This Saturday (the 14th!), from 8-9:30PM, we’re having an Astronomy party! If you have questions about science, extra-solar planets, black holes, galaxies, or anything else, the astronomers behind the “Ask an Astronomer” website will be at your service (hopefully wearing some snazzy Sagan turtlenecks). What we need more of is science! ( facebook rsvp )
This Friday (the 13th!), the fine folks from Bellwether are bringing a cask conditioned pin of experimental hard cider. If the only hard ciders you’ve tried were ungodly sweet mass marketed fermented apple juice, you need to try their artisan approach to making America’s original beverage of choice. We’re cracking the cask at 7PM so come in before we drink it up. We also have their Liberty Spy already on tap, so if you can’t make the event, stop by for a draft pour of this tasty cider.
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Bellwether Liberty Spy
What was three nights of cask ale to celebrate the Ithaca Brew Fest, is now two. It seems the yeast at Empire Brewing are a little feisty and managed to pop the bung right out of the cask. We do, however, have both their nitro cream ale and summer ale on draft this week and they are both very tasty.
Tonight (Thursday, Sept. 3), Ithaca Beer is releasing their seasonal beer Cold Front. Brewed with a Belgian saison yeast, this dark amber beer is subtly spicy, flavorful and reminiscent of the St. Bernardus / Pierre Celis Grottenbier we had on draft. I keep coming up with excuses to stop by the brewery to try it. Cask is tapped at 7PM and will last until I finish it.
Tomorrow (Friday, Sept. 4th), Sly Fox is bringing the old school. Their British Pale Ale is brewed with British Maris Otter malt and a small amount of Crystal malt. Short of football hooliganism (well, I know one might show up) and a cheap chipper, this is the closest you’ll get to a UK pub night.
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James and I are pouring in the VIP at the brew fest this weekend. If you’re one of the lucky few who got tickets before they sold out, come on over and say hi to us and the tasty tasty beer. Otherwise, we’re partying it up after the fest at Pixel with a number of the brewers. It will be dangerous.
We’re cruising through a fairly busy summer but before we get to the start of the school year and the Ithaca Beer Festival, we have one last special beer event. This Thursday (8/6), Ithaca Beer is releasing the 2009 batch of their Golden Sour Ale, Brute! Rarely tapped, this beer takes 9 months to complete its Brettanomyces fermentation before it’s finished with a blend of three Champagne yeasts. So this is a special treat for us to not only have the ‘09 but also the ‘08 batch on draft at the same time. We’re huge fans of this beer, so it’ll go fast. Come on out and join us and the Ithaca Beer team as we polish off this tart and tasty brew!
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See you soon!!!!
Jim for Team Pixel
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I hope your summer has been as fun as ours. This past Saturday, we kicked off Ommegang’s Belgium Comes to Cooperstown beer festival with a tall pour of Brute and it was nothing but lawn angels by 5PM. So good!!!
See you soon!!!!
Jim for Team Pixel
We’re maniacally optimistic…and thirsty. For Ithaca Beer’s Cask Ale Night tomorrow (Thursday 4/16) we’ll have a cask of dry hopped Flower Power AND a cask of CascaZilla. So we need your commitment to beer, drinking local and not letting a drop of this tasty brew go to waste at the end of the night. First cask gets tapped at 7PM. Let’s kill the first cask before Happy Hour runs out at 8PM.
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So, as part of our ongoing plan to get y’all more free booze and beer, Magic Hat will rock Pixel this Thursday 4/2 at 9PM. We’re not exactly sure what they’re going to do, but they’re definitely bringing beer. So, we’ll let ‘em.
Join us this Thursday for our Spring Break Warm Up and St. Patrick’s Day Pregame! Sly Fox and Michael Collins have teamed up to give us a reason to celebrate twice this year:
All Sly Fox beers will be served with a free shot of Michael Collins Whiskey. On tap: O’Reilly’s Nitro Stout, Seamus Irish Red Ale and the Boadicea Hop Project Pale Ale. Tasty.
So come listen to the Dropkick Murphys, watch The Boondock Saints and drink with us into shenanigans.
DJ Vince ‘Tron Vegas’ drops the needles to the vinyl at 10PM. Dance, dance dance, like there’s ass in your pants.
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The fine folks of Jim Beam wanted to get y’all together again so they could buy you drinks and pour some tastes of the assorted Beams, Maker’s Mark, Basil Hayden’s, (ri)1 and more. In this economy, who doesn’t want free booze? Bourbon! Rye! Free! This Thursday the 12th, 8-10PM. ( facebook event )
So, yes, we’ll be open for the Super Bowl. Free, first come, first served pizza and wings. Game will be on the big screen and the plasma over the bar. Grab a beer and enjoy the ruckus! Football!
