut Dunkel — Dunkel Weiss with black walnuts
Beers will be tapped at 5pm. Today, Perennial is the answer.
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Any Day This Week Will Be A Great Day For Barrel Aged Beers At Mekong
Mekong will kick off the celebration of their 18th anniversary all this week starting tonight March 25th with a festival of barrel aged beers. They even got you a gift by expanding to fifty taps including a new Andall setup. When ever you decide to go to Mekong this week, know that you find many of these great beers on tap including:
Goose Island Bourbon County 2012
Hardywood Bourbon DIPA 2012
Hardywood Bourbon Hoplar
Hardywood Barrel Blend #3
Hardywood Barrel Blend Blackberry/Grand Cru
Hardywood Bourbon barrel Imperial Stout
Hardywood Bourbon Sidamo (coffee stout aged in Maker’s Mark barrel)
Hardywood Bourbon GBS 2012
Hardywood Bourbon Pumpkin 2012
Hardywood Barrel Aged Singel
Hardywood Special Pin Rachael Cardwell Special Blend
Del Ducato Blueberry Nightmare
BFM Abbaye de St Bon Chien 2011 & 2012 (maybe)
BFM Sq Rt 225 Saison Aged in Bon Chien barrel
Baladin Wayan Sour
Allagash Curieux 2009, 2010, & 2011
Allagash Interlude 2011
Allagash Bourbon Black
Allagash FV 13
Loverbeer Madamin
t’Smisje Oudanarde Imperial Sour Red
De glazen Toren Cuvée Angelique Ransom Barrel
Barley Friska Romanto Barrel
Hofstetten Kuelbelbier Ransom Barrel
Firestone Walker 16th Anninersary
The Bruery Smoking Wood
The Bruery Sour in the Rye
COTU Oak Aged PocaHOPtas
COTU Barrel Aged Scotchtown 2012
COTU Bourbon Barrel 13% Imperial Milk Stout
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti 2009
Great Divide Oak Aged Chocolate Yeti 2009
Great Divide Oak Aged Espresso Yeti
Barley Toccadibo aged in Bella late harvested Zinfandel Barrel
J W Lees Harvest Calvados 2011
Flying Dog Barrel Aged Gonzo 2012
Bavik Petrus Aged Pale
Liefmans Oud Bruin
Duchesse de Bourgogne
Ichtegem Grand Cru
Bockor Cuvée de Jacobin Rouge
De Proef/Hair of Dog Flanders Fred
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow Coffee
Blue Mountain Barrel Aged Dirty Belgian
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron 2010, 2011
Dogfish Head Red n White 2010
Dogfish Head Burton Baton
Terrapin Oak Aged Big Hoppy Monster
Founders Backwoods Bastard 2010
Ommegang Biere d’Hougomont
Trolls Palanfrina Special Batch aged in Ramsom Spirit barrel
Harviestoun Bitter & Twist aged in Gin/Pinot Noir barrel
Hitachino Nest Ancient Nipponia aged in Ransom Whisky
Reisdorf Kolsch aged in Channing Daughter’s PAZZO barrel
Uinta Sea Legs Baltic Porter aged in 16yrs Ritterhouse Whisky
Uinta Cockeye Cooper Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
Uinta Labyrinth Black Ale aged in Rye and Bourbon barrels
Mad Fox Oak Aged Wee Heavy
Mad Fox Crazy Ivan Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout
Mad Fox Batch 100
Laughing Dog 2010 Bourbon Barrel Dogfather Imperial Stout
St Bernardus ABTO
Heavy Seas Bourbon DIPA
Heavy Seas Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
New Belgium Lip of Faith Julie Kessler Select 1
Lost Rhino Woody Stout
Legend Barrel Aged Brown
Legend Barrel Aged Doppelbock
Legend Barrel Aged Hopfest
Legend Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine
Legend Wee Heavy Aged in Rye Whisky Barrel
Sierra Nevada Brandy Barrel Quad
Sierra Nevada Scotch Whisky Barrel Aged Bigfoot
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Ovila Quad
Midnight Barrel Aged Series #1
New Holland 2009 Dragon’s Milk Stout
Here are the Andalls that have been lined up for the week so far:
- Blackberry Gueuze — Hardywood Blackberry and Gueuze TBD
- Untamed Italian Wild — Madamin and Bon Chien
- Strawberry Gueuze — Hardywood Strawberry and Gueuze TBD
- Bon Berry — Hardywood Blackberry and Bon Chien
- Plead the Fifth with oak chips n vanilla beans
- Tamarind chili Stout — tamarind fruit, habenero, Bourbon oak chips and stout yet to be pick
- Peach Sour in the Rye — Sour in the rye and fresh peach
- Sour Peach — fresh peach and Gueuze TBD
Mekong will tap beers beginning at 5pm Monday March 25th. Good luck!
