Frankenweenie

Almost forgot…

Yesterday, Red Hot neighbor to the East and fellow occupiers of 6th Avenue, House of Tattoo, ran a special on Halloween themed tattoos for $31. They made up a flash sheet, and that’s what you had to pick from. The most super-awesome part was, they had a Red Hot Frankenweenie as one of the choices!

If they were jobbing for free lunch for their crew, it worked! FANTASTIC! Don’t mind the distorted look of the pic, I couldn’t get a good angle. I got one, and 2 (possibly 3) of our bartenders did, too. I was flattered that our employees would do that. Anyway, yes, I have 2 hot dog tattoos now, I feel that may be a record of some sort…

H.O.T. also does Friday the 13th themed tattoos, and I will be there for that one, too (I believe the next one is February 13th, 2009).

Dead Guys & Halloweenies

Happy Halloweenie!

Tonight, to keep your spirits warm in the damp night, we’re gonna do 1 keg of Rogue Dead Guy Ale for $3 a pint all night long.

Dee-Licious.

We’ll have all the Halloweenies you can handle, and there’s a roving Halloween Party taking up shop in The Red Hot tonight, come be part of the gang. We’re giving away schwag for those who go all out!

The Red Hot…Now With More Moon Pie!

Being of Southern stock, my childhood fascination and love of RC Cola and MoonPies have worked their way into my business.

We’ve always carried the smaller Mini-MoonPies, never being able to locate a distributor for their larger brethren.

Well friends, our day has come…and we now have the Ultimo-version of this perfect snack…The Double Decker MoonPie!

Chocolate, Banana, and Vanilla, like always, only huge-mungous sized! I measured one in at 3 3/8 inches wide. Is this heaven…?

Saving the planet with beer…

I’m not one to repost those pesky viral emails that flood our inboxes, but I received one I actually thought amusing:

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you would have $49.00 left.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214.00 cash.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. It’s called the 401-Keg.

A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year.

Another study found Americans drink, on the average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.

That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.

Har har.

Being a proponent of fresh draft beer, the eco-friendly growler jug is a mainstay at The Red Hot. We sell 32oz. versions, 1/2 Gallon versions, 2L versions, and now with the light shed upon me that we peds can ride Shanks’ Pony for a whopping 41 mpg (and the fact that a lot of our growler regulars will commonly fill 2 half-gallon jugs for a weekender), we now carry the BBQ/Picnic/ParTay 1 gallon (8 pints) version:

The Red Hot…giving you yet another way to save our planet.

JubelAle Release ShinDig

Deschutes Brewery makes some damn fine beers. Around this time of year, many beer folks start salivating waiting for the one they call “Jubel”. Talk of differences in past year’s recipes, which has been the best, which year’s label was the best, and pretty much a complete dissection of the beer that is called Jubelale.

Deschutes released this beer in Oregon a little over 2 weeks ago, and it is finally making it’s way up here. The Red Hot will be having a little drop-in to celebrate the release of 2008 Jubelale with all the usual trimmings of brewery schwag, and more importantly, VERY affordable beer. Starting at 5pm, we’ll have Jubel on tap for $3 a pint all night long, ya heard?

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8TH, 5PM-CLOSE @ THE RED HOT
DESCHUTES BREWING 2008 JUBELALE RELEASE PARTY
$3 JUBEL PINTS TIL CLOSE, RAFFLES AND GIVEAWAYS

P.S.- It’s also $1 Rainier Schooner Night! Give your wallet a rest…

Frost Park Chalkies Inspire C@TRH?!??

Long tired of my little reader boards I used for tap and bottle lists, I finally got that nice, big chalkboard I’ve wanted:

That will be the cleanest you will ever see it.

It has scrawl on it like this now, always changing. I’m still waiting on some magazine and newspaper articles to get back from the plaque dood to fill the space around it.

Speaking of magazine articles…The Red Hot made it into a very cool regional rag by the name of Beer Northwest.

Beer Northwest featured TRH on half a page in their ‘openings’ section, as well as a nice paragraph about us in a huge article about Tacoma Watering Holes. I’ve totally loved this magazine since it’s first issue, so I was stoked to meet the editor, and then see our name in their pages. Amazing. You can get BeerNW for free at The Red Hot, The Parkway, The Rosewood, E-9, and many other places around town. Rad.