Craft Ale House

Stone Vertical(s) Tasting

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:43:00 +0000

On Thursday, February 2 at 6pm we will be tapping most recent Vertical Epic 11-11-11.
We will also be pouring vertcal flights of:
Stone Russian Imperial Stout '06, '07, '08 and '09
Stone Old Guardian Barleywine '06, '07, '08 and '09
Stone Double Bastard '06, '07, '08 and '11

More Music Suggestions

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:40:00 +0000

We are looking to add some more songs onto our current playlist, so if anyone has a song or songs that they think would fit in well with our current music selections, then please list them by Artist and Name of Song in either the comments selection below or by e-mailing it to me at gary@craftalehouse.com

A Very Funky Farewell

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:26:00 +0000

Join us on Thursday January 19th for a farewell event for one of the nicest guys in the beer biz., Dr. Joel Armato from New Holland Brewery. We'll have many New Holland beers on draft, and Dr. Joel will be spinning some old school vinyl! Beers will go on around 6:00 and music begins around 8:30

Hey, It's been 3 years!

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:53:00 +0000

This Thursday December 29th is our 3 year anniversary. Wow! Amazing, and such a whirlwind of an experience this has been so far. In honor of that fact, we will be adding a few hard to get beers into our already tasty holiday line up. Beers that we will be pouring besides Pliny the Elder are:
Cantillon Kriek
Avery Meph Addict
Avery Mephistopheles
Avery Samael
Avery The Beast ...

New Year’s Eve 2011 Four-Course Beer Pairing Dinner

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:31:00 +0000

Come Join us on New Year's Eve for a nice relaxing beer and food pairing experience.

Appetizer
Smoked Quail
Sweet sausage and quinoa stuffing, maple-pomegranate glaze, bitter greens
. . . Van Steenberge Gulden Draak Belgian Strong Ale

Lobster Cake
Butter-poached Maine lobster, truffled quince, carrot, and jicama slaw, lobster- tarragon cream
. . . Brouwerij Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet Belgian Tripel

Salad/Soup
Wild Mushroom Cream Soup
Porcini mushroom aged balsamic stock, cream, oven roasted wild mushrooms
. . . New Holland Cabin Fever Brown Ale

Belgian Endive and Blue Cheese Salad
Red and yellow Endive, Keswick Creamery Blue Suede Moo, dried figs and prunes, Marcona almonds,
lavender honey, baby arugula, citrus vinaigrette
. . . Anchorage Love Buzz Pinot Noir barrel-aged Saison

Entrée
Pan-Seared Potato-Wrapped Red Grouper
Red Grouper, thinly sliced potato, carnival cauliflower florets, chive caviar nage
. . . Nebraska Hop God Belgian Strong Ale

Grilled Wagyu Culotte Steak
Wagyu Culotte steak grilled medium-rare, smashed sweet potato and butternut squash,
wilted spinach, purple Pommes Anna and brandied shallot gravy
. . . North Coast Old Stock Cellar Reserve barrel-aged Barleywine

Dessert
Stuffed Parisian Macaroon
Delicate chocolate macaroon, chunky peanut butter mousse, grape sabayon
. . . Flying Dog Gonzo Porter

Sticky Toffee Pudding
Rich date and fig cake, toffee rum sauce, kumquat and dried fruit compote
. . . Rochefort Trappistes 10 Belgian Quadrupel

$85 per person includes one selection from each course;
gratuity not included. Reservations required

AVERY TAP TAKEOVER

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:01:00 +0000

The rep from Avery will be here on Wednesday, December 14th.
We will be pouring ...

The Beast Grand Cru
Samaels Oak-Aged Ale
Mephistopheles Stout
Joe's Pilsner
Hog Heaven Barleywine ‘10
IPA
White Rascal
Old Jubilation Ale
Salvation Belgian Golden Ale
Fifteen Wild Farmhouse Ale ‘08
The Reverend
Meph Addict
Rumpkin Ale
The Czar Imperial Stout ‘10
duganA Double IPA
Maharaja Imperial IPA

Yum!

Pumking Carving Contest

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:05:00 +0000

PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST

TUESDAY, OCT 25th - STARTING TIME: 6:30 PM

• MUST BE OVER 21 TO PARTICIPATE
• FIRST BEER FREE, DISCOUNTS DURING CONTEST, SOUTHERN TIER PUMKING FOR CARVERS ONLY
• 1ST , 2ND AND 3RD PLACE PRIZES
• NO PATTERNS/STENCILS ALLOWED
• EVERY CARVING MUST INCORPORATE BEER THEME– BREWERY LOGO, BEER LABEL ETC.
• WE SUPPLY PUMPKINS AND CARVING KIT
• $ 20 ENTRY FEE

SEE BARTENDER TO SIGN UP BY SATURDAY, OCT 23.
.

A Not So Crafty Treat

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:31:00 +0000

     Bad news to the fans of Beersgiving. This a portion of the e-mail that Big Dan got last night.

"Dan,

We had a board meeting this afternoon, and have decided that it is in the best interest of SunnyBrook to cancel this event."

     What this means is very simple. If you have bought a ticket from us, please bring it back and we will refund your money. Do not take it anywhere else.

     For anymore info, go to the Beersgiving website. Thanks for your understanding in this matter.

The Great Pumpkin is Here!

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:23:00 +0000

In addition to all the Heavy Seas beers on tap for "International Talk Like a Pirate Day", a special keg of their Great Pumpkin Ale was tapped, and is pouring right now.

