We’ve already covered some of the notable brew items: scroll down to read about the Bucket Brewery’s Friday Night Sound Check, Tilted Barn’s first day of tours, tastings, and growler fills [Saturday], “GUNS & BEER V” and the Beer Summit Harvest Fest [both on Saturday] [plus the screening of R.E.M. By MTV on Saturday]. Here are a few more notes to whet your palate:
• Foolproof will unveil this year’s batch of Revery, its potent [10.7%ABV] Russian Imperial Stout. It’s a smooth sipper and a 3Cs bomb [chocolate, coffee, caramel]. It will be on tap at the brewery [241 Grotto Ave, Pawtucket, 401.721.5970] today from 5 to 7 pm [and on Saturday from 1 to 5 for tours and tastings], and will be in stores next week.
• With gas below $3 a gallon, you should consider heading to the Beer’d Brewing Co. in Stonington, CT [22 Bayview Ave, 860.857.1014]. Aaren is pouring three of his very best beers — Hobbit Juice DIPA, World At Large APA, and Organized Play Date IPA [brewed with Night Shift], plus Whisker’d Wit and Thunder From Down Under APA [hint: those are top-notch too]. The space is open today from 5-9 pm and on Saturday from 11 am-3 pm [note: unlike RI, CT does not have a 72-ounce growler limit].
• Proclamation Ale [141 Fairgrounds Rd, West Greenwich, 401.787.6450] is open from 5 to 8 pm [but closed tomorrow to prep for its expansion]. On tap: 32-oz. growlers and tastings of Derivative [American Pale Ale] and the first batch of Son of Sim [a Simcoe-stuffed IPA], plus Plattelander [a farmhouse-style saison, 750ml bottles and tastings] and Plattelander Rood, a “funky red saison” [500ml bottles]. In the soon-come dept., Dave will be pouring the Trickster and Juice Bomb ’Splozionz. Yep, we’re intrigued.
• And the new edition of Stone Enjoy By is arriving in stores today. You know the drill: the “devastatingly fresh” double IPA hits selected markets a week after being bottled [quite an accomplishment] and boldly declares its end-of-maximum-pleasure date on the front of the bomber. It was shipped to 40 states [and Puerto Rico]; the last edition in the Ocean State was dated 7.4.14. This one needs to be savored by 12.26.14; when we hit “publish” on this post [at 2:30 pm], the website said that you have 35 days, 13 hours, 31 minutes, and 14 seconds to Enjoy It . . . .
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