Category: breweries

The Blue Door Turns 1

By on September 21, 2009in bars/restaurants, breweries

The Blue Door Pub marks its first anniversary this week and as if there weren’t already more reasons than you could count to stop by, they’re really rolling out the red carpet this week. Check it out!

This Friday, September 25th marks our 1 Year Anniversary!
We’ve had an amazing time with an amazing group of neighbors and patrons and we want to express our thankfulness and gratitude. Beginning Monday, September 21st through our anniversary, we are offering these great deals:

Monday and Tuesday: Our Late Night Happy Hour lasts all day! This means whole orders of fries and tots are only $2, our deep fried pickles and beer-battered green beans are just $3.50, and our wings, all pound-and-a-half of them, are $5.50! Plus, all tap beers and all glasses of wine are $3 each!

Wednesday: Today only, we’re offering the Granny Apple Bliss Blucy! The fall harvest has been picked so we reached deep into our suggestion box to find this tremendous idea originally submitted by Bruce Becker during our last Blucy Of the Moment competition. We stuff silky smooth brie cheese in the middle of our burger and top it off with a sweet, delicious granny apple compote on top! Its dinner and dessert all in one!

Thursday: Five Buck Jiffy’s and a Surly Firkin! Voted by City Pages as the best burger of 2008, we’re offering the now infamous combination of peanut butter, bacon, and pepper jack cheese on a burger with your choice of hand-cut fries or tater tots for only $5! We’ve found the best way to wash down one of these taste sensations is with a pint of Surly – so we’re tapping a special firkin of Surly in time for dinner!

Friday: Blucy Twofers and a Summit Firkin! Of course, we’re going to save the best for the actual anniversary day. We’re offering two Blucy’s, our flagship burger stuffed with bleu cheese and minced garlic, for the price of one all day! And to help us celebrate the occasion, Summit has provided us with a firkin of their Horizon Red Ale dry hopped with Amarillo hops!

We hope to see you all in here this week and we sincerely thank you for your support and friendship!
Cheers,
Patrick McDonough and Jeremy Woerner

Flat Earth Weekend Events

By on September 18, 2009in bars/restaurants, breweries

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend besides the same old-same old, you could be a Flat Earth groupie and follow them around from event to event.

Looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered on both side of the river.

The Bulldog Lowertown Oktoberfest starts tonight at 4 p.m. featuring our new beer Mummy Train! or if you don’t have your passport ready to go, head over to the West Bank Revival . Element 115 will be the featured beer at The Acadia Cafe, Bedlam Theater, The Red Sea & The Nomad World Pub. Plus we’ll be pouring beer & soda at the Mill City Farmers Market from 10 – 1 on Saturday.

Here’s to a great weekend of beer, music & friends!
The Flat Earth Crew

Summit Night at Edina Grill

By on September 17, 2009in bars/restaurants, beer events, breweries

In celebration of their 10 year anniversary, Summit pints will be $2.50 from 6pm to close Friday, September 25.  Enjoy Kölsch, Great Northern Porter, Extra Pale Ale or Oktoberfest.  A firkin of Red Ale dry hopped with Amarillo hops will also be on hand.  The chefs of Blue Plate will be creating some special dishes to enjoy with all these Summit brews.  Come for a chance to win a private Summit Brewery tour, and lots of other prizes!

Flat Earth Thursday Growlers

By on September 17, 2009in breweries

Today is Constitution Day! Here’s a quick link to Our Constitution. Why not swing by the brewery and pick up a growler of fresh Flat Earth beer and sit at home and refresh yourself on our Constitution and beer?

Tonight we’ll have:
Belgian Pale Ale
Bermuda Triangle Triple
Cygnus X-1 Porter
Element 115 Lager
Mummy Train Pumpkin Ale
Unfiltered Cygnus
Unfiltered 115

Cheers!
Jeff
This maybe more my speed.

Surly Wet

By on September 16, 2009in breweries

[Big thanks to our buddy Chip for providing his first write-up for MNBeer! -ra]

Hopheads, beware. Surly Brewing Company has really gone and done it this time. Last week, the brewery got a fresh delivery of 1,400 lbs. of fresh wet hops (Centennials and Chinooks according to the boxes I saw) from Washington state. And they all went into ONE beer. One 50 lbs. bag at a time. They’re calling this hop monster ‘Surly Wet.’

It took much of the day for head brewer Todd Haug to get all those beautiful babies into a the kettle for steeping and owner Omar Ansari says it took until well past midnight to get them all back out.

Surly Wet is a juicy lupy American IPA. It’s expected to hit taps sometime in October either before or after the American Homebrewers Association Rally, which takes place at the brewery on October 10th. If you love hops, make it a point to track this one down. It will not be canned.


Brewer Todd Haug and Owner Omar Ansari buddy up to dump a 50 lbs. bag of hops into the kettle for steeping.


A look inside the kettle with only 500 of the eventual 1,400 lbs. of hops.

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