like beer? like to learn about beer? then please join us at little pub for a berkshire beer dinner  hosted by berkshire brewing co-founder gary bogoff.

gary will explain the flavor profile, ingredients, and special brewing process for each beer served while you enjoy a five course little pub dinner paired with six different berkshire beers . he’ll also share stories about berkshire’s journey from a couple of home brewers to one of the regions largest craft brewers still brewing beer the old fashioned way: unfiltered, unpasteurized, free of any chemicals or preservatives, and delivered fresh every week. you can even try beer the old fashioned way because we’ll have a a hand drawn cask of extra hopped lost sailor ipa (and maybe a few other surprises too), so please join us!

featuring the following:

berkshire traditional pale ale

steel rail extra pale ale

hand drawn casked lost sailor ipa

maibock springtime lager

deans beans coffeehouse porter and raspberry barleywine ale “black and tan”

menu:

traditional pale ale and chicken tortilla soup

steel rail extra pale ale and chipotle ranch chopped salad

maibock springtime lager and maryland crab cakes with a thai curry aioli

hand drawn cask of “extra hopped” lost sailor ipa with pulled pork carnitas and creole seasoned shoestring fries

raspberry ale / coffeehouse porter  “black and tan” and warm new orleans bread pudding with maple sugared bourbon sauce.

tuesday april 24 2012

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

$65 per person

interested? seating is limited  and reservations are required so send an email to info@littlepub.com for a reservation form.

co sponsored by

The latest in the “Dogfish Monday”  line-up here at Little Pub is Burton Baton, yet another imperial IPA from Dogfish Head Brewery.

Dogfish Head, known for their off-kilter, cutting edge beers, excels at making India Pale Ales.  You might already be familiar with their world-renowned classics: the 60 Minute, 90 Minute, and 120 Minute IPAs.  Now that Burton Baton is offered year round (it used to be seasonal), you can add it to the list.  Burton Baton is a “two-thread” beer, meaning it is a blend of two distinct beers.  In this case, Dogfish mixes an English Old Ale with their 90 Minute Imperial IPA.  These two “threads” of beers are brewed separately.  Upon completion of fermentation, the threads are mixed together in a large oak cask and allowed to age for over a month.

This oak-aging process results in a remarkably complex and utterly satisfying brew.  The Burton is highly aromatic, with notes of tangy citrus overlain on a smooth oaky foundation.  If the aromas don’t invite you in, its effervescent amber color will.  Take a sip and note the velvety, mellow mouthfeel.  You’ll taste grapefruit and pine, with faint hints of grass and malt.  As the beer finishes, the oak-aging reveals itself as the hops blend into woody flavors of caramel, vanilla, and brown sugar.  Overall, this is a one of a kind beer, and highly recommended.  It’s more mellow and rounded than most Imperial IPAs, and certainly one of the most complex IPAs out there today.  Come on down to Little Pub and get it while it lasts.

editors note: the views expressed below are not necessarily shared by others at little pub. in fact, lars has never even seen star wars. 

So, you’re young and you’re feeling ambitious.  Sure, growing up on Tattooine was exciting when you were younger, but you’re older now and moisture-farming is getting boring.  Besides, the work can be handled by droids anyway – your family hardly needs you anymore. Your friends have all packed their bags and blasted off into space to embark on their own adventures.  Remember your neighbor Luke?  He met old man Kenobi and all of a sudden he’s off to be a Jedi.

Man, when is it going to be your turn?  Some of us are born lucky.  Well, maybe you’re thinking that it’s time to start taking matters into your own hands. You head down to Mos Eisley for a quick pop to liven up the doldrums.

“Give me something strong, something to take the edge off”.  Bartender pours you this funny black drink, something he calls “Imperial Stout Trooper”.  It’s midnight-black, foamy white at the top.  You lean in for a sip, but your head inadvertently jerks back a little bit when you’re hit with powerful aromas of chocolate and coffee.  Your hands shake slightly as you raise the glass to your mouth – you’ve never tasted something with so much power before.  Bittersweet flavors dance around your mouth.  Espresso melts into chocolate and toffee, with slight undertones of molasses.  The carbonation and mouthfeel is incredible.  Crisp, refreshing, unctuous, dark, mysterious.

You sip slowly at first, but soon start gulping it down, each quaff better than the last.  Your head is swimming slightly.  You feel like a loaded spring waiting to uncoil.  Your destiny is right there within your grasp.  “Hey bartender, who makes this?”  He smiles.  “That’s THE drink of the Empire.  Every time a Storm Trooper emerges victorious from battle, he receives a bottle.  They say the Emperor himself drinks a glass every night.  I even hear this stuff runs like oil through the veins of Vader’s bionic body.  This, my friend, is the essence of the Empire, summed up in liquid form.”

You lean back in your chair, smiling slightly, drunk on dark thoughts of power, of purpose.  Your path is clearly illuminated.  Some men are born to serve the light, others gravitate towards the dark.  And when the dark tastes this good, who could resist?  You raise your glass, nod at the bartender.  “To the Empire”.

