Category: breweries

Brewing TV #64 – Tallgrass Brewing Company

By on June 15, 2012in beer travels, breweries, Features, general beer, homebrew, video

Brewing TV takes Manhattan… Kansas! BTV visits Tallgrass Brewing Company, where they find themselves happily surrounded by good people, great beer and a lot of homebrew equipment. While Dawson brews a freestyle small-batch collaboration beer with head brewer Andrew Hood, Jake talks with Tallgrass founder Jeff Gill about the brewery’s evolution, off-beat brands and new Northern Brewer Pro Series Beer Kits. (Drinking game included. Critical!)

Don’t forget – there’s also a release party tonight (Friday, June 15th) at the Nomad

612Brew Signs a Lease

By on June 12, 2012in breweries

In case you missed it earlier, on 6-12-12, the folks from 612Brew announced that they’ve signed a lease for property at the corner of Broadway & Central in Northeast Minneapolis. After years of planning, things are moving forward. The gang plans to have a brewery & taproom, 15 barrel brewhouse and a focus upon sessionable beers. You can read the press release in its entirety below.

Congrats guys! Time is running out for us to give Robert hell about his “pretend brewery.”

Brewing TV / Tallgrass Episode Party at Nomad

By on June 11, 2012in bars/restaurants, beer events, breweries, homebrew

Come down to Nomad World Pub Friday, June 15th for the newest episode of Brewing TV featuring Tallgrass Brewing Company on the big screen and some awesome beer.

The event goes from 5-7 p.m. with the BTV episode playing at 6 p.m. Following the episode screening, Tallgrass and Brewing TV will raffle off a Deluxe Brewing Starter Kit from Northern Brewer including one of the new Tallgrass Pro Series recipe kits. Also up for grabs – four tickets to the St. Paul Summer Beer Fest (Saturday, June 16th at Minnesota State Fairgrounds).

So what’s up with the special beer? First up, an exclusive 1/6 bbl of soon-to-be LIMITED batch of Tallgrass Brewing Company’s “Wild Plum Farmhouse Ale.” Get there early! In addition, TBC is hooking up a firkin of “Critic-ALE” — Buffalo Sweat with 1 oz of Whole leaf Mt Hood, 2 oz of Cocoa Nibs from Ghana, and .5 oz of Sidama Ardi coffee beans, and primed with brown sugar.

If you miss the event. The Tallgrass episode of Brewing TV will be posted here at MNBeer.com Friday for all to enjoy.