{"id":1972,"date":"2008-05-01T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2008-05-01T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:08:48","slug":"summer-cocktails-and-beer-specials-at-circa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/summer-cocktails-and-beer-specials-at-circa\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer cocktails and beer specials at Circa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My BBQ Fest teammate John Bragg, chef at Circa, e-mailed me yesterday to let me know about the restaurant&#8217;s new line of summer cocktails, and also about some re-arranging they&#8217;ve done with the beer menu.  First of all, here are the summer cocktails:<\/p>\n<p>Circa Sangria  $9<br \/>\nDry Red Wine, Cointreau, and Aged Rum, with a hint of bubbles.<br \/>\nWarning: May be habit forming.<\/p>\n<p>White Sangria  $9<br \/>\nChardonnay, Passion Fruit Rum, and Cointreau<br \/>\n(We are on to something)<\/p>\n<p>Lime in de Coconut  $9<br \/>\nWild, restorative blend of Rangpur gin, coconut rum,<br \/>\nand of course, coconut and lime<\/p>\n<p>Washington Apple  $9<br \/>\nRefreshingly crisp blend of Crown Royal,<br \/>\nApple Pucker and cranberry<\/p>\n<p>Serial Girlfriend  $9<br \/>\nX-Rated Fusion &amp; Peach Vodka martini<br \/>\nwith pineapple and Peach Schnapps<\/p>\n<p>The Latin Lover  $9<br \/>\nCachaca, Tequila, Fresh Lemon and Lime<br \/>\nQue Rico!<\/p>\n<p>Orange Creamsicle  $9<br \/>\nCreamy, chilling blend of fresh orange, vanilla vodka and cream.<\/p>\n<p>Bellini  $9<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t have to go to Venice for the ultimate cocktail: with<br \/>\nprosecco and fresh white peach<\/p>\n<p>Those summer drinks would go well on Circa&#8217;s outdoor patio.<\/p>\n<p>John also told me he has made a few revisions to the beer program, most notably some big price cuts and daily beer specials on selected imports\/micros.  John is also cutting out some obscure beers that don&#8217;t sell too well, but until he gets rid of existing inventory they&#8217;ll be on $3.50 &#8220;fire sale&#8221; every day.  Here&#8217;s a list of what Circa plans on keeping in stock:<\/p>\n<p>Drafts (Pints)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yazoo Pale Ale (Nashville, TN)  $3.50<\/li>\n<li>Bosco&#8217;s Cream Ale (Memphis, TN ) $3.50<\/li>\n<li>Bosco&#8217;s Brown Ale (Memphis, TN ) $3.50<\/li>\n<li>Spaten Lager (Germany)  $4.50<\/li>\n<li>Blanche de Chambly Wheat (Canada)  $4.50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Imports &amp; Microbrew bottles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stella Artois (Belgium)  $4.50<\/li>\n<li>Paulaner Hefe Weizen (Germany)  $4.50<\/li>\n<li>Guinness Stout (Ireland)  $4.50<\/li>\n<li>Theakston&#8217;s Old Peculiar (England)  $4.50<\/li>\n<li>Tilburg Dutch Brown (Holland)  $4.50<\/li>\n<li>Tiger (China)  $4.50<\/li>\n<li>Abita Light (Louisiana) $4.50<\/li>\n<li>Weekly Feature Beers \u2013 ASK!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Domestic Bottles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Budweiser  $3<\/li>\n<li>Bud Light $3<\/li>\n<li>Miller Lite  $3<\/li>\n<li>Coors Light $3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks good to me&#8230; some of those prices are substantially less than what they were before (Guinness used to be $7 I think).  Not only that, but some of the prices are cheaper than the same beers at the Saucer!<\/p>\n<p>WOOHOO!\u00a0 I am home.\u00a0 But not for long.\u00a0 Time to stop by my other home &#8211; the Saucer &#8211; then go have that steak at the Majestic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My BBQ Fest teammate John Bragg, chef at Circa, e-mailed me yesterday to let me know about the restaurant&#8217;s new line of summer cocktails, and also about some re-arranging they&#8217;ve done with the beer menu. First of all, here are the summer cocktails: Circa Sangria $9 Dry Red Wine, Cointreau, and Aged Rum, with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/summer-cocktails-and-beer-specials-at-circa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer cocktails and beer specials at Circa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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