We have recently installed a webcam capturing the view of Cruz Bay, Pillsbury Sound and St. Thomas in the distance. Listen to cool reggae music while you enjoy the island life. Be sure to check in when you need to check out!
St John Brewers Gets Tuff in the New Year 2010 is here, and around the Tap Room that means one thing... 8 Tuff Miles registration is upon us once again. For the fourth straight year, St John Brewers is a sponsor of the annual race, and the Tap Room is once again serving as the sole registration location on St John until February. Anyone looking for an excuse to come down and visit, this is a great one. Dust off your running shoes (or walking shoes!) and check out the 8 Tuff Miles website for online registration information.
Stay tuned for updates on the Tap Room expansion and more news of St John...
for more pictures of the Sweater Party, check us out on Facebook
Christmas in the Caribbean The holidays here in St John can feel a little unorthodox... palm trees strung with Christmas lights, 80 degree temperatures and bikinis on Christmas day, the only white on the ground - sand. Still, here at St John Brewers we've developed a few traditions that really help us get into the holiday spirit.
The first tradition, which really kicks off the season for us, is centered on snowflakes. Snowflakes, you say? In St John? 'Tis true. Paper snowflakes, just like the ones you made in grammar school, to decorate the Tap Room. Everyone contributes: our staff, our customers, Mongoose Junction neighbors... and when they're all done, they hang from the ceiling in the bar like a tropical blizzard.
If you've spent the holidays in St John with us, you know that the hanging snowflakes can only mean one thing... SWEATER PARTY! This year our third annual Sweater Party is on December 19th, and all over the island, people are scrambling to find the most awful holiday sweaters they can (not an easy feat down here!)... Check out the Photos page here on the website to see pictures from 2008's party, and stay tuned for pictures of this year's holiday festivities.
The 411 on Island Hoppin' IPA "Soon Come" is here... at least in the VI, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Bottles of the Island Hoppin' IPA are available in a limited pre-release as of this week in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and the IPA will arrive in the VI on draft this week. Bottles will follow in the VI sometime in December, and a full scale release in all of our distribution states (RI, NJ, MA, FL, NE, CA) will happen mid-winter.
The Island Hoppin' IPA is a bright, copper color with a piney, citrus aroma. Its balanced malt backbone compliments the characteristic hoppiness, and the beer finishes with a lingering hop dryness.
Island Hoppin' by the numbers: ABV 6.2%, 50 IBU's.
The Tap Room will host an Island Hoppin' IPA "First Keg" Party on Friday, November 13th, from 4 to 10 pm.
Stay tuned to www.stjohnbrewers.com for updates on the distribution of the IPA!
StJB Halloween Festivities Friday night saw an impressive gathering at the Tap Room for the first annual Hallows Eve Ball. Red carpet sightings included Adam and Eve, the Coppertone Baby, Buddy the Elf, Edward Scissorhands, the always adorable Almond Hershey's Kiss. Live music kept revelers in a festive mood, and everyone enjoyed the draft beer selection, including the seasonally appropriate Pumpkinhead from Shipyard Brewing. For more Halloween pictures, check out our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/StJohnBrewers)
Beach Benefits and Halloween on the Horizon This past weekend saw St John Brewers out at the beach, Oppenheimer Beach to be exact, celebrating some of our local customers and their impressive recent accomplishment. Tory Lane and Sara Stephens swam around St John this summer, completing the 35 mile swim in stages, a leg or two each weekend. Motivation like that definitely deserves a party! Beer, food (donated and prepared by Woody's Seafood Saloon), music and games seemed like the right way to celebrate, even better if the proceeds go to charity. In this case all proceeds went to Kids And The Sea (K.A.T.S.), a sailing program based in Coral Bay. After Tory and Sara dominated the beer pong tournament (they're great at a lot of stuff), they even donated all their prize money to K.A.T.S. as well. It was a beautiful day, a great party, and an example of all the things that make St John so special. In total $840 was raised for K.A.T.S.
Next on the horizon is HALLOWEEN! We at St John Brewers are big fans of this holiday - between getting an excuse to dress up and getting to watch the kids trick-or-treat in Mongoose Junction, what's not to like? This year marks our first annual Hallows Eve Ball, on Friday night. Costumes encouraged and rewarded, of course. Lots of pictures soon come, to be sure.
SOON COME: Check in on Paradise Stuck in the office? Temperatures dropping outside? Time to check in on life in paradise, or at least the view from the St John Brewers HQ here in Cruz Bay. Our webcam will provide a peek at St John when you need a momentary vacation from real life... stay tuned, it should be up and running in a couple weeks.
We've gotten a strange little dose of reality ourselves recently in Cruz Bay, in the form of several traffic lights! Temporary, of course, they're helping traffic to run smoothly (or at least smoother) while the Cruz Bay roundabout if finished and the North Shore Road is resurfaced... interested in seeing pictures? Check out our friends at On-StJohn.com for more coverage.
In St John Brewers news, you'll have noticed our new layout here on the website... We're aiming to keep the content as fresh and informative as possible for our fans in the States. At the top of our main page here are links to find us on Facebook and Twitter, and you'll also find a link on the Tap Room page that takes you to our TripAdvisor review page. We hope that you'll take a few moments to share your Tap Room stories with future guests.
