Well, THAT certainly was a good time ... and another one today at CPC.

Friday night at the NABC Pizzeria and Public House had championship game intensity, a siege mentality and Dionysian exuberance all rolled into one big Gravity Head tsunami. The old building shook, rattled and roared. Whoa!

I've updated the Gravity Head lineup for opening today at 11:00 a.m. The Founders wave was sliced in half by the final bell on Friday night, but plenty of the brewery's fine selections remain, including Backwoods Bastard, Curmudgeon and Breakfast Stout. In all 13 listed Gravity Head beers are pouring, along with two bonus selections.

However, in truth, the action today shifts to Charlestown Pizza Company, where the Hoosier Beer Helps Hoosiers benefit for tornado relief will be running throughout the day. Visit Charlestown Pizza Company's Facebook page for raffle and silent auction updates.

Here's the draft beer list for the day at CPC. All draft beer proceeds from these top shelf pours will be donated to the Clark County Red Cross, so consider making the pleasant drive up State Road 62 and enjoying libations for a cause.

Barley Island Dirty Helen Brown Ale
BBC American Pale Ale
BBC Dark Star Porter
Bell's Amber
Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat
Flat12 Walkabout Pale Ale
Kissmeyer Denied Entry
NABC Elsa von Horizon
NABC Rye Barrel Aged Yakima
Oaken Barrel Java Stout
Oaken Barrel Snake Pit Porter
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Triton Brewing Rail Splitter IPA
Upland Bad Elmer's Porter
Upland Wheat

Hoosier Beer Helps Hoosiers at CPC, this Saturday (May 10).

Even if you're reading from afar, you're probably aware that a line of violent tornadoes swept across Southern Indiana last Friday afternoon. There was considerable damage roughly 15 miles north of NABC's two New Albany locations.

Overnight, Saturday's pre-planned "Welcome Back Sherman Minton Bridge" festivities in downtown New Albany were transformed into a way to collect monies and materials for the relief effort. NABC's customers donated around $950, and the company matched it; the Red Cross and Salvation Army are the beneficiaries. Needless to say, communities across this and neighboring states (including Kentucky, which also had pockets of destruction) held similar fundraisers and amassed items to convey to the storm's victims.

Charlestown Pizza Company already has devoted its proceeds from a business day (this week on Tuesday) to the cause, and this Saturday, March 10, CPC is staging Hoosier Beer Helps Hoosiers, a beer benefit for tornado victims, details of which are reprinted below. It is self-explanatory; NABC is happy to help out with two of our heavy hitters, and you are encouraged to stop by and contribute.

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The Charlestown Pizza Company is hosting a beer benefit for Tornado victims on Saturday March 10th from 12- 9 pm

Facebook event page

This will be a beer festival type event held inside the CPC where ALL draft beer sales will go directly to the Clark County chapter of the Red Cross.

Donated Draft beers that will be pouring on Saturday -

Kissmeyer Denied Entry
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (not in house yet)
New Albanian Rye barrel aged Yakima Rye IPA
New Albanian Elsa Von Horizon Imperial Pilsner
Upland Brewing Porter
Upland Brewing Wheat
Bluegrass Brewing will have two draft offerings

Donated items that will be raffled OR offered in silent auctions

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1 - 750ml bottle of Dogfish Head (Pearl Jam Twenty) Faithfull Ale
4 - 12oz, Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
24 - 12 oz Schlafly Coffee Stout
24 - 12oz Schlafly Winter ESB
12 - 750ml Schlafly #20 Vol. 3 Citrus Witbier
8 - 22oz New Albanian (Jaxon, Elsa, Yakima, Hoptimus, Thunderfoot, Solidarity, Bonfire, Elector)
1 - Gift beer bucket with 4 homebrews, 2 glasses, & 1 book about Indiana beer
3 - Prohibition era whiskey storage certificates from Louisville warehouses. (these historical documents show where and when whiskey was stored in Louisville)
6 - 12oz Bells Hopslam
1 - 12oz Left Hand Fade to Black 2011
6 - 12oz Bee Creek Clay County Coffee Stout

The donations keep coming so I expect this list of raffle/auction items to double by Saturday.

Thanks to everyone that has been supporting relief efforts throughout our community !!!

Shawn

If anyone is interested in volunteering their time to help on Saturday or donating items, please contact me here, on Facebook, or via email at charlestownpizzacompany@yahoo.com.