Sausagefest Today! Seattle Beer Week!

Today is the day for our glorious SAUSAGEFEST!!!

The Duck is pretty close to being finished and it is looking great!  I couldn't be more pleased.  Here is a copy of our flyer for today so you can get an idea of what we are going to be serving.  Check out our Beers on Draft page for the full line-up.  There's lots of yummy stuff pouring now and probably through the weekend!

SAUSAGEFEST!

 Featured Draft Flights:

4oz samples

Straffe Hendrik - Belgian Quad (11%)

Deschutes - Black Butte XXIV (11%)

Green Flash - Palate Wrecker IPA (10%)

Black Diamond – Bourbon Barrel Aged Grand Cru (9.5%)

$10

Sausages:

All Served with Josh's Dilled Slaw and Chips

Flights:

Four Specialty Sausages with Homemade Sauces

Hot Italian and Marinara

Lamb and Pork with Pine Nuts and Cherry Sauce (made w/ Ichtegem’s Grand Cru Sour)

Apple Curry and Tzatziki

Demayo (Chicken w/Jack Cheese and Bell Peppers) and Sweet Spicy Mustard

$8

Bratwurst:

Simmered in 2011 Hales Quad

Grilled to Perfection

On a Bun With or Without Sauerkraut

$5

Updates to our Restaurant & Bar

Duck Island Ale House Bar is yes...drum roll please...open to the public, and we have been for a long time.  There seems to be some confusion out there with the great news that we have in fact updated and remodeled our bar, and shall we say, our restaurant!  Yes, we still deliver food over from Beth's Cafe which we're happy to do, especially late at night.  But we're also working with our new menu and doing our own food at Duck Island Ale House.  It's going to be super good!  Stay tuned...

We have our recipe down for our House Duck Island Chicken!  You'll have to come in and try our new, signature chicken dish!  We'll always experiment with different spices and sauces, but we'll always have our fall back signature Chicken.

Our new Chef is Rick!  He's awesome!  He's even got his own little following as well.  He's developing a really good menu.  We're all excited about it!

And no, this is not the wonderful Jackie.  This is another person - a person you don't know - who is helping with updates and information to all that is Duck Island Ale House in Seattle, WA.  We're pushing for some major changes and improvements, so why not talk about it?  We'll keep you posted here.

Seattle Beer Week Events-Sausagefest at Dude Island

The second of our Beer Week events will prove to be one to remember... 

Thursday May 16th

3rd Annual Sausagefest at Dude Island

Sausages... nom nom nom!

Four kinds of handcrafted sausage prepared into flights with corresponding dipping sauce! Beer brats simmered in Hales quad with or without kraut!  All will be fire grilled to perfection, of course.

Strong Beer flights to accompany the sausages... yum yum yum!

Deschutes Black Butte XXIV

Straffe Hendrik Quad

Green Flash Palate Wrecker Imperial IPA

Fearless Strong Scotch Ale (aged one year)

Have fun!  Bring cab fare!

4pm-9pm

Seattle Beer Week Events-Fire and Ice

The first of our Beer Week events:

Monday May 13th

Fire and Ice!

We will be featuring a sampling of our new pressure fried chicken wings (FIRE!) and fine examples of some of the more interesting styles of lagered beer available (ICE!).

So far the beer line-up is as follows:

Rogue Morimoto Imperial Pilsner

Helles Lager

Snoqualmie Kolsch

Fort George Coal Miner's Black Lager

Just for fun we will also be having a Washers Tourney!  Sign up by 6pm and compete for fun prizes!

4pm-9pm

Naomi's Award Winning Piece - Photo

Now you can see for yourself how amazing this piece is.  Intricate, visceral,  deep, lovely... Impressive!

Congratulations Naomi!

I am so pleased and proud to announce that one of the bartenders at the Duck has received a MAJOR AWARD!!!  The lovely and talented Naomi has a piece that has been selected to compete in the National League of Innovations Art Competition.  She was selected out of entries from all the Seattle Community Colleges and this honor will see her earning a Certificate of National Merit and we will see her work photographed in the League Student Art publication.  Wonderful!

When I get a photo of the piece I will post it.  In the meantime, here are some examples of some of her other work.  Enjoy!

New Belgium La Folie Sour

Example of Gleek Muscles Fully Engaged!

We just tapped a keg of New Belgium's La Folie sour brown beer which is brewed in the tradition of the Oud Bruin Flander's style of Belgian brewing.  

This is what they say:

La Folie Wood-Aged Biere, is our original wood-conditioned beer, resting in French Oak barrels between one and three years before being bottled. Peter Bouckaert, came to us from Rodenbach home of the fabled sour red. Our La Folie emulates the spontaneous fermentation beers of Peter s beloved Flanders with sour apple notes, a dry effervescence, and earthy undertones. 

I have been sitting on this keg for a couple of months and I have to say that one of the great things about craft breweries is that they are able to tweak and change each batch of beer from year to year or even from batch to batch, so that the beer is ever evolving.  This keg seems to have punched up the sour factor a bit, with less dark fruit presence and less oakiness that I have noticed in this beer in the past.  It is rich and complex as always, with that sour green apple element that always get's you right in the gleek muscles.  Nice.

If you like this beer be sure to check out our 750ml bottles of Rodenbach and Rodenbach Vintage.  They are a fine examples of the Belgian Sour and where New Belgium got their collaborative brewer.

Cheers,

Jackie