Whiskey Week and 6th Annual BA Blind Taste-Off!

Tap and Growler announces our Inaugural Whiskey Week, starting Monday March 9th and going through Sunday, March 15th. This event will feature 7 days of specialty whiskeys, craft cocktails, whiskey-inspired food specials, whiskey barrel-aged brews and live bluegrass music.

The 6th Annual Barrel-Aged Blind Taste-Off will also be taking place during this event. Stop in anytime during the week and enjoy a decadent flight of ales aged in a variety of whiskey barrels, and vote for your favorite!

2020 Food Specials:  

• Corned Beef and Cabbage Long’s corned beef, cabbage, carrots and garlic mashed potatoes
• Irish Bangers and Mash with Guinness Onion Gravy beer braised brats, garlic mashed potatoes and onion gravy
• Bourbon Glazed Donuts– back by popular demand

2020 Cocktail Specials:  

• Whiskey Sour a classic blend of bourbon, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, simple syrup and egg white for the proper frothy wonderland of texture
• Boulevardier named for an American writer who published a magazine under the moniker while living in Paris. A simple blend of rye whiskey, Campari and sweet vermouth
• Lions Tail an almost forgotten gem of a classic. Bourbon, allspice liqueur, fresh squeezed lime juice and simple syrup
• Rusty Pope a refreshingly light spin on a classic beverage. A pour of scotch mildly sweetened with Benedictine (botanicals) over ice

2020 Whiskey Flight Specials:  Running the duration of Whiskey Week

• Boubon Angel’s Envy, Eagle Rare, Elijah Craig, Knob Creek
• Rye James E Pepper, Michter’s Straight, Rittenhouse, Russell’s 6Yr
• World Blanton’s (USA), Crown Royal (Canada), Laphroaig 10Yr (Scotland), Tullamore Dew (Ireland)

2020 St. Patrick’s Day Cocktail Specials:  

• Grasshopper sweet dessert-like cocktail… like an Andes mint drink
• Sham Wow Irish whiskey and sweetened lime juice
• Irish Tea Iced Tea with Jameson essentially

2020 Barrel Aged Beer Blind Taste Off Contestants:

• Sunriver Roger the Shrubber
• Worthy Bourbon Barrel Aged Lights Out Stout
• pFriem Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
• Pelican Captain of the Coast 2017
• Great Divide Barrel Aged Yeti 2018
• Avery Uncle Jacobs 2018

2020 Live Music:

• Monday, March 9. Butterchuck, 7pm
• Tuesday, March 10. Woodfox, 7pm
• Wednesday, March 11. Breakers Yard Duo, 7pm
• Thursday, March 12. Ryan Philip Miller, 7pm
• Friday, March 13. Muddy Souls, 7pm
• Saturday, March 14. Cherry Hill, 7pm
• Sunday, March 15. Springfield Céilí (featuring Corwin Bolt), 4pm