{"id":11262,"date":"2019-02-22T00:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=11262"},"modified":"2019-02-22T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:45:09","slug":"weve-got-you-in-our-sight-10th-annual-portsmouth-beer-week-starts-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/weve-got-you-in-our-sight-10th-annual-portsmouth-beer-week-starts-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve got you in our sight &#8212; 10th Annual Portsmouth Beer Week starts on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I&#8217;m writing this post, we are less than 24 hours away from the &#8220;Unofficial&#8221; Kick-off to Portsmouth Beer Week and less than 48 hours until the kick off of the 2019 Portsmouth Beer Week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[YAHOOOOO &#8212; 10 YEARS of Portsmouth Beer Week.   Can&#8217;t really believe what it&#8217;s transformed into].<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The early years of Portsmouth Beer Week (aka Portsmouth Craft Beer Long Weekend) were a little &#8220;rough&#8221; around the edges.  The weekend started as a 3 day celebration leading up to Kate the Great &#8211; Russian Imperial Stout Release, by Portsmouth Brewery.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kate-the-great-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11263\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kate-the-great-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kate-the-great-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kate-the-great-144x144.jpg 144w, http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kate-the-great.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During the days leading up to the release, there were a limited number of events hosted around Portsmouth, including a &#8220;Beer Movie&#8221; feature, limited releases and beer\/food pairings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forwarding a little, Portsmouth Beer Week started to take shape around year 3, when the weekend transformed into a 10 day celebration.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pbw_redirect_logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11251\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pbw_redirect_logo.png 298w, http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pbw_redirect_logo-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pbw_redirect_logo-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, the 10 day celebration averages 60+ event in the Portsmouth\/Seacoast area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back, where did Kate the Great Day come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>(This timeline includes information from multiple sources, including Beer Advocate and Portsmouth Brewery&#8217;s website)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>April, 2005 &#8211; First reviews of Kate The Great on Beer Advocate.    <\/li><li>December, 2007 &#8211; Kate the Great Russian Imperial Stout was named #1 Beer in the USA &amp; #2 on Planet Earth by the Beer Advocates in Beer Advocate Magazine\u2019s 2007 Beer Roundup.  [Tod Mott becomes famous]<\/li><li>June, 2008 \u2013 First official Kate Day \u2013 900 bottles are sold out in less than three hours. Draft Kate is consumed in three days.  [Sean was invited to join a friend and catches the Kate the Great bug.]  Craft Beer fanatics came from all around the country to get a bottle and try the beer on draft.<\/li><li>February, 2009 \u2013 Second Kate Day. 900 bottles are sold in less than two hours. Draft Kate sells out on the same day.   [Sean drags friend along and writes about it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/kate-the-great-day-day-in-the-life-of-a-beer-guy\/\">read about it\u00a0here<\/a>. ]  This was the year that a Page a Day Calendar was used to keep track of your order in line and to avoid lines wrapping around the block.  <\/li><li>February, 2010 &#8211; The beer lines started early and wrapped around the block.  The was also the First Annual Portsmouth Craft Beer Long Weekend, which included four events and featured the &#8220;Beer Wars&#8221; movie release &#8212; &#8220;Pizza, Beer and a Movie&#8221; at the Portsmouth Gas Light. <\/li><li>February 2011 &#8211; Portsmouth Craft Beer Long Weekend transformed into 10 day celebration.  <\/li><li>March 2011 &#8211; Craft Beer Lovers lined up outside Portsmouth brewery around 2:45 am.   By the time the brewery opened, 8 hours later, there were over 500 people waiting in line.  &#8220;The demand for Kate the Great is so intense that all 420 gallons of it are drained in one day. &#8220;<\/li><li>March 2012.  To tame the crowds and to raise $$ for two local charities, raffle tickets to &#8220;purchase&#8221; a bottle, were available for $2.00.   The raffle tickets helped to facilitate the bottle sales  and separate it from the long line for the draft sales.   Kate the Great was also introduced as a 500 ml bottle, rather than a 22oz bottle.   There were about 2,000 bottles produced.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, this is where the Kate the Great Story ends.  In 2012, Tod Mott announced that he was departing the Portsmouth Brewery to work on a new project (which turned into Tributary).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-KTGD_051-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5982\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-KTGD_051-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-KTGD_051-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-KTGD_051.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After his departure, the excitement has been kept alive at the Portsmouth Brewery with the release of Royal Impy Stout, starting in March 2013.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in the spring of 2015, Tod Mott and his tributary tribe first released &#8220;Mott the Lesser&#8221; Russian Imperial Stout &#8212; and he created a similar amount of chaos and excitement in Kittery, Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=====================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The passion of Kate the Great still resides in Portsmouth Beer Week.   The energy around the hunt for &#8220;black gold&#8221; (i.e. Kate the Great RIS) still exists &#8212; right now it might be a &#8220;yellow hazy gold&#8221;, but the passion is still alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The focus around a single beer release has transformed into a week of celebration and support for our local restaurants \/ bars.  Over the years, many restaurateurs have appreciated Portsmouth Beer Week for helping to bring customers into their establishments during the slower period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope to see you around town the next 10 days, to share stories from the hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2Beerguys Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m writing this post, we are less than 24 hours away from the &#8220;Unofficial&#8221; Kick-off to Portsmouth Beer Week and less than 48 hours until the kick off of the 2019 Portsmouth Beer Week. [YAHOOOOO &#8212; 10 YEARS of Portsmouth Beer Week. Can&#8217;t really believe what it&#8217;s transformed into]. 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