Asheville Beer Week 2014: FUBAR

Continuing our Beer Week drinking game series, we follow up Beer Pong with FUBAR. Never heard of this game before? Neither had I, until recently. This particular drinking game is kind of like a mash up between ‘Never Have I Ever’ and ‘Questions’. Its a good game for a larger group of people, and makes a great icebreaker. So grab some friends from the bar – and maybe some strangers too, and let’s play FUBAR!

You Will Need: A deck of cards
Ideal Number of Players: 6+
To Play: Shuffle the deck of cards thoroughly. Place the cards on the table. Each player will draw a card and place it face up – you will be following the commands that correlate with each card:

Ace: Take one drink
2: Take two
3: Take three
4: Questions – Pick a person your choice and ask them any question, that person must respond with a question, and so on until one person messes up.
5: Make five players of your choosing take a drink
6: Never Have I Ever – one person must state something they have never done. Anyone who has done that act must drink
7: Master of the Thumb – This person can put down their thumb on the table until another number 7 is drawn. When this person does put their thumb down everyone must do the same, the last person to do so drinks.
8: Categories. The first person provides a category and then everyone else must give an example. e.g. Drinking games: Quarters, Flip Cup, I Never and so on.
9: Busta Rhyme – Everyone must give a word that rhymes with yours. e.g. drink, think, pink.
10: Social – Everyone drinks
Jack: Guys drink
Queen: Girls drink
King: Waterfall. As soon as the first player begins to chug their drink, the second must follow him, and so on. All players continue drinking until the player previous to them stops drinking. If the first player is a big drinker, this can be quite a difficult card.

Beer Events Happening Today, May 25th

Multi-bottle Release Party at Wicked Weed

Starts: May 25, 2014 – 11:00 am
Ends: May 25, 2014 – 11:30 pm
Location: Wicked Weed Brewing, 91 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville

We are throwing down for ABW! When one bottle release just isn’t a big enough deal for the week, the only logical next step is throw a multi-bottle release party! We are offering three, yes, three, bottles on Sun. the 25th in the downstairs tasting room of our brew pub. Bottle sales start at 11am, VIP hour (for the first 100 people) starts at 10am. Live music going on throughout the day!

$10.95-12.95 a bottle

LaZoom Beer Run

Starts: May 25, 2014 – 1:00 pm
Ends: May 25, 2014 – 6:00 pm
Location: Pick up is at Asheville Brewing on Coxe downtown AVL

Bruisin’ Ales, LaZoom Tours, and The Feral Chihuahuas bring another one-time comedy show for their 3rd straight Asheville Beer Week. This time, a notorious international Beer Assassin is terrorizing downtown Asheville’s breweries. Hop on the LaZoom bus with Detective Lazer McSteel and the Feralton Police Force (aka The Feral Chihuahuas) as they solve the case and return order to Beer City!

This action-packed comedy show on the LaZoom bus includes two free on-bus local beers plus a 15-minute stop at two downtown breweries. Beware, these shows sell out in advance every year!

Age 18+ ONLY SHOW FOR ADULT CONTENT/LANGUAGE AND INTENSE TORTURE SCENES WITH WIENERS!

So bring your Sunday hangovers and do what the locals do… Get on the Bus!

$28pp
TWO TOUR CHOICES
**Tickets for 1:00pm: http://www.lazoomtours.com/tickets/4343-asheville-beer-week-sunday-beer-run.html
**Tickets for 4:00pm: http://www.lazoomtours.com/tickets/4344-asheville-beer-week-sunday-beer-run.html
Westside Fest

Starts: May 25, 2014 – 1:30 pm
Ends: May 25, 2014 – 5:00 pm

Location: Urban Orchard Cider Co. and Bar, 210 Haywood Road, Asheville
Superfly Fabulous Events (www.superflyfab.com) & Urban Orchard Cider Company (www.urbanorchardcider.com) will be hosting the inaugural Westside Fest at the Urban Orchard Cider Co. Courtyard on Sunday, May 25th from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm, with music by DJ Kutzu.

The Westside Fest is a West Asheville Neighborhood craft beer and craft cider festival. Participating breweries include West Asheville’s own Altamont Brewing Company, Oysterhouse Brewing Company, Wedge Brewing, and New Belgium Brewing Company . In addition, cider makers including Urban Orchard Cider Co., Noble Cider and Black Mountain CiderWorks, and Kombucha Ales from Lenny Boy’s Kombucha will be attending. The ticket includes unlimited cider and West Asheville brewery samples, Mobile Infusers featuring French Broad Chocolate every 45 minutes and Cider Cocktails at 2:30, 3:30 and 4:30.

