SUNDAY, JULY 24 2016: South Sound events + craft beer …
Back To Beale Street + Rodenbach Grand Cru = a blend of young and old
Doyle’s Public House + Pint Defiance = cribbage and cans
BACK TO BEALE STREET BLUES COMPETITION
Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee is rich with history. From the early 1900s through the 1940s, it was swinging — every club and restaurant was filled with solemn saxophone, upbeat piano, gritty, soulful voices and even the occasional jug band. Jazz artists were fusing with blues legends like B.B. King, Muddy Water and Louis Armstrong to help birth the style of “Memphis Blues,” and music was evolving the way it should — organically and beautifully. Beale Street is home to many music festivals, including the International Blues Challenge. Every year the South Sound Blues Association hosts the Back to Beale Street Blues Competition, hosting Washington state blues bands in a battle of the bands completion sending the winner to the IBC in January. At 3 p.m. in Jazzbones, the Back to Beale Street Blues Competition begins with each band performing a 25-minute set for a panel of three judges. Drop by, grab a drink and watch the blues bands battle.
PREFUNK: 99 Bottles beer store kicks off this week’s beer tasting flight today with World Beer Cup gold medal-winning Rodenbach Grand Cru, a blend of “young” beer (33%) and an older beer (67%) that has matured in oak vats. It is the high percentage of the older ripened-in-oak beer that gives it the complex and intense bouquet with a very long aftertaste like a Grand Cru wine. The late Michael Jackson bestowed upon this beer the titles of “World Classic” and “the Burgundy of Belgium.” The other three beer of the flight are Cockrell Hard Cider Hop ’n Cider, Brauerei Gebrüder Maisel GmbH & Co. Maisel’s Weisse Original and Shmaltz Brewing Co. He’Brew Wishbone IPA.
SUMMER PEGGIN’
Cribbage is for real strategists, people who know how to leverage any hand. You know who you are. Maybe you haven’t played in years or perhaps you’ve never played, but the challenge of the game calls you. We promise you this, once you start playing Cribbage you are hooked. It’s the potato chip of card games. So join Doyle’s Public House’s Cribbage Tournament at 2:30 p.m. There is a $5 registration fee with all the proceeds being paid out to the first and second place finishers. This may affect your amateur status so please check with your governing boards before entering.
PREFUNK: The can revolution continues. More and more great beers are lining the shelves dressed in aluminum instead of glass, and the choices to bring to the beach or poolside seem to expand every week. With summer in full swing, there are more options than ever for canned craft beer. Still not sold on the benefits of cans vs. glass? Drop by Pint Defiance for its Sunday Sampler, Canned Edition. That’s right. The beer store/taproom on the edge of Fircrest will offer 4-ounce pours of Laurelwood Brewing Company Golden Ale, Backwoods Brewing Company Blueberry Wheat, Wittekerke Wild Wit and Bleching Beaver Easy Beaver Session IPA from cutting-edge, space-age, low-carbon-footprint, shiny technology.
