Brouwer's Cafe's Big Wood Festival begins tomorrow and concludes this Sunday.
If you haven't made any plans for the weekend, let alone Thursday, then you should consider a trip to Brouwer's Cafe for their annual Big Wood Festival. What sets this event apart from others is their vast selection of beers aged in wooden barrels. Did we mention that Brouwer's is dedicating over 50 of their draft faucets to the cause?
That's right, starting at 11 am on December 6th, Brouwer's Cafe opens their door and invites you to sample:
*oh and you might want to pay attention to that keg of The Commons, as sadly the brewery is no longer with us.
from California
Alesmith Mexican Speedway. 12% ABV
Tequila Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout with Mexican Coffee, Chocolate & CinnamonBelching Beaver Barrel-Aged Horchata Imperial Stout ’18. 10.6% ABV
Barrel-aged Horchata with coffeeFirestone Walker Dark & Stormy. 11.1% ABV
Rum Barrel-aged Blended Ale with Lime and GingerHigh Water West Meets East. 6% ABV.
Barrel-aged Golden with Kiwi & KumquatsLost Abbey Deliverance. 12.5%
”A blend of bourbon barrel-aged Serpent’s Stout and brandy barrel-aged Angels Share.”Nitro-edition Modern Times BA Devil’s Teeth 12.9%
With NOLA Coffee & Almonds
from Colorado
New Belgium Paonia Peach. 7.3% ABV
Foeder-Aged Dark Sour with peachesParadox Salty Melons (aka, Skully Barrel No. 45). 8.9% ABV
Wine Barrel-aged Sour with watermelon.
from Delaware
from Europe
Belgium - Alvinne Kriek Van Mortagne. 8.5% ABV
Sour Ale w/ CherriesBelgium - Huyghe Bourbon Barrel-aged Delirium Noël. 10% ABV
Belgium - Tilquin Mûre Tilquin. 4.8% ABV
Lambic w/ BlackberriesSwitzerland - B.F.M. L’Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien. 11% ABV
The Abbey of Saint Bon-Chien, winey, tart and complex, matured - slowly - in oak barrels.
from Michigan
2018 Founders Brewing KBS. 12.3% ABV
Bourbon Barrel-aged Imp. Stout
from New York
Brooklyn Brewery Cloaking Device. 10.5%
Porter Wine-Barrel-aged with Brett
from North Carolina
Burial Slaughtered Fates. 9%
Bourbon Barrel-aged Dark Sour Ale
from Oregon
Alesong Brewing & Blending Señor Rhino. 12.5%
Barrel-aged Milk Stout with Vanilla and chiles2017 Block 15 The Demon’s Farm. 8.5%
Barrel-aged Dark Farmhouse with cherriesBoneyard Snow Worries. 8.2% ABV
Cognac Barrel-aged Winter WarmerBreakside #Morefriends #Morememories. 6.6% ABV
”… a blending of 18 casks from the cellar over a generous helping of raspberries”De Garde The Vanille Kriek. 7%
Oak-aged Wild Ale with cherries and vanillaDeschutes The Brett Dissident. 8.7%
Barrel-aged Flanders Brown with Cherries & BrettDouble Mountain Eleven 11th Anniversary. 13.2%
Bourbon Barrel Aged BarleywineEx Novo CocoGoNuts. 10.8%
Rye Whiskey Barrel-aged Stout with coconut, vanilla, and sea salt.Fort George Reclusa. 13%
Barrel-aged Blended Stout for Bottleworks’ 19th AnniversaryHair of the Dog/De Molen/Shiga Kogen Side by Side. 11.5%
Barrel-aged Strong Ale. A collaboration between HOTD, Brouwerij de Molen, and Tamamura Honten Co.Little Beast Black Cap. 8.4%
Foeder-Aged Ale with Black Cap RaspberriesLogsdon Peche ‘n Brett. 10%
Peche 'n Brett is brewed and refermented with the peaches added in to our award winning Seizoen Bretta.pFriem Fraise. 6.4%
pFriem Fraise is created by blending our barrel aged, Lambic-inspired ale with extraordinarily fresh, Hood strawberries.The Commons Bourbon Little Brother. 10%
A portion of Little Brother is added to Heaven Hill bourbon barrels after primary fermentation where it picks up a rich, bourbon flavor.Upright Apricot Pathways. 8%
… is a unique blend that combines select casks of our stock barrel aged saison with a few casks of a fresh apricot wheat based saison brewed in the summer of 2017.
