Fullsteam Brewery & High Wire Distilling Co. Barrel-Aged Bash

Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6pm

  • $25 ticket includes Fullsteam beer, samples of High Wire, porchetta & southern sides, live music from V-Tones
  • cash bar
Online ticket sales have ended, but tickets are available at the door.

To celebrate Brewvival weekend, Mixson Bath & Racquet Club welcomes Southern beer visionary Sean Lilly Wilson of Fullsteam Brewery in Durham, N.C. for a barrel-aged bash featuring Charleston’s High Wire Distilling Co. and their newly released barrel-aged Hat Trick Gin.

Fullsteam's Cack-a-lacky ginger pale ale — brewed with North Carolina ginger — ages for several months in High Wire's Rhum Agricole barrels, a rhum made with South Carolina sugar cane. The brewery's "Batch 1000" celebrates the classic Old Fashioned cocktail, with a Carolina twist: the burly wheatwine contains North Carolina wheat, North Carolina barley, orange peel, and Cheerwine syrup — all aged in High Wire's "New Southern Revival," a four-grain bourbon whiskey distilled with local grains.

While the Rhum Agricole Cack-a-lacky and Batch 1,000 may be the apex of the February 26th bash, Fullsteam is excited to provide two additional rare beers: Muscadine Gose, brewed with nearly all North Carolina ingredients (barley, wheat, salt, muscadine, coriander, hops), and Riverbend Rye, a floral, hoppy pale ale with rye farmed, malted, and brewed in North Carolina.

In addition to samples of Fullsteam’s beers, the cash bar will be serving signature cocktails featuring High Wire spirits, and the distillery will be on hand to provide limited tastings of Rhum Agricole and its new barrel-aged Hat Trick Gin.

Charleston’s favorite swing/gypsy jazz/party band The V Tones will provide the entertainment, and Chef Bryan Cates with the help of MBRC member and Charleston food guru Jeff Allen will provide the food. The two will be creating a porchetta using heirloom hogs from Carolina Heritage Farms accompanied by a spread of Southern sides.

 


Mixson Bath & Racquet Club

4401 McCarthy St.
North Charleston, SC