Happy Hour Crown Valley Brewery

Every Friday night Crown Valley Brewery will have draft specials, a take home beer special, and some free appetizers out for customers from 4-7pm. This weeks specials are:

• $2.00 Drafts of Antique Amber Lager and Worktruck Wheat
• 10% discounts on take home six packs of Wooden Nickel IPA

Cheers!

Saffron Bistro Featured Beer Update

Saffron Bistro has 6 bottles of Rogue Orange Somer Honey Ale and, after those 6 bottles sell, will be switching their featured beer to Sierra Nevada's Torpedo Extra IPA. This is a great beer! Go get yourself some sushi and Torpedo!
Cheers!

Saffron Bisto
Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA ***Featured Beer***
Samuel Smith Organic Ale
Singha Lager
Sapporo Lager
Kirin Ichiban Lager

NPR: "Gypsy Brewer" Story

Here's a cool story about "Gypsy Brewer's" and Craft Beer & Food from NPR...Enjoy!
Cheers!

Craft Beer Emergency Tractor's Classic American Grill

ATTENTION READERS: I have been told Tractor's Classic American Grill in Jackson has dropped Schlafly Pale from there beer list in favor of Coor's produced Blue Moon. Please join me in emailing, calling, or asking in person for Tractor's to bring back a local craft beer.

You can email Tractor's through SEMO Market Place.
You can call Tractor's at 573-243-0340.
You can stop by Tractor's at 124 S High St, Jackson, MO 63755

This is the message I composed by email. Feel free to copy and send the first half of this message. Let's show our support and bring local beer back to Tractors!
Cheers!

Subject: Schlafly Pale & Local Craft Beer

Message: Please bring this back. It is the only local beer you had on tap. Please support your local craft breweries including Charleville, Crown Valley, Schlafly, O'fallon, and Boulevard. I think you will find a great deal of support for local breweries in Southeast Missouri. I would be happy to help you spread the word about your craft beer selection on my website and Facebook Page for SEMO Craft Beer if you are struggling to sell craft beer.
Cheers!
Ryan Nagel
SEMO Craft Beer
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SEMO Craft Beer Lists, Events, & News Aug 13th

SEMO Craft Beer List Updates
This week we welcome the additions of Jones Heritage Farm & Market and Buffalo Wild Wings, Cape Girardeau to our SEMO Craft Beer Lists. Below are the links to the individual pages at the SEMO Craft Beer Webpage.

SEMO Craft Breweries Beer List
SEMO Retailers Craft Beer List
SEMO Restaurants Craft Beer List
SEMO Wineries Craft Beer List

SEMO Craft Beer Events
This past Tuesday Primo Vino! hosted their 2nd Craft Beer Tasting featuring Avery, Bell's, New Belgium, and O'Fallon Craft Beer Selections. It appeared to be a really good turn out. I cannot recommend these tastings enough. They are a great opportunity to try over a dozen Craft Beers for free.

Tomorrow, Saturday August 14th, will kick off Jour de Fete in Ste Genevieve. Be sure to make the trip to Ste Gen to enjoy the festivities and have a Pilsner, Half-Wit, or Tornando Alley Amber Ale from Charleville Vinyard & Microbrewery.

Tomorrow, Saturday August 14th, John Huber of Homebrewsupply of Southeast Missouri will be offering a free homebrew demonstration from 10am to 2 pm. John just sent a note that he will have water and homebrew samples so you can beat the August heat.

SEMO Craft Beer News
August has been an exciting month for the St Louis Craft Beer Scene that is just a country mile north for us. Three new breweries have announced their plans to serve the St Louis Area: The Civil Life Brewing Company, Urban Chestnut Brewing Co., and Perennial Artisan Ales. Here are some articles from Evan Benn's STL Today Hip Hop's column and Mike Sweeney's STLHops.com STL Craft Beer Blog:

Hip Hops - St. Louis is awash in new breweries
Hip Hops - New microbrewery takes root in St. Louis
Hip Hops - Former A-B workers to open microbrewery
STL Hops - Urban Chestnut Brewing Company Opening in St. Louis
STL Hops - Beer Nerds Rejoice: Yet Another New Brewery in STL

O'Fallon Brewery is brewing up a Belgian Dark Strong to age in Port Barrels

And, I also discovered this week that Bryce Eddings the Craft Beer writer behind About Beer is a resident of Cape Girardeau. Be sure to check out his blog. Here is his lastest post: Can a Chain Brew Local Beer?

Jones Heritage Farm & Market Craft Beer List

The SEMO Craft Beer Lists keep growing. We now have the selections available at Jones Heritage Farm & Market. I encourage everyone to head out to Jones Heritage Farms to enjoy some delicious and heathly local food and a local Craft Beer. We are very fortunate to have them in our SEMO Community.

Jones Heritage Farm and Market
Charleville Pilsner
Charleville Half-Wit Wheat
Charleville Tornado Valley Amber Ale
Charleville Hoptimistic IPA
Schlafly Hefeweizen
Schlafly Pale Ale
Ray Hill's Classic American Pilsner
Red Bridge Gluten Free
Shock Top Belgian White

About Jones Heritage Farm & Market

Jones Heritage Farms is a family owned farm located in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. They focus on sustainable, natural and humane farming methods. All natural pork, chicken, eggs, lamb, beef and vegetables are raised and sold on the farm.

