Foeder for Thought, hosted by Green Bench Brewing Company, has been selling tickets for over a week now, and the taplist and details are now available, as are tickets.
From Green Bench Brewing:
Foeder for Thought is a celebration of oak fermentation. This is one of the most unique and intimate festivals during Tampa Bay Beer Week offering beer to sample from across the country. Tickets are on sale now. If you purchase tickets before the event they’re $60 (day of tickets, if available, are $70). Tickets are limited.
On Friday, March 11th (the day before Hunahpu’s Day 2016) from 5pm till close we’ll be offering unlimited samples of oak fermented craft beer on draft and in bottle format. We’ll have a food truck on site, and music spinning all night, featuring beers from: Jester King Brewery, Almanac Beer Co, New Belgium, Jolly Pumpkin, Fonta Flora, Side Project Brewing, Crooked Stave, Wicked Weed and many more! A schedule of special tapping times and a full list of beers will be available as we get closer to the event.
In addition, we’ll have owners and brewers from across the U.S. in attendance for special Q&A sessions each hour. Don’t miss out!
Foeder for Thought was an event built around education. Every year we see more and more locals appreciating Oak Fermented Farmhouse Ales/Wild/Sour brands and we like to think that events like Foeder for Thought are helping that cause. Each year we try and push the complexity of the tap list and the depth of the education aspect so that every year you’re learning something new. This year we’re setting up a live, hourly interview/Q&A with the owners/brewers of some of the featured breweries, hosted by Marco of The Craft Commander.
Below is a current (additions might be made in the coming days) list of beers and schedule for our 3rd Annual Foeder for Thought festival. Just like previous years there will be beers on tap in the brewery, beers on tap on a draft van, and a bottle station. These will be available from the start of the festival (5PM) until they run out. We’ve also included a schedule of our timed tappings throughout the night. These tappings are the highlighted beers of the festival that support the live interviews and Q&As with some of the best breweries in the world. Here’s how it’s going to work:
Show up at 5PM so that you can get your glass and start tasting some of the beers in the tasting room, draft van, and bottles. At 5:30 get ready to drink some Cantillon Gueze and Drei Fonteinen Oude Kriek. At 6 get some samples of Yazoo’s featured tappings and head to the stage in the beer garden, because at 6:15 we’ll be starting a live interview with Brandon Jones from Yazoo. He, and the other guest speakers, will give you a backstory of his brewery and brewing experience, the beers that he brought, and you’ll have an opportunity to ask him any questions about his beers that you’d like. This stops at 6:45 when we’ll announce where you can get the next highlighted tapping. At 7 we’ll tap Almanac’s beers, so get samples and head over to the stage to listen to Jessie Friedman discuss all things sour beer at Almanac in San Fran. At 8 we’ll be tapping a beautiful Jester King collab with Live Oak brewing called Foudreweizen, and we have brewer Sean Spiller available for the live interview/Q&A. At 9 you’ll be able to grab samples of Fonta Flora’s brands and at 9:15 listen my homie Todd Boera discuss what he’s making up in the mountains. At 10 we’ll be tapping Side Project’s Biere du Pays Blend 3, an incredible mixed culture Saison from one of my favorite producers in the country. Cory King will be on stage to talk all things Side Project. Lastly, at 11:30 we’re going to have Cantillon’s Rose de Gambrinus, which is a Framboise (Raspberry Lambic), and Drei Fonteinen’s Hommage (Lambic aged on Raspberries and Sour Cherries) and Drei Fonteinen’s Intense Red (Kriek).
The hope is to provide you all with some of the best beers in the world, and as much information and knowledge about these brands as possible. It would be impossible to do this if it weren’t for the extremely talented and knowledgable Marco of The Craft Commander. He’ll be conducting the interviews with our guests. You’re going to love him.
I hope to see you there.
