Take 2: Burris Brewing Debut Tonight

With all the paperwork logjams cleared, tonight we will finally, with assistance of Rhett Burris of Burris Brewing, tap his first keg of Jackrabbit Pale Ale at The Red Hot at 6pm sharp. The one week delay will be worth it as Mr. Burris has made a deliciously crafted brew for us to enjoy. Pint specials and good times will ensue.

TRH Beer Shizz Newsletter: L-Wood Workhorse on, Hopworks & more Walking Man coming!

Current Taplist:
Boundary Bay IPA
Laurelwood Workhorse IPA (1st Place, 2009 2nd Annual National IPA Championships)
Full Sail Slipknot Imperial IPA
Chuckanut Pilsener
Achouffe LaChouffe
Port Townsend Chets Gold
Big Al Papa Charlie’s Pale Ale
Anchor Porter
Rogue John-John Dead Guy
Allagash Dubbel
CASK: Walking Man Big Black Homo Erectus IPA
NITRO:Hales Cream Stout
Vitamin R

MONDAY FEB 1: NBB Ranger IPA Tapping Party, 5pm sharp, keep the glassware! Join us as we take part in New Belgium’s kickoff of their much awaited brew, Ranger IPA. Get there early and snag a Ranger pint glass, if not there will be NBB globe glasses for the rest of ya’s…

WEDNESDAY FEB 3: Debut tapping with Burris Brewing and their Jackrabbit Pale Ale, 6pm sharp! Come meet the brewer and drink the beer as we tap the first keg of Puget Sound’s newest brewing outfit.

COMING ON-TAP SOON: Hopworks IPA, Walking Man Hop-Along IPA, Lips of Faith Dark Heather Saison, Deschutes Cinder Cone NITRO, Walking Man Black Cherry Stout, CASK Diamond Knot Industrial IPA, Grand Teton Lost Continent Double IPA, & more!

www.redhottacoma.com is live! We’ll be keeping our taplists and winelists updated as close to real-time as we can here, as well as other TRH info.

Tonight’s Burris Brewing Event Cancelled

Boo! Our pals over at the new Burris Brewing are still stuck in a little paperwork snag over at Liquor Control, so no-go on tonight’s tapping. Rhett assures us we will all be enjoying his new brew very soon. Sorry kids! Kirk out.

Debut Tapping for Burris Brewing

Local boy done good. Rhett Burris, owner and founder of Puget Sound’s newest Brewing operation, Burris Brewing, will help tap his first keg on Wednesday January 27th at The Red Hot, at 6pm. I remember a few years ago, when Rhett was brewing at The RAM/Tacoma, telling me one day his own beer would pour in the places he frequented. His day has finally come, with his Jackrabbit Pale Ale. We’ll tap the first keg of Jackrabbit at 6 o’clock on the 27th. Come meet the man, and drink his beer.

TRH…Now With More Cask™

After months and months of tracking down parts, we finally unveiled our beer engine a week ago.
I heard about a beer engine months ago from John O’Gara, manager at the Parkway Tavern, and past employee of The Swiss. He told me Jack at The Swiss took out their engine recently, and I should inquire. Jack was glad to see it go to a new home (lemme pause for a moment to admire how people in this business help each other out, answer questions, and generally look out for each other…amazing). I even left the wooden tower it came in, wear marks and all, with just a few minor repairs to the corners. My own piece of Tacoma beer history.

I had it rebuilt and ready to go, mounted it to a small cooler that could hold steady cask temperature, and blammo…cask handle is born!

1st kegs of Green Flash Brewing

Today at 5pm, we will be tapping the first kegs from Green Flash Brewing to hit our fair city of Tacoma. Based out of Vista, California, Green Flash Brewing makes incredibly great beer, backing up all the hype surrounding it. I no longer have to wait to go to California to get it, and neither do you.

Tapping at 5pm, The Red Hot, Monday Jan 11
Green Flash West Coast IPA
Green Flash Hop Head Red
Green Flash Imperial IPA

A Very Hoppy Festivus

Tomorrow, Wednesday December 16th, our pals from up North drive down the I-5 corridor in the name of great beer. Starting at 6, we at The Red Hot are turning over a grip of handles to our broheims at Schooner Exact Brewing for a little festivus. We’ll have their Three Grid IPA, Gallant Maiden Hef, and 3 versions of their Hoppy Holidays beer: Hoppy Holidays, Hoppy the Woodsman (Hoppy Holidays barrel aged), and Hoppy Holidays on the Randall.

