e Denotes Alcohol By Volume of 6% or more

M Michelada for $1 extra! Beer, lime juice, worchestire, hot sauce & black pepper over ice. Salted rim.

LAGERS Lagers use bottom-fermenting yeasts that fall to the bottom of the vessel during fermentation. This is done at cooler temperatures, around 41-48°F, with maturation at or close to 32°F. The result is a clean, well-rounded beer from the yeasts working more slowly and thoroughly through the malt sugars.

AMERICAN ADJUNCT - Light bodied, pale, fizzy lagers made popular in America after prohibition. The use of adjunct cereal grains, like rice and corn is common. We put Light beer in this category.

Amstel Light Netherlands 3.5% $4.25

Budweiser / Bud Light 12 oz bottle 5% / 4.2% $3.25

Coors Light 16 oz bottle 4.2% $3.25

M Corona / Corona Light Mexico 4.6% / 4.2% $4.25

M Dos Equis Lager Mexico 4.6% $4.25 Michelob Ultra Light 4.2% $3.25

Miller Lite 16 oz bottle 4.2% $3.25 M Modelo Especial Mexico 4.6% $4.25

M Pacifico Mexico 4.8% $4.25

Pabst Blue Ribbon 16 oz can | Illinois 4.7% $2.75

Red Stripe 16 oz can | Jamaica 5% $4.25

M Tecate 16 oz can | Mexico 4.6% $4.25

AMERICAN AMBER - A catch-all category, these lagers boast a bit more malt backbone and overall character than their lighter sister styles.

Yuengling Pottsville, Pennsylvania 4.4% $3.25

BOCK/DOPPLEBOCK/MAIBOCK/EISBOCK - Stronger than your typical lager, more of a robust malt character a dark amber to brown hue. Lightly hopped. Dopplebocks are stronger in alcohol and have a bigger malt profile. Maibocks have a noticable alcohol content and hop profile. Eisbocks have a heavy body with tons of malty flavor.

e Ayinger Celebrator Germany 6.7% $6.75

Shiner Bock Texas 4.4% $3.25

e Spaten Optimator Germany 7.2% $4.25

EURO PALE LAGER - Hop flavor is significant and of noble varieties, bitterness is moderate, and both are backed by a solid malt body and sweetish notes from an all-malt base.

Harp Ireland 5% $4.25

Samuel Smiths Lager United Kingdom 5% $6.25

Stella Artois Belgium 5.2% $4.25

MÄRZEN - full-bodied, rich, toasty, typically dark copper in color with a medium alcohol content.

Stiegl Goldbrau Austria 4.9% $4.25

MUNICH DUNKEL - Smooth, rich and complex, but without being heady or heavy. They boast brilliant ruby hues, and also lend a fuller-bodied beer with depth and richness.

M Negra Modelo Mexico 5.4% $4.25

MUNICH HELLES - A golden, clean lager with the same spicy hop characters of a Czech Pils, but a bit more subdued and in balance with the malts.

Weihenstephaner Original Germany 5.1% $4.25

PILSNERS - These lagers have a present hopiness, a good malt character, and are smooth and crisp.

M Bohemia Mexico 5.3% $4.25

VIENNA LAGER - Brewed using a three step decoction boiling process. Subtle hops, crisp, with residual sweetness

M Dos Equis Amber Mexico 4.7% $4.25

ALES Brewed using top-fermenting yeasts at higher temperatures than lagers. Ales are characterized by their subtlety, complexity and fruity/floral flavors and aromas

AMERICAN/BALTIC PORTER - Pale, Smoked and/or Roasted malts balanced with hops.Very complex and interesting beers.

e Avery New World Porter Boulder, CO 6.7% $4.25

AMERICAN IPA / DOUBLE / IMPERIAL / ENGLISH - Hops are typically American with a big herbal/citric character, bitterness is high as well. Well balanced malt backbone. Imperial IPAs are a bit more robust, malty and alcoholic with a hop profile that may rip your tongue out.

