Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week 2013

Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week is just one week away!  Now in its second year, this region-wide collection of events is a celebration of the world’s greatest beverage, with tastings, dinners, tap takeovers, & other cool happenings spread all over southwestern PA.  The House is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s PCBW, & just as proud to showcase some fun events of our own, all centered around the beauty, excitement, & diversity of craft beer.

On Saturday, April 20^th, if you’re hitting the Release the Firkins Real Ale Fest (or not), first stop by The House at 1:00 for our Voodoo Tap Takeover.  We’re joining with our good neighbors up north to tap 6 of their delicious brews, including Wynona’s Big Brown Ale, Pilzilla, Breakfast of Champions, Cowbell Imperial Milk Stout, Redneck Riviera Red, AND the piece de resistance of the takeover: 2 Live Grand Cru, Vol. 1, a blend of their Big Black Voodoo Daddy & Black Magick imperial stouts, aged for 16 months in Pappy Van Winkle bourbon barrels!  YES!!!  Order this exquisite draft & get a Voodoo Barrel Room glass to take home (while supplies last).

On Wednesday, April 24^th, hit the Founder’s Brunch at Piper’s Pub in the morning, then swing by from 6:00 to 8:00 for our sampling with Finch’s Beer Co.  A relative newcomer to the Pittsburgh scene, Finch’s is doing some great things out of Chicago (in tallboy cans, no less!).  We’re thrilled to be hosting this sampling & glass giveaway with Mike Finch himself, there to meet & greet fans of this great new brewery.

On Thursday, April 25^th, check out the T-shirt Art Show at Commonwealth Press in the afternoon, before spending an evening sampling beers at our monthly Top Shelf Thursday tasting at 7:00.  This monthly flight of rare & limited beers has become a hot ticket at The House, & for PCBW we’ll be sampling different barrel-aged beers – those before & after barrel-aging, or side-by-side tastes of the same beer in different barrels, for instance.  This month’s tasting is already sold out, so if you didn’t grab a spot, stay tuned for the May edition.

On Saturday, April 27^th, wrap up a great Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week with The Sour & the Funky, southwestern PA’s first & only festival of sour & wild beers, featuring a wide variety of lambics, Flemish sours, Berliner weissen, & other wild & bretted beers.  This is our 2^nd year putting on this really fun event, which can safely be called one of the “beer-geekiest” happenings during PCBW.  Due to the crush we got last year, we’ve expanded this year’s event to 2 sessions & have already sold out of the second – the first, from 1:00 to 4:00, still has spots available.  So don’t forget to reserve your space, & don’t forget the Tums!

Once again this year, areas brewers from 17 different brewing bodies will be teaming up on 5 collaboration beers.  Stay tuned to see which of these will available at The House, & check out the pittsburghcraftbeerweek.com for more details on what’s going on around town.  An awesome week dedicated to an awesome beverage – craft beer!