Category: breweries

Microbrew Mania

The good folks at  have posted on an event on their site, Microbrew Mania.  Here is some info:liftbridgebrewery.jpg

The Water Street Inn is hosting it’s first Microbrew Mania event in the ballroom. Come and taste seven different tap beers including microbrewed, craft and imported brews. With admission you can sample to your heart’s content and listen to live Irish music. Band will be Paul and Lorraine. Charlie’s Irish Pub will have it’s full line up of Irish whiskeys, tap beers and other spirits available for separate purchase in the foyer outside of the ballroom.

We will be on hand with a specialty cask. Local beer distributors will be there to talk about their offerings. The Water Street Inn’s full line up of Appetizers will be available for purchase as well that evening.

* Beer lineup: Lift Bridge Brewery, Double-hopped Pale Ale – On Cask
* Lift Bridge Brewery, Farm Girl Saison™
* Two Brothers, French Country Ale; Illinois
* Big Sky, Moose Drool Brown Ale; Montana
* Murphy’s, Irish Red; Ireland
* Weihenstephan, Lager; Germany
* Red Hook, Late Harvest Autumn Ale; New Hampshire

When: Friday, December 12th, 2008. 7:00-11:30 PM.
Where: Water Street Inn, 101 Water Street S., Stillwater, MN
Tickets: $10 with advanced reservation by phone (651) 439-6000 or by confirming through this event page. Can’t commit? Stop by anyway and pay just $12 at the door.

Flat Earth December Update

Greetings Flat Earth Believers,

Here is the plan for this month.

We have a brewery tour scheduled for Saturday the 13th of December at 4 p.m. no reservations needed.

Porterfest continues with the following porters this month during our weekly growler sales from 3:30 – 6:30 on the following dates:

12/11 Mystic Rhythms Porter – Raspberry infused Cygnus X-1
12/18 Freewill Porter – Vanilla infused Cygnus X-1
12/22 & 12/23 Snow Dog Porter – Peppermint infused Cygnus X-1
12/31 Big Money Porter – Wood Aged Cygnus X-1

Friday the 12th we will be at Pracna on Main (117 Main SE Minneapolis) for DFTK Fundraiser!

We are firming up a few more events for December, so check out our calendar later this week for all the Flat Earth Beer Goodness.

Finally kegs and casks of Winter Warlock 2008 left the brewery last week and will be showing up at a local watering hole near you.

Have a wonderful Holiday season!

Jeff & Cathie Williamson
Flat Earth Brewing Company

Reminder: Winterfest Tickets on Sale Monday

winterfest_logo.jpgMark your calendars now. Set an alarm on your cell phone. Cross your fingers. Click your heels together. Whatever it takes. If you want to attend this year’s Winterfest, you’ll have to fire up your computers and be online and ready to order by NOON on Monday, December 15th. This event will sell out and it’ll sell out quickly. Don’t miss out! There are only 700 tickets, so if you don’t get one, Monday, you’re probably outta’ luck. If I were to suggest one craft beer event in Minnesota, this would be the one.

Winterfest takes place on Friday, February 6, 2009 from 7-10pm at Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellog Blvd. in St. Paul.

What’s New With the Brau Crew?

braubrothers.jpgHere’s an update of goings-on from Dustin Brau of Brau Bros. Brewing.

Greetings from the brewery in Lucan! 

It’s been a terrific year, and it’s finishing with a bang.  First, sampler packs are now leaving the brewery.  They are 12 pack samplers with two bottles of 6 different beers.  They will be finding their way onto store shelves over the next week or two.  As always, if you’d like to request them at your favorite retailer, drop me an email and I will do my best to get them there. 

We’re working on the next Single Batch Series Beer, and all I can say is… we’re finally going to appease the hopheads who have been emailing relentlessly wondering where our DIPA’s are.  I don’t know if I’d classify it as a DIPA, but it will be big and hoppy.  Look for it early 2009 with more details to follow.

Our swag department is undergoing and overhaul.  Look for new additions to our line of clothing as well as new glassware soon.  It will all be available online, however we encourage you to drive down (or up) to Lucan and visit us at the brewery.  Speaking of which, we are planning organized tours to begin early next year.  Included in the tour will be a walkthrough of the production plant, an oral history of the early years (2006, 2007), a hike through the hopyard and barleypatch (spring, summer, fall), and finally a sip or two of our beers.  Signup information will be available after Christmas.  As always, just give a call or shoot an email for groups or if you’ll be in town. 

Take care,

Dustin

Get out there and drink something…

The deadline is near!  Stop by any of the Blue Plate Restaurants for a chance to win super prizes in the Summit Brewery Bash Contest.  Prizes include a 35 person brewery party, a Summit brewer jacket, 4 club seats for our local pro hockey team, a Sue Mclean concert package, and a First Ave concert package.  Visit the Groveland Tap, Highland Grill, Edina Grill, Longfellow Grill, or 3 Squares and fill out a Summit coaster!  The drawing will be held December 4 at 7pm at the Groveland Tap (need not be present to win).