Barleywine Bonanza This Weekend
Earlier this week we told you about the Annual Brewer’s Plate benefit for Fair Food at the Kimmel Center. The eats and drinks there are sure to be epic, but if you need a Saturday pre-game guaranteed to get you blitzed, stop by The Institute for their fifth annual Big Banging Barleywine Bonanza.
For the uninitiated, barleywines are in fact beers, though they typically pack a punch sitting somewhere on the 8-12% alcohol by volume scale. Though they often have a dark amber to chocolate hue, barleywines tend to have a perky, fruit forward flavor. Some stay on the bittersweet side of things while others are aggressively hoppy.
The Institute will be serving more than 20 different barleywines, including locally brewed Old Horizontal by Victory, Flying Mouflan by Tröegs, and Arctic Alchemy by Bethlehem Brew Works. They’ll also be playing superhero movies on all day because apparently you’ll have to have superpowers to try all twenty of the following…
1. Avery Brewing Company Hog Heaven
2. Tröegs Brewing Company Flying Mouflan
3. Victory Beer Old Horizontal
4. Victory Beer Oak Aged Horizontal
5. Weyerbacher Brewing Company 2012 Insanity
6. Weyerbacher Brewing Company 2013 Insanity
7. Blue Point Old Howling Bastard
8. Allentown Brew Works Barleywine
9. Left Hand Brewing Company Widdershins
10. Starr Hill Brewing Company Bandstand
11. Smuttynose Brewing Co. Barleywine
12. Boulder Beer Co. Killer Penguin
13. DuClaw Devil’s Milk
14. DuClaw Barrel Aged Misery
15. Arcadia Cereal Killer
16. Bell’s Brewery, Inc. Third Coast
17. Southern Tier Brewing Company Backburner
18. Flying Dog Brewery Horn Dog
19. Duck Rabbit Barleywine
20. Sierra Nevada Big Foot
21. Rock Art Brewery Ridgerunner
22. Heavy Seas Beer Below Deck
23. Evil Twin Freudian Slip
24. Smuttynose Brewing Wheat Wine
25. Two Brothers Brewing Company Barleywine
26. 21st Amendment Lower The Boom
27. Brew Works BBA Arctic Alchemy
28. Brew Works BBA Barleywine
Check the event Facebook page for more details.