Category: Madison Craft Beer Week

• Madison Craft Beer Week

  May 4, 2015

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  It was the first weekend of Madison Craft Beer Week, so brace yourself! This is going to be mostly about beer. Both B and I had some flex time to burn on Friday, so we got out of work a couple hours early, drove straight home and had a nice nap for an hour or Read.

• tasters

  May 6, 2014

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, play, restaurants

  I only had ten beers, honest! And I feel just fine! We stopped by Harmony Bar after work for a free beer tasting they were hosting as part of craft beer week. I tried six or eight beers (it may have been as many as ten, but I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging) Read.

• Craft Beer Week

  May 3, 2014

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, play, restaurants

  It’s Madison Craft Beer Week! We stopped at Next Door Brewing after work to get something to eat and OH MY GOODNESS I’VE NEVER SEEN IT SO BUSY! The place was wall-to-wall beer-drinking and conversating customers! We had to wait at the bar for a table, but only for fifteen minutes or so and, as Read.

• Mob Craft + 8 Seasons

  May 14, 2013

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  The last and arguably best event we went to during Madison Craft Beer Week was a beer pairing at 8 Seasons Grille. A beer pairing is when the guys who prepare the food serve a beer that complements a food. A strong porter, for instance, goes well with a thick, juicy steak. Heffeweizen is terrific Read.

• dark, fiery & sensual

  May 11, 2013

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, play

  We’re a little bushed after a week of debauched revelry, I can tell you. Drinking a beer or two nearly every night for a week at various neighborhood taverns will do that to a couple of inert homebodies like us, but when it comes to festivals like Madison Craft Beer Week, we feel a certain Read.

• left hand

  May 9, 2013

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  I think we spent more on taxis last night than we did on beer! We grabbed a cab into town for our nightly visit to Madison Craft Beer Week because we planned on taking advantage of the shuttle bus that Hop Head Beer Tours was running between cap square and the near-east side of town Read.

• Fifteen

  May 8, 2013

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  B’s been waiting fourteen weeks for this glass of beer. Says it was worth the wait. Read.

• mug club

  May 7, 2013

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, play

  I am now a card-carrying member of One Barrel’s Mug Club! Last night was the inaugural meeting of the Mug Club, and I jumped on my bike and was there minutes after quitting time so I could break in my mug. “What’ll you have?” the bartender asked me. “I want you to take this mug Read.

• burning carbs

  May 4, 2013

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, O’Folks, O’Folks friends, play, restaurants

  Oh my, I have sooo many carbs to burn off after last night’s fish fry. We joined the kickoff of Madison Craft Beer Week by meeting a couple of friends at Quivey’s Grove to swap stories over a Friday night fish fry and a couple glasses of Common Thread Biere de Garde, which is French Read.

• bus route

  May 12, 2012

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  I’m pretty sure My Darling B would agree with me when I say that Wednesday night we had the most fun during Madison Craft Beer Week, starting with our visit to Natt Spil for dinner and a couple glasses of beer from New Belgium Brewery. From there, we went up Pinckney Street to The Old Read.