Al McCarty and Brad “Beerguy” Magerkurth will be tapping the 1st official production draft offering of mead in kegs at The Blue Nile from 5-8pm, Tuesday, October 2nd November 1st. The mead is dry hopped with Centennial and Amarillo and is the creation of Redstone Meadery in Boulder, CO and Meadmaker David Meyers. Juniper, Black Raspberry, Apricot Nectar, Traditional and “Nectar of the Hops” dry-hopped meads will all be available to sample for free!
Category: beer events
Brooklyn Thursday Tasting & The Great Pie Experiment
Our local Brooklyn Brewery rep Mike will be at Heritage Liquor in Maplewood on Thursday for their weekly tasting. He’ll be pouring samples of Sorachi Ace, Oktoberfest and Post Road Pumpkin Ale.
In addition to sampling Brooklyn’s beer, Mike will also be giving away tickets for The Pie Experiment, a pie bake-off on Sunday the 30th at the Fine Line. Sounds cool. Follow the link to learn more.
Mankato Brewery Center Street Series
Mankato Brewery has announced their next beer, Center Street Series #1, a draft-only limited-release American Amber Ale, said to be “crafted with tradition in mind, but always with a little MB twist.”
If you’d like to try this beer, head to Pub 500 in Mankato at 5:00 today for the release party!
Beer Details:
Style: American Amber Ale
OG: 13P
IBU: 26
ABV: 5.8%
COLOR: Amber
Cask Tapping at Barley John’s
Every week brings a different cask tapping at Barley John’s and this week for your drinking pleasure it’s Wet Hop Pale Ale that has been ‘dry hopped’ with a half a pound of their estate cascade hops, fresh off the vine. They’ll also have the pre-‘dry hopped’ version, one of their current seasonal beers.
Wet Hop Pale Ale [5.5%]
Wet hop ales are some of the freshest beers of the year. Most hops are generally dried, shredded and pelletized before they are used in beer. Once a year, during harvest, fresh hops are harvested, over-nighted to breweries all over the US, and thrown fresh (and wet) into the brew kettle or brite tank. A couple of weeks back we received 10lbs of fresh Amarillo and 10lbs of fresh Centennial hops. They were brewed into a gentle, slightly sweet pale ale designed to act as a bright canvass to highlight the hops’ character. The wet hops lend the beer a special resiny taste with a refreshing bitterness, floral notes, and plenty of spice with just a hint of bubblegum, and a long hoppy finish. It is truly fall!
Hop Harvest at Barley John’s
If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty for a good cause (beer is always a good cause) then head over to Barley John’s and help them harvest their hops.
Every year at about this time, the hops we have growing on our patio need to be picked so we can put them to good use.
Monday the 1st, as we welcome our Oktoberfest, we will be picking our hops. Anyone interested is welcome to join us, and for your help, we’ll pour you some free beer as you work.
Stop by any time after 3pm and join in. Our brewer will be on the patio most of the day, picking our Cascade and East Kent Goldings stock hops.
The harvest is destined to dry hop our Winter Ale, which we will be cellaring away until the snow flies. It will be a little taste of summer’s bounty in the throws of winter’s worst.