October 2007

Pub-maniacs,
HOPTOBERFEST CONTINUES!
All month long we’re featuring the best of Washington ’s IPAs, and YOU get to choose which one becomes our hop-head standard for 2008. Will Boundary Bay hang on to their title? Will last year’s runner ups, Pt. Defiance and Walking Man, make a run? What about local upstart Schooner Exact? YOU Decide!

THUR, OCT 18, 6:00PM – OAK-AGED RAT CITY IPA and CASK RED!
A couple of great brews from Pacific Rim Brewery that match up well with Hoptoberfest; Rat City IPA aged in a bourbon barrel and a dry-hopped cask of their Red Ale.

THUR, OCT 25, 7:00PM – SKAGIT BREWERS NIGHT!
The makers of Scullers IPA, Steelie Brown, and Trumpeter Stout will be on hand to talk beer and give away cool schwag – oh, and you can enjoy their great beers on tap, too!

THUR, NOV 1, 6:00PM – SECOND ANNUAL IPA CASK-O-RAMA!
We started out with the idea of celebrating the announcement of the Hoptoberfest winner by having a cask or two of IPA on hand, but couldn’t decide which ones. Not wanting to leave any Washington brewer out, we invited them all! We’ll have over 20 cask IPAs on tap starting at 6:00pm on Nov. 1st, and we’ll drink ‘em til their gone! There should be some left for a couple days afterwards.

WHAT’S NEW IN BOTTLES – WINE & BEER!
Wine Saturday! – Join us on Saturdays for great wine features at great discounts all day. Every Saturday, we’ll feature one white and one red from our wine list or from new selections we’re rotating in house. Glass pours are $1 off & bottles are $3 off regular price. During Happy Hour, enjoy double discounts on glass pours! Saturday, October 13, enjoy wines from France & Argentina : Abel Clement Côtes du Rhône Rosé & Alamos Malbec Selección 2006 (new & limited!).
On the Beer Front! – Those of you that missed the Lost Abbey tasting last week will be happy to know we’re carrying the full line of bottles, including Avant Garde, Red Barn Saison, Devotion Blonde, and Lost & Found Abbey, as well as Port Brewing’s Wipeout IPA and Old Viscosity. On the foreign front, we just received a delivery of Eisenbahn LUST from Brazil , a special occasion beer with secondary fermentation using champagne yeast.

Cheers, Gary, Terri, Jennifer, Rob , Lorraine , Dennis, Kate, and “I’ll call a sitter” Phil

Is it possible to drink your way to a higher level of Fitness? Ummm, sort of.

Between now & October 20th, all Spaten, Franziskaner, and Dinkelacker draft beers you buy at Über get you raffle tickets for our cruiser bike giveaway.

We've got 2 classic beach cruisers we'll be raffling off on that night, both currently on display at our bar. One is from the Spaten Brewery (green & white) and the other is from Franziskaner (black).

HOW TO WIN: - Two things:
1) - Drink Spaten, Franziskaner, and Dinkelacker draft beers at Über.
Each one of these beers you purchase between now & then gets you a raffle ticket in the drawing.
.5L = 1 ticket, 1L = 2, 2L boots =4.
The more you drink, the better your odds. KEEP YOUR TICKETS!

2) - Show up on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20TH. Winners of the drawings must be present to win, which will take place around 10pm. You can continue to buy beers and get additional raffle tickets right up until the drawing. NOTICE: YOU MUST KEEP AND BRING YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS ON THIS NIGHT IN ORDER TO WIN.
In addition to the bike give-aways, we'll have complimentary snacks and a few other surprises,
- including a very choice prize for the "MOST EXTREME OKTOBERFEST COSTUME"!

Sehen sie unter der tabelle. Danke und prost!

Your friends at Über Tavern

Ayinger German Biers beer tasting event Tuesday, 10/16 ~ 5PM to 7:30PM with special guest John Gilroy, Merchant du Vin $1 per person to sample five Ayinger biers; bring your ID 99 Bottles beer store 35002 Pacific Hwy S, A102, Federal Way, WA 98003 I-5 Exit 142B, Hwys 18/99 at Crossings Retail hours: Tues-Sat 10A-8P, Sun 12N-5P, Mon closed www.99bottles.net

rsvp@99bottles.net
253.838.2558

The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day is an international event to introduce people to the homebrewing hobby and establish relationships with local homebrew supply shops.

Each year on the first Saturday in November, homebrewers around the world are encouraged to invite non-brewing and brewing friends and family to celebrate Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day and brew a batch of beer together.

