Beat the Heat With Woody

Woody is a travelling tavern on wheels. It’s a giant wooden keg that opens up into a tavern, complete with stereo and disco ball.

Woody is from our pals at Deschutes Brewing. He’s in Tacoma today rolling around, and will be making a full-fledge stop at The Red Hot Wednesday Night @ 7pm until close. We’ll be pouring a ‘heat-friendly’ batch of beers on tap in the outdoor beer garden out of Woody: Deschutes Red Chair IPA (from Deschutes Bond Series of beers), Green Lakes Organic Amber, Twilight Ale, & Black Butte Porter. There may even be some surprise handles. All Deschutes handles are on special. The best part is we reworked the beer garden so it’s all in the shade. Hell. Yes. We’ll be on our “BBQ Menu” for the night due to increased capacity, but at least it’s easier on your purse strings…and your hot ass living room. We’re giving away shirts, hats, growlers, glasses, and even a Deschutes Skate deck.

It’s gonna be a damn good time!

Red Hot Signage

Local great-guy-about-town, Peter Whitley, is one of our regulars. He’s done custom Red Hot skateboards, he’s done custom pieces for myself (wedding portrait I gave to wifey for 1-year Anniversary) and other TRH crew (custom set of Ramones Skateboards), and over the course of time, he’s been doing these TRH Staff portraits. He teamed up with Chris Sharp and made this totally bad-ass art project to “get to know your TRH Staff”. Check it:

Sign by Chris, wooden portrait placards by Pete. Look for a very cool art show we’re doing with Pete in the future!

In other TRH portrait news, wicked art wrangler Stowe is slinging ink on his own take of The Red Hot vs. The Parkway staff portraits as we speak for another Bearded Baby Buttons set. Totally killer!

Addicted to C.L.A.W.?

Cue the slick-back haired dancers…

As soon as we filled our Bearded Baby Buttons Dispenser with the awesome stylings of one Stowe, I realized we had some sort of unintentional shrine to C.L.A.W. forming.

Stowes buttons in the house, and 12 feet away is Stowe’s Beautiful Angle poster, which is topped by a custom Red Hot edition of the C.L.A.W. City Arts cover, which is topped by RR Andersons “My Goodness My Heidelberg” drawing…and we used to have a Mark Monlux screenprint that someone actually spilled a beer on before we got it framed. Don’t ask…

Does C.L.A.W. owe me money, or do I owe them my eternal gratidtude?

Obama Spotted In Tacoma?

Reports are sketchy, but here’s the photographic proof:

You, too, can build your own Obama.

I have some printed out on cardstock here at TRH if any of you lovely patrons want one. Be careful of that site and it’s links…I lost hours!

Recycle the Bike Night…

So one of my hairbrained ideas has finally taken flight again. “Recycle the Bike Night” is a way to give someone something cool, promote my biz, give life to something instead of heaving it in the landfill, and having fun all at the same time. We’re giving away this Dyno Roadster Kustom Kruiser at The Red Hot on February 25th.

These rides are coveted for their frames alone, going for a couple hunge on the innernets. We buffed it, fixed the chain, tightened all the loose nuts, lubed it all up, gave it some love, and took it for a test ride. Our pals at New Belgium Brewing are on board with this ongoing project, and even hooked us up with some bling:

Practical? No. Fun as hell? Absofrickin’-lutely. We’ll unveil the next ride when this one goes home with someone. This year we plan on doing at least 6 bikes. ANYWAY, you can enter once a day until the drawing. Honor system. Don’t be a chucklehead. It will be a great party on the 25th…

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).

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…?

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.

Cheeze Pleeze!

Damn I’m Handsome!

Frost Park Chalk-Off One For The Little Guy Prize Package:

Whomever receives the FEWEST votes in this week’s Frost Park Chalk-Off (Friday August 29th), will be the recipient of this grandiose and spectacular prize package to further enhance their chalkability, provided by your favorite little tavern…The Red Hot:

One box of Prang Gallery Paper Chalk containing 12 sticks of chalking freedom!

You’ve seen them in the store, but were too afraid the other chalkies might make fun. No bother! Take hold of your new Tri-Writer! Your new Flip-Grip! Your new Wide Writer! Your new Blender brush! It even comes with 5 sticks of back-up chalk! You, my chalktastic pal, are covered!

MORE FREAKING CHALK! How do those chalking fools make such huge pieces? With huge amounts of freaking chalk! 52 sticks of Crayola non-toxic chalk art makers!

These prizes are intended for the LAST PLACE artist is this week’s chalk-off. If anyone throws the contest, I will meet with my board (League of the Little Guy) to determine eligibility. In the event of a tie, I will…think of something…like…breaking up the prizes, or…something. Don’t you worry your little chalking hearts out!

Chalk on, brothers and sisters…