Every Friday we share our top five picks for your weekend drinking – it’s time for the Weekend Wash Down!
Sourpuss Bottle Release
Three limited run bottles will be sold at Actual’s brewery Saturday: Leviton Sour Stout, Tenacity Brett and Bourbon Barrel Fat Julian. There are less than 100 bottles available of the Leviton, a stout which has spent nearly two years aging and souring in red wine barrels. Tenacity Brett and the barrel-aged Fat Julian are also available in limited quantities, and both brews have spent over 10 months aging in oak bourbon barrels.
→ Saturday, December 5, 10am
Pigskin Brewers’ Challenge
The Pigskin brewers are once again competing to brew the best beer in a set theme, this time: cranberries. Nick brewed a Cranberry Gose, Vic brewed a Cranberry Belgian IPA, Mike brewed a Berliner Weisse served with Cranberry Syrup and cellarmaster Luke has a Cranberry Weizenboch. Try ’em all to choose the best, and be sure to wear your finest ugly Christmas sweater.
→ Saturday, December 5, 3pm
Champagne & Sparkling Wine Affair
Find a new favorite bubbly beverage in time for your holiday celebrations! You’ll taste eight high quality wines from the Champagne region along with eight other great sparkling wines from other parts of the world at this House Wine tasting.
→ Sunday, December 6, 5pm
Christmas beers at Crafted Drafts
Sample eight different Christmas brews so you can pick your favorite to leave out for Santa (he’s had enough of milk and cookies). You’ll try Revolution Fistmas, Troegs Mad Elf, Ommegang Adoration, Ithaca Embrr, Dieu du Ciel! Solstice D’Hiver, Sam Adams Merry Maker, 2014 Chouffe N’ice and 2015 Chouffe N’ice at this tasting. Crafted Drafts will host a second Christmas beer tasting on December 13.
→ Sunday, December 6, 3pm
Braggot tapping at Wolf’s Ridge
Wolf’s Ridge Brewing and Brothers Drake Meadery have teamed on for a festive Braggot, a form of mead made with both honey and malted barley. Wolf’s Ridge will tap a keg this Sunday with live music from The Early Interval, commemorative ale glasses, light snacks, and samples of Twelfth Night Cake
→ Sunday, December 6, 6pm
full disclosure: Crafted Drafts is a client
