Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar

TEXT ON THE POSTER ABOVE:
It’s Winter! It’s cold! It’s also Leap Year so we thought we’d try something unusual for this auspicious day. Join us as we embark on our first Leap Year Barleywine festival.

February 29, 2012
THE FESTIVAL BEGINS @ MARIA’S AT 6PM!

We will be serving on draft these fine brands: Lagunitas Gnarleywine, Three Floyds Behemoth, Brooklyn Monster Ale, Dogfish Head Immort Ale, Dogfish Head Olde School, Great Divide Old Ruffian, Unita Cockeyed Cooper, Boulevard Harvest Dance Wheat Wine, Stone Old Guardian

You can try them all!  We will be offering Barleywine flights (4-6oz pours) that come with a  delicious mini pasty from our buddies next door, The Pleasant House Bakery.

Or you can just try yer favorites until your liver says no more..

Come to our weekly gathering where guest speakers and experts in their fields of interest help us re-imagine what our neighborhood, Bridgeport, can become. It’s a place to meet your neighbors and new friends from afar. Join us to share your ideas on how to make positive community contributions and learn some new tactics and strategies for improvement, all while drinking a few craft beers.

On Sunday, February 19,The Bridgeport Citizens Group will present on the topic of community safety. How can neighbors work together to make a difference in the community? Why should you go to your CAPS meeting? What’s a smokeout and what does a watch group do? How can you get involved? All of these questions will be answered, plus you can grab one of our free Community Watch window signs. Get empowered!!

Thursday, February 16th – 8pm-2am – Free, no cover
Presented by Full Spectrum – read more>>
Drawing from a collection of electronic dance music mixtapes from 1984 and on, Full Spectrum’s LGA transmits for the evening his favorite sets from some of the best local, national and international DJs he’s come across over the years. Musical genres and subgenres include the following: HI-NRG, Italo Disco, early 80s House, 90s Industrial, Freestyle, Early Breaks, 90s New Wave, House, Techno, Tech House, Drum ‘n Bass, Trance, Hardcore, Happy Hardcore, Breakbeat, Goa, West Coast House, Speedcore, and more! (And though not exactly EDM, don’t be surprised to hear an authentic 80s reggae “mixtape” from the “Island” itself.)

Join us at Maria’s to meet Conrad Tufte from Tyranena Brewing Company in lovely Wisconsin. To celebrate V-D Day we are pouring Tyranena’s Down and Dirty Oatmeal Stout and throwing back a few specialty cocktails made by our crack staff of imbibery experts.

The tapping occurs at 7pm. The love is all night long.

While Schimmel battles Schimmel on our DJ tables, enjoy today’s special of Three Floyd’s Zombie Dust in bottles. We also just tapped the Bell’s Hopslam. Enjoy it before the Winterwall comes tumbling down.