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North Coast Brewing Events From May 13 Through May 16 During Seattle Beer Week 2013

Posted on May 10, 2013

If you live in Seattle and love craft beer, you are in luck! Seattle Beer Week has four events featuring North Coast Brewing Beers.

Latona[1]Monday May 13th 6:00 – 9:00 pm
The Latona Pub
6423 Latona Ave NE,
Seattle WA 98115 – 206 525-2238
Class of ‘88 Barleywine Celebration
The Class of ‘88 breweries are hosting a final joint anniversary party in Seattle. This is a celebration offering horizontal tastings of the three variations of barleywines brewed by North Coast Brewing, Deschutes Brewery and Rogue Ales. The entire collaboration is a rare event, and this opportunity to taste all three versions will possibly be the last time you can taste all three variations in one place. So if you’re in the vicinity of Seattle Washington, join the party, sip some ale and have a good time.

Tuesday May 14th 6:00 – 8:00 pm T.-S.-McHugh's-Seattle(w)
T. S. McHugh’s Splendid Foods, Lagers & Ales
21 Mercer St
Seattle WA 98109 – 206 282-1910
Swine & Barleywine
North Coast Brewing will feature the awesome and refreshing PranQster Belgian Style Golden Ale, the exquisite Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale, and the Class of ’88 Barleywine. The T. S. McHugh’s chef will be serving Pork Butt Sliders to compliment these wonderful beers.

Red-Door-Seattle(w)Wednesday May 15th 4:00 – 6:00 pm
The Red Door in Fremont
3401 Evanston Ave N
Seattle WA 98103 – 206 547-7521
Beer & Cheese Pairing Party
Join us at the Red Door in Fremont as we celebrate 25 years of success. To commemorate this special event we have invited Dennis and Theresa from the Cheese Cellar in Seattle to prepare a flight of eight cheeses paired with eight selected beers from North Coast Brewing. This is a rare event and a great way to begin the evening. Each participant who purchases a flight will receive a commemorative goblet to take home.

Thursday May 16th 6:00 – 10:00 pm The-Back-Door-Seattle(w)
The Back Door
462 N 36th St – Fremont
Seattle WA 98103 – 206 632-7322
Brewers Dinner
Menu for the Evening
First Course
Le Merle Saison, Belgian Style Farmhouse Ale paired with
Artichoke-Basil Soup with Goat Cheese and Wild Mushrooms
Second Course
Ruedrich’s Red Seal Ale paired with
Salt Cod Fritters with Lemon Remoulade
Third Course
Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale paired with
Beef Short Rib Braised in Brother Thelonious with Potato Gratin & Mustard Greens
Fourth Course
Old Stock Ale paired with
Banana Bread Pudding in Crème Anglaise

At 10 pm the jazz trio Gravity will perform in a tribute to Thelonious Monk. You can find out more about Gravity at the group’s website.

 

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North Coast Brewing Beers Featured at The Backdoor During Seattle’s Beer Week

Posted on May 8, 2013

Seattle might be a city known for brewing up a lot of coffee, but May 9th through 19th is “Seattle Beer Week” spotlighting another kind of brewing and beverage. North Coast Brewing beers will be a major highlight of the week at The Back Door Brewers Dinner on Thursday, May 16 from 6 to 10 pm. Tickets are $50 per person and available online at Brown Paper Tickets.

The Back Door restaurant is entered (you guessed it) through the back door at
462 N 36th St – at Fremont  NCBC-Le-Merle-375ml(w)
Seattle WA 98103
206 632-7322

Menu for the Evening

First Course
Le Merle Saison, Belgian Style Farmhouse Ale paired with
Artichoke-Basil Soup with Goat Cheese and Wild Mushrooms
Second Course
Ruedrich’s Red Seal Ale paired with
Salt Cod Fritters with Lemon Remoulade
Third Course
Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale paired with
Beef Short Rib Braised in Brother Thelonious with Potato Gratin & Mustard Greens
Fourth Course
Old Stock Ale paired with
Banana Bread Pudding in Crème Anglaise

At 10 pm the jazz trio Gravity will perform in a tribute to Thelonious Monk. You can find out more about Gravity at the group’s website.

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Chick Corea & Béla Fleck Duet Concert and North Coast Beers in Milwaukee

Posted on April 2, 2013

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Tuesday, April 2nd: It’s going to be a splendid evening in Milwaukee! Chick Corea and Bela Fleck are performing their Duet Concert at the Marcus Center for Performing Arts and North Coast Brewing is pouring hand-crafted ales before the concert. Who could ask for anything more: great performers, remarkable music and award-winning beer!

