Raleigh Beer Week 2011!

Hello friends, its almost time for our favorite week of the year....RALEIGH BEER WEEK! We have been feverishly working to bring you a bigger & better week of special events.  We have added 2 new beer focused venues that will host some some great events.

Here is the most up to date schedule:
Sunday 8/28
12-4pm Raleigh Beer Week Kick-Off Beer Festival
2 types of tickets available for purchase @ etix.com
VIP $55:Gets you and 49 of your friends 1 hour of access to some of the best craft brews around. Rare, Vintage and one-off specialties from some of our favorite breweries and light appetizers provided by our culinary team.
General Admission $40: Gets you access to all of the delicious brews and light appetizers provided by our culinary team.

6-10 Flying Saucer Presents: Beer Can Chicken Patio Cook out! $20 gets you samples of 5 delicious chickens each cooked with a different canned beer and their respective beers. Consider this a hybrid event of food & beer!

Monday 8/29
6pm Rare DuckRabbit Prix Fixe Dinner
9pm Landmark Cask night! Flying Dog Snakedog I.P.A.

Tuesday 8/30
6pm: Foundation presents Beer Cocktails! Come and sample some Raleigh's favorite beers as the base for delicious cocktails! Join us for inventive cocktails and some special beers from their cellar!

9pm: New Holland Dragon's Milk cask at the Flying Saucer. Come and sample this rare beauty in the most perfect of forms on the bar at the Saucer!

Wednesday 8/31
6pm: Busy Bee Cafe presents: The Brewers Forum in the Hive. Join sour guru Eric Salazar for a moderated discussion on sour beers & barrel aging. Beers that will be poured that night include Eric's Ale & Felix Love.
9pm: Landmark Tavern & Natty Greenes bring you a delicious cask of "Old Towne Brown Ale"

Thursday
6pm: Join Galen Smith & Aviator Brew Crew for a cask of Hogwild IPA conditioned with grapefruit.
9pm: Tir Na Nog Presents: Beer Prophet App Launch & Lonerider Local Beer Local Band. Come out and enjoy

Friday
6pm: Rare beer @ Landmark
9pm: Brewmasters will tap a keg of Sour Abbey Ale from Triangle Brewing Company.


Here's to an amazing week of great beer!

Bell's 2 Hearted Cask!

Join Julie Johnson from All About Beer Magazine for a night of Cask Appreciation. We will tap the cask at 9pm on the Landmark's historic bar.

Beer Week Schedule UPDATED!

Monday 8/30

6pm-Aviator Cask @ the Borough. We will kicking off the Inaugural Raleigh Beer week with a very special cask of Aviator brewing's dark horizon black i.p.a with jalapenos.

9pm-Bells Two Hearted cask night @ Landmark with Julie johnson of All About Beer magazine!

Tuesday 8/31

7pm-Beer Dinner @ The Busy Bee- Join Brian Ewing of 12 % Imports and the Boys @ the Busy Bee as we celebrate the beers of De Docter Van de Kronenaar. 5 beers, 5 courses $50!

9pm-Beer Cocktails @ Foundation. Join Drew Shepherd and his crew for a night of beer cocktails. All North Carolina brews and domestic spirits, mixed by the expert hands of the Foundation bartenders.

Wednesday 9/1

7pm -Brooklyn Beer Dinner @ The Flying Saucer. Join Steve Hindy co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery for a night of food & brews.

9pm -Cask Night @ The Borough

Thursday 9/2

7 pm -Brewers Forum @ The Busy Bee. Join Spike Buckowski from Terrapin Brewing Co, Sean Wilson from Fullsteam, Steve Hindy Co-Founder of Brooklyn Brewery and Sumit Vohra of Lonerider Brewing for a panel discussion on brewing and the beer industry

9 pm- Ballast point brewing @ Flying Saucer! The folks’ at the Saucer will be tapping an uber rare cask of black marlin porter with cocoa nibs! @ 9pm

Friday 9/3

6pm- Cask at the Landmark! Join Darren Quinlan of Coney Island/ Schmaltz brewing to tap a cask of jewbilation #11! Never before in NC!!

All week long Raleigh Beer Week Venues will be pouring rare and amazing brews! Landmark will be the home to Allagash rare and special brews, The Borough will be dipping into the private stash for some rarities from Founders Brewing. Foundation will be reaching deep for some rare and bourbon barrel aged libations! All of the venues will be pouring a collection of oddities and one- off's from New Belgium including La Folie, Dark Heather Saison, Belgian Golden and Wild Ale.

Raleigh Beer Week Update

We are excited to announce the lineup for the 1st Annual Raleigh Beer Week Brewers Forum! We will have a blend of local juggernauts and GABF favorites. Spike Buckowski brewermaster and founder of Terrapin Brewing Company, Sean Wilson CEO @ Fullsteam Brewing (opening soon) and Jamie Bartholomaus owner/brewer at Foothills Brewing Company. The event will be moderated David Millsaps of NewRaleigh. We will be charging a $5 cover that will go directly to the Medical Respite division at the Raleigh Rescue Mission. Email Chris@busybeeraleigh.com with any questions!

Big Week in Beer!

We have a huge week in beer coming up. This Tuesday 3/16 we will tapping a keg of Hopslam. Wednesday, we will make our foray into a Nitrogen pushed beers with Victory Donnybrook Stout. We will be rounding out the week with the Sexual Chocolate release party!

Big Weekend!

So the Homebrewed Raleigh went off this weekend and we are feeling pretty good about it. We had over 200 people come through the door, and every one left satisfied! Check out our pictures on Facebook!

Also our friend/amazing designer has finished our logo....Let us know your comments!

Homebrewed Raleigh



With so many great home brewers around town, it’s about time that somebody put ‘em under one roof and threw a party. Later in the year, some of Raleigh’s bars and restaurants are getting together to premiere Raleigh Beer Week, a week long celebration of all things hops. To kick it all off, the Raleigh City Museum, Busy Bee Cafe, Raleigh Beer Week and New Raleigh present Homebrewed Raleigh, a beer fest featuring 6 of the best home brewers in town on Saturday, March 6th from 1:00-6:00. There will be food, music, and, of course, painstakingly crafted delicious beer.
More info to come on the brewers, bands, and Raleigh Beer Week later, but we wanted everyone to go ahead and save the date.
Tickets are $20 for members of the Raleigh City Museum, $25 for non-members, and go on sale February 1st. You can purchase tickets in person at either the Raleigh City Museum or the Busy Bee Cafe, or by calling the RCM at (919) 832-3775.
This event has a limited capacity, so be sure and pick up tickets early.