Tricentennially yours, a renegade collector's edition bottle.

On Friday at both NABC locations, 300-hand numbered 22-0z bomber bottles of our Tricentennial "Post-Colonial" Ale will be available for purchase at $8 each (plus sales tax).

Bank Street Brewhouse and NABC Pizzeria & Public House will split the bulk of the bottles, with a small quantity also allocated for Keg Liquors. This will be the ONLY time Tricentennial Ale is bottled, and once the 300 bottles are gone, they are gone for good.

Also, both locations will have Tricentennial Ale on tap. There'll be a final wave of Tricentennial draft releases around the time of Harvest Homecoming in early October.

Why Tricentennial and not Bicentennial? Go here for the story.

Culbertson, Reising, Tricentennial and all that.

Bottles of Tricentennial will be along later in June. It will be pouring briefly at both NABC locations beginning on Tuesday, June 4.

Rocking the Culbertson's garden party with NABC Tricentennial.

Turns out a day's worth of weather anxiety was utterly misplaced. There wasn't a drop of rain on the Culbertson Mansion's garden party last evening, and yet it was appropriately wet insofar as an entire 15.5 gallon keg of NABC's Tricentennial Ale was concerned -- that is, before it became "dry" when the keg floated at last call.

During my lawn chat about the history of brewing in New Albany, I read this chestnut to the crowd. It's a longtime favorite, and "Drive on Old Bock" should be a Houndmouth song.

"Mr. Paul Reising, West End brewer, will issue his second edition of "Bock Beer" tomorrow. His customers will be supplied with the beverage in a prompt manner, as Mr. Reising is a prompt and reliable business man. Some people drink sassafras tea in the spring of the year; others use sage catnip and such, and others sarsaparilla. That is their privilege. Another class prefers Bock Beer and it is their privilege to do so. This is a free country. Drive on old Bock."
-- New Albany Ledger-Standard, April 29, 1881

Be there: Tricentennial Ale at the Garden Party on June 1.

The Culbertson Mansion's event poster has been released, and it combines the throwback workmanship of New Albany's Paul Reising Brewing Company (circa 1900) with Tony Beard's vision of our city's audit-free future. For more, visit the NABC web site:

Tricentennial Ale at the Garden Party on June 1