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Chick Corea and Béla Fleck are two of the most gifted improvisers in the world. Pianist Corea, winner of 20 Grammy® awards, has attained living legend status after four decades of unparalleled creativity and a staggering artistic resume. Banjo virtuoso Fleck, winner of 15 Grammy® awards and founder of the Flecktones, crosses many musical genres, from bluegrass to jazz to classical to everything in between. The two musicians have joined their adventuresome and formidable talents with the Duet concert tour.

North Coast Brewing is delighted to pour beer prior to the concert in an event free to concert ticket holders. The audience will get to taste our renowned Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale, along with our other award-winning beers. The pouring begins at 7:00 and the concert starts at 8:00, both in Uihlein Hall at the Marcus Center.

 

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North Coast Beers & Claire Daly Quartet Share the Stage at D.C.’s Blues Alley

Posted on March 26, 2013

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March 26 – 29 is an exciting time for NCBC. Our sales reps, along with President Mark Ruedrich and Vice President Doug Moody, will attend the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo, along with 6,000 other craft brewing professionals, to share information, attend a wide range of seminars and immerse themselves in the world of breweries and brew pubs.

While in the nation’s capital, North Coast will present the Claire Daly Quartet at Blues Alley on Tuesday, March 26. Called the nation’s finest jazz and supper club by the New York Times, it’ll be a swingin’ night at Blues Alley with the Claire Daly Quartet performing selections from their latest CD “Baritone Monk” and five North Coast beers – Brother Thelonious, Old Rasputin, PranQster, Le Merle and Scrimshaw – sharing the spotlight. Fifty percent of beer sales from this evening will be donated to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

 

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Baritone Monk CD Number 9 on Jazz Week Charts

Posted on February 12, 2013

Baritone Monk CDBaritone Monk by The Claire Daly Quartet, the album that we produced last autumn, is now number nine on the Jazz Week charts!

Click here to read about the album and listen to sample tracks.

Click here to purchase the album and support Jazz education.

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NCBC Sponsors SFJAZZ Opening Night Concert

Posted on January 24, 2013

SFJAZZ’s Grand Opening Night on Wednesday, January 23rd was sold out, but there will be many more concerts this season. Check out the concert line up at http://www.sfjazz.org/events/season1/opening-night.

The opening night performance was the first to take place in the new SFJAZZ Center’s Robert N. Miner Auditorium, the first concert hall of its type in the U.S. built specifically for the performance of jazz music and audiences. Click here to read a great article about the opening night in the New York Times.

North Coast Brewing, a strong supporter of the arts, and jazz music in particular, is an Official Sponsor of the SFJAZZ. Local Public Radio station KZYX & Z broadcast the opening night concert on January 23.

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North Coast Brewing an Official Sponsor of SFJAZZ

Posted on January 15, 2013

SFJAZZ’s Grand Opening Night on Wednesday, January 23rd is sold out, but there will be many more concerts this season. The opening night performance will be the first to take place in the new SFJAZZ Center’s Robert N. Miner Auditorium, the first concert hall of its type in the U.S. built specifically for the performance of jazz music and audiences. North Coast Brewing, a strong supporter of the arts and jazz music in particular, is an Official Sponsor of the SFJAZZ Fest. Click here to see drawings of the extraordinary SFJAZZ Center.

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Baritone Monk CD Number 12 on Jazz Week Charts

Posted on January 14, 2013

Baritone Monk CDBaritone Monk by The Claire Daly Quartet, an album that we produced in 2012, is now number 12 on the Jazz Week charts!

Click here to read about the album and listen to sample tracks.

Click here to purchase the album.

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We’re Proud to Announce the Release of Baritone Monk: The Claire Daly Quartet, A CD Benefitting Jazz Education

Posted on December 14, 2012

Baritone Monk CD Front

We’re proud to announce the release of our new CD, Baritone Monk: The Claire Daly Quartet performing the music of Thelonious Monk, featuring Claire Daly on baritone saxophone, flute, and vocals; Steve Hudson on piano; Peter Grant on drums; and Mary Ann McSweeney on bass. 100% of sales proceeds from the CD are donated to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz to further international Jazz education programs.