Join Good People Beer Club At Mekong For Bottle Share To Benefit MS Society
Head over to Mekong this Saturday February 9th to participate in a bottle share thrown by the Good People Beer Club with Screens N Suds to raise money to benefit MS Society.
The bottle share will be GPBC’s first and they hope annual event run at the same time with an event in NYC. They are focusing on more malt forward beers for this sharing session and ask that you bring your best stouts, porters, barleywines, scotch ales, etc. $10 gets you in at the door and you will receive 10 pours for each 22oz bottle and 5 pours for each 12oz bottle you bring.
The event will last from 3 – 6pm with food provided by Mekong. Make sure to register here and check out the Facebook event to see what other people are bringing.
Are You Ready For Super Beer Sunday?
Richmond, today Sunday February 3rd is the day for football and commercial watching. Haven’t decided which parties you are going to tonight? Let me throw a few other choices into the mix.
Second Annual Super Barrel Party — Saison — 2pm
Nevermind the fact they have not been opened a year, Saison is tapping some really cool beers for their second annual buper barrel party including a cask of Brian’s Barrel Blend #3 from Hardywood. Here is a little more of what they have planned:
Epic Oak Smoked
BFM Square Root Saison in Bon Chien Barrels
Allagash Interlude
JW Lees in Lagavulin cask
Cidre DuPont in Calvados barrels
Allagash Bourbon Black
Petrus Aged Pale
Anderson Valley Barney Flats in Wild Turkey barrels
Tilquin Gueuze
Schlenkerla Oak Smoke Doppelbock
Saison
23 W Marshall St
Richmond, VA 23220
The Super Bowl of Beers — The Camel — 5pm
Watch the big game on The Camel’s 173″ screen and drink some of the best beers to make their way to RVA. Here is what they will be tapping:
Alewerks Bourbon Barrel Porter ’12
Alewerks Cafe Royale
Allagash White
Bell’s Hopslam
Bell’s Smitten
Bell’s Two Hearted
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow
Blue Mountain Full Nelson
Bold Rock Virginia Apple
Devils Backbone Vienna Lager
Firestone Walker Wookey Jack
Green Flash Palate Wrecker
Hardywood Bourbon Cru ’12
Hardywood Bourbon GBS
Hardywood Gingerbread Stout
Hardywood Heavy Roller Oatmeal Pale
Hardywood Sidamo Coffee Stout
Hardywood Singel
Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’
Legend Brown
Legend Winter White
Natty Boh
New Belgium Fat Tire
Sam Adams New World Tripel
Sixpoint 3Beans
Starr Hill Psycho Kilter
They will also have bottles of Goose Island Bourbon County, Lagunitas Sucks, and Bell’s This One Goes To Eleven.
Fourth Annual SuperBOWL Eating Contest — Mekong — 5pm
Mekong will crown their fourth Pho King champion tonight where ten men and women will down a lot of pho and beer. Get there early if you think you have what it takes to sign up. Of course, Mekong will be tapping some special beers. The champion will be crowned before the kickoff of the big game so stick around and watch it on their big screen.
Green Flash Mini Takeover at Mekong Wednesday
Head over to Mekong for a Green Flash tap takeover tonight Wednesday January 30th starting at 5pm. Brewmaster Chuck Silva will be around to discuss the beers.
Here is the lineup for the night:
West Coast IPA
Imperial IPA
Green Bullets — 9th anniversary DIPA
Palate Wrecker
Belgian Red Rye
30th St Pale — normally limited to San Diego!
Double Stout
Meet BFM’s Jérôme Rebetez at Mekong Tonight
Frequent Mekong enough and you have probably enjoyed a sour beer or two. Garnering top scores on Ratebeer and Beeradvocate, it’s no surprise BFM Bon Chien is the most popular sour ordered.
Tonight Thursday November 29th will be a special night as Mekong welcomes BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes) founder Jérôme Rebetez. To start the evening, they will be tapping a Bon Chien vertical of 2009, 2010 and 2011. Other BFM beers are sure to be tapped throughout the evening.
It is not often that we get visited by someone like Rebetez. So head out and soak up some Swiss craft beer knowledge.
Update:
Here is the beer lineup for tonight with BFM:
Square Root 225th Saison – Saison aged in Bon Chien barrels
La Quatorze – Weizen Bock infused with coffee
La Douze – Swiss golden ale with sea salt
Spike & Jerome Barley Ryne – collaboration Barleywine
Pepe La Pew – Swiss Sour Golden Ale
2009 Abbaye de Saint Bon Chien
2010 Abbaye de Saint bon Chien
2011 Abbaye de Saint bon Chien
Jerome Half Italian Sister – blended wild sour ale
Dark Vader – Swiss wild sour stout
Tart of Darkness – Swiss wild sour dark ale
Richmond Beermeister 