Harvest Wine & Spirits is a little wine shop with a big heart! Located at 842 Farmington Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut, Harvest is a relaxed, laid back space where we go to buy wine, shop the best selection of beer in Connecticut's capital city and get our swerve on... always a great tasting going on, some great artists being featured and boss tunes playing.
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Join Us Friday October 12th from 4pm - until Close…
Join us for a special Harvest Beer Tasting with Olde Burnside Brewing Company and a special guest from the brewery…
Join Us Tonight from 5pm - 8pm (or until the brews run out)…
We will be featuring…
“Ten Penny Ale,” our flagship brew is a smooth, amber-hued mellow version of a Scottish Ale.* (5.6% ABV). It’s a good “session ale” and was awarded “Hartford’s Best Microbrew” for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009 by The Hartford Advocate’s Readers Poll. This beer is available year-round at your local bar or favorite beer store.
Why “Ten Penny?” My grandfather used to say “You can get a good beer for a nickel, but a really good beer will cost you ten pennies!” (Motto: Work hard, drink well… Ten Penny Ale!)
“Penny Weiz” is our special version of a Belgian Witbier, incorporating 50% wheat and 50% barley. Based on an original homebrew recipe from Paul “Zok” Zocco (of Zok’s Homebrewing Supplies), our Head Brewer, Joe Lushing collaborated with Paul to create a wonderfully refreshing, thirst-quenching brew especially for spring and summer enjoyment. To put a subtle spicy note to the beer, a “wee” bit of heather and sweet orange peel were added to the mix in keeping with our brewery’s Scottish roots. “Penny Weiz” is a 5% ABV beer and is available in the spring and summer months in our familiar, recyclable, half-gallon growler bottle.
We will also be introducing the newest Burnside beer…
And From our Vintage Reserves…
“Amazing Grace”
There are some things in this world that just can’t be replicated and the 2010 version of “Amazing Grace” was an exciting, stunning success having aged our Ten Penny Ale Reserve for over 6 months in Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey barrels. It even won the Bevstar Silver Award by “Beverage World” magazine! However, “Amazing Grace” is destined to be reserved as our ever-changing, but always “amazing” specialty brew with it’s essence and bold flavor issuing from the particular type of barrel it’s aged in. This year, “Amazing Grace” will be bathed in French Cognac barrels that were most recently filled with Crown Royal! You be the judge, but alas, you’ll have to wait til January 2012, but what a way to start the New Year!
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“Highland Wild”
A Scottish Sour aged in oak barrels at 9.6% ABV. During WWI, many Scottish regiments were stationed in Belgium and the local Belgian breweries started brewing Scottish beers to sell to the troups, hence our version of a Scottish beer with a Belgian twist; to be released September 2011.
Just Scheduled an impromptu tasting with Relic Brewing of Plainville, CT for this Thursday!
Join Us for a Special Harvest Beer Thursday, this Thursday, June 21st… We will be Starting at 5:30pm and tasting until 7pm!!!
Taste with Brewer Mark Sigman of Relic Brewing (Plainville, CT) We will be sampling some of his nano-batch local brews… please come and support!
Expecting Mark to bring Houndstooth a traditional Dark English Mild, malty and luscious; Whiting St, his summer beer, which is a pre-prohibition American lager with a lemony, hoppy finish, and Antiquity (a unique old ale).
