‘Pooia Post: Yo-Ho Hum Updates
Posted by Laura
Just an update to keep our loyal surfers out of the rinse cycle!
Upcoming Events You Don’t Want to Miss!
Saturday, September 29th – Talk Like a Pirate Party with Walk the Plank
Come join the ‘Pooia Crew as we welcome Cap’n Slappy for our official “Talk Like a Pirate Day” celebration. Everyone is encouraged to dress up and try out your pirate lingo while listening to one of the hottest bands in the Willamette Valley, Walk the Plank, electric jazz trio. Better get here early to get a seat – it should be a raucous, wenching, pillaging, scurvy-dog crowd, arrrgh!
Saturday, October 13th – Willamette Open Disc Golf Tournament with The South Town Hounds – $2 Cover Charge
The entire weekend will be filled with disc-huckers from around the country, as the 2007 Oregon Series (sponsored by Calapooia Brewing Co.) ends with this huge 3-park, 3-city tournament. Saturday night, we are collaborating with The Willamette Disc Golf Club and the Disc Golf Club of Albany to bring The ‘Hounds to the ‘Pooia. Again, this should be a fun-filled evening with limited seating. So get here early if you want a resting spot for your kiester.
New Seasonals on Tap!
Our brave and noble brewers, Mark & Colin, have been brewing up some exciting new beers! The newest, Yeti, is a blackberry wheat beer – a lovely American Hefeweizen with just a hint of sweet-tart blackberry undertones. (And Sophia and I still have the scars from picking 20 lbs of the little purple devils – thanks to Dave, Everett, Mike & Deena for contributing, as well!)
Also on tap right now – our seasonal Fresh Hop Rye and extremely popular Simcoe Springs IPA.
There, But for the Grace of Hops, Go I
Alas, we are sad to say that we must raise the prices of our kegs from $115 to $120. Due to last year’s fire which destroyed 10% of the hop supply and the general shortage of hop suppliers, the price of hops (the wonderful little buds of pure flavor and aroma) have nearly tripled over the past year. We’ve done our best to absorb the majority of this increase, but must now raise our prices to help cover the higher cost of doing business. Our pints must also go up – $3.75. We apologize for the inconvenience. (FYI – Our keg and pint prices, even with the increase, remain below the industry norm.) If you’d like to purchase a keg, please drop by our Water Ave. entrance Tuesdays and Fridays 4pm-6pm or Saturdays 10am-noon.
That’s all my baby-addled, caffeine-deprived brain can come up with for now. (Oh yeah, the ‘Pooia Crew will be getting a little bigger come late December. More details later) 
- L & M
Brewing the Finest Microbrews in Oregon and the Willamette Valley
‘Pooia Post: We Be Boarded by Pirates, Matey!
Posted by Laura
Just an update to keep our loyal surfers in the know
Third and Final Nagging…
A reminder about our new times and days for selling kegs and cornies out the door. Starting September 4th, we will be limiting the sale of these items so they don’t interfere with providing our golden (and red, and black, and amber) ambrosia to our other good-natured, beer-fearing folk. The new times:
- Tuesday 4-6pm
- Friday 4-6pm
- Saturday 10-noon
We also are limiting the times that we will fill cornies. Starting on the 4th, we will no longer fill cornies between the hours of 11:30 and 2pm or between 5-7pm on any day. Please come in to have them filled before or after those times.
Pirate’s Plunder Release Party
On Thursday, September 6th, Calapooia Brewing Co. is proud to release Pirate’s Plunder Pale Ale. This brew, conconcted by Mare and Doug Goeger, won Best of Show at the 2007 Oregon Homebrew and Microbrew Festival in Corvallis. We were honored when they asked for our help and use of facilities to help bring this award-winning beer to the masses (well, ok, we only have a 6 barrel system, but you get the point). Mare, Doug, Mark, and Colin brewed Pirate’s Plunder together in July, and it is now ready to wow the world. Join us at 4:30 for the release of this well-rounded, refreshing Pale Ale… stay for the Beaver game on our big screen, and the return of the Wild Hogs, starting at 7:30. (Dang, and I alread used my menage a troi joke in the last post!)
Music Lineup Changes
Just an FYI that on September 8th, a new band will be gracing the corner at the ‘Pooia. The Conjugal Visitors will start at around 8. Come support our new, local music!
Avast Ye Scallywags! Talk Like a Pirate Day Returns!
Cap’n Slappy, Ol’ Chumbucket, and Mad Sally will be bringing their world-wide phenomenon back to their home turf in Albany on September 29th. Join these scurvy dogs at the ‘Pooia (in yer best eye patches and peg legs) for a refined evening of “Avast ye Mateys” and “Scrub the poop deck, you scurvy bilge-rats!” And all ye landlubbers gets to Walk the Plank at the end, as local super-trio Walk the Plank returns to the Calapooia that evening starting at around 8:00. Yarrrr! Start practicing your pirate talk now! Or it’s Davy Jones’ Locker for ye!
(OK, I’m done… fer now!)
Finally! Expanded Hours!
- Starting Sunday, September 9th, the ‘Pooia will be open at 10:00 am on Sundays for the entire football season.
- Starting Sunday, September 9th, the ‘Pooia Kitchen will be open all day (no closing between lunch and dinner).
- Starting Sunday, September 9th, the ‘Pooia will close at 10pm Sunday-Wednesday. The kitchen will close at 9pm.
- Starting Monday, September 10th, the ‘Pooia will be open at 11:30 am Monday-Saturday for lunch.
- Starting Thursday, September 13th, the ‘Pooia will close at 12:30 am Thursday-Saturday. The kitchen will close at 11:00pm.
We will also be expanding our menu soon, so watch for more choices of Albany’s best burgers and sandwiches!
- L & M
Brewing the finest microbrews in Oregon & the Willamette Valley!
