Category: bars/restaurants

Muddy Pig’s 1000th Beer: Summit 103

By on April 12, 2012in bars/restaurants, beer events, breweries

Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 19th from 12-3. The Muddy Pig will tap their 1000th beer that day. What will it be, you ask? A special beer from Summit Brewing Co., 103, brewed especially for the occasion. Details for the beer are still in the works, but we know that it’ll include 10 malts and 10 hops. It’ll only be available at the Muddy Pig, and only ’til it runs out. One can only guess that it will be brewed on Summit’s new pilot brewery.

Congrats to the The Muddy Pig on serving 1000 different beers over the course of their 10 years. Cheers!

Republic to Expand to 57 Taps in May

By on April 10, 2012in bars/restaurants, cask beer

Fun news from the Twitterverse… Republic announced today that they will be expanding their expanding their tap beer selection by 25 lines in early May, for a grand total of 57 lines, one of which will include a beer engine for cask-conditioned beers. Congrats to Republic!

Republic is very pleased to announce that 25 additional tap lines are planned for installation in early May, bringing the grand total of their all craft draft beer offerings to 57.

The expansion will fill gaps (if any could be counted) on their beer list and represent more local and emerging American craft beer companies. A few more offerings from Germany and Belgium are also part of the plan.

Co-owner and beer buyer, Matty O’Reilly, will keep around 50 lines aggressively rotating
with the seasons and new releases, with a number of year-round static lines maintaining
their spots (e.g. Surly ‘Furious’, Fulton ‘Sweet Child of Vine IPA, Left Hand ‘Nitro Milk Stout’). Five lines will be dedicated to a weekly rotation of “one-off” kegs, limited releases and special features. One line will remain for Beer of the Day, which is a daily rotating $3 all-day, everyday, craft beer. One line (utilizing a beer engine) will be dedicated for cask conditioned ales.

Summit Hockey Tournament Pub Crawl TONIGHT

By on April 5, 2012in bars/restaurants, beer events, breweries

Enjoy great Summit deals while you cheer on the home team! All participating bars will have $6 pitchers of Summit during the game as Minnesota plays for their 6th national championship.  What a deal!

Pre-Game at Campus Pizza.  Fuel up with some delicious pizzas and pints!

Period 1 viewing at The Hole Sports Lounge.

Period 2 viewing at Stub and Herb’s.

Period 3 viewing at Big 10.  Enjoy trivia night after the game!

Southern Tier Tap Takeover at St Paul Luce

By on April 4, 2012in bars/restaurants, beer events

Update: It looks like the date was updated to 5/14. -RA

We all know Pizza Luce has great taps at all their locations to go along with the ‘za, and St. Paul is no exception (disclaimer: it’s a few blocks from my house, so I’m a little partial to the locale).

Well, they’re upping the ante next month and allowing Southern Tier to have as many of their taps as they want. And from the looks of it, that’s most of them! Porter, Pumking, Phin and Matt’s, Mokah, Creme Brulee, HopSun, Gemini, Oak Unearthly, Jahva, and 2XIPA will on tap for your enjoyment!

Not only that, but they’ll be giving away ST swag and they’re working on a legendary local DJ to spin tunes for the event!

Boulder Bad Moon Risin’ at Ginger Hop

By on April 2, 2012in bars/restaurants, beer events

Sometimes an oops will turn out great and we end up with a new beer such as the Bad Moon Risin’ from Boulder! An accidental addition of dark malts to their Mojo Risin’ Imperial IPA ended up giving them their one-off Double Black India Pale Ale. This Wednesday Ginger Hop will be tapping the last keg in Minnesota (possibly in the country!) of this beer that will never be able to be exactly reproduced again. They’re tapping it at 5pm! Yum!