Dig down past the sweaters for that grass skirt and get ready to get your tiki on as Surly releases their Abrasive Ale at the new location of Psycho Suzi’s.
Psycho Suzi’s
1900 Marshall St NE, Minneapolis
Category: beer events
Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival
The Second Annual Beer Dabbler at The Winter Carnival offers an afternoon of craft and micro-brew tasting and awareness to adults yearning for a full spectrum of flavor and color in their beer. For $25 in advance and $35 day-of, beer enthusiasts can take in a great variety of liquid gold and other precious hues from fifty different local and regional small batch brewers. Dabblers get a miniature pint glass from which to sample and to keep as a souvenir.
Or buy your tickets at one of these stores:
(Cash Only)
The Four Firkins
8009 Minnetonka Blvd
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426
(952) 938-2847Thomas Liquors
1941 Grand Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105-1433
(651) 699-1860Ale Jail
1787 Saint Clair Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105-1941
(651) 698-9463Station 4
201 4th Street East
Saint Paul, MN 55101-1603TC Craft Beer
4455 Winnetka Avenue
New Hope, MN 55428-4928
(763) 537-0000
If you like to dress up or want to see how your home brew stacks up, click here for details on the costume contest (five categories) and home brew competition.
‘Tis The Seasons In The Abyss!!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s the season of the Abyss! Finally! Deschutes Abyss will be here and we are having a “tour” to celebrate! Seven bars, games prizes and BEER, tons of beer!!!
Thursday December 16th
5:00 The Happy Gnome – Offering flights of Deschutes Beers featuring Black Butte Porter, Abyss, and Jubel 2010
5:45 Stub & Herbs – SLAYER TRIVIA*!!! Abyss, Jubelale, Hop Trip, and Hop Henge on tap!!
6:30 Pracna – Abyss, Obsidian Stout on Nitro, Jubelale plus Deschutes specials all month long with beer and prize giveaways!!**
7:15 Haute Dish – Abyss and Mirror Pond Pale Ale, features TBD
8:00 Mackenzie – Abyss, Inversion IPA, Jubelale, Jubel 2010 with Beer Trivia!!
9:00 Bryant Lake Bowl – Abyss & Black Butte Porter with Bowl for the Abyss (win free Abyss bottles!!)**
10:00 Buster’s on 28th – Black Butte Porter, Abyss, & Jubel 2010 with T-Shirt and beer Giveaway!!**
See you there!!!!
All bars will promptly tap their kegs of Abyss at 5pm so get on it!!!
*Slayer rules!
**visit any 3 bars on the list and get the bartender to initial off the special card and turn it in at Busters after 10pm for a free limited edition Abyss t-shirt (while supplies last, void where prohibited, no purchase necessary and all that crap!)
Beer Geek Christmas at Heritage
Here it is… Heritage’s annual Beer Geek Christmas. Grab your favorite geek (or geekess(?)) and head over to Heritage for some beery goodness Thursday!
You’ve waited all year, and now it’s just a few hours until the big in-store event here at Heritage. Join us in celebrating the holiday season beer geek style at Beer Geek Christmas. Thursday December 9th from 5-9pm we will have a one of a kind tasting and event as a way to say Thank You to everyone that supports us and craft beer throughout the year.
We will have numerous beers that we have pulled out of our cellar (miss last years Surly Darkness, Surly Four, 08’ Bourbon County, 08’ Celebration?…they will all be on our shelves that day) as well as too many other things to list here. I have listed below just a few of the beers and breweries that will be here with some amazing goodies.
Dave from Dave’s Brewfarm with a selection of his beers
Sam Adams Winter Classics plus their new beer “Infinium”
New Belgium Frambozen
Lift Bridge with possible appearance by their new head brewer Matt Hall
Deschutes, Goose Island, Weyerbacher, Great Lakes and morePlus a few BGC Surprises from Santa’s Bag…
This just in: Anyone with a receipt from Beer Geek Christmas on Thursday Dec 9th will get buy one pint get one Pint free from “ANY” of the 75 taps at the Hanger Room in Willernie, MN. Good Thursday only, but last we checked they still had Darkness on tap plus a slew of other tasty treats.
Things will be changing and we will be adding “Specials” at a moments notice so be sure to watch Heritage’s Facebook page for updates leading up to and during Beer Geek Christmas.
Cookin’ with Lanny, Pat, Scott & Jake at Grumpy’s NE
Whatcha’ doing on Friday? Lanny from Artisanal Imports tipped us off to a cool event going down this Friday, December 10 at Grumpy’s NE.
Lanny will be cooking with Pat Dwyer (owner of Grumpy’s), Scott Ketcher (Hohenstein Sales Guy) and his friend Jake Endres for Customer Appreciation Happy Hour! On the menu are snack portions of oak-smoked lamb ribs with grits and greens. Pat’s going to do up some kind of killer sauce and everyone is invited!
Beers include the normal Grumpy’s line up but also Kwak Belgian Ale, Tripel Karmeliet and Meantime IPA.
Starts at 4 and goes until the delicious food is gone. Oh, and the food is free if you are having a beer.
Where: Grumpy’s Nordeast, at the corner of 22nd Ave. and 4th St. in Nordeast Minneapolis