Come meet the brewers, and generally relax in the fact that small craft breweries are making the amazing products that they do. The SEB Crew consistently amaze at the quality of their award-winning brews.

On a side note: If you enjoyed the Tacoma Craft Beer Festival this past October, how about click over to the always great Washington Beer Blog and vote us “Best Beer Fest in the Seattle Area”. No registration, just a click. It’s on the right side of the page HERE

Gourd Beer

This Wednesday is going to be awesome.

Our pals at Elysian Brewing are bringing down a load of special release beers, all made with pumpkin.

Here’s the list:

NIGHT OWL PUMPKIN ALE
Brewed with over 7 lbs. of pumpkin per barrel. Made with Pale, Munich and Crystal malts, green and roasted pumpkin seeds, and pumpkin in the mash, boil and fermenter. Bittered with Magnum hops. Spiced in conditioning with nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, ginger and allspice. OG 14.9° Plato (1.060) alcohol 5.9% by volume.

THE GREAT PUMPKIN IMPERIAL PUMPKIN ALE
Silver medalist at the 2007 Great American Beer Festival in the Fruit and Vegetable category, the world’s first Imperial pumpkin ale. Brewed with pale, Munich, Cara-Hell, Cara-Vienne, Cara-Munich and Crisp 45° L Crystal malts. Roasted pumpkin seeds in the mash, and extra pumpkin added in the mash, kettle and fermenter. Spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice. OG 19° Plato (1.078) alcohol 8.1% by volume. Brewed at our original Capitol Hill location in Seattle.

DARK O’THE MOON PUMPKIN STOUT
Spookily smooth and chocolatey with a touch of cinnamon – A perennial favorite, brewed with Great Western pale, Crisp 77° Crystal, Munich, Cara-Vienne, roasted, chocolate and Special B malts with roasted pumpkin seeds in the mash. Pumpkin in the mash, kettle and fermenter. Bittered with Magnum and finished with Saaz and crushed cinnamon. OG 19.35° Plato (1.080), alcohol 6.5% by volume. Brewed at the Elysian on Capitol Hill.

HANSEL & GRETEL GINGER PUMPKIN PILSNER
Brewed with organic pale, Weyermann Munich and Cara-Hell malts, with pumpkin added in the mash, kettle and fermenter. Spiced with peeled and pureed fresh ginger in the boil and bright tank and hopped with lots of Czech Saaz hops (otherwise it wouldn’t be traditional). OG 12° Plato (1.048), alcohol 4.5% by volume. Brewed at Elysian Fields.

In general, I am not much of a pumpkin beer kind of guy. But Elysian…those people can make a good damn pumpkin beer. I’ve never sold a pumpkin beer out of TRH unless it had the Elysian stamp on it (last year’s utterly amazing run of Night Owl & Great Pumpkin 22oz bottles), and for reason…they do it better than anyone else can (Dark O’ the Moon at this year’s TCBF was KILLER). These will be amazing. Wednesday October 21st at The Red Hot (2914 6th Ave in beautiful Tacoma, Washington, natch), officially starts at 7pm (but dont be surprised if we sneak some on early!)

Best Hot Dog & 21st Amendment

I guess the fine folks of Western Washington saw it fit to bestow upon us the title of “Best Hot Dog in Western Washington“! Thanks guys for voting for us and bringing the title to Tacoma! I know this because the good folks at King 5 asked us to come down and film a spot for it…but then changed their minds the day of. Oh well…

In other coolio news, tonight we are hosting the release party for 21st Amendment’s newest beer, Back In Black IPA.

We’ll be tapping the first keg of it tonight! We’ll also have on their Brew Free or Die IPA & Hell or High Watermelon Wheat, both huge hits at the recent Tacoma Craft Beer Fest. Expect discounted pints of 21A Beer and delicious good times starting at 7pm!

Last Beer Garden

Tomorrow, Sat Sept. 12th is the last beer garden of the year for The Red Hot. We’re doing the first ever New Belgium Bike-In Movie in Washington State with New Belgium Brewing. We’re raffling off a new custom “The Red Hot” mountain/commuter bicycle, outfitted with rear rack and bike lock, and some other cool bikey schwag for those in attendance!

Bike riders get a special schwag bag (tire patch kit, lip balm, bottle opener, etc). We’re showing the classic bike flick, 1979’s “Breaking Away”, outside, shot onto the building.

Garden opens at 7, movie at dusk! The weather is gonna be AMAZING!