Founders Event

As you may know, we’re coming to the end of American Craft Beer Week, the annual celebration of just how far we’ve come over the past 30 plus years, and how much our favorite beverage has reasserted itself as an important part of American culture. What you might not know is that this week the Brewer’s Association also chose the top ten craft beer cities in the United States. Unfortunately, this year’s winner – Beer City USA – wasn’t New York. We didn’t even make the top ten. Or the top twenty. No, the winner, going away, was Grand Rapids, Michigan. Why? Probably because it’s the home of Founders, which will be joining us at the Tiger next week for their annual pilgrimage to the east coast. New York may not be Beer City USA, but it’s still the go to place for a celebration.

One reason Founders is so popular is that instead of brewing beers they think we might like, they brew beers they want to drink, as part of their constant quest for new and interesting flavor profiles. I guess we have pretty similar taste buds. The Backstage Series personifies this passion for new and different experiences, when they take a favorite experiment from their Taproom, and produce it on a slightly larger scale, for those of us who don’t happen to live in Beer City. Their latest offering is Doom, which is Double Trouble – one of the better Double IPA’s out there – aged in bourbon barrels for four months. They filled very few kegs of this rare concoction, but one of them will be on hand this Weds, at 3 pm, at the Blind Tiger. Come join us as we show Founders how we party in the City that Never Sleeps USA…

-Dave

The List:

Founders Woking List:
Founders Doom (Barrel Aged Double Trouble)
Founders Double Trouble
Founders All Day IPA
Founders Breakfast Stout
Founders Old Curmudgeon (from our stash)
Founders Backwoods Bastard 2011
Founders Imperial Stout
Founders Reds Rye
Founders Centennial IPA
Founders Dirty Bastard
Founders Blushing Monk
Founders Oatmeal Stout (Nitro)
Founders BA Habañero Spite