THE WAKKER WEEKLY
Issue #1591 – Posted on: 26-July-2021
BREWERY “HOP”PENINGS! Bushwakker Head brewer, Michael Gaetz, reports our new Mexican Lime Radler, Mango Radler and even a few two litre bottles of Sarsaparilla are currently available in our offsale cooler. Our new Pink Guavabuster Ale is also on tap and in our offsale cooler. Summer Wheat will be back and a brand new Blood Orange Wheat Beer too! There are also many other beers available including a West Coast IPA, Irish Red Ale, Brown, Blonde, Pilsener, Vienna, Pale Ale and a Porter. Growler fills and keg fills are also available!
Our brand new Pink Guava-Buster was introduced earlier this week. It is one of our most unusual fruit beer offerings in our 30 year history. Pink Guava fruit is infused into our Sodbuster Brown Ale. Gently tart and malty and very refreshing! Available on tap, in our offsale and for growler fills too!
Our GUEST TAP is once again flowing! We are currently pouring the SUN SEEKER HAZY IPA from Saskatoon’s Paddock Wood Brewing. Next up is the OAT SESSION ALE from Black Bridge Brewing in Swift Current. This will be followed by a HOPPY WIT from 9 Mile Legacy Brewing.
In addition to taking our beer home in glass bottles and 2 litre jugs direct from our pub, you can find a varying selection of 650 ml bottles of Bushwakker beer in ALL SIX REGINA SLGA stores.
Our July PREMIUM WINE FEATURES are the CONO SUR organic wines from Chile. The red is a Cabernet Carmenere Syrah. The white is a Sauvignon Blanc. Both are $7.95 for a glass and $21.95 for a half litre.
This Weekend’s Special Dining Feature on July 23rd and 24th is CHIPOTLE BEEF CHILI for $18.95. Our Saturday CLASSIC STEAK & A PINT SPECIAL will also be available. Our Monday and Wednesday WINGS & A PINT SPECIAL and Tuesday PIZZA & A PINT SPECIAL are also a great value deal.
We are excited to be into Phase Three of the Saskatchewan Re-Opening Roadmap Plan. Greater seating capacity and the return to normal hours of operation means we are looking for more experienced cooks and serving staff. Stop by and see us with your resume today or apply at https://bushwakker.com/apply/
Lots of folks have been jumping on the Hop Circuit this summer to visit Regina’s six participating craft breweries! Check out this new video at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DJZfsmxaNdfwvNww1QrwpB7Za5WCLBMU?usp=sharing from Regina’s own Tandem X Visuals to see how much fun it is to collect your stamps and claim your free Experience Regina glass!
Our new Bushwakker Online Ordering Page is now live on our website! You can order everything from our food menu as well as our Bushwakker brews and even select the time you’d like to pick up your order. Visit https://bushwakker.com/shop-2021/ and give it a try! Of course, you can continue to place your orders by calling us at 306-359-7276. We still love to hear your friendly voices. Thanks for your support everyone!
BUSHWAKKER “PHASE THREE NEW NORMAL” NOTES
We are now open regular hours. We are open Monday – Thursday from 11:00 AM – midnight. The kitchen closes at 10:30 PM and last call is at11:15 PM. On Fridays and Saturdays we are open from 11:00 AM until 1:00 AM. The kitchen is open until 11:30 PM and last call will be at 12:15 AM. We will open on Sundays in September. We are very appreciative of the considerable increase in the number of our takeout food orders. Call us at 306-359-7276 or visit our online ordering page at https://bushwakker.com/shop-2021/
Reservations are accepted and encouraged. We accept a limited number of reservations as late as 6:00 PM from Monday to Saturday. Call us at 306-359-7276 to secure your table. We are now also able to accommodate larger groups. Our two banquet rooms are also available for private parties. Call Kelly at 306-359-7276 to book either our main floor Arizona Room or basement Clubroom. Full seating at the bar has also resumed.
Please continue to practice safe health measures. Remain connected to one another and to us! In addition to this weekly newsletter, we are very active on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Check-in with us often as we navigate these continually evolving times together. Try to support local businesses whenever possible. Be vigilant in your resolve to protect yourselves which in turn will protect others.
Craft Brewery Tours on Wheels
From The Brewers Journal
“I started to think about a local craft brew tour and what we can do to drive people around, package a deal,” said Tim Feick, General Manager at Stock Transportation.
“I had been on a wine tour in the Niagara region before and participated in that and absolutely loved it. My wife and I went through the wine region of Niagara on the Lake and we just had a great time,” said Feick. “I was on social media with all the craft breweries and seeing that it is becoming a growing industry across Canada, I have really gotten excited about the local aspect of it. These are people from our community and people that I know who put their dreams and their visions into practice. They are making a product right here in town, people are enjoying it. It is bringing us together.”
The company did a trial tour with local bus drivers to the patios of three places in Ontario: Cecil’s, New Ontario Brewery, and Gateway Brewery.
“I started to think about a local craft brew tour and what can we do to drive people around, package a deal,” he said. “Our target market for a bus company is usually people without vehicles, but this one is a great one because here people have vehicles but they just should not be driving. This is really about getting people out to enjoy the patios to enjoy the local craft breweries with no liability so they will be driving from A to B.”
The first official event took place last week. “We called ahead to see if they could accommodate us and they could,” said Feick. “We went around, we did the timing and how many pints of beer we needed per group, and how many appetizers so we could start making a costing out of it and now that people have seen it on social media; to say it is going viral, it is really catching on.”
The new tours not only help businesses recoup funds they lost during the pandemic, but it gives drivers a chance to get behind the wheel again.
“It has been stressful for everybody no matter what industry you are in, but it has been really hard for our drivers. Many people don’t realize that a school bus driver is essentially a parent or a grandparent to all of those kids on the bus,” explained Feick.
“They really treat them like they are their own. They care about them, they know their families, they know their lives, they are invested in them and they have really missed their kids a lot. They are worried about the kids’ mental health. their scholastic situation, and because of that it has been really hard on our drivers.
Feick is also looking at running tours outside of North Bay like Whiskeyjack Beer Company in Haileybury and Copperhead Distillery in Sundridge.
“I have reached out to those distilleries as well to see if we can help our region just move people around to have a taste for the finer libations in life and see if we can do that safely and provide that service,” he said.
Editor’s Note: Regina’s HOP CIRCUIT has proven to be very popular this summer. Craft beer fans visit the six participating Queen City craft breweries on foot or on a bicycle. The notion of a special vehicle dedicated to the safe transport of local beer enthusiasts is but a dream…for now! The future is bright!
TIME OUT
A man walked in to a bar after a long day at work. As he began to drink his beer, he heard a voice say seductively “You’ve got great hair!” The man looked around but couldn’t see where the voice was coming from, so he went back to his beer. A minute later, he heard the same soft voice say “You’re a handsome man!” The man looked around, but still couldn’t see where the voice was coming from. When he went back to his beer, the voice said again “What a stud you are!” The man was so baffled by this that he asked the bartender what was going on. The bartender said “Oh, it’s the nuts–they’re complimentary.”
