It’s National Mutt Day! To celebrate, here are a few brief items while we slog through the dog days of summer:
• On Thursday, we launched the Favorite Rhode Island IPA poll. The first reaction was, “[Proclamation’s] Tendril WAS the best, but I’ve been told it will no longer be brewed.” It’s still listed on their website, and we reached out to Proc prez Dave Witham for confirmation: “It’ll come back, but it needs some tweaks.” So if Tendril is your choice, you won’t be wasting your vote [and here’s another call for you to share your IPA faves; scroll to the bottom of the post for the details]…We skipped the growler roundup this week, but heads up for Bosun’s Call, a new brew available for tastings only at Proclamation this weekend [today 3:30-8 pm, Saturday 12-7, Sunday 12-5]. Dave sez: “We brewed this beer with Rising Tide brewery up in Portland, ME for the Maine Brewers Guild Summer Session. It’s a 5.4% ABV saison brewed with all Maine grown wheat and barley, and finished with Brett. Light, drinkable saison with a little bit of citrus, pepper, and tropical flavors.” There’s also Dark Sprout [“4.1% ABV dark hoppy session beer. This beer was designed to be a mindf@ck. Looks dark, but still tastes like a dry, light session beer. Simcoe, Citra, Cascade hop combo. Drinkable, poundable”; growlers/tastings] and a new batch of Derivative: Galaxy [growlers/tastings/bombers; the bottles will be in stores next week].
• In April, we kicked off the “Get To Know Your Brewer” series with Armando DeDona, whose Long Live Beerworks will be the first nanobrewery in Providence. We caught up with Armando for a short and sweet update: “The buildup is nearly complete, the equipment is on the way, my licenses are set, and I [am] getting psyched.” The door at 425 West Fountain St should open in the fall. Wanna see the sign? Click the link in this tweet:
• Update and reminders: “Where the Wild Things Are,” the Julians and Allagash beer dinner, was slated for Saturday [8.1] at the Steel Yard, but has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 5. Go here for details and tix…Rhode Island received three [3] logs of Joint Custody, the “nouveau Pilsner” by the brewmasters at Otter Creek and Jack’s Abby. The third [3rd] will be tapped at Doherty’s Ale House in Warwick tonight at 7…Foolproof’s Augtoberfest is on Saturday. Details are here…And on Monday, Tilted Barn answered “the question we get asked all the time: ‘When are you going to expand?!’ ” Click here for the answer! Then head to Exeter on Saturday [1-4 pm] for growler fills and tastings of Peeptoad [“will sell out early”], Raffi, and First Harvest.
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