Category: beer events

Beer Evangelist: Stouts, Porters the Good Times and the Bad!

By on November 29, 2008in beer events, beer stores

Come spend another evening with Josh Pepper at The Four Firkins. We’ll be tasting a variety  porters and stouts while Josh talks about our culture, other cultures good times and bad and how it relates to these particlar styles of beer. If you’ve been to one of our Beer Evangelist classes before you’ll know they are very interesting!

Class cost $15

Email Alvey@thefourfirkins.com with Beer Evangelist in the subject line to get your name in the lottery. Space is limited to 35 people. Lottery will be drawn on Monday the 1st, you’ll get an email if you get into the class.

Yuletide Tussle at The Four Firkins

By on November 29, 2008in beer events, beer stores

Battle of the Beers IV: The Yuletide Tussle – Holiday Ales and Winter Warmers
The holidays; that period of food, family, frenzy, and fruitcake between Thanksgiving and New Years
Day that also signals the arrival of cold weather here in the North Country. But the holidays are also a time for holiday ales, big beers full of spice, spruce, toasty malt, and of course plenty of alcohol to thaw out the cold and help one through the family and frenzy. For your consideration and holiday enjoyment, an exhibition of festive fighting, a boozy battle royal in three rounds:

Round One: Walkin’ in a Winter Warmerland
Round Two: Christmas vs. Hanukah
Round Three: Zalig Kerstfeest or Merry Christmas from Belgium

The lines have been drawn for an epic holiday battle of the beers.  Three festive styles and six festive beers; which will emerge victorious from the crucible of Firkin Forum?  You will be the judge.  Let the Yuletide Tussle begin!

Monday December 1st 6:30pm Class is $15

Class limited to 35 people.

Email alvey@thefourfirkins.com with Yuletide Tussle in the subject line for a chance to get in. Lottery will be drawn on Sunday, you’ll receive an email if you get in.

Half Price Artisanal Imports beer at Bulldog Lyndale

By on November 20, 2008in bars/restaurants, beer events

Lanny dropped me a line to let us know that next Tuesday, The Bulldog (Lyndale) will be having another Half Price night on all Artisanal Imports beer. To sweeten the deal, Lanny mentioned that several items that normally are not on draft will be for that night. Drinking good beer on a budget? Roll on over to the Bulldog on the 25th!

McK’s Scottish Ale

By on November 20, 2008in beer events

Granite City mug club members – be sure to roll over to your local GC and bring a friend for the tapping party for McK’s Scottish Ale. Not surprisingly, this beer is named for GC’s original brewer, Bob McKenzie.

Dec. 1st, 5pm – 9pm. No cover. Complimentary cheese, fruit, crackers, shepherd’s pie and bangers and mash.

Sounds like a good Monday night happy hour. I’ll likely be tipping a McK’s in SLP (I work across the street…) if anyone wants to roll by and say hello.

Surly in Wisconsin

By on November 12, 2008in beer events, breweries

SurlyWisconsinites, don’t say we never gave you anything (though I do appreciate some of the beers you send our way)… Surly Brewing Co. will cross the border and honor Paddy Ryan’s Irish Pub with the distinction of being the first Wisconsin drinking & dining establishment to serve Surly. To celebrate, Surly Darkness will be will be tapped at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, November 19.  Omar, Todd & Linda will be present and are bringing a cask of tea-bagged furious.