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10-12-2005, 03:25 PM
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Howdy Rowdies
Tropicana Nights October 18th
Wet Hopped Ales November 7 and 8
Charlie Papazian December 6
Holiday Ale multiple guest panel December 14 and 15
Lupulin Slam III January ‘aughtSIX
Strong Ale multiple guest panel February
Michael Jackson mid - March
Who luvs ya baby?
Tropicana Nights
THIS IS A FREE PROGRAM!
What!?!?!?
The Life and Times of Havana’s Tropicana Night Club
Cosponsored with the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
Tues., Oct. 18, 7 p.m.
It was to Havana what the Moulin Rouge was to Paris or the Blue Note to New York. In the 1950s, the Tropicana was a paradise under the stars, a place where one could gamble and hear the finest mambo and jazz musicians of the time. Stars like Nat “King” Cole and Josephine Baker played the Tropicana. Celebrities and suburbanites alike were drawn to its kinetic sensuality and tropical setting.
Ofelia Fox, widow of the Tropicana’s last owner, vividly describes the cultural richness of pre-Revolutionary Cuba and takes us on an insider’s tour of one of the world’s most glamorous venues at its most brilliant moment in history. Fox is interviewed by Cuban-born journalist Rosa Lowinger, her coauthor of Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub, which is available.
The evening includes live music by one of D.C.’s own Latin bands.
Tickets are FREE but you MUST have a ticket to enter! Get your ticket by surfing to the Smithsonian website at -
http://residentassociates.org/otooct/tropicana.asp
Tickets for the following events are not yet on sale, cool yer horses and hold yer jets. I’m just info’in you so your calendars may be appropriately annotated.
Wet Hopped Ales with Tom Nickel November 7 and 8
(RFD Washington 810 7th St NW W..C. 202-289-2030)
Tom Nickel was the Brewer at Oggi’s in SoCal for years before leaving to open his waycool San Diego multitap O’Brien's Pub (20 taps, Tons of Hops) He is a fantastic brewer and a west coast team member for the Lupulin Slam. Tom is coming east with a bunch of wet hopped ales just cause that’s the kind of guy he is. We’ll have the largest selection of wet hops ever this year. Our mini Wet hop festival is one of only four held a year and is the only wet hop festival outside of the state of California. I’ll put out a mailing a couple weeks before the event with ticket ordering info. If you like hops and haven’t tried a wet hopped ale this is a must-attend event. While some beers like to think their taste is akin to the kiss of the hop, wet hopped ales are a drooly tongued frenching. No other style showcases so well the essence of the hop, this tasting is one of our faves.
Charlie Papazin come to the Brickskeller December 6th!
I wrote a piece about the Great American Beer Festival for Cheers magazine, look for it in their November issue (www.cheersonline.com) I last went to the GABF in 1988 and felt my concerns with overexposure having been addressed, this might be a good year to return. We made so many contacts we might not wait another 17 years to go back. Charlie is a true legend, I can’t believe we haven’t had him on our stage before. You may blame the beerguy for that. Charlie is founder of the Great American Beer Festival, President of the American Homebrewers Association, the Brewers Association and just about anything else in the beer world you can be president of! His book Microbrewed Adventures is being released in paperback, Charlie will grace our stage with stories of his incredible involvement in the craft brew industry’s growth and have copies of his book available for purchase and signing.
The December Holidaze Ale Multiple Guest, Multiple Nights Extravaganzee!
Every December we invite dozens of our favorite brewers to RFD’s stage to share their winter seasonals, this year the dates are December 14 and 15. 12 or 13 brewers a night make this event the best and easiest way to taste the area’s incredible winter offerings. Many attend both nights., Rest accordingly.
Lupulin Slam III
The first time we had Tomme Arthur of San Diego’s Pizza Port brewery on our stage I knew I had to get him and Sam Calagione from Dogfish Head together in front of a mike. Tomme won small brewer of the year at the GABF last year and the year before, he missed it this year by a fraction of a point. He brews super hoppy beers one typically associates with west coast brewers, but also is one of the craft beer industry’s best brewers of Belgian style ales. I asked Tomme to put together a 3 brewer team from west of the mighty Mississip and Sam to do likewise for the east. Each side has won one Slam. This year is the bumper match. Truly one of the finest beer lineups we’ve ever be able to present, this third Slam is definitely one not to miss!
February Strong Ales Too Many Guests Too Many Nights Brewapalooza!
We like the December event so much we do it again in February, only this time instead of winter seasonals we unleash our fave brewers with their strong ales!