from Utah
Epic Brewing Triple Barrel Big Bad Baptist. 11.4%
We aged coconut and Blue Copper’s Colombian coffee beans in fresh whiskey barrels, while our imperial stout aged in both rum and whiskey barrels. The trio was then hand blended, creating our most over-the-top version of Big Bad Baptist yet. Best enjoyed slowly, three sips at a time.
from the United Kingdom
Harviestoun Ola Dubh 10th Anniversary. 8% ABV
Old Ale aged for 2-years in Highland Park 12-year old Single Malt Whisky barrels.
from Washington
Aslan Raspberry Dojo. 6.2% ABV
Oak-aged Saison with raspberriesCloudburst Cease To Amaze. 9.9% ABV
Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial PorterElysian Bourbon Bbl-Aged Dragonstooth Stout 11.26% ABV
Engine House #9 Wild Tacoma. 5.9% ABV
Table Sour with bing cherriesFinnriver Understory. 6.5% ABV
Apple Cider with salal berries & aged with red cedar staves2017 Fremont Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkstar: Coffee Edition. 14.5% ABV
Garden Path The Subtle Blend. 7% ABV
A blend of foudre-fermented beer refermented in upright puncheons with fresh, organic raspberries from Viva Farms and mature, barrel-aged beer, naturally conditioned with blackberry honey from The Valley’s Buzz.Georgetown Barrel Aged 18LB Porter. 9.2% ABV
This imperial version of our 9lb Porter is a blend of beer aged six and twelve months in Maker's Mark and Heaven Hills barrles. Bourbon and vanilla notes from barrel aging intensify the plush roasted and chocolate notes and aromas, making this a winter sipper sure to please.Holy Mountain Midnight Still with Turkish coffee & cardamom. 13% ABV
This is our “Turkish Coffee” blend that incorporates stock of imperial stout aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels for 17 months and 12 months. The blend was then transferred into a stainless tank and aged with coffee and cardamom.Matchless Fruitcake Bbl-Aged Old Ale. 9.8% ABV
2018 North Fork Electric Strawberryland Bbl-Aged Sour ’18. 6.9% ABV
Propolis Blue Huckleberry. 7% ABV
Saison aged in Sangiovese & Cabernet barrels with wild blue huckleberries.2018 Reuben’s Brews Bourbon Barre-aged Imperial Stout. 11.9% ABV
Seapine Sky Dad. 8.5% ABV
Imperial Stout aged in Westland whiskey barrelsSkookum Scary Joy. 9.8% ABV.
Barrel-aged Imperial Oatmeal Brown Ale with CoconutStandard Jethro. 9.3% ABV
Porter aged with BrettStoup “Why”. 11% ABV
Cognac puncheon-aged Stock Ale with brett. Brewed in collaboration with Horus Aged Ales in Oceanside, CaliforniaStructures Devoid. 3.4% ABV
Oak-fermented berliner weisseVarietal When Gravity Fails. 10% ABV
American-style Double Stout, aged in Dry Fly Triticale whiskey & Woodinville bourbon barrels.
In addition to the draft-list, there will be special menu items to pair with whatever’s in your glass. Doors open 11 am tomorrow with each evening concluding at 12 am, with the exception of Friday and Saturday (at 2 am). Brouwer’s Cafe is located at 400 North 35th Street in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.