THE WAKKER WEEKLY - Issue #1368 - Posted on: 17-Apr-2017
BUSHWAKKER NEWS
Our guest tap is currently pouring the “Blame it on the Grain” Vanilla Stout from Regina’s Malty National Brewing; $7.95 for a pint and $5.95 for a half pint. Other upcoming guest brewery beers include the Black Bridge Brewing Dry-Hopped Saison as well as their very special Saskatchewan Craft Brewers Association collaboration brew called Multigrain Pale Ale. A bright and fresh hop-forward ale made with oats, barely, wheat and rye. Saskatchewan craft brewing history was made the day this beer was brewed! Our wine features for April are from Australia. The red is Hardy’s The Riddle Cabernet Merlot and the white is Banrock Station Unwooded Chardonnay. Both are $6.95 for a glass and $18.95 for a half litre. The Bushwakker has been nominated in 19 categories in the 2017 Prairie Dog “Best of Food” Regina reader’s poll. Please visit http://prairedogmag.secondstreetapp.com/l/Best-of-Food-Regina-2017/Home and cast your vote. Our nominated categories for Best in Regina include; salads, soups, local fries, burgers, veggie burgers, fish & chips, desserts, gourmet pizzas, beer menu, nachos, wings as well as best place to argue about politics, best lunch restaurant, best restaurant for a party, best scene, best downtown/central pub, best chef (Mike Monette), best bartender (Troy Bleich) and best pub/lounge server (Cheryl Tovey.) We thank you for your continued enthusiasm and support! Our Sodbuster Brown Ale is available for growler fills at the Quance Street SLGA store in Regina for the month of April. Three other new Saskatchewan brewed beers are also available. Be sure to support this SLGA pilot program and help grow Saskatchewan craft beer. New Hours of Operation. Monday to Thursday hours are now 11:00 AM to midnight and Friday and Saturday hours are 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM. Sunday hours remain unchanged at 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM.BUSHWAKKER EVENTS
Apr. 14: Good Friday. Open at noon. Apr. 16: Closed for the Holiday. Happy Easter! Apr. 17: Monday Night Jazz & Blues. Whiteboy Slim. This national award-winning blues artist will be previewing some of the material which will appear on his next CD. 8:00 PM. Apr. 17 – 22: ALES Open. One of the nation’s largest homebrewing competitions takes place at the Bushwakker all this week! Hundreds of entries from coast to coast will be evaluated. Approximately 100 volunteers work tirelessly to present this internationally recognized event.
Craft Brewing Growth Statistics for 2016 Released by the Brewers Association
Jess Baker – CraftBeer.com Small and independent craft brewers saw a six percent rise in volume and accounted for more than 12 percent market share in the beer industry in 2016, according to an annual report released by the Brewers Association (BA). The report, which also gave insight into how acquisitions are impacting the segment, is compiled by the Brewers Association (the publishers of CraftBeer.com) and led by the BA’s Chief Economist Bart Watson. Watson says it’s important to understand what the numbers inside the report mean. “The goal of this release is not to measure the health of craft beer (which the BA does not define). We are trying to measure the health of small and independent brewers,” Watson writes in a separate blog post analyzing the findings. The nuance is important. Polls show beer drinkers increasingly care about who makes their beer. Here are more juicy numbers from the BA report: The number of operating U.S. breweries grew 16.6 percent from 2015 to 2016. Small and independent breweries accounted for 99 percent of the operating breweries in the U.S. in 2016. Four Southern states — Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Texas — each saw a net increase of more than 35 breweries in 2016. The BA report says it’s a sign the region is establishing “a strong base” for growth. (Need proof? CraftBeer.com contributor Nora McGuinnigle shows you Craft Breweries to Watch in 7 Southern Cities). Craft brewers provided nearly 129,000 jobs, according to the BA. That’s 7,000 more than in 2015. How Acquisitions Impacted Craft Beer in 2016 One factor to consider when looking at craft brewer growth year to year is how acquisitions of small breweries by large global brewers factors into the big picture. “This has been a catalyst for slower growth for small and independent brewers and endangered consumer access to certain brands,” Watson says. “Small and independent brewers were able to fill in the barrels lost to acquisitions and show steady growth.” And the smallest of those small breweries are helping keep barrel production numbers high. Watson says microbreweries and brewpubs delivered 90 percent of the craft brewer growth. The growth report is the second major news release out of the BA in March. In mid-March, the not-for-profit group released its list of Top 50 U.S. Craft Brewers. The rankings were objective, directly based on volume of beer produced by small and independent craft brewers (which some undiscerning readers mistook for a “best of” listicle, creating a firestorm on the CraftBeer.com Facebook page, asking why their favorite brewery wasn’t listed). The BA’s methodology for today’s growth report was based on data collected from the Beer Industry Production Survey (BIPS). You can read more about the data at the Brewers Association’s website. Watson will give more insight into the numbers during April’s Craft Brewers Conference in Washington, DC, and full industry analysis will be published in the May/June 2017 issue of The New Brewer.
TIME OUT
So one day, Gramma sent her grandson Johnny down to the water hole to get some water for cooking dinner. As he was dipping the bucket in, he saw two big eyes looking back at him. He dropped the bucket and hightailed it for Gramma's kitchen. "Well now, where's my bucket and where's my water?" Gramma asked him. "I can't get any water from that water hole, Gramma" exclaimed Johnny. "There's a BIG ol' alligator down there!" "Now don't you mind that ol' alligator, Johnny. He's been there for a few years now, and he's never hurt no one. Why, he's probably as scared of you as you are of him!" "Well, Gramma," replied Johnny, "if he's as scared of me as I am of him, then that water ain't fit to drink!"This Weeks Daily Features
Weekend Feature: Fresh Taco Crusted Halibut Fillet. $22.95
Soup & Sandwich Special is $12.95. All hot specials are $15.95, except where noted, & include a serving of soup du jour, house, or Caesar salad.
Soup | Sandwich | Hot Special | Beer Pairing | |
Fri., Apr. 14 | Spring Vegetable | Dubliner | Roast Leg of Lamb | Dungarvon Irish Red Ale |
Sat. Apr. 15 | Bushwakker | Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict | Steak & a Pint. $18.95 | |
Sun. Apr. 16 | CLOSED | HAPPY EASTER! | CLOSED | |
Mon., Apr. 17 | Chili Bean | Monster Grilled Cheese & Ham on Marble Rye | Pale Ale Chicken Linguini | Last Mountain Lager |
Tues., Apr. 18 | French Onion & Potato | Meat Lover’s Pizza. $13.95 | Chico Boar Burger | Session IPA |
Wed., Apr. 19 | Thai Chicken Noodle | Curry Beef Wrap | Beer Battered Haddock | Stubblejumper Pilsner |
Thur., Apr. 20 | Fish Chowder | Crispy Chicken Wrap | Sodbuster Pork Loin | Baron Bock |
Fri., Apr. 21 | Lancashire | Italian Clubhouse | Portered New York Steak. $18.95 | Sodbuster Brown Ale |
Sat. Apr. 22 | Bushwakker | Stuffed French Toast | Steak & a Pint. $18.95 | |
Sun. Apr. 23 | Bushwakker | Stuffed French Toast | Steak & a Pint. $18.95 |