Brewing up a well-deserved 250th birthday party
By Noah Davis • Jan 19th, 2009 • Category: Beer Events
This Sunday, Pike Brewing Company will fete Scottish poet Robert Burns in celebration of the man’s 250th birthday. No, he’s not still alive.
The schedule of events, according to the release:
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 pm
Whisky Master Ari Shapiro will conduct a tutored tasting of Lowland, Highland, Speyside, and Islay single malts from such classic distilleries as Lagaluvin, Oban, Singleton, Glenkinchie, and Talisker.
$25 per person
5:30 p.m.
Pike owner, Charles Finkel, will tap a firkin of Pike Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale, seasoned with oak that was sterilized in Lagavulin single malt Islay Whisky.
$6.50 per pint
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
The Elliot Bay Pipe Band will “Pipe in the Haggis,” a traditional ceremony that includes a reading of Burns’ Ode to a Haggis. Scottish specialties to accompany the haggis will included Cockie Leekie soup, smoked salmon from Solly Amon at Pure Food Fish in the Pike Place Public Market, organic vegetables, tatties (mashed potatoes) and neeps (mashed yellow turnips,) and bread pudding with Kilt Lifter Hard Sauce.
$25 per person
Yuml, haggis. (There will also be a vegetarian version if you’re really brave.)
RSVP here or call (206) 812-6613.
