Beer Dinner: Eli Cannon's Tap Room, Middletown May 28th

Beer Bar:  Eli Cannon's Tap Room

Brewery:  Stone Brewing Company

Location:  695 Main Street, Middletown

When:  Monday, May 28th 3:00PM - 7:00PM

Price: $55 per person (Head over to Eli Cannon's to purchase your tickets)

The Skinny:  The awesome people at Eli Cannon's in Middletown are joining forces with their friends from the west coast, Stone Brewing Company for this savory event.  What better way to spend your Memorial Day holiday, than at Eli Cannon's eating some of the best food in CT and drinking some of the best Craft Beer that America offers.

Some of Stone Brewing Company's best Craft Beers, including Belgo-Russian Imperial Stout, Vertical Epic 11.11.11, Escodido Imperial Black IPA and many more will be paired with amazing dishes cooked up in the Eli Cannon's kitchen.

Here is what the head chef from Eli Cannon's Tap Room has in store for your palette:

Appetizer
Lamb Lollipop - French Tipped Lamb Chop with mint jelly sauce, served over potato sticks

Soup
Coconut Saffron & Shrimp

Salad
Tomato Watermelon Salad

Main Course
Choice of Grilled Trout or Rib Eye w/ a coffee and chili crust. Served with roasted fingerling potatoes and roasted asparagus

Dessert
Chocolate cupcake with a chocolate and chili ganache center topped with fruit buttercream and a candied raspberry
Chocolate coconut cupcake with lemon buttercream.

Tickets are limited so get them soon!

If you have any questions, call up the folks at Eli Cannon's @ 860-347-3547

Tuesday Night Tastin' @ Eli Cannon's, Middletown

Location: Eli Cannon's Tap Room, Middletown

Date: Tuesday, May 8 7:00PM - 9:00PM

The Skinny: The awesome people at Eli Cannon’s Tap Room in Middletown are teaming up with the splendid folks at Oskar Blues Brewery for this complimentary, special tasting event. There will be 4 different Oskar Blues brews on tap (Including the newest member of the Oskar Blues line up, Deviant Dale's IPA!!!).  There might also be some free Oskar Blues Schwag up for grabs.  For a complete rundown of the Oskar Blues Brewery selections that will be featured at Eli Cannon’s Tap Room on Tuesday, look here:

Deviant Dale's IPA

Deviant Dale’s IPA (8% ABV, 85 IBUs) was born at the crossroads, in a juke joint, as if Dale’s Pale Ale sold its soul to balance Deviant’s foreboding aromas of citrus, grapefruit rind and piney resins with a copper ball-of-fire color and inscrutable finish. The 2011 GABF Silver Medal Winner (American IPA Category) is the Devil incarnate with untold amounts of malt and hedonistic Columbus dry-hopping. Oskar Blues’ southern spirit caught a northbound blues bus to ColoRADo to deliver the boundary bustin’ brewery’s first 16 oz. tallboy can.

Mama's Little Yella Pils

Oskar Blues’ Mama’s Little Yella Pills is an uncompromising, small-batch version of the beer that made Pilsen, Czech Republic famous. Unlike mass market “pilsners” diluted with corn & rice, Mama’s is built with 100% pale malt, German specialty malts, and Saaz hops. While it’s rich with Czeched-out flavor, its gentle hopping (35 IBUs) and low ABV (just 5.3%) make it a luxurious but low-dose (by Oskar Blues standards) refresher.

Dale's Pale Ale

America’s first hand-canned craft beer is a voluminously hopped mutha that delivers a hoppy nose, assertive-but-balanced flavors of pale malts and hops from start to finish. First canned in 2002, Dale’s Pale Ale is a hearty (6.5% and 65 IBUs), critically acclaimed trailblazer that has changed the way craft beer fiends perceive canned beer.

Gubna

Emphasizing that complexity of character can arise from simple elements, this ale is made with 3 malts and 1 hop. Its light amber color and slightly spicy malt character are derived from the use of German Dark Munich Malt and Rye Malt respectively. North American 2-row barley combines with the other grains to lay the foundation for the hop onslaught to come. Summit hops are used exclusively in the boil for bitterness, flavor and aroma but it doesn’t end there. Post-fermentation dry hopping allows the 10% ABV monstrosity to gently coax the citrus rind and grapefruit aroma to join the 100 IBUs already present. This beer will greet you with a pungent citrus blast, provide a spicy yet round middle and finish with a brisk, clean bitterness.

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For More info call Eli Cannon's @ 860-347-ELIS

Tuesday Night Tastin' @ Eli Cannon's, Middletown

Location: Eli Cannon's Tap Room, Middletown

Date: Tuesday,  May 1 7:00PM - 9:00PM                                    

The Skinny:  The awesome people at Eli Cannon’s Tap Room in Middletown are teaming up with the great folks at Sebago Brewing Company for this special tasting event.   There will be 7 different Sebago brews on tap.  Amongst the 7 will be 3 IPAs (one of which will be a cask IPA!!!)  For a complete rundown of the Sebago Brewing Company selections that will be featured at Eli Cannon’s Tap Room on Tuesday, look here:

Citra Dry-Hopped Full Throttle IPA CASK

Frye's Leap IPA

Frye's Leap IPA is an intense experience. It is a hoppy medium-bodied ale and is full of character. From the caramel malt which gives our IPA its golden color to the distinct fruity hoppiness, this beer is every bit as exciting as its namesake, the popular cliffs on Sebago Lake. Enjoy this refreshing beer with seafood, spicy foods and all things grilled. Take the Leap!

Full Throttle IPA

Big juicy American hops burst from this unfiltered deep amber ale. The caramel sweetness takes a backseat only to the abundance of citrusy, piney flavors and aromas. Dominated by Cascade, Centennial, Chinook and Falconer's Flight hops, our double IPA has been dry-hopped for over a month.

Barleywine 2011

2011 Barleywine is Sebago Brewing Company's boldest beer ever at 9.7% ABV, 60 IBUs, and an extended barrel-aging time. This beer is a blend of Old World influence and modern day ingredients and technique. Domestic malt and distinctly American hops produce this rich, full bodied ale. On top of it all, this beer was barrel-aged in charred oak bourbon barrels for over eight months. The end result is an unfiltered dark ruby colored ale with very intense aromatics.

Elegan's Saison

This style is renowned for its complex fruitiness and aroma. Elegans Saison (6.1% ABV) is a smooth ruby red colored winter version brewed with Pineapple Sage, an herb from the mountains of Central America long used as a tension reliever. Pineapple sage (salvia elegans) imparts delicate fragrances of lemongrass and tangerine to compliment the bready malt aroma and caramelized sugar flavors. A balanced bitterness ends each sip and cleanses the palate, leaving you thirsty for more.

Hefewiezen

Our Hefeweizen is a golden unfiltered wheat beer with it’s origins from Bavaria. We ferment it with a traditional German yeast strain which produces a unique spicy fruitiness and wonderful carbonation. Malted red wheat gives it a light crisp body and dense white head. Please sit back and enjoy our summertime seasonal beer!

Saddleback Ale    

Saddleback Ale is a crisp light all malt beer with roots from an Eastern European lager. The Czech hops balance the pale malt, revealing balance and natural drinkability. Saddleback Ale is the perfect session beer.