Weekend Wrap: Kicking the Casks, Jester King Visits, Prepping for Cider Week

JesterKingRonOct2014Have you heard? The Fourth Annual Cider Week NYC officially starts on Friday, but we’re getting our real cider line-up going with an incredible menu of the region’s and world’s best ciders (you can see our full schedule here). Starting tomorrow night with our Kingston Black theme night, we’ll have almost two full weeks of cider events and tastings, including pours by the glass (we’ll have a selection of bottled ciders on the bar from which you can choose your favorites).
Speaking of what’s on the bar, we did it! Kicked our three Franconian casks in three days over the weekend. Among the “beer-lebrities” helping us drink were Rebecca Flynn of Corkbuzz (who finished off the last two pints of the dunkel lager cask on Saturday) and Ron Extract, co-owner and brewer of Jester King! Ron was up from Austin, TX, and hung out with us, drinking Shelton Brothers’ favorites like Taras Boulba on draught and the Konrad Czech Lager in bottles. Ron was very impressed by the Sly Fox O’Reilly Stout we have on nitro pour (photo is of Ron and his dad, Jack). Ron was discussing his recent collaborations with Crooked Stave in Colordo and with Evil Twin down in Austin.
We always enjoy hosting prominent beer industry people, and we can’t wait to see what cider luminaries drop by over the next couple weeks as we serve up ciders from many of our favorite cideries, including:
  • *Farnum Hill
  • *Slyboro
  • *Eden
  • *Foggy Ridge
  • *West County
  • *Eve’s Ice Cider
  • *Red Byrd