Once again Fitty’s First Friday is upon us at Thomas Liquor.  The legendary Bell’s Brewing Co. is the featured brewery for May.  Brewery rep. Jason Gillum will be tasting out the entire Bell’s line-up along with a few cellared gems.

Saturday is Cinco de Mayo, great for lager lovers, and the Kentucky Derby, great for mint julep lovers, but it’s also a great day for Maibock lovers at Town Hall.

This Saturday marks the annual release of the Maibock. What does this mean you may ask? Well, deep in the cold months of winter we brew this fine German style lager……the Blonde Bock. Our annual release has grown to signify the start of summer for Town Hall Brewery, and it has become kind of a customer appreciation day for us. We invite you to come to Town Hall Brewery and annual our traditional Blessing of the Bock. We have a man of the cloth come and bless your beer and we at THB extend complimentary Maibock to you from 5-6pm on that day. Blessing will be shortly after 5pm , complimentary Maibock Lager until 6pm. Come and enjoy the event this Saturday.

Pint clubbers- our weekly pint club reception will be cancelled this coming Saturday, as we will be offering you complimentary Maibock from 5-6pm

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This week Thomas Liquor welcomes back LiftBridge Brewing Co. for Fitty’s First Friday.  Owner Dan Schwarz and brewer Adam Weiss will be tasting out the newly-returned six pack lineup along with some of the limited releases.  This should be one of the best FFFs to date.

Check out Rock Bottom this Thursday for a taste of their Paranoid IPA, “a powerful West-Coast style IPA loaded with Simcoe hops.” Have a free pint and if the floral and citrus grapefruit character tickles your fancy, stick around for a few more.

Free beer for a year? Count me in! Head over to Acadia Cafe Saturday night for their  “We Broke the Curse – 4th Anniversary on the West Bank” party for a chance to win free beer for a year. You’ll need to be present to be one of the four lucky people who will each get one free local beer everyday for one year.

Sponsors include these breweries: Lucid, Surly, Summit, Harriet Brewing & Rush River.

Also, drink specials, giveaways and live music by The Nightinghales, Foxtrot, and Cadillac Kolstad & the Flats.

Barley John’s has a little treat to help you celebrate Leap Day.

Happy Leap Day! Stop by today only and get a free pint of your favorite pub brewed beer with purchase of a growler – limit one free pint per person – Wild Brunette not included for either the pint or growler.

Before you head to Winterfest, or maybe before you head home for your own local beer fest, stop by Thomas Liquors to start the weekend off right with Ben Poupard from Flat Earth. He’ll be pouring this Friday for the February edition of FFF. As usual, Fitty will also have a few other interesting beers up his sleeve to share.

Thomas Liquors is happy to host Rush River for the first FFF of 2012. Nick Anderson from Rush River will be tasting out all of their bottled offerings and Fitty will be breaking out some hard-to-find beers to share.

Oh yeah, that’s “Fitty’s First Friday,” not the brewery from Munster, IN.

Tuesdays are the new Fridays over at the Ale Jail, as Mark and the gang continue their weekly tastings in December, welcoming brewery staff to the store to pour their wares. All events begin at 5pm and run for a couple hours or until the beer runs out.

Dec 6th – Capitol Brewery

Dec 13th – Lagunitas

Dec 20th – Bells

Dec 27th – TBA

Mark over at the Ale Jail will be cracking open some Flat Earth for your post-Thanksgiving tasting pleasure this evening!