The Market hours are 10am-6pm M-Thur., Fri.- 10am-9pm and Sat. 7am-9pm
Their Kitchen is open Mon-Fri. 11am-2pm for lunch, Fri.& Sat.4pm-9pm for dinner and Saturday mornings from 7am-Noon for breakfast.

http://jonesheritagefarms.com/index.htm
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78432952229
gerryjones@jonesheritagefarms.com
573.332-7447
5739 State Highway W
Jackson, MO, 63755

Primo Vino! Tasting - Beer Descriptions

I have researched all 12 Craft Beers that Primo Vino! will be sampling tomorrow from 6-8pm. Here are the notes from ratebeer.com, Avery's website, and Jolly Pumpkin's website. Enjoy & Cheers!

Bell's Beers

Bell's Oberon
ABV: 6%
An American wheat ale made with European ingredients. Belgium wheat malt and Czech Saaz hops provide a spicy, fruity balance to this seasonal ale. (Formerly known as Solsun)

Bell's Third Coast
ABV: 5.2%
A beautiful golden-hued brew in the pale ale style. The lightest of our beers, it includes a nice hop flavor and all pale malts.

Bell's Pale Ale
ABV: 5.3%
A refreshing, blond colored pale ale. Bell’s pale ale is made almost exclusively from pale malt. It expresses a spicy floral hop aroma and taste.

Bell's Amber Ale
ABV: 6%
Made from mostly pale malt and some Munich and caramel malts. These add a little sweetness, which is balanced by more hops. The result is a rich color and fruity flavor.

Bell's Best Brown Ale
ABV: 5.8%
This is a rich brown ale perfect for the fall. Exclusive use of all Belgian specialty malts give a rich yet dry finish to this beer.

Avery Beers

Avery duganA IPA
Beer Style: Double India Pale Ale
Hop Variety: Chinook, Centennial and Columbus
Malt Variety: Two-row barley, dark aromatic, caramel malt
OG: 1.076 ABV: 8.5% IBUs: 93
Color: Deep Gold
Availability: Limited release. Inaugural batch was released in early October '09. Brewed whenever we have a little extra tank space and a desire for dank hops!

Lupulin Rapture Incarnate! As fervent devotees of hops, we found ourselves on a quest to create a transcendental IPA capable of quenching our voracious lupulin desires. Our mantra became "unity of bitterness, hop flavor and aroma." Enlightened, duganA IPA was born: A brutally bitter, dank, piney and resinous ale designed for those seeking a divine hop experience.

Avery The Czar Imperial Stout
Beer Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Hop Variety: Magnum, German Hallertau
Malt Variety: Two-row barley, black, chocolate, carafa 111, cara 8, cara 45, honey malt
OG: 1.100 ABV: 11.03% IBUs: 60
Color: Black
Availability: Seasonally produced from November through February. 22oz. bombers, 1/6BBL and 1/2BBL kegs.

Behold the stunning crimson hues through the inky blackness. Inhale the noble Hallertau hops, spicy and floral. Savor the flavors redolent of English toffee, rich mocha, sweet molasses, candied currants and a hint of anise. We highly recommend cellaring additional bottles, as the Czar will continue to mature and become denser

Avery White Rascal Belgian-Style Wheat Ale
Beer Style: Belgian White Ale
Hop Variety: Czech Saaz
Malt Variety: Two-row barley, Belgian wheat
OG: 1.050 ABV: 5.6% IBUs: 10
Color: White

A truly authentic Belgian style wheat or "white" ale, this Rascal is unfiltered (yup, that's yeast on the bottom) and cleverly spiced with coriander and Curacao orange peel producing a refreshingly fruity thirst quencher.

Avery New World Porter
Beer Style: Robust Porter
Hop Variety: Columbus, Fuggles
Malt Variety: Two-row barley, Munich 10L, chocolate, black, caramel 120L
OG: 1.065 ABV: 6.7% IBUs: 45
Color: Black
Availability: Seasonal, January to April. Six-packs, cases, 1/6BBL and 1/2BBL kegs.

A traditional black porter, with a surprise twist - it's dry-hopped!! We've expanded the porter category a bit, adding a delightful, dry hop aroma to blend with the sweet caramel and chocolate characteristics of a Robust Porter.

Avery Ellie's Brown Ale
Beer Style: American Brown Ale
Hop Variety: Bullion, Cascade, Fuggles
Malt Variety: Two-row barley, chocolate, Munich 10L, caramel 120L
OG: 1.056 ABV: 5.5% IBUs: 17
Color: Deep Russet
Availability: Year round. Six-packs, cases, 1/6BBL and 1/2BBL kegs.

This beautiful, deep russet brew has the sweet and somewhat nutty character of Adam Avery's late (1992-2002) Chocolate Lab, for which it is named. Crystal and chocolate malts give this beer a brown sugar maltiness with hints of vanilla and nuts, while subtle hopping gives it an overall drinkability that's second to none, just like Ellie!

Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales

Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza
Brewed in the Franco-Belgian tradition of strong golden ales. Spicy and peppery with a gentle hop bouquet and the beguiling influence of wild yeast.

GABF 2004 Gold Medal & GABF 2005 Bronze

Year round production
8% Alc./Vol.

Jolly Pumpkin E.S. Bam - Extra Special Farmhouse Ale
A Bam celebration of excess. More malt, more hops, same vivacious personality.

Seasonal released in April
4.7% Alc./Vol.