Category: beer events

Autumn Brew Review 2007

Saturday, September 29th, 1-6pm at the old Grain Belt brewery complex. Tickets are $25 and are available through Ticketworks. Tickets will be available at the door for $30. Beer? Yes. Plenty. Here is a list of current participating breweries:

Abita Brewing Co. – Abita Springs, LA
August Schell Brewing Co. – New Ulm, MN
Avery Brewing Co. – Boulder, CO
Barley Island Brewing Co. – Noblesville, Indiana
Barley John’s Brewpub – New Brighton
Bell’s Brewery Inc. – Kalamazoo, MI
Big Sky Brewing – Missoula, MT
Boulder Brewing Co. – Boulder, CO
Boulevard Brewing Co. – Kansas City, MO
Brau Brothers Brewing Co. – Lucan
Brewery Ommegang – Cooperstown, NY
Finnegans – Twin Cities
Fitger’s Brewhouse – Duluth
Flat Earth Brewing Co. – St. Paul
Gluek Brewing Company – Cold Spring
Granite City Food & Brewery – Twin Cities
Great Waters Brewing Co. – St. Paul
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. – Chippewa Falls, WI
Left Hand Brewing Co. – Longmont, CO
Mantorville Brewing Company – Mantorville
New Belgium Brewing Co. – Fort Collins, CO
New Holland Brewing Co. – Holland, MI
North Coast Brewing Co. – Fort Bragg, CA
Pig’s Eye Brewing – St. Paul, MN
Rock Bottom Brewery – Minneapolis
Rush River Brewing Co. – River Falls, WI
Schmaltz Brewing Co. (He’Brew)
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. – Chico, CA
South Shore Brewery – Ashland, WI
Sprecher Brewing Co. – Glendale, WI
Summit Brewing Co. – St. Paul
Surly Brewing Co. – Brooklyn Center
Town Hall Brewery – Minneapolis
Tyranena Brewing Co. – Lake Mills, WI
Victory Brewing Co. – Downington, PA
Viking Brewing Co. – Dallas, WI
White Winter Winery (Mead) – Iron River, WI

Music? Yes:

1:00 pm  Traditional Bag Pipe Opener – Dennis & Thom
1:15 pm  Coal Car Caboose
2:30 pm  Hip Replacement
3:45 pm  Romantica
5:00 pm  The Alarmists

Casks of Lake Superior Special Ale @ the Happy Gnome

Dammit… more good beer to drink… Lake Superior Special Ale is one of my favorite LS offerings and it’s cask-conditioned as well. Yum. Happy Gnome. Anybody planning on attending? I’ll be at this until about 9, but might just want to relax and have a beer after all of my hard work photographing canoers and kayakers at Lake Calhoun…

Starting at 7pm, we will be tapping two firkins of Lake Superior Special Ale on Thursday July 26th. Lake Superior made one firkin with Kent Golding hops, and one with Cascade hops.

We will be featuring Jolly Pumpkin Artisinal Ales for the month of August. We will kick-off the month by tapping a firkin of Calabaza Blanca on Thursday Aug 2nd. Jolly Pumpkin is an ultra small brewery in Dexter, MI. All of their beers are aged in oak barrels and then bottle conditioned. For more info about Jolly Pumpkin Brewing visit their website at www.jollypumpkin.com.