• Click here to listen to music clips from the CD
• Click here to purchase online

“Claire Daly’s marvelous tribute to Monk’s music reminds us of that special affinity, of Monk’s penchant for the lower frequencies and the big, full sound he expected from his ensemble. Monk’s music is notoriously difficult, though you wouldn’t know it from this recording. Daly’s superb quartet combines a mastery of Monk’s less-recorded repertoire with the casual joy of a jam session. Pianist Steve Hudson avoids Monkish clichés, displaying his own unique style to great effect. Bassist Mary Ann McSweeney plays with a profound sense of melody, swing, and harmonic imagination, and unlike so many young bass players she is not afraid to explore the instrument’s lower register. Peter Grant, a long-time Daly collaborator, gives the band its driving pulse but with a subtlety that allows all voices to be heard. Finally, there is Claire Daly, whose breadth of styles, enormous tone, and distinctive phrasing place her among the very best of contemporary baritone players.”
—from the liner notes by Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009)

Your support of this CD supports Jazz education. Click here for a printable version of this flyer.

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Everything’s Big in Texas

Posted on October 28, 2012

North-Coast-Dinner-JazzNorth Coast Brewing at Coco BarNorth Coast Brewing has just completed a couple of high-profile, sellout beer dinners at some of the most-happening spots in Texas. Coco Bar in El Paso was the site of a great food/beer/music evening co-hosted by Audrey Kiefer, North Coast’s Texas Sales Manager, and Chef Julio. One of the favorite pairings of the evening was savory lamb sliders which were a great match for Red Seal Ale. Marty Olivas and his jazz group, Case Closed, provided some first-rate sounds including some Thelonious Monk tunes in tribute to, guess what, our Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale.

North Coast Beers with Chocolate CakeThat was followed by a memorable evening at Rudyard’s British Pub in Houston. Audrey Kiefer teamed with co-founder, Tom Allen to represent the brewery while Chef Joe Apa and his crew handled the food duties. The menu was a Texas tour-de-force with each dish incorporating a beer ingredient to match the accompanying ale. A smoked trout pate with Scrimshaw Pilsner started the meal followed by Venison sliders with Red Seal Ale and Texas wild boar cassoulet with Brother Thelonious. A chocolate flan made with Old Rasputin rounded out the dinner. It was a landmark event capped off by a round of standing applause from the well-fed and  thirst-slaked capacity crowd.

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North Coast Brewing Extends Its Long-Term Partnership with the Monterey Jazz Festival

Posted on September 7, 2012

Terence Blanchard at the Monterey Jazz FestivalSupport Jazz with us at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 21–23, 2012!

North Coast Brewing will be the Official Beer of the Monterey Jazz Festival through 2014. Now in our seventh year of partnership with the Monterey Jazz Festival, we are the longest continuous financial supporter of the Festival. A strong supporter of Jazz education, we have also been a longtime contributor to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, making donations for every case of Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale sold.

“The guys on the management team here at North Coast have been hardcore Jazz fans for decades, and traveling to Monterey to take part in the Jazz Festival has been a much-anticipated annual highlight for us for the past seven years,” said Doug Moody, Senior VP and Director of Sales. “It’s been a privilege for us to be associated with both the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and to be able to contribute in some measure to this American art form.”

“Monterey Jazz Festival is honored to extend our long-standing partnership with North Coast Brewing, whose commitment to the art of Jazz is admirable. Our organizations share similar values and we are proud to exclusively offer their award-winning craft beers to our patrons,” said Chris Doss, Managing Director of the Monterey Jazz Festival.

The Monterey Jazz Festival celebrates the legacy of Jazz and expands the boundaries of and opportunities to experience Jazz through the creative production of performances and educational programs. The Festival, now in its 55th year, is the world’s longest continuously running Jazz festival.

In addition to partnering with the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, North Coast Brewing is also a supporter of other Jazz organizations, including the Redwood Jazz Alliance, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the American Jazz Museum, the Oregon Coast Jazz Party, and We Always Swing.

Click here to view a printable PDF of this press release.

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Presenting the Legendary Jazz Masters Series: The Claire Daly Quartet in Concert

Posted on June 2, 2012

Claire DalyNorth Coast Brewing Co. is proud to present the  Legendary Jazz Masters Series: The Claire Daly Quartet in Concert, performing the music of Thelonious Monk with Steve Hudson, Mary Ann McSweeney, and Peter Grant

7:00 pm | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | Preston Hall, Mendocino

$20 Advance | $25 at the door | seniors 65 and over & students 18 and under $15

100% of ticket sales benefit The Mendocino Music Festival

This is the fifth of six benefit performances in preparation for recording “Baritone Monk,” in New York City on June 18, 2012. The recording will feature a dozen Monk compositions and will be produced by North Coast Brewing Co. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the CD will benefit the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz — release date Fall 2012

For tickets:
Mendocino Music Festival Office in Mendocino: 707 937-2044
North Coast Brewing Co. “Brewery Shop” in Fort Bragg: 707 964-1286

