Upcoming Lucky Bucket Events

Lucky Bucket has a few events coming up in the next month or so. From a rooftop tap takeover at Blatt Beer & Table to the second annual Lucky Bucket Ride. See below for more details from their email.

Lucky Bucket Rooftop Tap Invasion at Blatt Beer & Table 

Come hang out with us on Thursday August 30th at 6PM on the rooftop of Blatt Beer & Table. We are invading their rooftop taps with some of our very limited beers. We will have our:

Barrel Aged Sour Cherry Lambic
Children of the Corn - American Red Ale
Oktoberfest Bier

We can't wait to see you there! 

Lucky Bucket Will Be Hosting The Beer Garden For Mud Factor

Get ready for a new obstacle run coming to Nebraska! We are excited that Mud Factor is coming here on Saturday September 15, 2012. Mud Factor is a hardcore, 5K, obstacle run that has almost double the amount of obstacles as Warrior Dash.

Expect to see cargo nets, slip n slides, rope climbs, ladders, barrels to climb, tires to run through, wire to crawl underneath, hay bales, tunnels to run through, mud pits, and forest to make your way through. All of this happens out at Vala's Pumpkin Patch.

After the race enjoy yourself some cold Lucky Bucket, as we have teamed up to host their after party beer garden. To get signed up and for more info check them out at www.mudfactor.com. 

Lucky Bucket Ride is Coming! 

If you liked the run then you will love the Ride! Lucky Bucket Ride 2012 will be coming on Friday September 21st. Tickets will be on sale on Tuesday September 4th at a 50% discount through Groupon. For more information, a course preview, and prizes you can win check out the Ride website at www.luckybucketride.com. If you don't ride, but still want to party you can enter the Beers & Gears after party for $5. 

Craft Beer Cocktails Article

image: omaha.com

Article about craft beer cocktails which mentions some of the great tap houses in Omaha.  Nice way to represent, Alex...sporting an Omaha Beer Week shirt.

Beer and cocktails hook up
 

Modern Monks Oktoberfest at Misty's this coming Monday!

The Modern Monks are planning this years Oktoberfest party this coming Monday (8/27) at their downtown Lincoln brewery located in Misty's Steakhouse (200 N. 11th St.). They will be unveiling their seasonal Oktoberfest beer at 5:00, and everyone will be enjoying the live badass polka tunes of the Bolzen Beer Band out on the patio.

From the words of Brother David "Fall is my favorite time of year. The hot, humid dog days of summer are behind us and we get a little break between the lawnmower and the snow blower. Football aside what beckons most are the strong smooth lagers of fall led off by the Oktoberfest. Our version boasts a toasty malt character with a smooth finish that invites you to enjoy another glass. It's hopped enough so the hop heads won't feel deprived but not so much as to be out of balance."

Be sure to stop by this Monday for great beer and music!

Jake's Friday Tappings: Lincoln & Omaha- New Belgium/Alpine CollaBEERative "Super India Pale Ale"

LINCOLN & OMAHA JAKE'S: This Friday both Jake's are on board for a fantastic collaboration from New Belgium Brewing Company and the Alpine Beer Company out of San Diego, CA.  For those who have never had the opportunity to try the wonderful hop forward beers from Alpine, they are absolutely world class. Their annual production is just around 1,500 barrels a years, so they rarely seen outside of San Diego.  An opportunity to have something from them in the great state of Nebraska is not to be missed.  Be ready for a delicious Imperial IPA with a symphonic hop explosion weighing in at 9% ABV.

Brewery description: "Alpine might be small, but their brewing chops are mighty. We teamed up to create this triple dry-hopped imperial IPA bursting with Columbus, Amarillo, Centennial and Simcoe hops."

5:00 pm Jake's Lincoln (14th & P St.)
5:00 pm Jake's Omaha (62nd & Maple)

News of the weird - KC Beerfest for sale??

Courtsey of the guys over at kcbeerblog.com. 

Dear Friends,

For over 5 years, the KC Beerfest has been the most recognizable craft beer festival in the Kansas City area. Over 12,000 beer connoisseurs and first-timers have attended the KC Beerfest allowing them to sample hundreds of different types of craft brews from around the world. KC Beerfest has been a huge success and is viewed by many as the premier craft beer festival in Kansas City.

However, the missions of both benefiting agencies, the Kansas City Free Health Clinic and the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City, are not being met by the KC Beerfest. Initially, leadership at both agencies felt their missions would be shared with the thousands of beer lovers who attended the festival. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Therefore, KC Beerfest will not be held this fall. However, we are seeking prospective buyers who would produce the KC Beerfest and take it to the next level.

We propose a $5,000 payment that would grant your organization ownership of the KC Beerfest, www.KCBeerfest.com, the KC Beerfest logo and all marketing related materials; contacts with distributors/brewers in the state of Kansas that have supplied the beer to the festival; access to an army of 150+ volunteers; remaining inventory of KC Beerfest sampling glasses, buss tubs, banners and other supplies; contacts with marketing/media partners; and the goodwill  of 5+ years of satisfying the taste buds of the KC craft beer community.

Should you have any questions or would like to discuss further, please feel free to call Kirk Isenhour at the Kansas City Free Health Clinic at (816) 777-2762 or Michael Lintecum at the AIDS Service Foundation at (913) 269-7960.

We look forward to hearing back from interested parties soon and thank everyone for your support of the KC Beerfest.
Sincerely,
Kirk Isenhour 
Kansas City Free Health Clinic
Michael Lintecum
AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City

This is extremely strange to me and who is going to buy this?  It doesn't make a lot of sense.  Anyone can start a festival and as long as they don't call it KC Beerfest they are fine.  Everything I have read or heard of this festival is it is a disaster so I am not sure what goodwill they are talking about.  It has ran out of beer on one occasion for sure.  I think if you don't want to do it any more, give it to someone else that can but don't try and sell it, that just shows what some festivals are in it for.  I want a festival that is in it for the beer and makes no bones about that fact.  What are your thoughts?

Great Nebraska Beer Fest Program - Awesome!

I am not going to post much here just this link to download the program for the festival this weekend.  It speaks for itself!!

http://www.nebraskabrewingco.com/Press%20Releases/2012-GNBF-Program-PRINT-082012.pdf

Happy Birthday to us! We are 5 today!

Another year has passed and that means the blog is another year older.  To think that 5 years ago I started this thing is crazy to me.  What is even more crazy is where craft beer in this state was at back then and where it is today.  I don't think I would have expected to see near the breweries or breweries in the works in Nebraska that we are seeing today.  I would venture to guess that there are about as many breweries in the works as there were actual breweries 5 years ago, that is mind blowing.

The other thing that has changed is the access to great beer all over the state.  I remember having to drive to Omaha or Lincoln to get good craft beer back then now, even in Broken Bow, I have 3 locations that serve a solid lineup of craft beer and 2 of our restaurants in town have consistently had craft beer on at least one tap and sometimes multiple taps.  The access in the cities has changed too and changing more all the time with new tap houses and retail outlets it seems every month.  Things they are a changing...

With so much change happening in 5 years we would love to hear what you think the next 5 years will bring in craft beer in Nebraska?  We would also love to hear what you want us to do in the next 5 years with this blog.  We have some big plans but we may have missed some things too.  Please comment and let us know the answers to these two questions.

As always, thanks for reading and we look forward to doing this for many years to come thanks to the wonderful support we have received from you over the years.

Nate