Category: breweries

All Pints North Saturday in Duluth

By on July 23, 2015in beer events, breweries, brewpubs
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STOP! RIGHT NOW.

Drop everything. Tickets for All Pints North are still available as I write this (Wednesday night, to be published Thursday) [Edit: still available at 11am Thursday]. So drop what you’re doing, grab a ticket and head to Duluth for the weekend. (Click here to buy tickets.)

Now in its 4th year, All Pints North returns to Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth with a huge array of craft beer, samples, education, live music and other fun.

Quite frankly, this is one of my very favorite festivals. Many years ago the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild created beer festivals that set the bar high for all other local festivals and All Pints North is no exception. You really can’t go wrong – the self-professed “Beer Capital of Minnesota” is indeed a great place to sip a beer sample or thirty while gazing at Lake Superior and watching as freighters pass.

I suggest you make a weekend of it. Duluth is beautiful… and ready for you. Hotels aren’t exactly cheap this time of the year, but I promise you’ll have a good time. Sadly I can’t make it this year.

Tickets are $40 in advanced and $50 day-of assuming they’re still available.

 

 

Congrats US Open Beer Champs

By on July 20, 2015in August Schell Brewing Co., Badger Hill Brewing, breweries

us-openThree Minnesota beers took home medals from the US Open Beer Championships this month. Two beers from August Schell Brewing Company and one from Badger Hill Brewing Company rose to the top of a field of nearly 4000 beers from from around the world.

Schell’s took Gold in the German Hefeweizen category as well as a Silver for Firebrick in the American Amber category. Badger Hill walked away with a Silver for their White IPA in the “Out of Bounds Pale” category.

Nice work folks!

Tin Whiskers’ Joule Cat Release Friday

By on July 16, 2015in breweries, Tin Whiskers

tinwiskersaThis Friday at 5pm, head over to Tin Whiskers Brewing Company in St. Paul for the tap release of the winning beer from their “Community Sourced Beer” competition.

The contest winner was a Baltic Porter brewed Matt Mueller. Not surprisingly, the name, Joule Cat, fits right in with Tin Whiskers. (Wikipedia refresher for those of you who don’t recall/know what the hell a Joule is…)

Last November, Tin Whiskers launched the Community Sourced Beer homebrew competition. The winning beer was brewed this spring by the homebrewers with head brewer Derek Brown.

According to Tin Whiskers co-founder and President Jeff Moriarity, “We wanted to give someone in the home-brewing community an opportunity to brew their creations on a larger scale and taste the fruits of their labor without investing the money and resources needed to build their own brewery.”

You, dear readers, can check out Joule Cat Friday at 5pm at Tin Whiskers’ taproom.

Tin Whiskers
125 East 9th Street
St. Paul, MN 55101

Rockabilly Street Dance Saturday at Bent Brewstillery

By on June 25, 2015in Bent Brewstillery, charity

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The fine folks from Bent Brewstillery and Beerploma are throwing a fun party for charity Saturday at the brewery. Visit Bent Brewstillery for a Rockabilly Street Dance benefitting Folds of Honor Minnesota. They’ll have a DJ playing rockabilly tunes all night long, the Katfish Kittens will be present collecting donations and you’ll find no shortage of Bent Brewstillery beers, food and giveaways.

This event is free, but free-will donations will be collected for Folds of Honor. Folds of Honor is a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to the children and spouses of fallen or disabled soldiers.

Schell’s Starkeller Peach

By on June 17, 2015in August Schell Brewing Co.

Trip Fontaine, ‘The Virgin Suicides” – “Peach schnapps. Babes love it.”

Peach is one of those flavors we sometimes associate with sticky sweet things like wine coolers and the aforementioned schnapps. This, my friends, is not cut from that mold. As described, Starkeller peach is hazy, golden and full of peach aroma. You’ll find no candy-sticky-sweetness here. Instead you’ll probably catch the traditional Berliner Weisse tartness with just a bit of sweetness and… get this… peach. Seek this one out!

“It’s a beauty Clark.” Nice work @schellsbeer.

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