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Notes from Dave at the Brick about two up coming events.

TWO events coming up, both are at the BRICKSKELLER
A SPECIAL BRICKSKELLER EVENT
APRIL 4TH

ONE NIGHT ONLY
Children’s Hospital Benefit Tasting

Join the Tuppers as they taste their 15,000th beer. Bob and Ellie will share highlights as well as the most embarrassing moments of their 30 year quest for great beer. Several brewers are bringing beers so new or so rare that not even the Tuppers have tasted them.

Beers include:

Tiny Tim, a “quirky ale” from Brewers’ Art

A Dry-Hopped Maibock from Jason Oliver at Gordon Biersch Stinky

An exceptionally hoppy beer from Starr Hill’s Mark Thompson

A new beer from Bill Madden’s new brewing home at Vintage 50

Holy Sheet Belgian Abbey style ale from Clipper City’s Heavy Seas selection

A specially dry-hopped-in-cask firkin of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Al

A sample of 1988 Thomas Hardy’s Ale from the Tuppers’ own cellar. (ThomasHardy is our top rated beer of all time.)

….and more

watch Tuppers webpage for more updates!

All attendees get a souvenir Tuppers’ glass 100% of the admission price will be donated to Children’s Hospital

TICKETS ARE $50 for this benefit event at the good old Brickskeller

Call 202-293-1885 for reservations.

We will try to start the evening as close to 7pm as possible, doors open at 6 for those wishing to order off the menu before the evening starts.

Bruce Williams of Scotlands famous Heather Ale Brewery will appear at the Brickskeller April 10 and 11! We’re doing a cool program as always! Bruce is one of our favorite guests, we like him so much we’ve even stopped asking him to stop lifting his skirt on stage!!!!!

Bruce always has a wonderful program for these events, this one is no exception!

The first half of the show will be a hop Quiz – guess the hop – multiple choice, good fun and it’ll get y’all all lubed up for the second half onslaught of fantastic ales from the land of the kilted gods….. floor show, powerpoint misappropriation and selected abusive remarks will more than likely abound. Guests are warned that swearing may dominate the punctuation towards the end of the evening, but he’s got a good brogue, most of hiswords you can’t understand anyway! As always, doors open at 6, we really do try to start at 7 honest! WE LOVE BRUCE!!!!!!! c’mon down and welcome him back to DC! Tickets for this event are $35.00 and can be had by calling the BRICKSKELLER at 202-293-1885

As always a tip’o’the bottlecap and a please stay safe to all my buddies all over the world from BigPoppaHandPump /aka BeerGuyDave!

Dave sent out the following email about the Larry Bell tasting.

Tickets for the March 7th and 8th
Larry Bell tasting are now on sale!
Larry is the founder of Michigan’s great Bell’s Brewing Company (formerly Kalamazoo Brewing) and an old pal of the Brick. Join us as we welcome the lad back to the scene of his underage drinking! Larry always brings GREAT beers to these events, as soon as the list is confirmed I’ll send out a list that I promise you my friends my dear, dear friends is a list of beers so fine so wonderful so overly tastified so posolutely slurperific it is guaranteed that’s right I said guaranteed to stun the converts and bewilder the uninitiated!
This is going to be an extremely popular event, don’t be a sadeyed little wipey cheeks at the door cause you waited too long to call for tix! Our casually disaffected doorpersons will politely turn their deafest ear to your pleas. Please please you and get your tickets SOON! Doors open at six, we never start at seven. (but we try! Honest! We DO!) Tickets for this event are $30.00 and can be had by calling 202-293-1885.
This event is at the BRICKSKELLER. Call the BRICKSKELLER for tickets PLEASE!!!!! 202-293-1885!

This is always an extremely popular event. If you have other people joining your table you must give us a name to hold the table under. We set the room according to reservations and cannot guarantee your group will be able to sit together if your friends don’t ask to be seated with the proper table. We will accept no cancellations within 24 hours of the event. We don’t want to turn someone away because sales indicated the house was sold out then have empty seats during the event! Help us out peeps!. hopppppss. . . hopppppssszzzzzz . . .you need hoppppsssszzzzzzzz . . . . . As always a tip’o’the bottlecap and a please stay safe to all my buddies all over the world from
BigPoppaHandPump /aka BeerGuyDave!

Russian River and Allagash upstairs at the Brick

Dave wrote to say that the Jan 24 & 25 Tickets are now on sale for the first LOVEFEST!

Vinnie Cilurzo of Northern California’s Russian River Brewing Co and Rob Tod of Maine’s great Allagash Brewing Co will take the stage to talk about the all the gold medals they’ve won.

The first half of the program theywill serve a few rounds of similar styles the breweries produce letting the guys talk about their philosophy on brewing these styles or whatever they want to talk about, the second half of the show Katie bars the door and we serve a whole bunch of their big specialty beers and they’ll either talk about brewing them or whatever they want to talk about! .

Tickets are only $30.00 for this first of it’s kind event, to be held upstairs at the Brickskeller January 24th and/or 25th!

Call 202-293-1885 to order your tickets now! Doors open at 6 with a possible start time of 7pm

Tomorrow night, January 9th the Brickskeller will be hosting an event faturing California’s Lagunitas Brewing

Dave reports that they have raided their valts and are bringing Freakout and Undercover Shutdown, Brown Shugga from 05, and their barelywine, Old Gnarly from 04.  They are also bringing some of their current 12oz offerings, IPA, Censored and Hairy Eyeball!

Dave is going to toss in rounds of both their 9th and 10 anniversary brews in 22 oz bottles out of his own personal stash.

Dave says “This is going to be a great evening featuring many of the west coasts finest
beers, some that have never been here before and we’ll not see again after the event.”

Tickets are only $30.00 and can be reserved by calling 202-293-1885.
The room will open at six, we will try to start at seven, honest!
This event is going to be held in the downstairs back room at the
Brickskeller 1523 22nd St NW

Just got an email from the Brickskeller saying that they are tapping a keg of Stone OAKED Arrogant Bastard Ale and are selling it for $3 a pint. Dave has also tapped a cask of Harviestoun Brewery’s Ptarmigan Ale, also selling for $3 a pint. Dave describes it as This is a 4.5%abv delicious, robust, flavorsome beer brewed from a blend of pale, crystal and wheat malts. It has a strong fruity palate which is nicely balanced by the blend of Hersbrûcker and Challenger hops and finished with a late hopping of Pioneer. (to non-geeks, that means this stuff is YUMMY!).

Tickets are on sale for the Lagunitas Beer Tasting at the Brickskeller January 9th! They will have some great rare beers from their vaults and a couple guests from the brewery upstairs at the Brick! Tickets for this truly special event are only $30.oo and can be ordered by calling 202-293-1885. Doors open at 6, we never start at 7!