Pratt Street Ale House » pin http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:21:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Peeping Tom http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com/2009/12/the-peeping-tom/ http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com/2009/12/the-peeping-tom/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:28:23 +0000 Steve http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com/?p=1067 I’m brewing the Peeping Tom Porter today. It’s a great session ale, about 4.5% abv, reasonably light in body but full of wonderful dark malt flavors, very drinkable, especially on cask. Speaking of which it will likely make its cask debut at Bertha’s in Fells Point on  January 14th. Bertha’s are going to have a monthly cask (pin) 0n the bar for the first Thursday of every month. Now you eagle-eyed detectives out there will have noticed that the 14th is the second Thursday but Bertha’s will be closed for some refurbishments briefly in early January, hence the 2nd Thursday slot. Thereafter cask night will be the first Thursday of every month. We’ll be supplying as many interesting casks as possible including most of our seasonals. February’s cask will likely be the Bishop’s Indulgence.

Speaking of cask ale, the very last cask of Merry Ole Ale is on the beer engine at Max’s Taphouse now. ChurchKey has the Dark Horse dark mild on one of its beer engines. If you find yourself in that part of D.C. stop by for a pint, it’s a wonderful session ale and you couldn’t want for a nicer environment in which to drink it!

]]> http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com/2009/12/the-peeping-tom/feed/ 0 cask news http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com/2009/11/cask-news/ http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com/2009/11/cask-news/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:21:10 +0000 Steve http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com/?p=860 Cask ale seems to be alive and well in D.C. thanks in no small part to the recent opening of Birch & Barley (1337 14th St. NW) which has 5 (yes! 5) beer engines along with 50 regular taps. I spoke with Greg there yesterday who told me that the cask ale is flying out and then promptly ordered every cask that I had available so expect to see Oliver Ales on the beer engines in the very near future (7 firkins ship out on Wednesday). It looks like an amazing place, check out the photos and review in the archive at the Yours For Good Fermentables blog, can’t wait to get over there for a beer.

Also check out Bertha’s in Fells Point who are going to start a regular(ish) cask on the bar type thing. We’re shipping out a pin (that’s a 5.4 gallon cask) of Blackfriar Stout with vanilla beans in the cask on Wednesday … could be on the bar that evening … I’ll keep you posted!

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