This Thursday, January 9 at the Beveridge Place Pub (blog sponsor), Schooner Exact Brewing is taking over the taps. Well, not all of them. Something like 16 of them. For Thursday’s IPA Inauguration, the tap list is impressive.
Hoptoberfest at the Beveridge Place Pub is not simply a month-long celebration of locally brewed IPA, it is also a tournament-style competition to see which beer will be named the house IPA for the coming year. The pub’s patrons vote in a bracket-style election all October and eventually name an IPA champion. It’s a lucrative contract. Supplying the Beveridge Place Pub with a steady stream of house IPA (the one they always have on tap) amounts to something like five kegs per week. Stretch that over a year and you’re talking about a lot of beer.
There was something very fitting when Schooner Exact Brewing’s 3-Grid IPA took home the title a couple month ago. The Beveridge Place Pub is where Schooner Exact was born. It’s where they had the initial release party in 2007. No doubt, they are very proud to be replacing Georgetown Brewing’s Lucile IPA as the reigning champion.
In addition to 3-Grid IPA, here is the list of Schooner Exact beers you can expect to see on tap Thursday at the Beveridge Place Pub.
Evil Tendencies Triple IPA
Sour Raspberry Wheat
Sour Peach Wheat
Sour Kriek Wheat
Barrel Aged Imperial Porter
Test Batch 34 IPA
2012 Hoppy the Woodsman
2013 Hoppy the Woodsman
King Street Brown
Profanity Hill Porter
Gateway Golden
Gallant Maiden Hefe
West Point Pale
2011 Hoppy Holidays
2012 Hoppy Holidays
2013 Hoppy Holidays