International "Talk like a Pirate" Day

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:12:00 +0000

On Monday, Septemper 19 we will be celebrating in the whimsy of International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Heavy Seas will be sending up some of their limited edition brews for us to pour.

Welcome Back Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:43:00 +0000

For Labor Day Weekend, We will closed Monday and Tuesday (Sept.5 & 6).

To welcome everybody back from the long holiday, on Wednesday, Sept 7th we will be tapping Russian River Pliny the Elder and Consecration and ... some IPA from Ballast Point just showed up and wants to come out and play on Wednesday. Say 5'ish.

Tröegs Perpetual IPA debut

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:49:00 +0000

On Thursday, August 18 at 5pm we will be pouring the World Debut (Limerick) of Troegs newest offering, Perpetual Ipa.
We will also have a firkin of their Scratch 45 Ipa.
As well as some other tasty goodies.

Night of the Fools

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:51:00 +0000

On Thursday, August 11 we will be pouring:

* Brugse Zot
* Brugse Zot - unfiltered version
* Brugse Dubbel

The legend behind Brugse Zot...

To welcome Maximilian of Austria to their proud town, the people of Bruges organised a colourful parade of merrymakers and fools. When they asked him at the end of the day to provide money for a new madhouse he replied : ‘Today I have seen nothing but fools. Bruges is already one large madhouse !’ Since then the people of Bruges are called ‘Brugse Zotten’ (fools of Bruges).

Sometimes the people of Craft Ale House (especially on a Thursday night) are known as ... let's just leave that up to your own interpretation.
Cheers!

*** The firkin of Troegs Scratch Ipa has been moved to 8-18-11.

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:45:00 +0000

Merry ChistmaKwanzaChanukkahFestivus!!!

On Monday, July 25th we were be pouring lots of good Holiday beers. So bring your Holiday Cheer.

We will be pouring:

Troegs Mad Elf
St. Bernardus Christmas
Du Pont Avec Les Bons Voeux
and...

NIGHT OF THE HATTERS!

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:38:00 +0000

Starting at 5pm on Wednesday, July 13th. New Holland Brewing's world traveling beer rep Dr. Joel will be on hand, as we will be pouring:

Black Hatter
Farmhouse Hatter
Oak Aged Hatter
Rye Hatter

Also, a very elusive New Holland Firkin.
Yeah!

Weyerbacher IPA Project & Firkin Night

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:31:00 +0000

On Wednesday, June 29 at 5 pm we will be tapping a firkin of Weyerbacher Double Simco that has been enhanced with dried orange peel and a pinch of Cardamom.

We will also be tapping two new IPA project beers and one Brewers Reserve at that time.
1. North - India brown ale
2. Quebeck - ??? Citrusy
3. Steel - a west coast style ipa

Giraffes loose in Limerick

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:32:00 +0000

Actually there are 7 Giraffes from Scotland sitting at the bar right now. Come visit.

FLIGHT OF THE BASTARDS!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:11:00 +0000

We will be offering flights of:
Stone Arrogant Bastard
Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard
Stone Lukcy Basartd (yes, that's how you spell it)
Stone Double Bastard

Also on tap will be a few other Bastards.

Founders Dirty Bastard
Founders Backwoods Bastard (yum)
Blue Point Old Howling Bastard

Get Bastardized!!!

It's the End of the World!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:27:00 +0000

OR as they say in French Canadian speak, "La Fin du Monde". So, if you're still hanging around on Saturday, we will be offering half off bottles of Unibroue La Fin du Monde. (We would like to put it on draft but those silly Canadians can't figure out how to put that beer into kegs)

If anyone wants to bring in any bottles of Lost Abbey Judgement Day to share with the other poor souls that will be here, please fee free, since we have none.

Stay tuned for our next event on Wednesday, June 1st. We are pretty sure the majority of our customers will still be around, as will we. ;-)

Whatcha think foodies?

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Bengel) — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:57:00 +0000

I just put up a poll about the menu here. Though they are always tinkering with it at times, I thought we would ask our customers what they think. The poll is located on the left hand side, so scroll on down.

National Homebrew Day

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:00:00 +0000

We will have several members of our homebrew club "Bruclear"(sounds like Nuclear, as in power plant) doing live demonstrations outside around our patio this Saturday afternoon (5-7-11) to celebrate National Homebrew day.
Come out, eat, drink and be merry!

Weyerbacher IPA Project - ROUND 2

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:32:00 +0000

Weyerbacher Brewing in Easton, PA is playing around with some recipes to come up with a new Ipa for their lineup of big beers. Craft Ale House was selected to be one of their test markets. Can you say Human drinking Guinea Pig. So come in, drink and vote, either online (http://www.weyerbacher.com/) or with a ballet that we have in house.

Mini / Impromptu Russian River Event

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:32:00 +0000

On Monday, April 11 starting at 5pm we will be tapping:
Russian River Blind Pig
Russian River Damnation
Russian River Redemption
and Russian River Supplication

Hope to see you then.

Ale House News

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:15:00 +0000

The Times Herald just ran an article on our restaurant. It is attatched below.

http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2011/03/24/business/doc4d8a89baaf26e119070100.txt?viewmode=fullstory

FIRKIN FRIDAY!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Craft Ale House) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:01:00 +0000

Today we will be the first beer bar to tap into a firkin from the Plank Road Brewing Company. It will be have extra dry hops added to the firkin to make it quadruple hops brewed for that truely crisp hops taste.
Come get it while it lasts.