Category: breweries

Honors for Surly Five, Pentagram to Return

By on March 15, 2012in breweries

Here’s a great nod to Surly Brewing Company and Five from Jessica Fender and the Denver Post following the Boulder Strong Ale Fest. Congrats!

Once your faithful First Drafts correspondents recovered from our weekend trek to the 2012 Boulder Strong Ale Fest and compared notes, there was one beer that kept popping up at the tops of our “best of fest” lists: Surly Five.

And welcome back…

“We are set to release a similar beer this summer that hopefully will become an annual summer bottle release for us,” Haug said. The tentatively named “Pentagram” will also be 100 percent Brett fermented and aged in red wine barrels. “And either Five or Pentagram will be back in Colorado for GABF.”

Staples Mill Lager of DeVine Destruction Release Wednesday

By on March 13, 2012in beer events, breweries

Join Staples Mill Brewing Company for their launch of Lager of DeVine Destruction on Wednesday from 4-8pm at the brewery in Stillwater. They’re selling gottles for $10 which includes a 16 oz. pint of said lager as well. Cheers!

This unique lager is made with Black Current and Grappa-Infused White Oak.  We get our Black Currents from Natura Farms in Forest Lake, MN.  The Mayan Calendar suggests that this year is the end of the world, so why not drink a decadent lager as we approach the destruction of all we know?  Each bottle of Lager of DeVINE Destruction is hand-?lled, hand-capped and hand-labeled before it is numbered and packaged.  Only 1,000 750ml bottles will be available in stores, so grab yours and toast living like the end of the world is at hand.

Brewing TV #57: Snow Day in Denver

By on March 9, 2012in beer education, beer laws, beer travels, breweries, video

What happens when three Minnesotans are “snowed-in” during a roadtrip to Denver? SNOW DAY! Brewing TV is forced to abandon plans for one episode — but salvage a day in Denver with visits to Denver Beer Company, Great Divide Brewing Company, and our first distillery Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey. And we sit down for a chat with beer writer Ed Sealover. Let’s hope we see more beer-friendly laws here in Minnesota that allow for a thriving taproom scene similar to this!

PS – this episode is followed by two hardcore homebrewing episodes back home in the Twin Cities. Get your fermentors sanitized and ready for it!