Lucky Bucket on Drinking Made Easy Episode

  
Okay, they weren't really mentioned, but it's still free advertising  I took this picture of my TV screen during the Nashville episode of Drinking Made Easy.  Zane was at 12 South sampling their taps.

When they panned the tap selection something popped out at me as being familiar...Certified Evil.  And then I remembered Lucky Bucket mentioned they are being distributed in Tennessee.
 

Omaha Beer Week at Beer Corner USA

  

A quick summary of the Omaha Beer Events at Beer Corner USA.  For more information visit www.omahabeerweek.com/events.html

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Fri, Feb 3

> Special edition Pint Night of Nebraska-brewed beers

> 3-year anniversary celebration of Lucky Bucket Brewing Company (5:00 to 8:00 p.m.)

Sat Feb, 4

> Brews and Breakfast (10:00 to 11:30 a.m.)

> Free city-wide bus tour

> Beer Swap, Silent Auction, and Flea Market (12:00 to 3:00 p.m.)

Mon, Feb 6

> Vintage Beer Tasting (7:00 to 10:00 p.m.)

> Beer Bowl Trivia and Blind Taste Test (7:00 to 9:00 p.m.)

Tue, Feb 7

> Green Flash Pint Night Tap Takeover (4:00 p.m. to close)

> Beer-themed Movie Night (7:00 p.m.)

Wed, Feb 8

> New Belgium Beer night with Fat Tire cruiser bike give-away (4:00 p.m. to close)

> Special tapping TBA in the Huber Haus (5:00 p.m.)

> Spiegelau Beer Glassware Presentation with Boulevard (6:30 to 8:00 p.m.)

> Special tapping TBA in Max and Joe's (8:00 p.m.)

Thu, Feb 9

> Boulevard Tap Takeover

> Twisted Pine Ghost Face Kilah Beer and Wing Challenge (8:00 p.m.)

Fri, Feb 10

> Beer Dinner with Lagunitas Brewing Company (7:00 to 9:30 p.m.)

Sat, Feb 11

> 6th Annual Extreme Beerfest (3:00 to 7:00 p.m.)

 

Jake's Friday Tapping Parties/Lincoln: Lucky Bucket Double Tapping /Omaha: Straffe Hendrik Quadruple

Friday (1/13) tapping parties for the Lincoln & Omaha Jake's


LINCOLN JAKE'S: Friday in Lincoln will be a great double tapping party with Lucky Bucket. It will serve as a unique and educational look into the old brewing technique known as "Parti-gyle", which is the process of creating two beers from the same batch of grains. Originally the technique was practiced to allow breweries to create a range of different beers of various strengths, as well as to not waste any sugar extract from the grains. What you end up with is very different tasting beers that started out with the same mash, in this case the boys up in Omaha created a Barley Wine and an American Mild.

Lucky Bucket Barley Wine - this ferocious beer explodes with flavor in the forefront and yet tames itself into an extremely elegant and smooth brew. Its huge sweet body is intriguing with flavors of dark chocolate, vanilla, blackberry, grapefruit, and caramel all battling each other over your taste buds. This isn't a beer to be sipped, but to be experienced!

Lucky Bucket American Mild Ale - this unique brew is reminiscent of an English small beer, however don't let the name fool you because there is plenty of flavor here... Deep amber in color, its delicate hop aroma is complemented by a rich caramel sweetness. Our American Mild Ale is as complex as it is balanced, making it a great beer sit around and drink with friends.

5:00 pm Jake's Lincoln (14th & P St.)



OMAHA JAKE'S: Friday will bring warm bellies to Omaha with the tapping of a delicious Belgian beer from the De Halve Maan brewery in Bruges. Straffe Hendrik Quadruple is layered with dark fruit character, and weighs in at 11% ABV.

Commercial description: "Straffe Hendrik Quadruple is a rich and intense dark beer of high fermentation. It is brewed using a subtle mixture of special malts, which give the beer an extremely dark colour and a complex full malt character. This Quadruple combines a pure dryness with a rich fullness, flavoured with just a hint of fruit."

RateBeer Rating: 96

5:30 pm Jake's Omaha (62nd & Maple)

Jake's Omaha Beer Week Correction

Oops...

The bus shuttle is the 4th, not the 11th.

