Home Made Liquids & Solids (Longmont) February Podcast & Music Line-Up

Thursday 2/2- Craig Corona solo
Friday 2/3- Danny Shafer’s 21st Century band
Saturday 2/4- King Stan band blues & R&B
Sunday 2-5 Super Bowl party no evening music
Wednesday- 2/ 8- Songs from The Silo with Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore 8pm
Thursday- 2/9- Steve Manshel solo
Friday 2/10- Quemando salsa dance party
Saturday 2/11- Delta Sonics blues Colorado IBC winner
Sunday 2/12- Gin Mill Gypsy’s
Tuesday 2/14- Comedy with Nancy Norton 8pm
Thursday 2/16- Prairie Scholors
Friday- 2/17 Johnny O band
Saturday 2/18- Mojomama
Sunday 2/19- George Nelson band
Tuesday 2/21- Fat Tuesday party with Jockamo-7-10pm
Thursday 2/23- Randall Dubis solo
Friday 2/24- School of Rock 8pm
Saturday 2/25- John Lee Hooker Jr. band
Sunday 2/26- School of Rock 3pm & 8pm two shows
Wednesday 2/29- Home grown singer/songwriters 7pm with Bonnie & Taylor Sims hosting

Every Sunday Bluegrass pick 12-3pm
Every Monday electric blues jam 7:30pm
Every Thursday dinner music downstairs 5:30-8:30pm
Friday & Saturday shows are 8-11:30pm
Sunday shows are 6-9pm free all ages except 2/26

Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (Lyons) February Podcast & Music Line-Up

Wednesday 2/1-1st Wednesday music Club 7:30pm
Friday 2/3- Wendy Woo band rockin’Americana
Saturday 2/4- Randall Dubis blues band
Sunday 2/5- Super bowl party no music
Friday- 2/10- JoJo Reed Zydeco band from Louisiana
Saturday 2/11- Farewell Drifters from Nashville * K.C. Groves opening
Sunday 2/12- Danny Shafer’s 21 century band
Tuesday 2/14- Love & Hate songs by the Jameson’s 7pm
Wednesday 2/15- Tribute to The Rolling Stones 7pm
Friday 2/17- Blue Krewe- Mardi Gras party
Saturday 2/18- Lionel Young band
Sunday 2/19- Swing State new & vintage swing
Tuesday 2/21- Fat Tuesday party with The Zydecoasters 8pm
Friday 2/24- John Lee Hooker Jr. band
Saturday 2/25- Cowboy Dave’s honky tonk band
Sunday 2/26- Wild Road band old country
Tuesday 2/28- Lyons High School jazz band 7pm

Every Tuesday bluegrass pick 8-11pm
Friday & Saturday shows are 8-11:30pm
Sunday shows are 6-9pm all ages & free

Lou, our new beertender from upstate New York, has been missing home sumpin’ fierce & who are we to deny him the finer things of his home state? He’s invited John from Brewery Ommegang, the top Belgian-style brewery in the US, to come to Oskar Blues in Longmont on Thursday, February 9th to talk about the old country & sample some of Ommegang’s best beers.

Ommegang’s bringing 3 Philosophers, Seduction, Adoration, & Hennepin & we hope you’ll love getting all four of these great beers in one place at one time. You can also sample the likes of Oskar Blues’s Red Eye Rye Pale Ale, Columbian Supreme Coffee Porter & Deviant Dale’s IPA (all three only available at Oskar Blues at this time).

It’s all going down at 6PM on February 9th at Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids at 1555 S Hover Rd in Longmont. Corner of Hover Rd & the Diagonal Highway.

Read up on what’s happening at the farm in Farmer Geoff’s latest blog post- Springing into 2012!

Many more pics & good times to come in 2012!

The three new Berkshire pigs are enjoying their new accommodations- you can tell they are happy because their tails are always curly! We built them an enclosure for those chilly nights full of fluffy straw and an insulated floor! They are also figuring out their own water tap system. Healthy pigs require lots of available fresh water, so we’re givin’ it to ‘em!

The Goats are chillin’ like villains, and have done a great job eating down the summer garden.

The Cows are all on new pasture filling their bellies with lots of grass and enjoying the warm mash breakfast served daily. The mama cows are all pregnant and will begin calving in early spring.

