Sunny Point Cafe
Tuesday, August 24th
6:30 and 8:30 seatings
$40 per person

MUST have reservations!

On the Table: Housemade pretzel bread served with an assortment of Lusty Monk Mustard and fresh local fruit

Appetizer: Local Sunburst Mountain Trout and brie cake rolled in fresh herbs and served on Mediterranean couscous. Garnished with preserved lemons and served with a hop infused buerre blanc.

Soup or Salad: A salad of marinated heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden topped with Maryland lump crab meat and drizzled with a Heffe Weisen vinaigrette on a bed of peppery arugula. OR A late summer Silver Queen corn bisque topped with heirloom tomato basil confit and garnished with parmesan chips.

Entree: Hickory Nut Gap all natural hormone free T-bone pork chop brined with porter and malt. Smoked with hickory and garden hops and served over a pork belly hash of fingerling potatoes, fresh rosemary, sage, early fall apples and a lemony green bean salad.

Dessert: Bittersweet chocolate molten cake served with organic Guatemalan coffee ice cream. Drizzled with a caramel stout reduction and garnished with sea salt and fresh berries.

And each course will be paired with an Olde Hickory Brewery beer selected to complement and enhance the food, most of which was grown by cafe staff or obtained from Asheville area farms.

Plus a wine expert from Appalachian Vintner and our own brew master will be in attendance! We're really looking forward to this event, but space is limited. TO make reservation call 828.252.0055 and for more information visit the Cafe website at www.sunnypointcafe.com

Cheers!

Yup, the guys are heading up to Asheville, NC tonight in preparation for tomorrow's Beer City Festival. I hope everyone has tickets already! Last word was that a few tickets might be available at the gate, but I wouldn't count on it. A few people with extra tickets were offering them on the festival's Facebook site http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asheville-NC/Beer-City-Festival/10150107313185650
If you're wondering about the rules (No pets, kids allowed, but need tix, etc.) check out the official page beercityfestival.com (you'll have to click "buy tickets" to get to the main information page)

This year we're bring Table Rock, Piedmont Pilsner, Hefe-Weizen and our newest beer Black Raven IPA. And maybe something special, but you'll have to be there early if you want to see that.

We're not bringing your favorite beer to the festival? You may want to stop by Bruisin' Ales. They're open until 9pm on Saturdays, and we're delivering a shipment of OHB beer to them tonight!

Hope to see everyone in Asheville tomorrow!

If you want to buy your tickets in person, you can still do that at either the Olde Hickory Tap Room (222 Union Square, Hickory, NC 828.322.1965) or Amos Howards (2828 US Hwy 70 SW, Hickory, NC 828.323.8753) through Thurs. April 15th. But that is the end of advance sales.

Right now it looks like we'll have a few tickets available for purchase on the day of the event (that could change), but why wait and pay $5 more?!? The weather forecast is close to perfect, 45 brewers have confirmed participation, there will be over 200 beers available, many restaurants on the Square will be offering specials and we have Mountain Still and Baby Black orchestra playing live!

By the way, did we mention which Olde Hickory beers we'll be serving?

We'll have a few classics - Table Rock Pale Ale, Hickory Stick Stout and Hefe-Weizen. We're also serving our current seasonal Poor Richard's Ale. For something a little extra special, you'll find Bardstown Brand barley wine. Then we decided to go all out with the cask conditioned beers! We have our ESB, which should be very interesting out of the cask. And we also casked some Table Rock, so you'll be able to compare cask vs. modern keg. And then, our cask pièce de résistance-Irish Walker! Irish Walker just won a silver medal at the World Beer Cup 2010 in Chicago. This is an extra special treat for our fans.

Hope to see everyone on Saturday!

Cheers!

The Olde Hickory Brewery and CLASS homebrewers of Hickory, NC are pleased to announce the first annual Olde Hickory Pro-Am Competition for home brewers!

This AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition will be open to all North Carolina, non-professional home brewers. The Best of Show beer will be brewed at the Olde Hickory Brewery and will be entered into the Great American Beer Festival Pro-am competition in September of 2010. Entries are due by June 16th, 2010 and the Pro-Am will be held on June 26th, 2010. For more information about the Olde Hickory Pro-Am Competition, including rules, restrictions go and entry info go to www.classhomebrewers.org

This will be a lot of fun for the home brewers and judges alike! Good luck to everyone.

Cheers!

Images of the labels below....

*Please note that this is NOT the barrel aged stout that was available earlier. Still, Very Good!

Cheers all!

Our trolley is decorated for the season and will be accompanied by local jazz musician Nathan Hefner! And there might even be... CANDY! For good boys and girls, of course.

We're very excited to participate in the great community event. Hope to see lots of friends there, and at the Olde Hickory Tap Room after, for some Christmas Ale!

The Olde Hickory Brewery is pleased to join The Duck Rabbit Craft Brewery and Foothills Brewing in announcing the release of their first collaboration, “Olde Rabbit’s Foot.” The special limited release is a Bourbon-Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout brewed with honey and cocoa nibs, this 10.13% ABV beer is crafted from wort from all three craft breweries which was aged in very rare 23 year old bourbon barrels.

Olde Rabbit's Foot will be released at Foothills Brewing in Winston-Salem on Sat. December 12th at 11am. Each visitor will be limited to 4 of the 22oz bottles and with only 694 bottles available, the entire production is expected to sell out quickly. Each bottle will be $20.

We hope to see you there.

Cheers!