Saturday, February 25, 6:00 pm

Check out the Chili Heads Go Shopping video HERE!

Winter heats up every year at this time with our local global warming event, guaranteed to sate your belly and fill your senses with great chili and cornbread, terrific local poets and more.  Beat the winter blues and enjoy this Cotuit Center for the Arts tradition!

Enter your fiery secret recipe, read a blazing haiku, or just come and enjoy our sizzling 12th Annual Poetry & Chili mash-up. Homemade chili and cornbread, awesome poets, ice cold Cape Cod Beer, frosty Margaritas, and a fabulous band too – The Catbirds. We guarantee you won’t have more fun in February!

Prizes for Best Chili, Best Cornbread, Best Decorated Station and 1st prize for Poetry.

Free tickets to registered cooks and poets!

Poets Register Here

Chefs Register Here

Email your registration forms to jenn@cotuitcenterforthearts.org or mail to CCftA, PO Box 2042, Cotuit, MA 02635

Cooks, please read the USDA’s guidelines on Cooking for Groups:http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/Cooking_for_Groups.pdf

Tickets: $15 per person

For tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669. Tickts will also be available at the door.

Do it. At Cotuit.

On February 6th, 2012, Cape Cod Beer will release its newest Specialty Beer, Bitter End Imperial IPA, named for the nautical term “bitter end” which refers to the innermost end of the anchor rope, which was traditionally secured to a set of bitts or large pillars of oak, bolted and fixed upright to the deck.  The beer’s name is also a double entendre given the fact that Imperial IPAs are some of the hoppiest beers made.

India Pale Ales (IPAs) historically have a nautical connotation, given that the development of the style resulted from the 18^th century challenges of keeping beer fresh for the long journey from England to India.  The additional hops and malt added to traditional IPAs helped to boost the natural preservative qualities of both alcohol and hops, securing IPAs in both maritime and British history.  While IPAs are a British invention, Imperial IPAs appear to be a completely American concept, developed on the West Coast in 1994, where hops are abundant and big hoppy bitter beers are the norm.

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Once again we are going to sell HOP RHIZOMES, and thought we would open it up to the local community in case anyone else wanted to order some.

They are $5 per Rhizome, prepaid, and we need your order in and paid for by February 29th.  We will place our order on March 1 st.  The Hops will arrive towards the end of March/Early April and can be planted around that same time frame.  We will NOT be shipping rhizomes.

Here is the form.  Please try to bring it with you when you come to order. Otherwise we will have copies here.

Wow!  all of a sudden we have a bunch of jobs to fill!

Please pass the word along to people who you think would be a GREAT fit for our company.

Cape Cod Beer has the following open positions:

• Full Time Lead Brewer
• Full Time SUMMER help (3 positions: 2 retail and 1 production/distribution)
• Full Time Distribution & Sales Support (NO LONGER TAKING APPLICATIONS-SORRY)
• Part Time Year Round Retail Associate (NO LONGER TAKING APPLICATIONS-SORRY)
• Full Time Outside Sales (NO LONGER TAKING APPLICATIONS-SORRY)

Please resist the urge to call or drop by with your resume.  For sanity and efficiency, we REALLY need all candidates to apply using the forms provided.