This year is going to be full of exciting events, please feel free to look us up at www.oskarblues.com. We are now on twitter @hopsandhefers, or via old school email, farmergeoff@oskarblues.com. Thank you for supporting craftAculture! Keep the brown side down!– Farmer Geoff

We’re teaming up with Old Chicago restaurants during their “I Love Beer Tour,” and will be offering a very limited and exclusive release of the farm raised, strong ale born on the brewery’s Longmont, CO based farm.  The tour kicks off on Wednesday, January 25th at all Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Oregon and Wisconsin Old Chicago locations. The beer will be flowing while the limited amount lasts.  For a complete list of Old Chicago locations, check out www.oldchicago.com

“HGH (Home Grown Hops) Part DUH” is a 7.5% A.B.V and 70 I.B.U. Strong Ale brewed with hops locally grown at our Hops & Heifers farm.  The home gown, high-potency, home run hitter is dry hopped with Amarillo, double dry hopped with Centennial, Summit and the last of our first crop of whole Cascade Hops.   This farm-raised strong ale injects more HGH than the 1998 home run race.

Our 50 acre Hops & Heifers Farm was reborn by Dale Katechis and Farmer Geoff Hess in an area hosting views of Boulder’s Flatirons and Haystack Mountain, and sits just down the road from the brewery and our Home Made Liquids & Solids restaurant, creating an opportunity for a true farm to table experience.  The farm hosts 2 acres of hops planted in celebration in May 2011 by the Oskar Blues employees.  The initial Hops & Heifers work day saw 3,500 hop plants laid in on 2 acres of land across 181 hop poles.  The hopyard menu includes Centennial, Columbus, Nugget, Chinook, Willamette, Mt.Hood, Cascade and Sterling.

The farm also hosts 100% Oskar Blues-raised Black Angus cattle, Berkshire pigs and goats that are part of the sustainable model.  Our cattle are grass fed on our pasture grasses and alfalfa in addition to spent grain and water reclaimed from the brewery, while Berkshire pigs are fed a mix of high protein grain, brewery spent grain and restaurant kitchen scraps.

This is not the first collaboration we’ve done with Old Chicago.  In 2011, Old Chicago was the exclusive launch of Deviant Dale’s IPA during the same “I Love Beer” tour.  Deviant went on to win a Silver Medal in the 2011 Great American Beer Festival American India Pale Ale category, the most competitive category in the competition’s history, with 176 entries.  Deviant Dale’s will be released in March- our first 16 oz. tallboy can!

In addition, the companies share much in the way of history.  Dale Katechis, our heart & soul owner at Oskar Blues, gained experience within the Old Chicago group of restaurants & was the General Manager at the Longmont Old Chicago location, just a few blocks away from Home Made Liquids & Solids.  Dave Chichura, our head brewer, worked at Rock Bottom Brewery, a sister concept to Old Chicago, for four years.

Set in the heart of Colorado craft beer country, our original brewpub in Lyons began canning its beers in November of 2002 with a hand-canning line in the 60- year-old barn next door to our funky little brewpub.  Celebrating our 10^th CANiversary this year, we now have a full- throttle canning operation that is quickly expanding our cult-like following across the nation!

Check out which Old Chicago’s locations we’re hosting “I Love Beer” Tour Events:

January 25th

Old Chicago- Tejon, Colorado Springs, 7-9pm

Old Chicago- Powers, Colorado Springs, 6:30-8:30pm

Old Chicago- Woodman, Colorado Springs, 6-7:30pm

Old Chicago- Academy, Colorado Springs, 6pm

Old Chicago- Arapahoe Crossing, Parker, 6-8pm

Old Chicago- Lodo, Denver, 6pm

Old Chicago- Boulder, 6pm

Old Chicago- Loveland, 6-7pm

Old Chicago- Old Town, Fort Collins, 7:30-9pm

Old Chicago- Silverthorne, 6-8pm

Old Chicago- Westminister, 5:30-7pm

Old Chicago- Thornton (#9), 7:30-9pm

Old Chicago- Thornton, 7-9pm

Old Chicago- Longmont, 6-8pm

Old Chicago- Grand Junction, 5-7pm

Old Chicago- Chandler, Arizona, 6-8pm

Old Chicago- Tucson, Arizona, 7-9pm

January 26th

Old Chicago- Iliff, Aurora, 6-8pm

January 27th

Old Chicago- Lakewood, 6-8pm

February 1st

Old Chicago- Harmony, 5:30-8pm

Old Chicago- Southlands Mall, Denver, 6-8pm

Old Chicago- Glendale, Arizona, 6-8pm

Old Chicago- Superior, 6-8pm

February 2nd

Old Chicago- Lakewood, 6-8pm

February 8th

Old Chicago- Broadway, Littleton, 6-8pm

Old Chicago- Silverthorne, 6-8pm

Old Chicago- Cheyenne, Wyoming, 6pm

Old Chicago- Tucson, Arizona, 6pm

Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (Lyons) January Podcast & Music Line-Up

