A Rare Beer Auction for Hurricane Relief 

September 24, 1-5 PM, at Sean Bolan's, 1236 S. Light Street, Baltimore 

NO ADMISSION CHARGE, TERRIFIC BEER ON TAP (Red Brick Station's last full keg of 2002 vintage Highlander Heavy, plus "back of the box" goodies from Ellicott Mills, Brewer's Art, Dogfish Head, Wharf Rat, Clipper City, etc.) 

ALL AUCTION PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT RED CROSS AND SALVATION ARMY. 

A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE BAR TAKE WILL ALSO BE DONATED (Bravo, Sean Bolan's!)

What've we got? Read 'em and weep! LOTS OF NEW ADDITIONS AS OF 9/21!!

Rare Belgian Ales

*750 ml Kasteel Kriek (no longer produced)

*1987 Liefmans Goudenband 750 ml

*Cantillon Lou Pepe Gueuze

*Straffe Henrick 2000 Magnum

*Millennium Bottling Liefmans Goudenband Magnum

*Rumored: a 750 of Westleveren

*3 liter Duvel Jeroboam, vintage 2000

*"There At The Beginning" Package 1: Belgian ales bottled back in the 1970s and 1980s, when America was just discovering Chimay: One bottle each of Gouden Carolus, Rodenbach, Affligem, and Hoegaarden Grand Cru

Rare Vintages of Famous Beers

*Plenty of Thomas Hardy's Ale, going back to 1987 at least

*Several vintages of JW Lees Harvest Ale, back to 1988

*Multiple vintages of Samichlaus

*Gale's Christmas Ale 2001

*Brakspear Porter 1999

*Six-pack of Gale's Jubilee Ale, 2002, commemorating 50 years of Queen Elizabeth's reign

*1980s-era Anchor OSA, a 1994 Anchor Our Special Ale 20th Anniversary Magnum, a 2001 Magnum

*1993 and 1983 Courage Imperial Stout 

*Several years of Fuller's Vintage Ale, in the original boxes

*Vintage mixed Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale

*Various vintages of Sam Adams Triple Bock

Chesapeake Area Collector's Classics

*Brewer's Art 1999 "midnight bottling" from Chesapeake U-Brew

*A Vertical selection of Wild Goose Snow Goose, dating back to the beginning 
(apologies, this was an error and it is not available)

*Original bottling of Old Dominion Millennium (2/10/94); up to 6 bottles.

*Vintage Victory Old Horizontals (every year of production) and Storm Kings

*The celebrated and increasingly rare Brimstone Big Ale, more than a case

*"There At The Beginning" Package 3: From Sweetwater Tavern's Nick Funnel's first American brewing position -- One bottle each of Dock Street Barleywine, unlabeled, Vintages 1993 and 1994, hand-bottled by Nick Funnel.

*2002 World Wide Stout: the infamous "Vim and Vigor" labeling.

*Various Dogfish corked 750's (90, 120, Raison d'Extra, Old School, etc.)

*"There At The Beginning" Package 4: From Sam Calagione's early hand-bottled, hand-labeled days -- two Immort Ale first releases (one 1996, one 1997) with hand-written labels by Sam.

*Possibly the only remaining bottle of Blue & Gold Brewing (Arlington, VA) "pseudo-lambic"

*Rare: Iron Hill Old Ale 750

American Microbrewing Classics

*12-oz. "Old Curmudgeon Barleywine" souvenir bottle from the 2005 AHA National Homebrewers Conference

*Alaskan Smoked Porter, various years

*Three year vertical of Ramstein Winter Wheat (2002-4, bottle-conditioned, 9+%ABV, 12 oz.)

*Weyerbacher Blithering Idiot and Imperial Stout, a sixpack of each, both from 2000.

*Very rare cult classic New Haven Belle Dock Barley Wine, c. 1994

*Vintages of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

*Stoudt's IPA (old-style 750 ml)

*Brooklyn Monster 2004

*Stone 2004 Trio: Imperial Stout, Old Guardian, and Vertical Epic 04-04-04

*Limited Edition engraved, autographed-by-Ralph-Steadman, tinned Flying Dog
Gonzo Imperial Porter 750ml bottle (one of only 4 that made it to Maryland)

*Capital Brewery (Middleton, Wisconsin) Weizen Doppelbock 2001, 2002 (12 oz.)

*Deschutes Jubelale six-pack

*One of a kind: Commonwealth Brewery (NYC) "Cherry Lambic"  2000 GABF Gold Medal Winner:
Rodenbach Red clone, aged, then infused with sour cherries, and aged again. 750 ml corked champagne bottle.

*Tyranena Brewery (Lake Mills, Wisconsin) Shantytown Doppelbock 2003

*Trubbel de Yards 750 ml

*John Barleycorn Harvest Ale 1997

*North Coast Brewing Special Millenium Release 22 oz wax-topped Old Rasputin Imperial Stout

*"There At The Beginning" Package 4: From the early days of Hair of the Dog Brewery  -- a Batch #1 Adambier, a Batch #1 Fred, a hand-bottled, unlabeled Fred from the wood, 1999 Vintage, and a hand-bottled, unlabeled Eve.

Related Treasures Not to be Missed 

*GIFT CERTIFICATE from Brewer's Art -- Gift Certificate for "An Unlimited Night of Eating and Drinking for Two." WOW!

*Brewer's Art Staff Shirt (not even the owners have these!)

*From Brewery Ommegang: a night's lodging, a brewery tour, and dinner on the brewery in Cooperstown, NY 
(travel not included)

*A variety of authentic Belgian branded glassware

*PACKAGE from Ale Mary's (1939 Fleet St., Baltimore):
 baseball cap, t-shirt, $25 gift certificate, and a St. Pauli Girl neon.

*Evan Williams 1994 Vintage Single Barrel Bourbon signed by both Evan Williams' master distillers

*Wild Turkey Rare Breed barrel-strength bourbon signed by master distiller Jimmy Russell

*Ravens Edition Maker's Mark

*A Baltimore Brewing Co mini-keg, empty but with the logo, etc. intact

*A 2-liter bottle fresh prickly-pear cactus fruit concentrate, perfect for one 5-6 gallon batch of cactus mead
(samples of a 2-year-old prickly-pear-cactus mead will be available)

*Plus a full signed set of my three latest Breweries books

More items are arriving every day from area brewers, bars, and generous private collectors.

If you'd like to donate similarly rare items, contact Sandy Mitchell ASAP. 

See you there!