RFD is a HOTSPOT! Bring your laptop to RFD, order your choice from the best selection of beers in keg in the city and get yourself UNwired! Let them sullenfaced beangrinding loners sip their $6 grandees at tables of solitude in cramped coffehuts! You can be drinking a great kegged beer watching Hi-Def Plasmas eating deeLISH food among the company of lovable smiling beerpeeps in the heart of the city! RFD is UNWIRED! RFD Washington 810 7th St NW
The Brickskeller upstairs is open 6 nights a week! Every night but Tuesday we are pouring the taps! We open the upstairs on Sundays starting at 12noon showing the NFL action on our TV’s and Monday nights for footsball and taps too! We recently sorta completed our tap installation upstairs, look for English Ales on cask weekends and our new kewl double tap where we split one keg line thru two taps so we can offer you a choice of a hoppy gem either straight from the keg or diverted thru a Randal the Hop Monster every weekend! The Brick now has 14 tap offerings. 1 cask, 12 taps, one of which offers two different pourings. Look for a dedicated barleywine tap coming realsoon! YOWSA BOWSA! (The Brickskeller quietly celebrated her 48th anniversary October 7th. The joint that kicked your granny out for dancing on the tables when your daddy was no more than a twinkle in her eye has spent 48 years under the same ownership in the same building. Sssshh don’t tell anyone, we’re saving up our strength for the good stuff, our 50th in ’07 . . .)
As always RFD shows EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN NFL Game on our cool Plasmas and big screens, it is THE place for great beer and great sports! C’mon down and see for yourself! Three summers on 7th street already!?
The Brickskeller and RFD donated well over $3500.00 to the relief efforts on the gulf coast in September. Those wishing to personally contribute are urged to visit this website and do what they can - http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main
Remember as the holiday season approaches (what’s with stores displaying Christmas stuff already? The day after Thanksgiving use to be the starting line for traditional Xmasmania greed-mongering overmerchandising! Then it was Halloween and now the gloves are off! Xmas stuff on display in September? Some may think it ok but my horse and I say NEIGH! Cripes. Halloween gets dissed again. BOO who?)
OK enough digressin.
Remember as the holiday season approaches, and you are crying like a spoiled brat for a cell phone that does your laundry and lets you play Frogger while speeding down the interstate, that your OLD phone can be made into a device that can possibly save a battered woman’s life. Old cell phones may be taken to police or fire stations where they are converted into useable emergency 911 dialers and distributed to battered woman who find themselves in unwanted situations not of their own making. Help someone you never met. Put a smile on a strangers face. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Drink your beer at the Brickskeller and RFD Washington. You are getting thrisssstyyyy. . . . . . . .
While you sleep prohibitionists are deviously promoting the smoking ban and working to control your future and your right to make your own choices. Know where your politicians stand and vote accordingly. Support a tax free DC. See thru the smoke screen of smoking ban prohibitionists. Make our city a better place, not a Big Brother place. Off the proletariat! Huzzah! PeaceOut!
Can I go now?
A tip'o'the bottlecap and a please stay safe to all my buddies all over the world from
BigPoppaHandPump/aka/BeerGuyDave!
| BeerGuyDave's Brews & News ||'| " \,___
|__...__...____________ ====|=||_|__|....,]
"(@) '(@) "(@)(@)*******(@)*I meep meep!
Howdy Rowdies
Tropicana Nights October 18th
Wet Hopped Ales November 7 and 8
Charlie Papazian December 6
Holiday Ale multiple guest panel December 14 and 15
Lupulin Slam III January ‘aughtSIX
Strong Ale multiple guest panel February
Michael Jackson mid - March
Who luvs ya baby?
Tropicana Nights
THIS IS A FREE PROGRAM!
What!?!?!?
The Life and Times of Havana’s Tropicana Night Club
Cosponsored with the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
Tues., Oct. 18, 7 p.m.
It was to Havana what the Moulin Rouge was to Paris or the Blue Note to New York. In the 1950s, the Tropicana was a paradise under the stars, a place where one could gamble and hear the finest mambo and jazz musicians of the time. Stars like Nat “King” Cole and Josephine Baker played the Tropicana. Celebrities and suburbanites alike were drawn to its kinetic sensuality and tropical setting.
Ofelia Fox, widow of the Tropicana’s last owner, vividly describes the cultural richness of pre-Revolutionary Cuba and takes us on an insider’s tour of one of the world’s most glamorous venues at its most brilliant moment in history. Fox is interviewed by Cuban-born journalist Rosa Lowinger, her coauthor of Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub, which is available.
The evening includes live music by one of D.C.’s own Latin bands.
Tickets are FREE but you MUST have a ticket to enter! Get your ticket by surfing to the Smithsonian website at -
http://residentassociates.org/otooct/tropicana.asp
Tickets for the following events are not yet on sale, cool yer horses and hold yer jets. I’m just info’in you so your calendars may be appropriately annotated.
Wet Hopped Ales with Tom Nickel November 7 and 8
(RFD Washington 810 7th St NW W..C. 202-289-2030)
Tom Nickel was the Brewer at Oggi’s in SoCal for years before leaving to open his waycool San Diego multitap O’Brien's Pub (20 taps, Tons of Hops) He is a fantastic brewer and a west coast team member for the Lupulin Slam. Tom is coming east with a bunch of wet hopped ales just cause that’s the kind of guy he is. We’ll have the largest selection of wet hops ever this year. Our mini Wet hop festival is one of only four held a year and is the only wet hop festival outside of the state of California. I’ll put out a mailing a couple weeks before the event with ticket ordering info. If you like hops and haven’t tried a wet hopped ale this is a must-attend event. While some beers like to think their taste is akin to the kiss of the hop, wet hopped ales are a drooly tongued frenching. No other style showcases so well the essence of the hop, this tasting is one of our faves.
