THE WAKKER WEEKLY – Issue #1758
Issue #1758 – Posted on: 07 – Oct – 2024
BUSHWAKKER SEASONAL SUDS STATUS. Bushwakker head brewer, Michael Gaetz, reports our seasonally available POWERHOUSE PORTER, TREPHINATION IMPERIAL IPA, LEMON RASPBERRY ALE and BREW & GOLD DORTMUNTER EXPORT LAGER are currently available. There are also batches of KAI’S MUNICH HELLES, GREAT PUMPKIN SPICED BROWN ALE, DOUBLE HONEY RED ALE, 30th ANNIVERSARY BLACKBERRY MEAD and MORK’S MEAD (our very first mead) currently working their way through the brewery.
The October 4th edition of First Firkin Friday features a DOUBLE RASPBERRY RUM LEMON ALE! Imagine this drink was a beer in a keg! Enjoy one last Saskatchewan Summer Sippin’ Celebration before the long chill starts to settle in. See you at 5:30!
This WEEKEND’S SPECIAL DINING FEATURE for Oct. 4th & 5th is a BLACK & BLEU NEW YORK STEAK. Our Saturday CLASSIC STEAK & A PINT SPECIAL as well as our Monday and Wednesday WINGS & A PINT SPECIAL and Tuesday PIZZA & A PINT SPECIAL are also great value deals.
Our SASK CRAFT GUEST TAP is currently pouring a DRY APPLE CIDER from Nokomis Craft Ales.
OCTOBER PREMIUM WINE FEATURES: This month’s juicy and delicious wine features are new to the province. ESPORAO wines from Portugal! The red is a PE TINTO. The white is a PE BRANCO. Both are $8.95 for a glass and $23.95 for a half litre.
Assistant brewer Bradley is pretty “pumped” about our newly released POWERHOUSE PORTER! A pint of robust porter infused with French oak and Laphroaig single malt scotch is the perfect wind down brew after a labour intensive day in the brewery! Now on tap and in our offsale.
Get ready for a weeklong celebration of German cuisine and drink including: Beer & Cheese soup, German Sausage & Potato soup, German Beef Goulash soup and Oktoberfest Stew, German Pretzel Hoagie Buns, German Reubens, Schnitzel with beets and red cabbage with Spaetzel, German Crispy Stuffed Chickens, German Meatball Pizzas, German Salmon Crème Fraiche Pizzas, Curry Butter Chicken Wings, Smoked Beef Brisket Stroganoff, Black Forest Cheesecakes and Apple Studel Cheesecakes too! But wait! You can’t have an Oktoberfest Week without beer so the massive one-litre steins of Kai’s Munich Helles and Brew & Gold Dortmunder will be available. Bottles of Erdinger Weissebier will serve as our German Import beer special and shots of Jagermeister will be available to help aid your digestion and ensure you get a good night’s sleep!
Congratulations to Gordie Gherasim for finding the little “Easter Egg” in last week’s edition of the Wakker Weekly newsletter. Old “Frugal Frew” was foiled again and had to give away a free piece of cheesecake to the first person who told him the secret passcode. Subscribe to our newsletter (or ask a friend) at http://bushwakker.com/wakker-weekly and you may be our next winner!
UPCOMING BUSHWAKKER EVENTS
Oct. 4: FIRST FIRKIN FRIDAY. Enjoy the pomp and circumstance of this longstanding Bushwakker monthly tradition! A piper from The Regina Police Services Pipes & Drums leads a keg (the firkin) of special ale throughout the pub in a procession. A guest volunteer tapper is selected to wield the handmade wooden maul affectionately named, The Mighty Firkin Wakker, and attempts to tap the keg in one mighty blow! This month’s firkin offering will be a DOUBLE RASPBERRY RUM LEMON ALE! The name says it all and the suds-soaking spectacular takes place at 5:30 PM.
Oct. 7: Monday Night Jazz & Blues. THE MATT TAYLOR JAZZ EXPERIENCE. Young jazz guitarist leads this talented group of veteran jazz cats. 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Oct. 9: Wednesday Folk Night. THIS STORY. Popular acoustic Queen City rock act formerly known as Thisstoryhasalastname is back! 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Oct. 7 – 12: OKTOBERFEST WEEK CELEBRATION. Aka October-Schnitzel-Pumpkin-Fest! Enjoy a massive one-litre stein of German-style lager and plenty of German cuisine including our famous JUMBO SCHNITZEL DINNERS all week long. Prosit!
