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April Showers Bring May Sours

 
April Showers Bring May Sours

We’re getting ready to roll out an entire month of amazing sour ales! Sours are amazingly refreshing on a warm day. Every spring, we amass a worldly selection of sour ales for our month-long promotion, April Showers Bring May Sours. Offerings from all over Europe and the United States will line our coolers and draft lines all month.
 
Some beer trends come and go, but sours have long-lasting appeal. Many Belgian and German breweries that produce sours have been doing so for hundreds of years, and American breweries that produce sours have sealed a place in the market.
 
“Sour” is a term that covers many types of beer, including Lambics (both flavoured i.e. Kriek, Framboise, Pêche, etc. and unflavoured i.e. Gueuze), Flanders reds & Flemish browns (both flavoured i.e. cherry and unflavoured), as well as German styles Berlinerweisse and Gose.
 
Yeast is the magic component that determines a sour. Some yeasts are purposely added to the beers to procure that sour flavor. However, lambics are brewed with an open fermentation technique, allowing natural wild airborne yeasts to ferment and impart a unique sour flavor.
 
Cape Fear Wine & Beer has around a dozen different type of sour ales in bottles and on draft year-round, but the entire month of May is devoted to showcasing these standard and several rare, unique sours. We’ll be introducing various types of sours from all over the world all month long. Stay tuned to our newsletters and our facebook page for the newest additions, and ask your bartender for the sour ales available.
 

 

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Weekly Specials & Events

Monday:

  • Massage Monday: 5-8 PM $10 for 10 minutes with licensed therapist, Josh Lentz.
  • Beer Flights: nine 5 oz samples for $18.
  • Monday Night Nitro: $1 off nitrogen pours.

Tuesday:

  • $1 off all ciders, glasses of wine & mead.

Wednesday:

  • Let’s Get Tropical with The Unknown Brewing Company: April 29th @ 6:30 PM

    Join us as we get tropical with our friends from Unknown! We’ll be tapping kegs of Let’s Get Tropical IPA, Scratch & Sniff Session IPA & Head First Pale Ale, as well as a firkin of Silverback Stout. The Unknown crew really know how to party– don’t miss out!

    $10 pitchers: Bartender’s choice.

  • BYOT (Bring Your Own Trivia): The next wave of pub trivia. Prizes include gift certificates to Chop’s Deli, Memory Lane Comics, Marks of Distinction, as well as beer from us.

Thursday:

  • Throwback Thursday: Revisit one of our old favourite beers.
  • ExBEERiment: Please join us as we host our final event of NC Beer Month! Kris will be infusing Big Boss Blanco Diablo Witbier with Holmes Brothers (NC) Cascade hops and ruby red grapefruit. The first pint pours at 9 PM.

Friday

  • New Favourite Friday: Try the latest & greatest!

Saturday:

  • Bartender’s Choice: You never know what you’re going to get!

Sunday:

  • Beer Church: All five Sundays in May, we’ll be rolling out some extremely limited Ballast Point glassware! Please join us on Sunday, May 3 for the first of five- Big Eye IPA. Big Eye is the classic west coast style IPA, full of piney & sprucey hops and a caramel malt backbone. The first mass is at 1 PM and second mass is at 8 PM.
Draft Beer

Departures

Don’t miss your connection! These drafts are currently on tap but they won’t last long!

Cask: Heavy Seas Gold Ale
     with Chinook & Sorachi Ace Hops,
     White Oak, Orange & Grapefruit
Cider: Julian Black & Blue
     Blackberry & Blueberry Cider
Cider: Schilling Ginger Cider
Mead: Redstone Nectar Of The Hops
     Dry-Hopped Mead
Nitro: Starr Hill Oatmeal Stout
Nitro: Wexford’s Irish Cream Ale
Anchor Spring Saison
Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin IPA
Ballast Point Thai Chili Wahoo Wheat
Carolina Brewing Company Groundhog Day
     Imperial Stout (NC)
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Imperial Brown Ale
Dogfish Head Theobroma Ancient Ale
Double Barley Touché IPA (NC)
Evil Twin Soft DK Imperial Stout
Foothills Torch Pilsner (NC)
Fuller’s London Porter
Fuller’s London Pride
Great Divide Old Ruffian Barleywine

Humboldt Brown Ale
Left Hand Great Juju Imperial Pale Ale With Ginger
Oskar Blues Deviant Dale’s IPA (NC)
Oskar Blues Ten Fidy Imperial Stout (NC)
Rivertowne Hop Lace White IPA
Southampton Double White

Unknown Let’s Get Tropical IPA

 

Arrivals

These beers are scheduled for landing very soon. They’ll be on our itinerary shortly.

Cask: Unknown Silverback Stout (NC)
Cider: Original Sin Dry Cider
Cider: Sonoma Cider The Anvil
     Bourbon Barrel-Aged Cider
Mead: Redstone Nectar Of The Hops
     Dry-Hopped Mead
Nitro: Left Hand Milk Stout
Nitro: North Coast Old Rasputin
     Russian Imperial Stout
Anchor IPA
Ballast Point Habanero Sculpin

Benford Smoked O’Hickory Brown
Big Boss Bad Penny Brown Ale
Big Boss Night Knight Black IPA

Coronado Barrelman’s Brown
Deep River Oxbow IPA (NC)
Duck-Rabbit Rabid Duck Imperial Stout (NC)
Evil Twin Molotov Lite Imperial IPA
Finch’s Sobek & Set Black IPA
Foothills Hoppyum IPA (NC)
Grand Teton Lost Continent Double IPA
Great Divide Rumble Oak-Aged IPA
Green Flash Jibe Session IPA
Humboldt Nectar IPA
Humboldt Red Nectar
Lagunitas Scare City Imperial Coffee Stout
Lost Coast Indica IPA
Lost Coast Sharkinator White IPA
Mikkeller Koppi Coffee IPA With Citra & Michiti Hops
Mission Coconut Brown
Natty Greene’s Old Fort Black IPA (NC)
Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale (NC)
Oskar Blues G’Knight Imperial Red IPA (NC)
Oskar Blues Mama’s Little Yella Pils (NC)
Oskar Blues Pinner Throwback IPA (NC)
Shamltz She’Brew Triple IPA
Stoudt’s Revel Red
Troegs Hopback Amber
Wines by the Glass
White:

Chardonnay- De Lyeth (Sonoma County, California)
Chenin Blanc- Fairvalley (South Africa) 2013
Pinot Grigio- Villa Puccini (Italy) 2013
Riesling- Sun Garden (Germany) 2012
Verdejo- Verdeo (Spain) 2013

Red:

Barbera- Quattro Mani (Italy) 2012
Cabernet Sauvignon- Bellula (France) 2013
Merlot- Steeple Jack (Australia) 2010
Pinot Noir- Brownstone (Lodi, California) NV
Shiraz- The Corker (Australia) 2012
Inside the Connoisseur’s Cabinet
 
Cascade Blueberry: Blended wheat and blond ales aged in oak barrels up to eight months on oak, then aged on three months on fresh blueberries. 2014 vintage. 8.19% ABV
 
Delirium Red: Tart ale with cherries. 8% ABV
Timmermans Oude Gueuze: Unflavoured lambic. 2014 vintage. 5.5% ABV

by Cape Fear Wine & Beer