Category: beer events

Casks of Lake Superior Special Ale @ the Happy Gnome

By on July 21, 2007in bars/restaurants, beer events

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.

Town Hall Beer Release: Thunderstorm

By on July 21, 2007in beer events, brewpubs

This is my favorite kind of thunderstorm… beer-flavored thunderstorm… mmm… Town Hall… Monday…

This is the National Weather Service:  A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey and the entire twin cities metro area.  Expect large hail exceeding six inches in diameter with strong damaging winds in excess of 85 mph.   Trained weather spotters have observed a rotating wall cloud and Doppler radar has indicated a bow echo advancing towards the area just west of the Metrodome.  This storm is currently heading northeast and will be entering the Minneapolis seven corners area at 5:00pm on the 23rd. Please seek shelter immediately at Town Hall and belly up to your nearest south wall to wait out the storm.  This Thunderstorm has the potential to cause significant giddiness, effervescence, and the feelings a child has as the storm clouds descend.

Chad Bacon -  Town Hall Resident Meteorologist

The Surly Open (Disc) Golf Tournament

By on July 17, 2007in beer events, breweries

This sounds like a good time, and if I didn’t suck at disc golf (or have plans that day), I’d probably go. Surly Open.

That’s right. Surly is putting together a golf tournament Sunday, August 5th. Leave your golf shirts, clubs and balls at home, this one is a disc golf tourney. We will have sign-up on the web-site in a few days. The plan is to have to waves of a shotgun start. What’s that mean? Everybody that signs up will head out to a designated hole and start playing at the same time. We are planning on start times of 9:00 and 1:00. Cost is going to be $25. That includes the game of golf, a Surly disc golf and dinner. We are working on putting together some fun hole prizes. Like longest drive gets a case of beer, stuff like that.

Tell your friends and plan on signing up, we need to fill this event up so we can repeat it next year.

One more thing, this event is open to everyone. This is not a competitive tourney, the idea is to have a little fun. See you throwing!