Happy Holidays

We would like to take this moment to send best wishes to all this Holiday season.  Thanks again to each and every one of you, whose patronage grants us the luxury of making & serving artisan, off-the-wall beer and pizzas for a living.

Holiday Hours:

December 24, 2009 – Open 11:30am – 4pm.  $2 Off Growler Fills on Christmas Eve! Share some beer with the family!

December 25, 2009 – Closed.

Normal Hours Resume December 26.  The Flamin’ Hellcats live on the Patio, Saturday December 26 7-10pm.

December 31, 2009 – Open 11:30am – 6pm. $2 Off Growler Fills on New Years Eve! Share some beer with your friends!

Normal Hours Resume January 1, 2010.

What’s In Store for Year Two.

As you all know by now, we turned the big ONE on Thanksgiving Weekend.  A lot of customers have been asking what’s in store for our little brewery in year two.

The first big project we are excited about is being dubbed “Ceres”.  Ceres was the first discovered dwarf planet in our Solar System named for the Roman goddess of growing plants, the harvest, and motherly love.  What Ceres is in terms of Freetail, is the first step into our long awaited barrel-aging program.

Friend of Freetail and local homebrewer, Mike Klueber, transported Ceres from the Four Roses Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky to Freetail, where it now sits full of the remaining volume of this year’s batch of La Muerta.  Being the first fill of this freshly emptied bourbon barrel, La Muerta does not require a lot of contact time to absorb the flavors and aromas of the barrels.  Very shortly we will be draining Ceres and putting Barrel-Aged La Muerta on draft and releasing an extremely limited quantity of bottles.  Then we will fill Ceres will this year’s batch of Old Bat Rastard for extended aging.

Also coming in the New Year will be our winter saison—Invierno Inexistante—brewed with dark cacao; look for a new batch of Torpor Porter and our fourth lager: Tim.   Watch for news of our Winter Strong Beer Tasting which will feature special releases of Old Bat Rastard, La Muerta, and American- and French-oak aged Sisyphus from Real Ale Brewing Co.

As the New Year rolls along we’ll be reintroducing you to some old favorites like Danny Mijo while bringing some new additions to our growing family of brews, such as our first take on a Belgian Dubbel, tentatively named TwoTail.

Celebrating First Tappings & the Vernal Equinox

Although we celebrated our birthday Thanksgiving weekend, this weekend is the celebration of another milestone for us.  December 20 is the one-year anniversary of the day we sold our first house beer.  We’ll be celebrating this moment along with Monday’s Vernal Equinox by lining up the following small-batch specialties over the weekend:

Sunday:  Double Honey One—anniversary ale refermented with Texas honey

Chamomile Witicus, Spiced Otoño III (White Cardamom), BrokeThesis (4:1 blend of Broken Promise and Hopothesis

Winter Solstice (Monday):  Starflower Wit, Spiced Otoño IV (Orange and Allspice), Brotoño (Otoño fermented w/ Brettanomyces)

Cowboys vs. Saints, Saturday on NFL Network

The Cowboys playoff hopes appear to be teetering on the edge disaster, but this Saturday they can salvage the season by beating the unbeaten Saints in New Orleans.  Whether you are rooting for the Texas team to pull off the upset or for the Saints to crush the ‘Pokes hopes – you’ll need the NFL Network to catch the action.  As we all know, Time Warner doesn’t carry the network, but Freetail does!  So come enjoy a beer, a pizza, and watch the football drama unfold.

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