– Khris
Schedule w/ Tappings:
5:00 PM – Doors Open
5:30 PM – Cantillon Classic Gueuze (draft)
5:30 PM – Drei Fonteinen Oude Kriek (bottles)
6:00 PM – Yazoo Brett Saison (Rye Saison w/ 2 Brett strains)
6:00 PM – Yazoo Deux Rouges (Flanders Red)
6:15 PM – Yazoo’s Brandon Jones live interview/Q&A w/ Marco of Craft Commander
7:00 PM – Almanac Valley of the Heart’s Delight (Sour Blonde w/ foraged Apricots, Dates, and Mulberries)
7:00 PM – Almanac Farmer’s Reserver Blackberry (Sour Blonde w/ Blackberries)
7:15 PM – Almanac’s Jessie Friedman live interview/Q&A w/ Marco of Craft Commander
8:00 PM – Jester King Foudreweizen (Live Oak Brewing Collab – Foeder fermented mixed culture Hefeweizen)
8:15 PM – Jester King’s Sean Spiller live interview/Q&A w/ Marco of Craft Commander
9:00 PM – Fonta Flora Funk Fuzz (Oak fermented Appalachian Wild Ale w/ NC Grain, NC Peaches, and NC Nectarines)
9:00 PM – Fonta Flora Razzmatazz Vol. 1 (Oak fermented Appalachian Wild Ale w/ NC Grain and NC Raspberries)
9:15 PM – Fonta Flora’s Todd Boera live interview/Q&A w/ Marco of Craft Commander
10:00 PM – Side Project Biere du Pays Blend 3 (Chardonnay BA mixed culture Saison)
10:15 PM – Side Project’s Cory King live interview/Q&A w/ Marco of Craft Commander
11:30 PM – Cantillon Rose de Gamrbinus (draft)
11:30 PM – Drei Fonteinen Hommage
11:30 PM – Drei Fonteinen Intense Red
12:00 AM – Doors Close
Inside Taps:
GB Saison de Banc Vert (Foeder fermented Saison)
GB Saison de Banc Noir (Foeder fermented Dark Saison)
GB Rye Saison (Foeder fermented Rye Saison)
GB Beemo (Foeder fermented Hoppy Table Saison)
GB Florida Poster Girls (Foeder fermented, Chardonnay BA Brett Saison)
GB Shopping Cart Cowboys (Golden Sour w/ Grapefruit)
GB Lot 2 (Sour Stout Bourbon BA w/ Blackberrie & Blueberry)
GB Parallax (Dark Sour Bourbon BA w/ Raspberries)
GB Les Grisettes (Brett Farmhouse Ale)
GB Apple Brandy BA Sour Stout
New Belgium Le Terroir (Foeder fermented Dry Hopped Golden Sour)
New Belgium Nitro Oscar Worthy Coffee (Foeder fermented Dark Sour aged on Coffee)
Jolly Pumpkin Gratzer (Smoked Sour Ale)
Jolly Pumpkin Hoppy Mild Sour (Foeder fermented Hoppy Amber Wild Sour)
Crooked Stave Silly Cybies (Foeder fermented Dark Sour w/ Raspberries)
Crooked Stave Motif (Foeder fermented Sherry BA Dark Sour)
GB Mead & Cider Oak Aged Abricot
GB Mead & Cider New England Cider
GB Mead & Cider Imperial Perry
Ritterguts Gose
Wild at Heart (Sour Mild)
7venth Sun Gin BA Soul Cleaver (Gin BA Tart Farmhouse)
Odd Breed Dry Hopped Wild Ale
Outside Taps:
Central State Funky House (Mixed Fermentation Rustic Blonde Ale)
Central State Are We Doing This Right (Off Color Collab – Brown Farmhouse w/Honey and Black Tea)
Brewski Kathakwa Coffee Berliner
Brewski Passionate Beating (Berliner w/ beetroot and passionfruit)
Stillwater Gose Gone Wild (Brett Gose with Citra and Amarillo)
Stillwater Tenacity (Brett Farmhouse IPA)
Coppertail Cherry Frank (Foeder fermented Sour Blonde w/ Cherries)
Coppertail TBBW Berliner (Passionfruit & Guava)
Coppertail Lemonade Berliner
Bottles:
GB Sauvage Blanc (Trinity Collab – Brett Farmhouse w/ Chardonnay Grape Must & Nelson hops)
GB Backpack (Cigar City Collab – Brett Pale Ale)
GB Monsieur Ed (St. Somewhere Collab – Foeder fermented Saison w/ horse feed and Brett)
New Belgium Transatlantic Kriek 2015
New Belgium La Folie 2015 (Foeder fermented Dark Sour)
Jester King Mad Meg (Farmhouse Provision)
Trinity Menacing Kumquat (Kumquat Saison)
Trinity One Ear Naked Saison (Classic Belgian Saison)
Trinity Red Swingline (Sour IPA)
Trinity Koelorado (Spontaneous Sour)
Odd Breed Biere de Garde
Green Bench Brewing is located at 1133 Baum Avenue North in Saint Petersburg. Foeder For Thought is today, Friday, March 11th, 2016. The trouble starts at 5pm.