Oct. 12: ANNUAL GREAT PUMPKIN SPICED BROWN ALE RELEASE. Just in time for Thanksgiving! Our autumn specialty brew tastes just like pumpkin pie in a glass. A rich English Brown Ale infused with fresh ginger, vanilla, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon with a few other secret spices. Will be on tap at 11:00 AM and a limited supply of bottles will be available in our offsale cooler too!
Oct. 12: SASK VS. BC. Saturday night football in Regina! The football contest kicks off at 5:00 PM so stop by before or after the game. Come park your vehicle in the massive free parking lot just east across the street, enjoy our gourmet game day LIONS BURGER & A PINT Special and then grab a free shuttle to the stadium. Come “devour” the competition!
Alcohol-free beer is gaining popularity, even at Oktoberfest
Alcohol-free beer has been gaining popularity in recent years as beer consumption shrinks.
By STEFANIE DAZIO
MUNICH — The head brewmaster for Weihenstephan, the world’s oldest brewery, has a secret: He really likes alcohol-free beer.
Even though he’s quick to say he obviously enjoys real beer more, Tobias Zollo says he savors alcohol-free beer when he’s working or eating lunch. It has the same taste but fewer calories than a soft drink, he said, thanks to the brewery’s process of evaporating the alcohol.
“You can’t drink beer every day — unfortunately,” he joked last week at the Bavarian state brewery in the German town of Freising, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Munich.
Zollo isn’t alone in his appreciation for the sober beverage. Alcohol-free beer has been gaining popularity in recent years as beer consumption shrinks.
At Weihenstephan, which was founded as a brewery in 1040 by Benedictine monks, non-alcoholic wheat beer and lager now make up 10% of the volume. The increase over the last few years, since they started making alcohol-free drinks in the 1990s, mirrors the statistics for the rest of Germany’s beer industry.
“The people are unfortunately — I have to say that as a brewer — unfortunately drinking less beer,” Zollo said Friday, the day before Oktoberfest officially started. “If there’s an alternative to have the crisp and fresh taste from a typical Weihenstephan beer, but just as a non-alcoholic version, we want to do that.”
Even at Oktoberfest — arguably the world’s most famous ode to alcohol — alcohol-free beer is on the menu.
All but two of the 18 large tents at the festival offer the drink through the celebration’s 16 days. The sober beverage will cost drinkers the same as an alcoholic beer — between 13.60 and 15.30 euros ($15.12 and $17.01) for a 1-liter mug (33 fluid ounces) — but save them from a hangover.
“For people who don’t like to drink alcohol and want to enjoy the Oktoberfest as well, I think it’s a good option,” Mikael Caselitz, 24, of Munich said Saturday inside one of the tents. “Sometimes people feel like they have more fun with alcohol, which is not a good thing because you can also have fun without alcohol.”
He added: “If you want to come and drink alcohol-free beer, nobody will judge you.”
This year marked the first time an alcohol-free beer garden opened in Munich. “Die Null,” which means “the zero” in German, served non-alcoholic beer, mocktails and other alcohol-free drinks near the city’s main train station this summer but was scheduled to close a few day before Oktoberfest opened.
Walter König, managing director of the Society of Hop Research north of Munich, said researchers have had to breed special hops varieties for alcohol-free beer. If brewers use the typical hops for alcohol-free beer, the distinct aroma gets lost when the alcohol is reduced during the brewing process.
But customers don’t care about that, König said Friday as he prepared for Oktoberfest.
“They only want to know that what they are tasting is as good as traditional beers with alcohol,” he said.
TIME OUT – Oktoberfest Bad Brats
Two men celebrating Oktoberfest walk into a bar….
They walk up to the bartender and both order a pint and a bratwurst. One of the men’s phone rings and he answers. It’s his wife on the line.
“Honey, I need to tell you, I cheated on you.”
“What?!?!” the man yells, “With who??????”
There’s indistinct mumbling from the other line, then the call drops.
The man is furious! He jumps up from his seat, picks up the bratwurst and chucks it into the wall as he storms out of the bar.
“Jeez. Any idea who slept with your friend’s wife?” the Bartender asks his friend.
“No idea”, says his friend. “But I’m going to assume the wurst.”
Our Jumbo Schnitzel Dinner is the most popular German meal of our weeklong Oktoberfest Event. It is so popular in fact that we call our celebration, Oktober-SCHNITZEL-Pumpkin-Fest!