And one more event for Sunday the 12th at 12 noon!

Garnish your own Blood Mary at the Jake's. In conjunction with Krug Park, Jake's will have a Bloody Mary bar open for you to try your hand at creating the perfect Bloody Mary.

Lucky Bucket's 3 Year Anniversary Party

Join the Lucky Bucket team at the Havana Garage on the 27th from 7 to 11:30pm to help them celebrate 3 years of Lucky Bucket!

For all the details go to their facebook event page here.

Empyrean OBW Beer Dinner

Here is another great beer dinner during Omaha Beer Week at Mojo Steakhouse.

Wednesday Feb. 8th 
7-10pm 

We will be tasting Empyrean's Burning Sky Scottish Ale, Luna Sea ESB, Third Stone Brown, Better World Wheat, & Fallen Angel Sweet Stout on draft and Cask with added Coffee beans....Mmmmmm. For the food it will be Mojo's Already Famous Smoked Chicken Artichoke Dip, newly added pizzas Brisket Brushetta and Sausage & Mushroom...for dessert a home-made Chocolate Sheet Cake made with Fallen Angel Stout!!! We will have Empyrean Reps and brewers on hand to discuss Nebraska Craft Beers and any other questions you might have.

Facebook event

Omaha Beer Week Article

  
Here's a great article from the UNO Gateway on Omaha Beer Week:

http://www.unogateway.com/entertainment/omaha-beer-week-1.2739467
 

Boulevard Beer Dinner at °Brix

Join the folks at °Brix for a beer dinner on February 8th featuring Boulevard Brewing Company's beers. Check out the picture below or click here for more details.

°Brix Beer University

Want to learn more about beer, brewing, styles, and beer-making regions? Then sign up for °Brix's Beer University. See the picture below or click here for details.

Brewed Up Cocktails Contest with Lucky Bucket

Lucky Bucket is gearing up to hold a beer cocktail contest February 12th. So all you bartenders and mixologists, start working on creating drinks using their Lager, IPA, and Certified Evil to win $50 to spend at Lucky Bucket.

Here's some more details from the email we received:

...we are having a contest to see who can make the best drink out of our lager, the best drink out of our IPA, and the best drink out of our certified evil. the winners of these drinks won't only get great prizes which are explained on the sign, but we will also feature them on our website and we will be promoting them around town with the creators name or establishment, whichever they prefer.  

The contest is at Mojo Smokehouse on Sunday February 12, 2PM.  

Watch the area's best bartenders go head to head to claim the fame and glory of creating the best cocktail for each beer style. The winner for each beer style will win a $50 gift card to Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. plus other great prizes for the runner ups. If you want to compete please contact me at chris@luckybucketbrewing.com no later than January 31st. You must present your cocktails in person on Sunday February 12th to enter.

Some Updates from Blue Blood Brewing Company - including CANS!

From their Facebook page.

Cans are Here!
It has been an exciting month for Blue Blood Brewing Company. We have doubled our capacity in our short time and have begun canning. We received 186,000 cans via Colorado January 6th and got to work filling them on the 7th. Double Eagle is hoping to get cans out in Lincoln as early as this weekend.

We are increasing tap handles at area bars including: Lincoln: Bread & Cup, Sandy’s, Iguana’s, 501 West A, Down the Hatch, Bourbon Theatre, Wilderness Ridge, Zen’s, Old Chicago, and Jake’s, Omaha: Jake’s, The Fox & Hound, Crescent Moon, and Krug Park.

Keep asking for Blue Blood when you are at your favorite establishments. It’s because of you we make beer!

Tours
Blue Blood Brewing Company is open for tours. Brian gives one or two tours each week depending on the brewing schedule. Tours generally take an hour, and we can accommodate up to 30 guests per tour. Please register yourself or a group online.

Ribbon Cutting
Please join us for the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting Wednesday, January 11th at 1:30. We will have special guests at the Brewery and SAMPLES. We hope you can make it to help us celebrate this momentous occasion.

Jake's (Omaha) Omaha Beer Week Schedule!

Sunday thru Friday Jake’s is running Tap-Takeovers. Each night we’ll have a brewery rep on hand. We’ll throw on as many of their beers as we can get our hands on. Pick up an OBW Pint glass from Jakes and get 10% off any package beer you pick up!!!


