This week in beer

There a quite a few beer related events going on in the next week or so that I'm excited about. Today, November 13th is Iron Hill's Cask and Ye Shall Receive event, and State Line Liquor's Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary tasting. The Iron Hill Event (which I will be attending) is at all their restaurant locations, so you can see their website for information about the specific beers in cask. They are having IPAs from Yards, Flying Fish, Troegs, Sly Fox, Stewart's, Victory, and their own cask IIPA at the Newark location. Over at State Line, they have all 4 Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary beers on tap, are hosting a Sierra Nevada rep, and will have hot dogs, all for $10 a person. The Iron Hill event starts at Noon, and the State Line Tasting is from 5-7pm so I might be hitting both.

Next Saturday will be a private event hosted by one of Dan's friends, called Night of 100 Bottles. The idea is that this guy has a bunch of beers that are starting to get a little old, so he wants to get rid of them all with a bang. He's having over 15 guys or so, putting 100 beers in his fridge, then each person gets a beer, and as they run out they have to drink whatever is next in line in the fridge. No matter what it is or how good or bad it may taste, they can't get their next beer until they finish the one they've got. It's a fun game of Beer Russian-Roulette. Hopefully with no "silver bullets".

Next Sunday (the 21st) is the premiere of Brew Masters, the show on Discovery with Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head. It is set to air at 10PM EST, and Dogfish has posted a giveaway for party packs for the show's first airing.

Finally on Black Friday, Capone's is hosting their annual Black Friday Draft Promo. I don't have details yet on what's going to be available, but this is a huge event every year, and people are recommended to get there hours in advance just for a chance to get a seat at the bar. Exciting stuff.