e Anderson Valley IPA Boonville, CA 5.7% $4.25 e Avery IPA Boulder, CO 6.5% $4.25

e Cigar City Jai Alai IPA Denver, Colorado 7.5% $5.00

e Good People IPA Birmingham, Alabama 6% $4.25 e Great Divide Hercules Double IPA Denver, Colorado 10% $7.75

e Tallgrass IPA 16 oz can. Manhattan, Kansas 6.3% $5.00

AMERICAN AMBER ALE - This style of beer tends to focus on the malts, and hop character can range from low to high. Expect a balanced beer, with toasted malt characters and light fruitiness.

Highland Gaelic Red Ale Ashville, NC 5.5% $4.50

O’Fallen Hemp Hop Rye O’Fallen, Missouri 5.5% $4.25

AMERICAN/ENGLISH BROWN ALE - Malty and sweet on the palate, with a full body, low hop aroma and bitterness.

Bar Harbor Thunderhole Bar Harbor, ME 4.8% $5.00

e Bison Imperial Brown Berkley, CA 7% $5.75

Good People Brown Birmingham, Alabama ?% $4.25 Yazoo Dos Perros Nashville, Tennesee 3.5% $4.25

BARLEYWINE - Luscious, deep. Balanced, but intense fruit and hops.Try by itself or after dinner.

e Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Chico, CA 9.6% $4.25

e Mendocino Imperial Barley Wine Mendocino, CA 11% $5.75

EXTRA SPECIAL / STRONG BITTER (ESB) - High in hops, with great balance from a pronounce maltiness. And despite “bitter” being in its name, ESBs are not really all that bitter.

Left Hand Sawtooth Ale Longmont, CO 4.75% $4.25

e Tallgrass Oasis Double ESB 16 oz can. Manhattan, Kansas 7.2% $5.00

FRUIT/VEGETABLE BEER - Real fruit, veggies, extract, syrup or processed flavor to give the effect of a fruit or vegetable. Hidden malts, low hop bitterness and unbalanced. Not much ale characteristic.

Magic Hat #9 Burlington, Vermont 5.1% $4.25

e Sprecher Mbege Gluten-free African-style beer Glendale, WI 7% $5.75

HEFEWEIZEN/AMERICAN PALE WHEAT - Unfiltered with a high ratio of wheat producing a cloudy appearance. Palate and aroma of bananas and cloves.

Ayinger Bräu Weisse Germany 5% $5.50

Bell’s Oberon Kallamazoo, Michigan 5.8% $4.25

Franziskaner Hefe Weisse Germany 5% $4.25

Sprecher Hefe Weisse Germany 4.35% $5.75

Yazoo Hefeweizen Nashville, Tennesee 5% $4.25 Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier Germany 5.4% $4.25

KÖLSCH - Light to medium in body with a pale color, hop bitterness is medium to slightly assertive.

Reissdorf Kölsch Germany 4.8% $7.75

PALE ALE - Despite their name they are actually golden to amber in color, have a good malt-to-hop balance and a light, nutty flavor.

Abita Restoration Ale Abita Springs, LA 5% $4.25

Anderson Valley Poleeko Pale Ale Boonville, CA 5.5% $4.25

Highland St Terese’s Pale Ale Ashville, NC 5.2% $4.25

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Chico, CA 5.6% $4.25

STOUTS - Very dark in color, with roasty malts, a heavy body, and a strong and balanced hop content. They vary in range from sweet to dry. Imperial stouts are much higher in alcohol by volume. Cream Stouts have more body and sweetness due to added unfermentable sugars.

e Guinness Foreign Extra Ireland 7.5% $5.75

e Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout Ft Bragg, CA 9% $5.25

Porterhouse Wrasslers XXXX Stout Dublin, Ireland 5% $8.25

WITBIER - Crisp, twangy and lively, this ale is very pale and cloudy in appearance due to it being unfiltered and the high level of wheat.

