Category: breweries

Haskell’s Beer & Wine Cruise

By on July 21, 2010in beer events, breweries

Floatin’ down the river, drinking good beer sounds like a nice way to spend a summer evening, doesn’t it? Especially when someone else is driving the boat, keeping you out of trouble with the boat police.

Haskell’s 15th Annual Beer & Wine Cruise on the Mighty Mississippi
Boarding at 5:30 pm, departure at 6:00 pm, return around 9:00 pm
$55/person ($48 if you’re a Bacchus Society member)

From the title, clearly there will be more than beer, but since that’s probably what you are most interested in, here’s a list of the breweries that will be represented:
Flat Earth
Sam Adams
Chimay
Schell’s
Bell’s
New Belgium
Lake Superior
Great Lakes
Lift Bridge
Rush River
Odell
Weyerbacher
Surly
Summit
Crispin

Thanks to Kyle and Beau over at Haskell’s for the details!

Brew at the Zoo

By on July 19, 2010in beer events, breweries

The Minnesota Zoo is presenting their 2nd Annual Brew at the Zoo with live music, appetizers and beer sampling, with proceeds supporting the Zoo’s Conservation Funds. Although it is a Zoo event, leave the kiddies at home as only those with an ID showing they are 21+ will be let in.

Tickets are now on sale. $45 before August 12th/$55 at the gate (if available)

Here’s what will be available for sampling:
August Schell Brewing Company:
Schell FireBrick
Schell Dark
Schell Hopfenmalz
Schell Oktoberfest
Grain Belt Premium
Grain Belt Nordeast

Blue Diamond Brewing Co:
Brewers Cave Golden Camel Handcrafted Beer

Boston Beer Co:
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Samuel Adams Summer Ale
Sam Adams Light
6th Annual Beer Lovers Choice (Belgian IPA vs. American Rye)

Boulevard Brewing Company:
Unfiltered Wheat Beer
Pale Ale
Single-Wide IPA
Boulevard Pilsner

Brau Brothers Brewing Company:
Sheep Head
RingNeck

College City Beverage
Bud Lt. Wheat
Bud Lt. Lime
Weyerbacher
Goose Island
Redhook
Widmer
Abita

Finnegan’s Irish Amber
Finnegan’s Irish Amber

Flat Earth Brewing Company:
Belgian Pale Ale
Northwest Passage IPA
Cygnus X-1 Porter
Hep Cat Blonde Ale

Granite City Food & Brewery:
Northern Light
Brother Bennie
Duke
Wag’s Wheat

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company
Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy
Leinenkugel’s Honey Weiss
Leinenkugel’s Classic Amber

JJ Taylor:
Magic Hat Brewing
#9, Wacko
New Belgium
Fat Tire, 1554,Ranger IPA, Skinny Dip
Crispin Cider Co
Lite, Original, Brut, Honeycrisp, The Saint
Fox Barrel Cider Co
Black Currant, Pear
Deschutes Brewing Co
Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Black Butte Porter, Inversion IPA, Twilight Ale
Breckenridge Brewing Co
Lucky U IPA, Vanilla Porter, Avalanche Amber, Summerbright Ale
Tyranena Brewing Co
Bitter Woman IPA, Rocky’s Revenge Bourbon Brown Ale, Three Beaches Blonde Ale, Scurvy IPA
Dark Horse Brewing Co
Crooked Tree IPA, Amber Ale, Reserve Special Black Bier, Sapient Trippel
Sprecher Brewing Co
Black Bavarian, Special Amber, Abbey Triple, Hefeweizen

Lift Bridge Beer Co:
Farm Girl Saison
Crosscut Pale Ale
Minnesota Tan

Odell Brewing Co:
Odell 90 Shilling
Odell IPA
Odell St. Lupulin
Odell 5 Barrell

Summit Brewing Company, St. Paul MN
Summit Extra Pale Ale
Summit Horizon Red Ale
Summit Pilsner
Summit Belgian Golden Ale (Unchained Series #4)
Summit India Pale Ale
Summit HefeWeizen
Summit Oktoberfest
Summit Great Northern Porter

Surly Brewing
Bitter Brewer
Furious
CynicAle

Surly Brewing News

By on July 15, 2010in breweries

Congrats to Team Surly for taking Silver at the Masters Division at the World Ultimate Championships in Prague last week! But don’t think it was all business and no play, “much Czech Pils was drunk.”

