Wheatstock ‘08
June 9, 2008
Wheatstock ‘08
June 9-14Â New beers released each night @ 8 p.m.
Fort Street Brewery
1660 Fort St. Lincoln Park, MI
www.fortstreetbeer.com
Wheatstock is a celebration of wheat beers. Six days, seven different wheat beers. While we don’t include every wheat beer style, and do include some unrecognized styles, we feel that Wheatstock presents a great variet of flavors. For lovers of wheat beers, or anyone curious about the different wheat beer styles, Wheatstock is for you!
Monday:Â Good Vibes Weizenbock
A little known beer out of Germany that was heavily influenced by the popular bock beers. They combine the rich maltiness of bocks with the refreshing banana flavors of the weizen yeast strains. ABV=7.75%
Tuesday:Â Wheat Love, American Style
This beer describes it’s style as German with an American twist. Similar to traditional German weizen beers, but with less of the typical banana and clove flavor. ABV=5.9%
Wednesday:Â Groovalicious Lemon Wit
This beer calls it’s taste Belgian Americana. Truly innovative, with a refresh-ness that could make this beer an eventual headliner. Brewed like a Belgian witbier, which normally uses orange peel as an ingredient, but with lemon peel instead.
Thursday:Â Summer Sunsation IV
The headlining act of Wheatstock, making it’s fourth appearance, albeit with a different line-up each year. Made with 50% malted wheat, sweet orange peel, blueberries and fermented with a Belgian yeast strain. This beer seeks to make you forget every bad thing your mother ever told you about fruit beers. ABV=5.25
He Ain’t Hefe, He’s My Brotha’
A standard German-style hefeweizen with it’s amps turned up to 8, as in percent ABV!
Friday:Â Psychedelic Wheat
Comprised of ingredients that previously made up Summer Sunsation, this beer splintered off to do their own thing. Made with the same base as the Summer Sensation IV, minus the blueberries and fermented with a spicy Belgian yeast strain. A very unique taste that will have you trippin’.
Saturday:Â Flower Power
This German-style wheat beer seeks to carve out a name for itself by incorporating all of the classic influences, but with the addition of Tupelo honey, which is both spicy and exotic. ABV=7%.
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June 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
An email from Doug - the brewer @ Fort St.
Greetings and salutations!
The long anticipated Event of the Summer is finally here! As heard on WCSX’s “JJ & Lynne in the Morning”, we’ve got six days of love and beer in store for you! A new wheat beer style will be released each night (Monday-Saturday) at 8 p.m. We have two new beers on Thursday. You are encouraged to wear your coolest hippie gear, and I have prizes for the best costume every night. All the batches except for Summer Sunsation IV were done on our small system and I’m expecting a full house everynight, so they will go quick! Fan Club Members, I may have Summer Sunsation on tap for you a little earlier, but I can’t say for sure yet.
Our liquors of the week are Hot Damn and Goldschlager, and so we feature $2.50 Oatmeal Cookies and $3 Happiness (where else can you get happiness for just $3?!). Pasta of the week is smoked chicken tortelloni in a basil pesto sauce. Fish this week is Bouilibaise, which is a hearty stew made with a variety of seafood. We also have the usual $6 Long Island Ice Tea pitchers on Wednesday and Sunday and $7.50 pitchers of Lincoln Lager and $8.50 pitchers of most other beers during every Tiger game, plus until 6 p.m. Saturday and all day Sunday. Fan Club Members also get 20 oz beers for just $2.50 on Sundays.
The Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Festival is just around the corner (July 25 & 26). We’ll have ten beers there, including some available only at the Festival. You can buy your tickets from us now. Friday tickets are $25 in advance and Saturday tickets are $30 in advance.
On a final note, the annual Downriver Classic Car Cruise is Saturday, June 28th and we’re planning on having our friend Mike O’Brien roast a pig for us.
See ya soon,
Doug
Fort Street Brewery
http://www.fortstreetbeer.com
1660 Fort St.
Lincoln Park, MI
(313) 389-9620