Boom Island Brewing Company to Host 3rd Annual Boom Days Blowout July 15-17
Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 4:30PM
BOOM ISLAND TO HOST 3RD ANNUAL BOOM DAYS BLOWOUT JULY 15-17
A Summer Celebration of Cuvée de Boom, Music, Food and the Home Brewer
(JUNE 2016) Boom Island Brewing Company is pleased to announce the 3nd Annual Boom Days celebration in honor of Belgian National Day July 15-17th. Back by popular demand, Boom Days 2016 will be highlighted by the release of increased numbers of the much-anticipated Cuvée de Boom on tap and in bottles. The weekend will also feature music from a Belgian rapper, a 5K running event, a Home Brew competition, and outdoor games like rolle bolle.
Cuvée de Boom is oak aged and unhopped. Cuvée consists of 45% Pinot Grigio grapes and 55% Belgian style blond ale. Cuvée de Boom ages beautifully in its corked and caged 750ml bottle, and is perfect for any occasion. A larger number of bottles will be made available to the public, but will only be sold on site during Boom Days while supplies last. More details:
Cuvée de Boom – 12.5%ABV
Appearance - Fluffy white head, which quickly dissipates into a light champagne-like effervescent beverage.
Aroma - Light malt that interplays with white plum & grape aroma.
Flavor - Smooth mouth feel from the wine morphs into a collage of champagne, a hint of plum, which lingers into an assertively dry finish.
Schedule of events for Friday, July 15th:
4:00pm: Boom Room opens/My Burger Food truck on site. Parking lot reserved for outdoor Belgian themed games, including Rolle Bolle, Sjoelbak, etc.
6:00pm: Cuvée de Boom release party and 750ml bottle blowout. Celebratory fanfare provided by the Twin Cities French Horn Club. This fact makes perfect sense when you realize that Boom Island owners Kevin and Qiuxia Welch played French horn professionally in Minneapolis and St. Paul before the brewery became a reality.
7:00pm: Music by Belgium’s Original Hip-hop rapper Too Tuff, who will drop rhymes in the Antwerp dialect and in English. Too Tuff and collaborator Halve Neuro had a hit single last year in Belgium called Doedizziet (ft. Too Tuff)
8:00pm: Jazz by local luminaries Brad Bellows and Friends, featuring Larry Hillman on saxophone
Schedule of events for Saturday, July 16th:
11:00am: MN Brewery Running Series begins and ends at Boom Island Brewing Company. For information and to sign up, go to http://www.breweryrunningseries.com/
1:00pm: Boom Room opens/ Nate Dogs and Betty Dangers Truck Food Truck on site. Parking lot open for outdoor games, including Rolle Bolle, Sjoelbak, etc.
Full slate of bands will perform on outdoor stage, including:
1:30pm: The Above Average Tuba Quartet
3:00pm: Crossing Guards, featuring Martin Devaney
5:00pm: The Bill Patten Trio
6:30pm: Phantom Tails
8:00pm: Eleganza!
In addition to the availability of the Cuvée de Boom, on Saturday from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, there will be a special beer release every hour.
The following beers will made available for a one-hour window only, while the very limited supply lasts:
1:00pm: Last year’s Home Brew Competition winner, JD Park, will be pouring his prize winning Saison.
2:00pm: Triple Brett, a 7% ABV American Wild Ale, fermented with 3 different strains of Brettanomyces yeast.
3:00pm: Oude Funk: A rare, funky and complex ale consisting of a blend of 3-year, 2-year and 1-year old vintages of barrel aged and spontaneously fermented beer.
4:00pm: Oude Funk with Cherries: An extremely limited supply of the wildly popular marriage of the Oude Funk and locally grown cherries.
Schedule of events for Sunday, July 17th:
Noon: Boom Room opens with Louisiana Purchase Cajun food on site.
1:00pm: Jason McCann from Cargill will discuss the varieties of malts available to the home brewer.
2:00pm: Taylor Quill from Quill Bros. Hop Farm: All Things Hop Related.
3:00pm: Touring the Great Breweries of Belgium with Brewer Kevin Welch of Boom Island as Your Guide – Sponsored by Book It Travel.
4:00pm: Jeff Merriman of Northern Brewer will discuss the role of Belgian yeast and fermentation in the brewing process.
5:00pm: Boom Days Home Brew Competition Awards Ceremony