Charlie Papazin come to the Brickskeller December 6th!
I wrote a piece about the Great American Beer Festival for Cheers magazine, look for it in their November issue (www.cheersonline.com) I last went to the GABF in 1988 and felt my concerns with overexposure having been addressed, this might be a good year to return. We made so many contacts we might not wait another 17 years to go back. Charlie is a true legend, I can’t believe we haven’t had him on our stage before. You may blame the beerguy for that. Charlie is founder of the Great American Beer Festival, President of the American Homebrewers Association, the Brewers Association and just about anything else in the beer world you can be president of! His book Microbrewed Adventures is being released in paperback, Charlie will grace our stage with stories of his incredible involvement in the craft brew industry’s growth and have copies of his book available for purchase and signing.
The December Holidaze Ale Multiple Guest, Multiple Nights Extravaganzee!
Every December we invite dozens of our favorite brewers to RFD’s stage to share their winter seasonals, this year the dates are December 14 and 15. 12 or 13 brewers a night make this event the best and easiest way to taste the area’s incredible winter offerings. Many attend both nights., Rest accordingly.
Lupulin Slam III
The first time we had Tomme Arthur of San Diego’s Pizza Port brewery on our stage I knew I had to get him and Sam Calagione from Dogfish Head together in front of a mike. Tomme won small brewer of the year at the GABF last year and the year before, he missed it this year by a fraction of a point. He brews super hoppy beers one typically associates with west coast brewers, but also is one of the craft beer industry’s best brewers of Belgian style ales. I asked Tomme to put together a 3 brewer team from west of the mighty Mississip and Sam to do likewise for the east. Each side has won one Slam. This year is the bumper match. Truly one of the finest beer lineups we’ve ever be able to present, this third Slam is definitely one not to miss!
February Strong Ales Too Many Guests Too Many Nights Brewapalooza!
We like the December event so much we do it again in February, only this time instead of winter seasonals we unleash our fave brewers with their strong ales!
RFD is a HOTSPOT! Bring your laptop to RFD, order your choice from the best selection of beers in keg in the city and get yourself UNwired! Let them sullenfaced beangrinding loners sip their $6 grandees at tables of solitude in cramped coffehuts! You can be drinking a great kegged beer watching Hi-Def Plasmas eating deeLISH food among the company of lovable smiling beerpeeps in the heart of the city! RFD is UNWIRED! RFD Washington 810 7th St NW
The Brickskeller upstairs is open 6 nights a week! Every night but Tuesday we are pouring the taps! We open the upstairs on Sundays starting at 12noon showing the NFL action on our TV’s and Monday nights for footsball and taps too! We recently sorta completed our tap installation upstairs, look for English Ales on cask weekends and our new kewl double tap where we split one keg line thru two taps so we can offer you a choice of a hoppy gem either straight from the keg or diverted thru a Randal the Hop Monster every weekend! The Brick now has 14 tap offerings. 1 cask, 12 taps, one of which offers two different pourings. Look for a dedicated barleywine tap coming realsoon! YOWSA BOWSA! (The Brickskeller quietly celebrated her 48th anniversary October 7th. The joint that kicked your granny out for dancing on the tables when your daddy was no more than a twinkle in her eye has spent 48 years under the same ownership in the same building. Sssshh don’t tell anyone, we’re saving up our strength for the good stuff, our 50th in ’07 . . .)
As always RFD shows EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN NFL Game on our cool Plasmas and big screens, it is THE place for great beer and great sports! C’mon down and see for yourself! Three summers on 7th street already!?
The Brickskeller and RFD donated well over $3500.00 to the relief efforts on the gulf coast in September. Those wishing to personally contribute are urged to visit this website and do what they can - http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main
Remember as the holiday season approaches (what’s with stores displaying Christmas stuff already? The day after Thanksgiving use to be the starting line for traditional Xmasmania greed-mongering overmerchandising! Then it was Halloween and now the gloves are off! Xmas stuff on display in September? Some may think it ok but my horse and I say NEIGH! Cripes. Halloween gets dissed again. BOO who?)
OK enough digressin.
Remember as the holiday season approaches, and you are crying like a spoiled brat for a cell phone that does your laundry and lets you play Frogger while speeding down the interstate, that your OLD phone can be made into a device that can possibly save a battered woman’s life. Old cell phones may be taken to police or fire stations where they are converted into useable emergency 911 dialers and distributed to battered woman who find themselves in unwanted situations not of their own making. Help someone you never met. Put a smile on a strangers face. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Drink your beer at the Brickskeller and RFD Washington. You are getting thrisssstyyyy. . . . . . . .
While you sleep prohibitionists are deviously promoting the smoking ban and working to control your future and your right to make your own choices. Know where your politicians stand and vote accordingly. Support a tax free DC. See thru the smoke screen of smoking ban prohibitionists. Make our city a better place, not a Big Brother place. Off the proletariat! Huzzah! PeaceOut!
Can I go now?
A tip'o'the bottlecap and a please stay safe to all my buddies all over the world from
BigPoppaHandPump/aka/BeerGuyDave!