Hitachino Nest White Ibaraki-ken Naka-gun, Japan 5.1% $11.00

Ommegang Witte Cooperstown, NY 5.1% $6.25

BELGIAN & FRENCH ALES

BELGIAN IPA - Belgian yeasts and American hops. Clean and dry.

e Houblon Chouffe Belgium 9% $9.75

e Piraat Belgium 10.5% $10.75 e Urthel Hop It Belgium 9.5% $12.00

BELGIAN PALE ALE - Light in color, these ales have flavor profiles that are incredibly complex, and tend toward well balanced hops. These also feature flamboyant heads.

e De Dolle Arabier Belgium 8% $12.00

e Delirium Tremens Belgium 9% $9.00

e Duvel Belgium 9% $8.50

e La Chouffe Belgium 8% $9.75

e Great Divide Hades Denver, Colorado 7.8% $4.25

e Moinette Blonde Belgium 8.5% $10.25

e Orval Belgium 6.9% $12.00

e Troubadour Blond Belgium 6.5% $11.25

BELGIAN STRONG DARK ALE - Darker in color, these ales feature a higher alcohol content, higher complexity, and roasted malt flavors

e Chimay Grande Réserve (Blue) Belgium 9% $11.25

e Delirium Nocturnum Belgium 9% $9.00

e Gouden Carolus Classic Belgium 8.5% $8.75

e Gulden Draak Belgium 10.5% $12.00

e Maudite Quebec, Canada 8% $7.25

e Moinette Brune Belgium 8.5% $11.75

e Rochefort 6 Belgium 7.5% $12.75

e Rochefort 8 Belgium 9.2% $12.00

e Troubadour Obscura Belgium 8.5% $11.25

DUBBELS - A rich, malty beer with some spicy characteristics and some dark fruit aroma. Mild hop bitterness. Steely caramel flavor.

e Brother Thelonious Ft Bragg, CA 9% $7.25

e Maredsous 8 Belgium 8% $7.50

e Westmalle Dubbel Belgian 7% $12.00

e Witkap Pater Dubbel Belgium 7.5% $9.50

FLANDERS RED - Very complex. Distinct sharp, fruity, sour and tart flavors created by special yeast strains. Aged in oak casks.

e Duchesse De Bourgogne Belgium 6.2% $11.50

BIERE DE GARDE - Toasted malt aromas and slighty sweet. Nice hop aroma and bitterness. Medium bodied. Earthy and comforting.

e Castelain Blond Bénifontaine, France 6.4% $12.00

LAMBIC / FRUIT - A beer that uses real fruit, an extract or syrup. Hop profiles are low. Kasteel uses Mon Cherie cherries and then aged for six months. Lindemans uses whole raspberries.

Lindemans Framboise Belgium 4% $13.50

TRIPELS - Usually pale in color, with a spicy but sweet finish. They are high in alcohol, but hide it well.

e Gouden Carolus Tripel Belgium 9% $8.75

e Kasteel Tripel Belgium 11% $8.75

e La Fin Du Monde Quebec, Canada 9% $7.25

e Westmalle Triple Belgium 9.5% $12.00

e Witkap Pater Triple Belgium 7.5% $9.00

QUADRUPEL - Great strength, full bodied with a rich malty palate. Dark color. Low bitterness. Sweet, yet a well perceived alcohol.

e Rochefort 10 Belgium 11.3% $14.50

e Scaldis Belgium 250ml 12% $9.00

e St Bernardus Abt 12 Belgium 10.8% $11.50

e Three Philosophers Cooperstown, NY 9.5% $7.50

SAISONS - A complex style. Pale, refreshingly crisp, and tart with a high hop content. Lots of spice with medium bitterness.

e Hennepin Cooperstown, NY 7.7% $6.25

e Saison Dupont Belgium 6.5% $9.00

CIDER

JK’s Scrumpy 22 ounces. Flushing, Michigan 5.3% $14.25

Strongbow England 5.3% $4.25

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menu - 06/08/2011