Sunday 5th- DOUBLE HEADER! - Our famous annual chili-cook off. Over $`100 in prizes for the top 3 best pots ‘o chili. Then, Lucky Bucket will be here to takeover. Lot’s of great brews from one of Nebraska’s favorite local breweries. Their Lager, Black IPA, Mild "Baby Wine" ale, Clockwork IPA and a collaboration between Jake’s & LB. The exclusive “Cursed” Bourbon Barrel Chocolate Stout made from their as of yet unreleased whiskey. OBW Pint Glass gets you a dollar off all Lucky Bucket Beers.

Monday 6th- Ron from New Belgium will be here. It’s all about Lips of Faith. If you don’t know, LOF is New Belgium’s ever-evolving line of esoteric and experimental brews. We’ll have Bierre De Mars and the new Coco Mole! (hopefully a few other LOF offerings too). OBW Pint Happy Hour all night long. $1 all draft with your OBW pint glass.

Tuesday 7th- Jenny from Boulevard is here, loaded up with Chocolate Ale, Tank 7 and Harvest Dance. And, it’s movie night! Right now on jakescigars.com you can vote for your favorite beer themed movie. We’ll watch the winning selection tonight. Win prizes from Boulevard. Including a chance at two tickets to the Great America Beer Fest. OBW Pint Happy Hour all night long. $1 all draft with your OBW pint glass.

Wednesday 8th- A fast-rising presence in town, Squatters / Wasatch Beers is sending Adam out here to the flatlands. With him, arrives Squatters IPA, Wasatch White Label Wit, the infamous Polygamy Porter and a very special Port wood aged Devastator Dopplebock. Lot 2 is pitching in tonight with a junk-food pairing! In fact, it’ll be too good to call junk food. Don’t miss this one! Tickets required for food pairing, 25$ /20$ with an OBW Pint Glass.

Thursday 9th- Head-Brewer Mike Hall from Upstream is taking over tonight. With a ton of great prizes (including bottles of the good stuff), he’s handing out one ticket with every Upstream pint poured ! We’ll have at least 5 unique brews tonight. Their Red Wit, Double Dutch Dubbel, a triple hopped IPA, the renowned 2007 Grand Cru sour ale, and an insane offering from Jake’s own Luke, a scotch ale with toasted pecans and sri racha! Get double raffle tix with your OBW pint.

Friday 10th- Jake’s teams up with Krug Park for beer cocktail night. Each joint will have a fresh selection of cocktails featuring some of our favorite beers. We’re still sussing out the details. Be sure to check jakescigars.com for up to date info.

But we aren't stopping there, O'dell Reps will be on hand to unveil Odell Saboteur and and we'll bust out some reserve Bourbon Barrel Stout.

Saturday Night 11th- Shuttle Night. Leave the pint glasses at home. And remember, for Pete's sake, to pace yourself. Omaha Beer Week is running shuttles between participating beer bars!
  

Nebraska Brewing Company now serving firkins!

This was just posted on their facebook page.  I can't wait to try some the next time I am in town and the good news, they should be on tap through most weekends.  Get there early and drink often.

Firkins at NBC! As we create them, we'll get them ready to go on Thursdays - it just so happens we have 1 this week. First up is a cask of our Midnight Ryed dry-hopped on Centennial hops! Some parameters - same price as our standard pints - Happy Hour included. Also, as we draw air into these casks, they'll age rapidly - so... We will only serve them from Thursday through Sunday unless you kill them earlier. See you Thursday - we'll start pouring at 4!

America's 100 Best Beer Bars (Crescent Moon)

 
The Crescent Moon was again named to Draft Magazine’s “America's 100 Best Beer Bars” list.

Congratulations, guys and gals.  You have influenced many people in the ways of craft beer over the years…here’s to your continued success.

A quote from the article in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue…

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“The corner of 36th and Farnam streets (aka Beer Corner, U.S.A.) boasts a German beer hall, a Belgian tavern and a 600-bottle beer shop, but the crown jewel is the 50-tap Crescent Moon. The handles pour a little bit of everything: cask ales and nitro pulls, seasonals and regulars— and best of all, an excellent sampling of Nebraska’s notoriously limited reach brews”