Before the event, participants that have Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day events register their site on this web page. These registered sites help the American Homebrewers Association track how many participants celebrated the event. TEACH A FRIEND TO HOMEBREW DAY FACTS:
2006: More than 1200 brewers taught 540 people how to brew at 51 sites, producing over 2,200 gallons of homebrew in the process. Sites were registered in 31 states, and in Canada, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Indonesia, and South Africa.
2005: 1839 homebrewers taught 583 new homebrewers how to brew at 184 sites in 36 states, 3 Canadian provinces, 3 Australian provinces, South Africa, and Guam.
2004: 1179 participants introduced 423 new homebrewers to the hobby at 137 different sites.

How to Celebrate

Before the event
• Register your Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day site
• View registered sites
• Invite friends who are not yet homebrewers to teach them to brew beer at home
• Take your new homebrew recruits to your local homebrew supply shop to buy ingredients
• Hold a special beer dinner for friends or family you’re going to teach to homebrew

During the event
• Tell friends and family about other American Homebrewers Association fun events – Big Brew, National Homebrewers Conference, Mead Day
• Hand out free copies of Zymurgy for Beginners to all your friends.
• Bring out homebrewing literature for your friends to read– Zymurgy, Zymurgy for Beginners, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing and other homebrewing books
• Drink homebrew, pair your homebrew with food and HAVE FUN

After the event
• Fill out the Remittance page on this site and tell us how many participated at your site
• Contact us if you didn't receive your free copies of Zymurgy for Beginners
• Click here for post-event numbers
• Teach your friends how to bottle the beer you brewed together
• Encourage new homebrewers to go to their local homebrew supply shop
• Buy an American Homebrewers Association membership as a gift for new homebrewers
• Have new homebrewers check out www.beertown.org/ for up-to-date brewing information

Last November there were 128 sites registered for Teach A Friend to Homebrew Day on the first Saturday of November. Roughly 1200 brewers gathered and brewed up over 2,200 gallons of beer while teaching another 540 people how to brew. Teach a Friend to Homebrew sites were registered in 31 states, Canada, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Indonesia, and two sites in South Africa.

Questions? Contact: Janis Gross, Project Coordinator, Brewers Association 888.822.6273 (U.S./Canada Only) / +1.303.447.0816 / janis@brewersassociation.org

Water Street Brewing is hosting our First Annual Bacchanalian Winter Wingding & Musical Jamboree. Yes, it's a mouthful....so what does that mean? It's an entire weekend full of incredible music, great NW Winter ales and lots of merrymaking and laughter.

Please join us on November 9th and 10th with music by The Olympic Sound Collective, Hillstomp, Lucky Brown and the Funk Revolution (aka LaPush), The Big Whoop, The Jelly Rollers, The Paul Benoit Band and The Delta Rays. We'll also be serving up over a dozen NW Winter ales for you to sample.

Tickets are $15 for both days and are available at Quimper Sound Records and Water Street Brewing - as well as at the door. Any questions please call the brewery for more details: 360-379-6438. Check out the accommodations at: www.ptguide.com . Come on over and brighten up your spirit in the midst of the dark days of Winter.

Cheers!

Join us for the 20th annual PNA Beer Taste! Choose 10 samples to taste from 26 micro-breweries who bring their new winter ales and other favorite beers to taste. Enjoy pub snacks provided by the PNA Beer Committee, blue grass music and a silent auction of beer paraphernalia.

pna@phinneycenter.org.
(206) 783-2244

Brouwer's Cafe will be holding the first annual Big Wood Festival bringing to the Taps the finest beers that wood can age. Get here early and grab some wood!

Some beery online calendars to check:
http://ratebeer.com/Events-Show.asp
http://beeradvocate.com/events/calendar/2007/09
http://www.brewingnews.com/cgi-bin/calendar/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&cal...
http://www.realbeer.com/search/eventscalendar/index.php

http://townhall.com/Columnists/MichaelMedved/2007/10/10/no,_americas_nev...

"With relief and confidence, we can follow current events and the various separatist movements in Europe, where true multiculturalism continues to bear its invariably bitter fruit, as we watch the unfolding sorry fate of quarreling Flemings and Walloons in ill-arranged little Belgium, where the beer is stronger than any unifying nationalism and the chocolate’s sweeter than the future."