On to what’s happening for the rest of July.

Good day Surly Nation, news from the brewery.

-Hell is being packaged today! Cans will be released next week as will kegs. The release party will happen on Tuesday, July 20th at Sea Salt Eatery, 4825 Minnehaha Avenue South in Minneapolis. Sea Salt is located right by Minnehaha Falls. The Surly Draft Trailer will begin pouring at 11:00 AM. Some Surly folk will be at Sea Salt later in the evening.

–Surly Beer Dinner at Be’wiched Deli on July 21st. Beers poured that night will be, cask Bitter Brewer, Cynic, Hell, Abrasive Ale and four. Call 612.767.4330 for details and to make a reservation. See you there.

-Give a Pint and Get a Pint. Surly’s 1st blood drive at the brewery, July 28 Noon – 7 pm. Click here for directions to give blood at the Memorial Blood Center’s Mobile Bloodmobile at Surly.

-On June 10th, Omar won the Ernst & Young 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. I think the whole process was a ruse to get Surly into the nominators liquor store and it worked. The last 5 years has been a pretty amazing experience. To go from no one wanting our beer to where we are at now is nothing short of phenomenal. Head Brewer Todd Haug is the guy most responsible for getting us to this spot and we are lucky to have him brewing here. My wife, Becca and my parents have also been a big reason we have been able to accomplish all that we have. Who would have thought brewing beer would have led to this.

I encourage people to follow us on Facebook or Twitter. We post all the latest beer events, firkin pourings and news on those sites. We have so many firkin tappings and special beer tappings that we can no longer send out email notices for them all.

See you drinking!

Omar Ansari
Surly Brewing

Fulton July Update

By on July 15, 2010in breweries

Greetings!

Is it really mid-July already? It feels like just 11 weeks ago that BP started dumping oil into the Gulf…oh yeah, it was. We’ll leave the heavy stuff to cable news,so here’s a short, sweet update on the world of Fulton.

We just had our biggest month of sales yet, which is exciting, though not that big of an accomplishment, since we’ve only been selling beer for about 8 months. Still, it’s great to see all the support that you’re giving us. Keep drinking it and we’ll keep making it. (And drinking it, too).

It appears that many of you have been enjoying the Lonely Blonde. If you like it–or, even if you don’t–shoot us a note on Facebook or Twitter to let us know what you think. We’re always happy to hear from you. It’s now available at about a dozen bars (which can be found on the Lonely Blonde’s page at www.fultonbeer.com). We’ll be getting it out into even more locations as the summer goes on.

That’s it for this month! We’re throttling back on the events this month a little to focus on a few of our other upcoming projects. We can’t say much about any of them just yet, but you’ll hear it here first. For now, rest assured that we have some majorly cool stuff in the pipeline.

Keep In Touch

Don’t miss critical (what could be more critical than news about beer?) Fulton updates! Keep tabs on us at all of the following:
www.fultonbeer.com
twitter.com/fultonbeer
Become a fan of “Fulton Beer” on Facebook

And of course, tell a friend. Extraordinary beer is meant to be shared.

Cheers,

The Fulton Guys
Fulton Beer

Flat Earth July Update & New Label

By on July 14, 2010in breweries

To start off, a few words from Flat Earth on what they’ll be up to for the rest of the month.

Greetings,

A quick hit list of Flat Earth events for the rest of July.

First, help keep me out of “Jail” by making a donation to Jerry’s kids!

Tickets are still available for the Highland Fest Beer Dabbler this Saturday from 1 -5 pm. Go to www.beerdabbler.com for information and tickets.

We are the official beer sponsor on Thursday the 22nd & 29th on the patio at The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis for live music.

We’ll be in Clayton, WI on the 24th for the Clayton Lions Beer Festival.

We finish off the month here at the brewery with the Build Sustainable Home event.

Remember, growler sales Monday through Friday noon to 6:30 and Saturdays noon to 3:00 pm.

Cheers!
Flat Earth Brewing Company

And now for a lookie-loo at their newest label, which only took three tries with the feds to get approval.