Capt Keith's Beer Blog

MOTH Celebrates 3 years of pouring some exceptional craft beers. We would all like to thank you for your continuing support. If you are in town early April – come see us. We’ve been saving up some special beers for this list of events:

TAP TAKEOVER (ALL 40) with our cellared Wood Influenced beers starting April 9 – 14th

(Sneak Preview Monday, April 8^th  10pm for DG Members)

Green Flash Beer Dinner MONDAY April 8^th – 6pm

Owner Mike Hinkley and our good friend and BrewMaster Chuck Silva will present some very special beers with pairings by Chef David McMillan. SOLD OUT

Breckenridge Brewery Brew Master Session with THE MAN – Todd Usry

Wednesday, April 10^th 6:30

4 Beers with Paired Chef Specials – $25

Deschutes Brewery Art/Beer/Food Base Camp

Thursday, April 11^th 6:30

6 Beers including Abyss, Black Butte XXIV, Dissident (all draft)

Paired food and Art Show – $35 – Don’t miss this!

Sierra Nevada Flight

Saturday, April 13^th Noon-5pm

Brandy Barrel Aged Quad, White Wine Barrel aged Dubbel, Bourbon Barrel Aged Bigfoot, Vintage Bigfoot 2011, Pale Ale

Limited availability

Today is the second annual Stout Day, (or Tempranillo Day, for the oenophile) and people all over the country have their smart phone in one hand and their pint glass in the other.  Just like IPA Day, Stout Day is a social media driven beer holiday and is focused on not only drinking a stout, but celebrating the stout and spreading its good word.  We have teamed up with Untappd to produce a special badge for those that use their great beer tracking app.  All you have to do is check into the Saucer and a Stout Beer and the badge is yours.  Our Saucers and Moth are all celebrating in different ways, and some are taking it to the next level by celebrating Stout Week and even Stout Month.  Check in with your local spot, everyone has great things planned.

Many people are getting fed up with these “National” holidays (eg. Talk Like a Pirate Day, National Cheeseburger Day, and plenty other even more rediculous made up holidays) but since our little Craft Beer thing represents barely over 5% of the national market, it is up to us to spread the word and get “Lite” Beer drinkers to drop their Macro products and pick up a craft beer.  The stout and the IPA are two of the most misunderstood styles, so to me it makes sense for these two styles to be the first to earn their own day.  How many times have you heard someone say “I don’t like dark beers” only to find out they have never even tried one?  So many people are too quick to judge books by their cover and don’t understand the versatility the stout can have.  Watching someones eyes light up the first time they sip a Milk Stout sweetened with unfermentable lactose, or even a thick and chewy Imperial Stout, perhaps aged in bourbon barrels or on a bed of cocoa nibs never gets old to me. That’s half the fun of craft beer.  Sharing our knowledge and understanding of this craft along with a couple ounces of our favorite beer we might have smuggled back from a vacation wrapped in a sweater we took to the beach simply for the padding.  There are so many people out there who do not understand what we hold so dear, and in some cases take for granted.

Remember, today is not only about the stout (or generating web traffic for the various websites built around capitalizing on this opportunity, most of which I think are spreading the good word for the greater cause) but is also about sharing.  Invite someone from your office who doesn’t drink good beer to your favorite beer joint for Happy Hour today.  Spread the word through your social media outlets that you live the good life and enjoy beer made by hands and not machines.  Proudly exclaim what you’re drinking, who your drinking it with, and where. Open the door for another to become as enlightened as you are.  Help those who are drinking rice/corn beer loaded with chemicals to find out there is more out there.  And as always, tip your server well for letting you have all the fun.

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Tickets are on sale now for a very unique opportunity to meet Ken Grossman of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. He will host a beer dinner at my new Gastro-Pub, The Meddlesome Moth on February 21st at 6 PM. See the flyer below and call to secure your tickets immediately. We sold 40 tickets in the first 10 minutes they went on sale.

Back Story: Twenty Years ago, I had my first Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and it was the beer that changed me forever. I think we all remember the brew that changed the way we think about BEER (and brewing.) Back then their Pale Ale seemed to like a hop bomb yet it is relatively mild in comparison to some Pale Ales and IPAs in today’s market.

I have been in the craft beer business since the early 90′s and have always felt Sierra sets the bar for craft beer. I have had the pleasure of meeting with Ken several times before and I know him to be a very humble man. His story is extraordinary – pioneering the craft beer movement, starting his brewery on a tiny budget in a storage warehouse In Chico, CA and growing it to the Sierra Nevada we know today.

Come meet the legend and enjoy our Chef prepared beer dinner with some fantastic limited offerings.

Cheers!

Moth will hosts its first Beer Dinner on Monday, June 28 with Rob Tod – owner and brewmaster of Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, ME.

Allagash brews some of the best Belgian Style beers in America and we are proud to showcase their beers. The Event starts at 6 PM

Details: 6 beers paired with 6 course from Chef Chad Kelley. Four of the beers are somewhat rare, especially in Texas.

Beers to be included are:

White - a fantastic example of a Belgian Witbier

Tripel - golden and complex with some nice herbal notes.

Curieux – The Tripel aged in Jim Beam barrels for 8 months

Odyssey - a dark wheat (10%abv) partially aged in medium toast oak barrels

Four - Four Malts and Four hops are used to make this beer along with date sugar and molasses – so good when it hits your lips….

Interlude - a rare treat and an interesting finale……

Tickets are on sale now at Moth and space is limited for this unique event. Call us to reserve a slot 214-628-7900 or come by and have a pint…..