Mr. Bill’s Wine Cellar hosts a Free Beer Tasting on the last Friday of each month

And this month, Mr. Bill is proud to feature a local brewery!

Friday, May 31 (4-7pm)

Parkway Brewing Company opened in the Winter of 2013 and is quickly growing! Please join us for a very special introduction to Parkway Beers!

About the Head Brewmaster

Please join us Saturday, May 18

Todd Bandy will host a live painting! And all Todd Bandy Fine Art will be 10% off, Saturday only!

12-5pm during our Free Wine Tasting!

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Cheers,

Mr. Bill

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An ale brewed with apple cider and spiced. A positive combination of Fuji cider, slow-roasted farro, a bit of cayenne and fresh cilantro.

This beer part of our Music Series of beers… this one is an amalgamation of hip-hop, beer, cider and a DIY culinary experience! Sam and Dan the Automator of Deltron 3030 teamed up to create Positive Contact, based on Dan’s favorite ingredients and Dogfish Head’s innovative brewing practices.

Named after a key track on the first album, Positive Contact is a 9% ABV hybrid of beer and cider brewed with Fuji apples, roasted farro, a handful of cayenne peppers and a late dose of fresh cilantro. This sweet-and-sour Belgian-ish brew is a light straw color with fruity, cider-like notes. The cayenne and alcohol give it a warming finish.

87pts Beer Advocate

Supplies are limited. Please stop in today!

Cheers,

Mr. Bill

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SAVE * THE * DATE

Saturday | May 18, 2013

12-5pm

Missy from Touton Imports will be here pouring free wine samples for our normal Saturday Tasting! But this Saturday will be far from normal… we’ll have local artist, Todd C Bandy (Todd Bandy Fine Art) in the store doing a live painting! You never know… he may just give a painting away too!

About The Artist

“Since I was very young I always loved to create.   I never imagined that my love of art would  become so consuming.     I did not attend an art school.  I just sat down and started to work  and study at this until my artistic abilities expanded into sculpture, painting, design, and sketching.   Being self taught, there are new discoveries every time I make something.  Painting is my favorite though.  When it is time to paint it is time to paint!  No matter the hour.  My family puts up with my late hours locked in my studio.  Good thing for me.

 I live with my wife and son on our family’s farm in the historic Catawba Valley of Virginia.  Our home and my studio is in an 18th century log house that I moved and reconstructed on the property.  My surroundings have a great impact on my creativity.   I am fortunate to walk out my door and find a wealth of subjects to paint. ” -Todd C Bandy

Artlovers, please be sure to join us for this special treat!

Cheers,

Mr. Bill

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You should be thinking of Stone’s Imperial Russian Stout!!!

97pts, Beer Advocate (over 4300 ratings!)

Jordan’s Tasting Notes

This monster of a stout pours a dark black and offers aromas of dark malt, rich chocolate, espresso and a touch of dark dried fruit. The dark rich flavors continue through the palate while providing outstanding balance. This is truly a great stout come get one before they’re gone.

Stone’s Tasting Notes

Stone Imperial Russian Stout is so thick, rich and well, sinful, you might worry that you’ll be doomed to the fiery pits just for thinking about a sip. Rest assured, however, that even though this seemingly pernicious brew is indeed as black as sin, we guarantee that no actual sin was committed in making it… you’ll have to add that on your own. This massive and intensely aromatic beer abounds with notes of anise, black currants, coffee, and roastiness, and its heavy palate is nothing to be trifled with!

Tell us What You Think!

Email your review to Mandy@mrbillswinecellar.com

Cheers!

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THE STORY:

Help raise $30,000 to keep 34 formerly homeless persons (including 13 children) on track towards homes of their own in the face of inexplicable bureaucratic funding delays.

Total Action Against Poverty (also known as Total Action for Progress) have run the Transitional Living Center (TLC) since 1988. The current contract ends April 30. The US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced they will not announce the next year’s contract until late May. This is a problem.

Help us make sure it stays a bookkeeping nightmare instead of a homeless parent’s nightmare. To keep TLC running (this includes all meals for the month, transportation for residents, daycare fees, staff and counselor salaries, and the basic utility bills) we need to raise $30k by May 1.