The NC Harvest-Thyme Food Co-op will be fresh pressing apple cider the old fashioned way, by hand. Both fresh pressed apple cider and Kombucha will be available for non-alcoholic options.

Come hungry and get a plate of the West Side Pig Pull aka – Pig Pickin’. Chef Gustavo Villota will marinate an 80 pound sweet succulent pig in a fairly traditional North Carolina vinegar based sauce for 24 hours. The basic recipe consists of apple cider vinegar, red pepper flakes and coriander powder. A blend of hickory and apple woods will be used to smoke the swine for about eight hours or until it falls off the bone. Chef Villota and Urban Orchard Cider Company will create a special sauce to lather this beast and serve with Southern potato salad, collard greens and fresh apple slaw.

West Asheville’s The Hop Ice Cream Café, will be on hand with some of your favorite flavors including West Asheville beer & cider ice cream.

Enjoy the amazing variety of West Asheville craft breweries, craft cider makers and kombucha. For more information on the Westside Fest, go to http://www.westsidefest.com. Tickets are $23 per person and can be purchased online or at Urban Orchard Cider Company.
Twin Leaf Brewery “Spread Like Wildfire” Dogwood Alliance Benefit

Starts:May 25, 2014 – 2:00 pm
Ends: May 25, 2014 – 9:00 pm
Location: Twin Leaf Brewing, 144 Coxe Avenue, Asheville

Drink beer and save the trees! Twin Leaf Brewery is partnering with Dogwood Alliance to help raise awareness about forest destruction and deforestation, and save the forests that we all know and love! To honor our love of nature, a portion of all beer sales that day will benefit the Dogwood Alliance. We’ll also be releasing our Wildfire Chile Ale, a small batch pale ale brewed with poblanos, anchos, and arbol chiles! Let’s spread the word like wildfire that burning trees as ‘renewable’ energy is not the answer to finding an alternative to fossil fuels!

Free entry
Regular beer prices
Local Beer and Cheese Tasting

Starts: May 25, 2014 – 3:00 pm
Ends: May 25, 2014 – 6:00 pm
Location: Cork & Keg Wine Bar and Taproom/Cheese Store of Asheville — 86 Patton Avenue

Come enjoy pairing of craft beer and cheeses with informational tidbits. We will serve a variety of local beers paired with select cheeses from the Cheese Store of Asheville.
RSVP encouraged: 828/254-6453

$15

FIG Bistro and Catawba Valley Brewing “Block Party” Pairing Dinner

Starts: May 25, 2014 – 6:00 pm
Ends: May 25, 2014 – 9:00 pm
Location: Fig Bistro, Brook Street, Asheville

New neighbors, FIG Bistro and Catawba Brewing are teaming up again this year for another Biltmore Village Block Party! FIG’s Chef Jerami Jones will be teaming up with Catawba’s Pyatt brothers to develop a special 5-course beer and food pairing. The FIG mixology team will debut a new “beer cocktail” and Billy and Scott will be on hand to field questions and talk about their new presence on the Asheville beer scene. It’s a very good thing to have a brewery as your neighbor!

$50
Reservations only: 828/277-0889
Bruisin’ Ales & King James Public House Beer Dinner

Starts: May 25, 2014 – 6:00 pm
Ends: May 25, 2014 – 9:00 pm
Location: King James Public House, Charlotte Street, Asheville

Bruisin’ Ales and Chef Steve Goff of King James Public House present a five-course beer dinner on Sunday, May 25, 6pm, at the Gastropub. $65/pp. Reservations via King James Public House, (828) 252-2412.

Menu…
Cheese: Kentucky Bleu and Virginia Grayson with Cheerwine gel, served with lavash flatbread. Goose Island Lolita Wild Ale

Fowl: Duck wings with cracklins, peanuts, bacon ranch, and cilantro.
Coronado Brewing Sock Knocker Imperial IPA

Fish: Smoked trout tartare with caper dust, charred lemon, and RVC micro greens.
The Bruery Rueuze Sour Blonde

Meat: English pork pie with NC Heritage Pork, demi glaze, fried marrow nestled in pate brisee. Weyerbacher 18 Imperial Weizenbock

Sweet: Banoffee pie with banana, dulce de leche, charred meringue, and a graham cracker crust. Olde Hickory 2014 Irish Walker Barleywine