Hattiesburg Beer Club - April Tasting

The Hattiesburg Beer Club will host their next tasting on Sunday, April 13th, 5-7 PM at the Keg & Barrel.

Bring 3-4 of your choice of Amber, Bitter, ESB, or Mild brews that are unavailable at your local grocery. If this will be your first tasting, remember to bring $10.

April: Amber, Bitter, ESB, Mild (Rogue Brutal, St. Rogue, Redhook, Lefthand Sawtooth, Old Speckled Hen)

For questions, contact hattiesburgbeerclub@gmail.com

Mississippi Beer Drinkers' Guide Tshirt

Joby Bass, Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi informs us that the the Geography student organization (Gamme Theta Upsilon) at USM in Hattiesburg, MS has recently made their wet/dry county map tshirts available for purchase.

They can be found both in Hattiesburg at TBone Records (on Hardy St.) and online at http://www.cafepress.com/USMGeography

The shirts are a fundraiser for the student organization. Proceeds will be used to help pay for student events, such as travel to conferences and field trip outings.

Show them some support.

There’s a beer for every meal

Friend and fellow craft beer geek Butch Bailey has an excellent article on pairing beer with food. Check it out at his blog or on the Hattiesburg American site.

Keg & Barrel - Football, Great Beer, Free Jambala!

Brett vs Eli

The Keg and Barrel in Hattiesburg will open on Sunday, January 20 at 2:00 pm for NFL football.

They have restocked one of my favorites...Rogue Chocolate Stout. There will be drink specials and free jambalaya and red beans and rice, too.

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Beer Drinker's Map of Mississippi T-shirts

Anyone down in Hattiesburg know Miss Boatwright? ...so I can get one of these T-shirts.



Spotted: Kathi Boatwright
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Tell us about your fundraiser. We are selling the Beer Drinker's Map of Mississippi T-shirts that show the wet and dry counties for our Gamma Theta Upsilon Geography Honor Society. It helps fund the expenses to some of the conferences we attend. Another class actually came up with the idea for the shirts about four years ago and they sold so well that we decided to just update them.

Source: Hattiesburg American

Hattiesburg Pub Reviews

Here is an interesting Hattiesburg pub review from Soup.

Hattiesburg Beer Club (October)

The Hattiesburg Beer Club held their October meeting yesterday. Butch has the details along with an impressive list of beers they tried.

Their November meeting is scheduled for November 11.

Southern Gold Honey Ale

Looks like a new Lazy Magnolia beer has been released.

Southern Gold - Golden Honey Ale ["Just for Hattiesburg"].

Guess I will not see this one in the Jackson area, so I'm counting on Butch to hook me up.

Busy Beer Weekend...

The Emerald Coast Brew Fest is Friday, September 7 in Pensacola, FL. I have my ticket and will make the drive down tomorrow afternoon. Mississippi's own Lazy Magnolia will be there. Pictures will be posted early next week.

While in Florida, I plan to stock up on better beers that Mississippi does not want to sell me. So....Florida will get my money instead of our own state. Visit www.meba.ms for more details.

On the return trip, I will stop in at the Keg and Barrel in Hattiesburg for the first meeting of the new Hattiesburg Craft Beer Club.

Quite a weekend ahead...

Hattiesburg, MS Craft Beer Club

Butch sends us this info on a new Hattiesburg Beer Club being formed by the Keg and Barrel

Do you love hop-infused India pale ales? Do you savor the complexity of a wood-aged imperial stout? Do you get happy when you enjoy a wonderful Belgian style tripel? Are you like many Hattiesburg people who find there is no end to the adventure and enjoyment of beer made by American craft breweries? If so, leave your name and email address below to receive information about the first meeting of the Hattiesburg Beer Club.

Criteria:

The first meeting will be Sunday, September 9th @ 5:00 at the Keg & Barrel. Meetings will be held on the 2nd Sunday of the month, 5:00-7:00pm at the Keg & Barrel. All participants much be 21 years of age. All participants must bring a six pack of beer that CAN NOT be purchased in Mississippi and a brief written description about the brewery and the beer chosen.

So how do you get the beer? Order it online, get friends from out of state to send it to you, grab a six pack when you are traveling somewhere, etc. The dues for the beer club will be $10.00 per person. The dues will be used for special beer orders & to pay a Keg & Barrel employee to clean up.

A Hattiesburg Beer Club has been long over due. If you are interested in enjoying good company and great brews sign up below and you will be contacted soon! Thanks for you participation!

Wes & John

Support Make-A-Wish - Bid on a K&B beer tasting party.

The 5th Annual Wish Maker’s Summer Night Bash benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi, is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at the Bottling Company downtown Hattiesburg.
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An array of one of kind, unique items will be auctioned off including ... a beer tasting for a party of 10 at Keg and Barrel.

“All proceeds raised for this year’s event will be used to help grant the wishes of children right here in the Pinebelt area,” said Melanee Slade, Chairman of 2007 Make-A-Wishaville. The mission of the Make-A-Wish Foundation is to grant the wishes of children with life threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.

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