Stones Throw Brewery is excited to invite the entire community to their Kill the Keg, Plant a Tree Block Party on Friday, April 28, 2017. Different beer options from an assortment of Bellingham craft breweries will be on tap, with a trophy and bragging rights going to the Bellingham brewery whose keg blows empty first. The street will be shut down for food trucks, live music, games, and an extended beer garden for a block party for the community and visitors to enjoy. As always with Stones Throw Brewery block parties, admission to the block party is free and family-friendly. The first 100 people to purchase a beer at the competition will also receive a free potted tree sapling to take home and plant, in honor of Earth Day on April 22. Live music for the event will begin at 5:00 p.m. Friday night, and will go until 8:30 p.m., with Ron Hardesty and The Devilly Brothers the two acts set for the festivities. It wouldn't be a Stones Throw block party without food trucks to enjoy too. Fairhaven Pizza, Back East BBQ, and Cubano Cubano serving food at the Block Party. The Block Party: Kill the Keg, Plant a Tree event is part of the Bellingham Beer Week annual week-long celebration of the city’s great local collection of craft breweries. Stones Throw Brewery will also be hosting a Hop Planting and Community Garden Fundraiser, a Big Boots Brew beer release, and a Beer Tasting Panel throughout the week’s celebration. Other Beer Week Events at Stone's Throw Brewery The Hop Planting and Fairhaven Community Garden Fundraiser will be held all day on April 22. The roggenstein-inspired Rye Saison collaboration beer will be released on April 23, after the Dirty Dan Harris festival at 5 p.m. Crafted by local women in the beer industry at the Stones Throw brewing facility, brewed on International Women’s Day during the Big Boots Brew Day, a Pink Boots Society program. The Beer Tasting Panel will feature Tonya Cornette and Ian Larkin of 10 Barrel Brewing in Bend, Oregon, as well as Tony Luciano of Stones Throw, on the evening April 26. Stones Throw Brewery is located at 1009 Larrabee Ave., in Bellingham's the Fairhaven District. For more information, visit stonesthrowbrewco.com and bellinghambeerweek.com.