(we’re not an official super bowl sponsor so legally we can’t use the term “super bowl” to tell you that we have whipped up some special little pub take out packages for your super bowl party.)

so here’s a list of our little pub take out specials  for the big nfl championship game on super bowl sunday.)

ladder co. #1 wings : crispy wings soaked in frank’s red hot sauce.  50 wings $40.00 / 100 wings $70.00

beef and bean chili: 1 pint (feeds 4) $10 / half tray (feeds 16-20) $50

bbq pulled pork: slow cooked, fork shredded. $9.00 per pound ( feeds 3-4)

 cheeseburger sliders: 10 sliders $30

crunchy veggie spring rolls: stuffed with shredded market vegetables. 1/2 tray is 15 full spring rolls/30 pieces $30

southwest egg rolls: stuffed with chicken, black beans, corn, and cheddar jack cheese. 1/2 tray 15 full egg rolls/30 pieces $40

jalapeno poppers:1/2 tray/20 pieces $15

click the link to download the order form. or just call us on 203 544 9222 or email us at info@littlepub.com

little pub super bowl take out order form

ps. this menu works for oscar night too!

so we’re sponsoring aimee mann at the ridgefield playhouse this friday night and of course that means two things. one is that if you come to little pub the night of the show and show your ticket stub you get a free glass of draught beer or house wine with your dinner.

the other is that these sponsorships always send us to the internet is search of any sort of relevant (or irrelevant) info we can use. so we found this til tuesday video of “voices carry”  and were amazed at the level of acting of the guy in the “wife beater” t-shirt and gold chain. click here: voices carry

but hey, then again we never put out a rock video so who are we to point the finger at anything?  anyway she’s super talented and has written loads of great tunes. and her career metamorphosis is pretty stunning in of  itself. it’s akin to simon le bon from duran duran becoming a latter day bob dylan.

 becoming

but after looking at those pictures we think maybe robert smith of the cure already did that transition.

anyway, we digress. we’ve heard aimee puts on a great show, plus she seems nice, so you should go.

tickets are here: http://www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org/event/aimee-mann

howdy folks,

if you like rare beers from sierra nevada , have we got an evening planned for you on tuesday january 31st.

we’ve got marty from sierra coming in to take you through ovila dubbel, ovila quad, 30th anniversary grand cru, estate homegrown ale, the brand new ruthless rye ipa, and life and limb 2 (the sierra-dogfish collaboration).

interested? these beer dinners always sell out and reservations are required so 1.)save the date and 2.) send an email to info@littlepub.com and we’ll send you out the info as soon as we have it finalized..

we’ve teamed up with the ridgefield playhouse to sponsor robert cray wednesday dec 7^th. that’s right folks, show your ticket stub before the show and get a free glass of wine or beer with your dinner. or just have a glass of wine or beer for dinner. it’s up to you.

buy tickets here:  http://www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org/event/robert-cray-band

you remember robert cray, don’t you?  if you’ve listened to the radio at all over the past 20 years you’ve probably heard “smoking gun” 1000 times. but did you know that he has one of those 20th century masters millennium collection greatest hits records? that means he has other songs in addition to smoking gun.  we’ve never heard of any of those other songs either, but it’s pretty impressive if you get one of those cds made up .    iron butterfly has one too, but inna gaddda davida take up most of it.

eran troy danner is opening, which is interesting because eran troy once played at little pub. he plays others peoples songs (including a blistering version of bb king’s “the thrill is gone“)  so you’ll hear lots of stuff you know.

we’re happy to be the restaurant sponsor for tomorrow night’s chris cornell show at the ridgefield playhouse.

now you probably know that  chris cornell was the singer for temple of the dog, soundgarden, and, the unfortunately named, audioslave.

and you might also know that he’s so prolific that  you will hear one of his songs  every 10 minutes if you listen to lithium or alternative nation on satellite radio .

but you might not know that if you stop by after the show tomorrow night and present your ticket stub you’ll get a glass of beer or wine.

so now you know all you need to know. see you tomorrow.

just redid our beer list and some folks noticed that we now carry four  beers from the g. schneider & sohn schneider weisse brewery. that’s not because we owe them money or anything like that. it’s because we just think at all four have merit on their own.

one of these days mr. beer or maybe even die beifrau will dust off their keyboards and do a review of each one. but until then we have the following table:

beer name: Orginal (Tap 7 – Unser Original)

abv: 5.4%

style: hefeweizen

tasting notes: amber-mahogany colored beer.  fresh and well-balanced  with a slightly bitter finish. perhaps the world’s best wheat beer.

beer name: hopfen-weisse

abv: 8.2%

style: weizen bock

tasting notes: brewed in conjunction with brooklyn brewery. this is a hopped up more powerful version of perhaps the world’s best wheat beer.

beer name: wiesen edel-weisse (tap 4 – mein grünes)

abv: 6.2%

style: hefewiesen

tasting notes: golden orange beer with thick-straw head. light and malty with a hints of citrus fruit.  basically an organic version of perhaps the world’s best wheat beer.

beer name: aventinus (tap 6 – unser aventinus)

abv: 8.2%

style: weizen bock

tasting notes: dark ruby color with intense clove-like aroma.   a darker dunkel version of perhaps the world’s best wheat beer.

beer name: schneider fromonedayatatime

abv: yes miss romano

style: wiseacre

lots of buzz these days about “farm to fork”, and for good reason: fresher produce, lower carbon emissions in transport, supporting local  farmers and even boosting the local economy with farmers markets (did you ever notice that burt’s bees is at every farmers market?  ). furthermore, if you grow your own stuff you can even save a few bucks. even uncle sam used to think it was good idea and maybe that’s a “backyard to fork”  movement we can all get behind.

but what we’ve noticed is that, despite all the farm to fork press,  it appears that many people still fail at the “fork to mouth” part. check out diagram 1. this poor sap is spilling peas all over his shirt.

it’s sad to see food wasted like that. so we’re happy to propose our new “fork to mouth” initiative. check out figure 3 (figure 2 is top secret patent applied for process) for clear and concise directions on how to get that food where it belongs. .

but why stop at fork to mouth?  we tried to dis-intermediate the fork entirely but “hand to mouth” had been used before and while  “farm to mouth” sounded good, timmy said we should wash the vegetables first and “farm to sink to mouth” didn’t have quite the same ring to it as “farm to mouth”.  so “fork to mouth” it is and, as always, we’re  happy to be of service.

ps:  “fork to eye “ should be avoided at all costs.