Category: breweries

Flat Earth Brewery Tour Saturday

By on February 26, 2009in beer events, breweries

So you’ve treated your taste buds to the fruits of Flat Earth’s labors but have you gotten a good look at how their brewing magic happens? Take the opportunity to do so this Saturday by heading over to the brewery at 4:00 pm for their monthly brewery tour.

And don’t forget, every Thursday you can drop by to purchase growlers and 750 ml bottles 3:30 – 6:30 pm!

Beer & Cheese

By on February 25, 2009in breweries, brewpubs

Excellent weekend purchases:

  • McCann’s Trippel Trouble – a Belgian-style tripel straight outta’ STC. (Also many thanks to Mike for the Cannery Row glasses!)
  • Blueberries & blackberries – just because I love them.
  • Amablu Winter Blues – Amablu’s St. Pete’s Select blue cheese that has been bathed in Summit Winter Ale for several weeks. I’m not a cheese expert, but I know what I like & not surprisingly, I like this. I think the notes from the Winter Ale are subtle, but I dig the finished product. Available exclusively at Lunds & Byerly’s.
  • Sartori Reserve Bellavitano Raspberry – This was a suggestion from the cheesemonger at the Byerly’s in Saint Louis Park. He pointed me in the direction of Winter Blues and then asked if I’d ever tried this particular cheese which had been soaked in the ever-tasty New Glarus Raspberry Tart Ale. The description mentions that the cheese combines a “Parmesan taste with creamy Cheddar texture.” Again, I’m not a cheese geek, but the description seems fitting. Subtle raspberry. Hmm. If anyone is making a run for the border (no not this border adventure), I’d take a 750 of this beer to compliment the cheese. Mmm.

The Heavy Table Cometh

By on February 17, 2009in bars/restaurants, breweries, brewpubs

This is your link of the day week month. Go forth and enjoy. Bookmark now! I’m very excited for this project. You should be too. James Norton and friends have launched the Heavy Table. Enjoy.

It’s with a tremendous amount of enthusiasm that I announce a new daily online magazine dedicated to food and drink in the Upper Midwest.

Our mandate is broad. We’ll have articles of interest to the home cook, to the restaurant diner, and to the food enthusiast who cares to know the story of how his or her dinner got to the plate. We appeal to those who are looking for what’s in season, what’s local, what’s heirloom and what’s new.

We’ll also provide a constantly updated guide to the best food writing and blogging from all over the Internet, with an emphasis on Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.

Please point your browser to:

http://heavytable.com

Expect our articles to be accurate, concise, timely and entertaining. Expect our photographs to be crisp and vibrant. Expect our audience to be smart and hungry.

As we identify (and consolidate) our readership, we are eager to open lines of communication with the chefs, brewers, bakers, bartenders, bloggers, farmers, servers, cheesemongers, PR folks, store owners, restaurateurs, and other entrepreneurs who make the local scene the magnificent stew that it is.

Let’s start talking.

Yours in the Service of Good Food,

James Norton
Editor
The Heavy Table
james@heavytable.com
http://heavytable.com