Reckless Kelly
"Seven Nights In Eire"

The first pub we could stagger to was twelve steps from the plane
A Virgin flight to Shannontown the day it didn't rain
The laughing eyes of Ireland sparkling blue and green
With hair as black as Guinness stout and barely seventeen

We're back out on the cobblestones
Whiskey drunk and high again
Liquored up and gearing up for seven nights in Ireland

The corner booth is waiting for the session to begin
It's quiet as a mother's prayer 'til we all stumble in
And it's fifty happy voices mixed with whistles made of tin
And a piper man is blowing like the North Atlantic wind

And an Aran island beauty is sawing on the violin
I wonder will she miss me after seven nights in Ireland

It's Ladies' Day in Galway and we watched the ponies run
Fifty pounds against the odds and came in six to one
McSwiggin heard the race report, he invited us on in
So we drank Catholic whiskey with all our newfound friends

They raised a glass to all of us and we all toasted them
Here's to Michael, Tom and Pat and seven nights in Ireland

Well we kissed all the girls goodbye and gathered in our gear
And when she walked me to the gate I swear I saw a tear
But then she looked into my eyes I knew she felt my pain
And only then I realized we were standing in the rain

So save our places at the pub and when the eyes are dry again
We'll come back another day for seven nights in Ireland

Two dollars shy of a five dollar bill
Last mile I pushed my truck uphill
About hurt me
I left my truck by the pump right where I parked it
Walked through the doors of the Last Chance Market
Have mercy, I was thirsty
The guy behind the counter said what's it gonna be
I said I don't know man, you tell me

It's a gallon of gas, or a cold six pack
One goes in my tank, one comes in a sack
Makes life complicated when it costs the same
Hell it ain't no fun, to do without one
But I'll do a lot of walkin' if my motor don't run
It's a tough ol' choice to make if you know what I mean
It's either beer of gasoline

I could feel that video camera watch me
Checkin' out the sale on the ol' Milwaukee
(Mmm) Three bucks to my name
That cooler had every brand known to man
Tall boys, bottles, and aluminum cans
(Aww) What a shame
And it's gettin' pretty bad when you finally discover
It all comes down to either one or the other

It's a gallon of gas, or a cold six pack
One goes in my tank, one comes in a sack
Makes life complicated when it costs the same
Hell it ain't no fun, to do without one
But I'll do a lot of walkin' if my motor don't run
It's a tough ol' choice to make if you know what I mean
It's either beer of gasoline

I could see where this is headed
And I'm tired of talkin'
Cold beer unleaded
Hell I'm walkin'

It's a gallon of gas, or a cold six pack
One goes in my tank, one comes in a sack
Makes life complicated when it costs the same
Hell it ain't no fun, to do without one
But I'll do a lot of walkin' if my motor don't run
It's a tough ol' choice to make if you know what I mean
It's either beer of gasoline

Beer or gasoline

It's a gallon of gas, or a cold six pack
One goes in my tank, one comes in a sack

Now it ain't no fun to do without one
But I'll do a lot of walkin' if my motor don't run

Hey bartender, can I make one special request?
My woman left me, so tonight I'll be drinkin' your best.
I'm not talkin' about Single Malt, Scotch, Jagermeister, or Cuervo Gold.
I'll take anything domestic, light, and cold.

Domestic, light, and cold, that's what I'm havin'.
Serve me up any old, iced-down American classic.
Pop a top, crack a can, just don't make me wait too long.
I'll take, anything domestic, light, and cold.

No, I wasn't cheatin'. She just said that I was hard to please.
And I'll admit it: I can be set in my country ways.
So go ahead and break out the good stuff, if I can be so bold.
I'll take anything domestic, light, and cold.

Domestic, light, and cold, that's what I'm havin'.
Serve me up any old, iced-down American classic.
Pop a top, crack a can, just don't make me wait too long.
I'll take, anything domestic, light, and cold.

You've got beer from all over the world on the wall.
I can even get a free t-shirt, if I try them all.
But tonight I'm in the mood for some of that home-grown brew!

Yeah, pop a top, crack a can, just don't make me wait too long.
I'll take, anything domestic, hey I know what the best is.
Anything domestic, light, and cold!

Have you ever been down to Texas
Down around San Antone
They love to go all night and treat you right
And party till the cows come home

I love it when they let their hair down
And dance real close to you
You know I'm a sucker baby for what the cowgirls do
What the cowgirls do

They ain't no different up in Oklahoma
They ain't afraid to stay up 'til dawn
They love to cut a rug and chug a lug
Longnecks til their money's all gone

I love it when the let their hair down
And dance real close to you
You know I'm a sucker baby for what the cowgirls do
What the cowgirls do

There's cowgirls all across the country
From Baton Rouge to Bangor Maine
It ain't hard to see they'll be the death of me
They're gonna drive my little heart insane

I love it when the let their hair down
And dance real close to you
You know I'm a sucker baby for what the cowgirls do
What the cowgirls do