Sunday 1/1- The Jaspers
Wednesday 1/4- 1st Wednesday music Club 7:30pm
Friday 1/6- Turn 4 alt-country band
Saturday 1/7- Johnny O band
Sunday 1/8- Gadzukes!
Thursday 1/12- Southern Rock Mountain jam 7pm
** Friday 1/13- Ruined Nation Band with David Richey
Sunday 1/15- Kristina Murray & 2 Hearted Jones
Wednesday 1/18- Tribute to the Beatles 7-11pm
Friday 1/20- Rory Carroll band country & bluegrass
Saturday 1/21- Mosey West alt-country band
Sunday 1/22- Fauxgrass bluegrass from Michigan
Monday 1/23- Longmont all-stars youth jazz band 7pm
Thursday 1/26- Johnny Sansone from New Orleans 8pm
Friday 1/27- Pelta-Tiller Band
Saturday 1/28- Gary Bragg band alt-country
Sunday 1/29- Felonius Smith acoustic blues band

Every Tuesday bluegrass pick 8-11pm
Friday & Saturday shows are 8-11:30pm
Sunday shows are 6-9p

Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids (Longmont) January Podcast & Music Line-Up

Sunday 1/1- Gospel Brunch with the New Spiritual Wonders 12-3pm
Thursday 1/5- Connally & Ramey
Friday 1/6- Lionel Young band
Saturday 1/7- Patti Fiasco band
Sunday 1/8- The Strangebyrds
Wednesday 1/11- Songs from the Silo with Wendy Woo 8pm
Thursday- 1/12- Tyler Grant solo
Friday 1/13- Interstate Stash Express
Saturday 1/14- Cowboy Dave Honky Tonk Band
Sunday 1/15- Words in Flight band
Monday 1/16- closed for holiday party
Tuesday 1/17- Frederick & Longmont Christian jazz bands 7pm
Thursday 1/19- Steve Manshel solo
Friday 1/20- Wendy Woo band
Saturday 1/21- Quemando Salsa Dance Party
Sunday 1/22- Ashleigh Flynnn band
Wednesday 1/25- Homegrown singer/songwriters 7-10pm
Thursday 1/26- David & Enion Tiller
Friday 1/27- Fully Belly band
Saturday 1/28- Buckner Funken Funk band
Sunday 1/29- Swing State band

Every Monday electric blues jam except 1/16
Every Sunday Bluegrass pick 12-3pm except 1/1
Thursday shows are 5:30-8:30 dinner music downstairs
Friday & Saturday shows are 8-11:30pm

A lot happened around here in 2011- we announced the opening of our sustainable Hops & Heifers Farm, began building our own bikes with REEB Cycles (www.REEBcycles.com), rolled out our Bonewagon Food Truck, and posted a 40% increase in national beer sales.

We grew from 42,000 barrels in 2010 to 59,000 barrels in 2011 — the 17,000 barrel increase is nearly equal to what we produced in 2008- thanks to you guys!

Why do we have so much going on, and what does all of this have to do with craft beer in a CAN? Dale commented that “the farm, the bikes, the music are all an extension of what this is all about; doing what you love. It’s important to stay hands-on and passionate. We just hope everyone has as much fun with it as we do.”

In addition to all of the CANdimonium listed above, we just doubled-down our commitment to providing you with more beer with a $4 million  brewery-improvement project. What’re we adding to the brewery? Fourteen 200-barrel fermenters, two 400-barrel bright beer tanks, and a new canning line that will allow us to double our canning speed (300 cans per minute!) and send some 16oz cans your way (Deviant Dale’s IPA  in 16oz cans is coming out mid-March!).

For those who haven’t had the chance to try Deviant yet, it’s been a restaurant favorite for the past few years, and took silver at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival in the American-Style IPA category, the most competitive category in the history of the event, with 176 entries. Mama’s Little Yella Pils also won a silver and “Best in Class” in the Bohemian Pilsener category, and Old Chub Scotch Ale was awarded a bronze metal in the Scotch Ale category.

We’re excited about this last year, and want all of you to know that we couldn’t have done it without you, our loyal fans who make our dream possible! Thanks for all of the Oskar Blues love you share with the world. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

And, this Friday, December 23rd, when you’re catchin’ some fresh tracks, make your way to the outdoor grill on the deck at Timbers Lodge, where we’ll be pouring samples of our beers.  Our burgers and beers are sure to make you a better skier, boarder and an all around better person (in our opinion at least!). Go ahead, do something good for the local economy- support Eldora, Hops and Heifers and Oskar Blues, You deserve it!

Ho, Ho, Ho Happy Holidays!