It’s Wednesday, new beer day at Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery. Here’s the skinny:

Wednesday is coming….I guess that means more beer! This coming 6/14 look for the release of our Mocha Java Double Brown Ale. Wow! Say that a couple times quickly. This is a great big strong brown ale aged on chocolate and coffee made by our favorite roasters…Peace Coffee. They set us up with their Birchwood Bfast Blend for this beer and I can’t wait. This will be a great sipper,dessert beer…I could go on- but really it’s beer, chocolate, and coffee how can you go wrong with that combo.
Cheers

Dawn stopped by Rock Bottom Brewery tonight both before and after an event downtown and after mentioning MNBeer.com was treated to a few samples on the house. Dawn’s notes mention hefeweizen, pilsner and maibock (transcribed as “my bock” but she’s only been appreciating great brews for the past year or so) as specialties. I’ll have to pry more information out of her tomorrow. In any case, thanks for the free beer. Breweries, brewpubs and bars, please note that the folks involved from MNBeer (and their spouses, as it were) will gladly drink your beer at no cost to you!

Bandana Brewery has a two new brews available, Walnut Grove ESB and St. Clair Blanche. Perhaps it’s time for a (short) road trip to Mankato?

Why release one beer when you can release two? That’s just what Minneapolis Town Hall is doing tonight:

Hey All,
Looks like a double release next Wednesday. (6/7)
Summer is just about here and we are headed to “Blueberry Hill.” This is an American style wheat beer with the addition of natural blueberries. After that we are back on the India trail- our IWA (India Wheat Ale). I think you will enjoy this one…we stole a page from the hopping schedule of “1800” to make this beer. Stop in and try a pint next Wednesday. Release at 5:00pm
Cheers,
Mike

Blatantly stolen from the St. Paul Homebrewers Club website:

Have your beers, meads, or ciders won at UMMO? Minnesota State Fair? AHA Nationals? Or at another local or national contest? Submit your winning recipes to the MN recipe book project!

At the end of last year, Gera Exire La Tour of the MhBA submitted a request and received a grant from BJCP to design a local (Minnesota) recipe book with content from the numerous quality brewers (you) that we have in this state.

This project will ideally consist of recipes from local brewers that have won either local or national awards. It will be arranged by each of the 28 BJCP categories and the final product will be a printed book which can be used for reference in your brewery.

Gera has requested SPHBC members to please email any winning recipe(s) you wish to share (with brewer information and a list of awards that the recipe has won) to beer.recipe.book@hotmail.com.

More information about this project and a sample recipe form can be found at
http://www.stitzel.com/recipebook.