Crazy? Yes. Impossible? Not with your help (& the help of the internet). Our target: 300 caring persons giving $100 each. Maybe it’s the winnings from your weekly poker game, maybe a few people at work chipped in, or maybe you got a nice tax return. Whatever you can give helps and however you spread the word helps!

Interested in more details? Read the press release below:

Thirty-plus formerly homeless persons—including five families with young children—will be back on the street on May 1, and the fifteen staff members of Roanoke’s Transitional Living Center (TLC) will lose their jobs if bureaucratic delays in allocating existing federal funds for homeless shelter programs are not resolved, and TLC does not raise the $30,000 necessary to run the shelter without federal support.

TLC is an important part of the area’s coordinated effort to fight homelessness, with an active program that gets residents back to the basics they will need to stay out of shelters permanently. And because of the unexplained federal delay, the families residing at TLC will be forced into a big step backwards. The picture looks something like this:

The US Department of Housing Urban Development (HUD)—which is the primary source of funds for the TLC—has promised only to announce the release of funds by late May (a full month after the current contract runs out, on April 30). HUD has held and renewed this contract with TLC without any problems since 1988, and the money for funding was appropriated by Congress before the Sequester—meaning it can’t be cut by Sequester. However, for a reason that HUD representatives will not release, they have decided to massively delay the announcement of TLC’s much needed funding by a month after the past year’s contract is done.

This means TLC needs to raise enough independent funding to continue operations through the end of May in order to ensure that TLC residents aren’t sent back on the street while HUD waits to announce the funding for the upcoming contract cycle: which means, more concretely, that TLC must raise $30,000—the costs required to keep the lights on, maintain the property, feed thirty-plus persons for thirty days and pay staff salaries—all from private donations. The good news is that you can help—and with CrowdRise, it is safe and incredibly simple to give a donation. It takes less than a minute, and you can give whatever amount you feel comfortable with.

If 300 people each give just $100, (& the internet is a big place) that’s $30,000 which will help keep the shelter open long enough that its residents can take time to search for the right home, can continue saving money for housing deposits through TLC’s savings program, and most importantly, can keep a safe and secure roof over their children’s heads while they find permanent housing. Gather a group of friends, make a pool of $20 each–or just spread the message to everyone you know. Anything you do helps!

In the case that HUD announces the TLC’s funding before their late May deadline, all funds raised will go toward directly helping TLC residents find, pay for and move into a permanent home—on a more appropriate timeline than the one HUD has forced on residents.

**PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DONATE**

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Perfectly Chilled Wines Every time
It keeps your chilled whites at perfect drinking temperatures. It keeps your lighter chilled reds at perfect drinking temperatures. And it even brings those heavier room temperature reds down to more suitable drinking temperatures.

How does it work?
1. After freezing your Corkcicle… for whites, pour the first chilled glass. For reds, pour out a “taste” to make room for Corkcicle.

2. Insert into your bottle to cool room temperature reds in 15 min or keep whites perfectly chilled for an hour.

3. To refill glasses simply pull Corkcicle out 75% from the bottle. Tilt the bottle over the glass to fill.

Information provided from corkcicle.com

Stop in Today to get the LOWEST PRICE in town at Mr. Bill’s Wine Cellar!

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so we skipped ahead and brought in Three Heads’ Too Kind Double IPA!

Three Heads Brewing (aka 3HB) was founded in 2010 of Rochester, New York.

I guess they figured, heck it sure is cold up here- maybe we should brew some beer! And brew some beer they have…

Too Kind DIPA has everything to love from the Kind IPA but jacked up to an out-of-this-world level.

A hop exuberance of pine, citrus and love that plays nice with others.

Check it out today at Mr. Bill’s Wine Cellar!

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Friday March 29 | 4-7pm

This tasting will include a Virginia Pale Ale, Double IPA, Black IPA and a Chocolate Stout!

These tastings are a great way to try new beers, new styles and varieties, and learn about lots of different breweries.

Please join us for free samples this Friday!

Ages 21 and over only.

We take Checking-IDs very seriously. Please have your ID ready when you come to the tasting bar!

Cheers,

Mr. Bill

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