Category: breweries

Win MN Craft Beer Week Shirts & Passports!

By on May 10, 2011in bars/restaurants, breweries, brewpubs

Minnesota Craft Beer Week is May 13th – 21st. No doubt you’re already familiar with all of the great happenings, prizes and more. Hell, there’s even a homebrew competition! Be sure to check it all out.

Wanna’ win an event passport and Minnesota Craft Beer Week t-shirt? We’ve teamed up with the organizers to give away a few! In the comments, we want the story of your “craft beer epiphany.” What opened your eyes to the world of craft beer? Was it Summit Altbier back in the day? Or were you a more recent convert? Either way, we want to hear your story. Try to limit it to a couple of paragraphs. The best entries will win a shirt & passport. Be sure to share your story – we’ve got several to give away!

Be sure to include your email address with your post so we can contact you. It won’t be published, but we’ll have it on the backend of the site so we can get ahold of winners.

Cheers. Get writing!

CONTEST CLOSED. WINNERS HAVE BEEN EMAILED!

City Pages Beer Festival

By on May 9, 2011in beer events, breweries

The 19th annual City Pages Beer Festival returns to downtown near 10th & Hennepin on Saturday, June 4, 2011.  This outdoor tasting features a variety of domestic and imported beers, live music and great people watching!  Advance tickets are $26, available at select MGM locations and online at www.citypages.com/beerfest.  Tickets will be available at the door the night of the event for $30.  Get the VIP Experience for $45 and enjoy FREE food, larger beers, early admission and private restrooms.  An $8 designated driver ticket is also available.  Regular admission includes all beer samples and live musical entertainment, including two bands – SellOut Stereo and Visceral – plus, accordionist Bill Koncar and the ever-popular Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band.

A portion of proceeds from the tasting will benefit the St. Paul Jaycees.  Check out www.citypages.com/beerfest for additional information.

If you’re going to the festival and still need more beer after, stop in to MacKenzie with your wristband for $1 off your first beer.

Brewing TV #36: Gone Firkin

By on May 6, 2011in breweries, cask beer, general beer, history

Latest episode from Brewing TV gets hands-on with firkins at Summit Brewing Company. Cask ale is a segment of craft beer that is becoming more and more popular with beer-lovers in the United States. But many of us have no idea how it works. Hosts Jake Keeler and Michael Dawson are put to work by Summit’s Chief Firkin Hooligan Damian McConn. The guys help Damian finish, fine, dry-hop and fill firkins of his Unchained Series beer, Golden Sovereign. Come along with us for a behind-the-scenes look at how the pros get their cask on!