Additional 2012 Tour Benefit Dates

- Sunday, June 3: The Cellar Jazz Club, Vancouver, BC, a benefit for sea lion research by the University of British Columbia in partnership with the Vancouver Aquarium

- Monday, June 4: Tula’s Jazz Club, Seattle, WA, a benefit for Earshot Jazz 

- Tuesday, June 5: Newport Performing Arts Center, Newport, OR, a benefit for the Oregon Coast Jazz Party

- Wednesday, June 6: Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA, a benefit for the Redwood Jazz Alliance

- Friday, June 8: Kuumbwa Jazz Center, a benefit for Kuumbwa Jazz

Your support of Jazz supports these organizations! Click here for a printable PDF of this press release.

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Flipper Tappin’ Jazz Fundraiser

Posted on May 24, 2012

SealNorth Coast Brewing Presents Jazz in Support of Sea Lion Research

In support of sea lion research being conducted by the University of British Columbia in partnership with the Vancouver Aquarium, North Coast Brewing is presenting two benefit Jazz events in June at Cory Weed’s Cellar Jazz Club, 3611 West Broadway Street, in Vancouver, BC.

Cory Weeds Quintet: A Tribute to Cannonball Adderly
Saturday, June 2, 2012 | Cellar Jazz Club | $17
Featuring: Cory Weeds (alto sax), Chris Davis (trumpet), Brad Turner (piano & rhodes), Andre LaChance (bass), and Roy McCurdy, original Cannonball Adderly drummer (drums)

100% of the cover charge will be donated to sea lion research at the Open Water Research Station. Co-presented by The Cellar Jazz Club and The Hard Rubber New Music Society. For more information, visit: http://cellarjazz.com & http://www.coryweeds.com

The Claire Daly Quartet: The Music of Thelonious Monk
Sunday, June 3, 2012 | Cellar Jazz Club | $15
Featuring: Claire Daly (baritone sax & flute), Steve Hudson (piano), Mary Ann McSweeney (bass), and Peter Grant (drums)

100% of the cover charge will be donated to sea lion research at the Open Water Research Station. This event is the opening night for a tour of the New York-based Claire Daly Quartet in preparation for recording a follow-up CD to North Coast Brewing’s 2009 Brother Thelonious Quintet. With sales of both CDs benefitting the education fund of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, North Coast Brewing is able to combine its support of Jazz education with their new effort to provide support for and bring awareness to the research of Steller sea lions being conducted by the University of British Columbia in partnership with the Vancouver Aquarium at the Open Water Research Station in Port Moody, BC. For more information, visit: http://cellarjazz.com & http://www.clairedalymusic.com

For both events:
Cellar Jazz Club
3611 West Broadway Street
Vancouver, BC V6R 2B8
604 738-1959
doors open at 6:30 pm
set times: 8 pm & 9:30 pm

About the Open Water Research Station program: Since 1993, researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Marine Mammal Research Unit have partnered with the Vancouver Aquarium to study the mysterious decline of the Steller sea lion population in the North Pacific. This is an ambitious project to discover the reasons behind the mysterious disappearance of 80 percent of the world’s Steller sea lions and what it could mean for the ocean ecosystem.

The Vancouver Aquarium is a non-profit society dedicated to the conservation of aquatic life.

The University of British Columbia is one of Canada’s leading research universities and is consistently ranked among the top 40 in the world. The university attracts 54,000 students from across Canada and 140 countries around the world.

Click here to read this as a printable PDF.

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North Coast Brewing Sponsors 25th Annual Mendocino Music Festival

Posted on July 6, 2011

Mendocino Music Festival logoThe Mendocino Music Festival has been presenting outstanding musical performances under a majestic canopy tent on the Mendocino headlands since 1986. This year, for the first time, North Coast Brewing Co. is the presenting sponsor. The brewery’s association with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has created the opportunity for a special guest appearance by Kevin Eubanks on Sunday, July 10.  The festival program includes not only the local Festival Big Band Jazz Orchestra (Saturday July 16) but also three additional Jazz features. For dates and times, visit the website: www.mendocinomusic.com

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Brother Thelonious Review by BeerSweden

Posted on January 20, 2011

Brother Thelonious“Trading 4s is a jazz term used to describe when two soloists play alternating four-bar phrases, as though they were having a lively conversation with chords.

“In North Coast Brewing’s tribute beer to Jazz legend Thelonious Monk the brewery trades 4s not with musical instruments but with yeast and malt. The result is a playful duet in the chord of B (B standing of course for Belgium).” Read the whole review on the BeerSweden website.

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