Reserve your seat for a tasty (and local) treat.  Yum Yum Supper Club, Motorco, BOXCARR Farms, and Fullsteam are joining forces for a night to remember…a musical and culinary experience. Yum Yum Supper Club describes the night in a fine fashion:

“We’ll start the evening promptly and right with appetizers and a signature drink, while hearing stories and banjo riffs from Curtis Eller. Then we’ll have a seat for a full four-course supper with a paired brew for each course from Fullsteam. Dessert is the fourth and there’ll be a beer to go with your something sweet too. It’s a secret right now, but I can tell you the menu is utterly mouth watering.”

All this — and a few surprises — on June 18th, from 4pm-8pm at Motorco Music Hall. The menu is below. Get your tickets now! We hope to see you there!

HAPPY ARRIVAL

beer battered summer squash with basil aioli

blackened green beans. remolaude

charcuterie and cheese

salumi & rillettes with crackers. and mustard

boursin in cucumber

el toro classic cream ale shandy

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THE COURSES

bacon and eggs

poached egg. crispy bacon. swiss chard. and toasted brioche

rocket science ipa

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panzanella

heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers. mozzarella. basil. and croutons

summer basil farmhouse ale

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Boxcarr Farms smoked ham

with herb pesto. potato salad. Slaw

carver sweet potato ale

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grandma’s blueberry tart

chamomile cream

backyard sparkling pear ale

with mulberry syrup & lemon verbena

You know what? That last sentence above was total, meaningless crap. I have no idea what I just wrote. I’m leaving it up there to shame myself. And you, if you somehow figured out what I was saying.

Okay, try again. Take two.

We’re developing two lines of beers.

Control beers are easy drinkin’ session beers. Low in alcohol (under 5 percent alcohol by volume). Well-known, traditional styles like Pale Ale, Mild, Porter, and Stout. Think English pub. Everyday ales. Beers you could drink a few of in the course of an evening, without denting your pocketbook or your head. Inspirations include Young’s and Fullers.

Experimental beers? Well, they’re our own mad creation. Not bound to tradition or to style. Sometimes higher in alcohol. Uses local ingredients in the brewing process — anything from persimmon to heirloom rice to spruce pine. No tobacco, smarty-pants. (We get that question a fair amount). Inspirations: Russian River, Lost Abbey, Stone, New Glarus, Dogfish Head…but with our own Southern Ag twist.

The goal is to serve two needs: the Control when you want a no-nonsense, everyday beer that embraces tradition…and the Experiment for when it’s time to check out something genre-busting: radical Southern brewing.

Perhaps a picture or two might help.

We bet you don’t know. Truth is, neither do we.

The West Coast style of beer has been all the rage for the last several years, for good reason. The crazy hoppy, aggressive-yet-balanced beers of Washington, Oregon, and (in particular) Southern California are often amazing, rarely underwhelming.

The Northeast brewing scene typically values more subtle, balanced beers that reflect the region’s British and Germanic roots. Sure, we know there are exceptions to this rule. But just like the West Coast / East Coast music scene, there’s a fun-and-sometimes-serious battle for style supremacy: the West Coast Xtremes versus the East Coast Ivyies.

Lost in the mix: the South.

In the backyard and ultimately in the brewery, Fullsteam’s brewing process is a mad science. A southern mad science, as we experiment with local farmed ingredients and heirloom grains to create a distinctly southern style of beer. A what? A Southern style of brewing?

Yes, a Southern beer style. Southern Experimental Beer.

As the South’s population grows and becomes more and more cosmopolitan, we’re losing a bit of our own identity. Don’t get us wrong: it’s great to have access to international cuisine and culture. But so many new businesses in the South are all about importing culture to us Southerners, filling a gap we didn’t really know was missing.

Let’s face it: we’re never going to have New York‘s best pizza here in North Carolina. That’s why we like to travel to New York City. If I want the world’s best bagels, I will go to Montreal. I can’t get crabby about the world’s best bagels not being in Fuquay-Varina. That’s not what Fuquay-Varina is known for.

For the people that live in the South — and for those who visit — Fullsteam will craft beers that reflect and celebrate our Southern tradition and the region’s agricultural splendor.