One Lucky Weekend

Thursday June 12th
The beer weekend starts today, Capone's is hosting a Southampton Publick House night. Southampton is located on the South Fork of Long Island and they have been brewing award wining beer since 1996. Matt Capone has put together a fantastic line up of their beers and the taps start pouring at noon. Starting at 5pm assistant brewer Spencer will be making the rounds and discussing his creations. So save the time and the tolls and relax with a bit of the Hamptons in Norristown.

Southampton Publick House

Irish Dry Stout

Scottish Ale

Maibock

Russian Imperial Stout

Imperial Porter (2006)

IPA

Secret Ale

Cuvee Le Fleurs

ABT 12

Helles Lager

Double White

Friday June 13th

"So do you feel lucky?" Well ya should because Friday the 13th means that it's time for the Grey Lodge's 17th Friday the Firkinteenth. Probably the most uniquely timed and named beer event ever created. The concept is simple 7 random firkins will pour at any time and a new one is tapped when one kicks. So what is a firkin? A firkin is a size of cask (10.8 US gallons). OK but what is a cask? A cask is a type of barrel that is typically placed on the bar (it's small) and dispensed using gravity or a hand pump. Cask conditioned ales tend to have more hops, sugars or wort added when barreled to create a secondary fermentation in the barrel. A natural carbonation takes place and the beers are usually served at a higher temperature than typical draft beer. These are some of the freshest beers available and often brewers bring out very interesting and hard to find offerings. Class dismissed. All the festivities begin at noon.

Grey Lodge Friday the Firkinteenth

(list from Grey Lodge website)

Appalachian Hoppy Trails IPA
Arcadia Hopmouth Double IPA
Bells Two Hearted Ale
Clipper City TBA
Dock Street Satellite Stout
Dock Street Rye IPA
Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA
Flying Fish Hopfish, dry hopped with Simcoe,Amirillo and Chinook.
General Lafayette Wayside Summer Ale,
Iron Hill (North Wales) Ironbound APA. "We'll dry hop it with something cool....."
Iron Hill (West Chester) Scottish Ale. 3.6% abv
Ithaca Flower Power IPA (pin) and Oaked Nut Brown (pin)
Lancaster Amish Four Grain
Legacy Dear Abbey Dubbel
Nodding Head IPA
Philadelphia Special Blend
Porterhouse Weizen Bock or Hoppy Lager
River Horse Special Ale, easy drinking British style amber ale, 4.5% abv
Sly Fox Standard Ale
Stoudts Black Eye PA
Troegs Sh#tless Hopback. Nick says he is going to dry-hop the sh#t out of it.
Victory Hop Wallop
Weyerbacher Hops Infusion
Weyerbacher Old Heathen