Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company

Well that got my heart going . . . I just updated the back-end database of our website to SQL v5.0 from 4.0 to see if I can get the photo gallery running.

Of course I lost the entire website for about 5 minutes.

Maybe I should do these things after getting home around 3am from the brewery?

Awesome party last night, It was nice to be able to talk to so many people and listen to superb local artists jamming for the extended Devil’s Canyon family. We are looking forward to the next Bluegrass night in December.

OK, lets see if I can get a photo gallery working.

Welcome Aboard!
Be sure to stop by our newest accounts and thank them for supporting Local Beer!

Route 92 – San Mateo
Marvin Gardens - Belmont
Turtle Bay – Foster City

A map with all of our customer locations is available here

And Remember – a $15 receipt from any of the places our beer is served gets you a free beer on Beer Friday! Limit 2 for Beer Club Members, 1 for non-Beer Club Members, See Jamie for receipt redemption.

The mailer is getting ready to go out . . . are you on the mailing list?

and . . .

The mailer has been sent! Here is a link to a copy online.

See you at Beer Friday and the Oct 3rd BrewGlass Jam!

In honor of the fabulous Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Devil’s Canyon Brewery will be hosting its own warm-up party at the brewery. This means we will be open October 3rd in addition to Beer Friday!

We will be featuring local Bay Area bands playing bluegrass, jamgrass, and other sorts of grass for your boogieing pleasure. Starting at 11pm it’s a free-for-all Open Jam Pickin’ Party!

CROWD PARTICIPATION IS HIGHLY ENCOURAGED!  Bring your instrument, whatever it may be!

5:00  Openly Grey
6:00   Moonshine String Posse
7:00  Four Finger Stringband
8:00  Matt Stivers & Friends
8:30  The Day Late Fools
(Ted Kratter & Friends)
9:30  Stoney Mountain Ramblers
11:00 Open Jam

Food Will Be Available For Sale As Will Wine, Soda and Award-Winning, Hand-Crafted Beer. THERE IS NO COVER CHARGE!

Thank You For Supporting Local Music and Your Local Brewery.

Want To Help Out?

Here is a flyer you can download (1st-strictly-brewglass-poster) and distribute to your friends via email or you can print out several copies and hang them up in your office, local coffee shop, luthier, dry cleaner, pre-school, dentist’s office, music store, church, nunnery, automotive dealership, fast-food “restaurant,” computer store, kilt-maker tailor place, police office, library, etc.

See you at Bluegrass Night!

“The Fortune Hunter’s Daughter”
Or
“His Little Jewel”

(A Melodrama in roughly three or so acts spiced with saucy song and dance numbers!)

If it’s autumn, it’s Melodrama season in Belmont! The Belmont Community Players are excited to announce their 20th Anniversary Edition of “Melodrama at the Barrett Community Center”, 1835 Belburn Avenue, Belmont 94002.  This year we present renowned local “thespians” performing the classic melodrama, “The Fortune Hunters Daughter” (or, “My Little Jewel”), directed by the inimitable duo of Robin Fife (drama) and Judy Rechsteiner (singin’ and dancin’).  The entire production is laced from beginning to end with the orchestral interpretations of Musical Director Alan Mueller (on the honky-tonk piano!).

Filled with handsome heroes, virtuous damsels in distress, and dastardly villains — and interrupted occasionally by terpsichorean delights performed by fetchingly costumed lovelies and debonair gents — “The Fortune Hunter’s Daughter” is a spectacle you won’t want to miss!  This is family entertainment at its very best (although you may want to cover the little one’s eyes when the “Diamond Lil’s” swing onto the cabaret floor to anoint tempting male pates with embarrassing, lipstick flavored souvenirs  of the evening’s divertissement.

So put on your biggest grins, leave your inner Scrooge at home (no “bah, humbugs” allowed) and trundle down to Barrett starting the evening of Oct 17th.  Other evening performances are on Oct 18, 25 and Nov 1, 7 and 8.  All evening curtains rise at 8:00 PM.  There are two matinees:  the Oct 26 Luncheon Show (lunch at 12:00 noon, curtain at 1:00PM) and Nov 2 at 1:00PM.  All of the dates are in the Brewery Calendar.

Be sure to bring your best “boos” for the villain, “cheers” for the hero and be ready to “swoon” for the heroine.  Everyone contributes to the fun at a melodrama!

Seating is Cabaret style tables of six or ten so be sure to bring your friends.  Wine, local beer from Devil’s Canyon Brewery, soft drinks and water will be available, served by perky barmaids; and the more or less bottomless buckets of nibbles are “FREE”!

Tickets at: (650) 599-2720 or via e-mail at boxoffice@belmontcommunityplayers.org . General admission:  $15.00, ($20.00 for the Luncheon Matinee) and a special price of $12.00 ($17.00) each for groups of ten or more.  Horseless carriage parking is FREE!

For more info, visit their web site.

Here is a fun National Public Radio Podcast we ran across:

Different types of beers — ales, stouts, etc — are distinguished primarily by their yeast, but now these groupings might get even more complicated. Scientists have examined the genetic sequences of 17 unique lager yeast strains from breweries in Europe and North America, tracing variations in their genetic code back through time.

Guest:

Gavin Sherlock, assistant professor of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine

Listen Now [17 min 49 sec]