History repeats itself. Sort of… After about a ten year hiatus, Cold Spring Brewery is back. Gluek beer is still being produced, but the company has decided to change its name to Cold Spring Brewery Chairman to “reflects the company’s strong connection to the Cold Spring, Minnesota, community and the company’s new line of craft beers.” according to CEO John Lenore. (Star Tribune). The new Cold Spring beers are to be released today as well, including Cold Spring Pale Ale, Moonlight Ale (half porter, half bock), Ebony Wheat and Honey Almond Weiss.
Category: breweries
Repeal of Prohibition Presentation
Join Doug Hoverson, author of “Land of Amber Waters” at Schell’s Tap Room for a book signing and presentation on the 75th Anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.
Whoops! My bad. The date is April 8th! Thanks Jodi!
Acadia Cafe Grand Re-Opening
Acadia Cafe Grand Re-Opening, originally uploaded by MNBeer.
Above: Eric and his Darkness martini
I stopped out at Acadia Cafe’s grand re-opening on Friday. Don walked in the door two seconds after I arrived and we attempted to navigate up to the bar in order to order a beer. Yikes. Good times. BUSY times. It was elbow to elbow and utter chaos due to all of the thirsty beer geeks. The staff at Acadia was flying… many kudos to them for putting up with the whole ordeal as well as the handful idiots who were being rude.
By the time we got to the bar, the Darkness fans had swallowed up much of Acadia’s glassware. Eric and Don sipped the beer from martini glasses. I did a keg-stand… or not…
Best question of the night (directed at “the yelling woman” toward Jeff and myself) “Are you guys the brewers?”
Bikes & Beer: Category 6 Racing Squad fundraiser
Category 6 Racing Squad is putting on a fund raiser for an amateur bicycle racing series on the State Fairgrounds this Summer. They’ve put together a Belgian Beer Tasting in conjunction with TV coverage of the Tour of Flanders one day Spring cycling classic race?
The event takes place on Sunday, April 6th at the Bulldog NE. A bike ride starts at Noon at Boom Island Park. Tasting is from 3:00-6:00. Coverage of the Tour of Flanders starts at 4:00.
Beers have been donated by Artisanal Imports, Hohensteins, Inc., Duvel Moorgat USA, and Flat Earth Brewing Co.
Stub & Herb’s beer tasting no. 2 – Schell’s
I went to Stub & Herb’s second beer tasting last night with my co-worker Scott and a couple of his friends that were eager to taste some great beers. The game room was once-again filled with 20-30 (?) people. We had a special guest that evening – Ted Marti from Schell’s. I had assumed that a brewery rep. or perhaps our buddy Dave would be talking, and that would have been just fine, but I thought it was very cool that the CEO of the second-oldest family-run brewery joined us. Lots of good beer (Original, Dark, Pilsner, Firebrick, Stout, Maibock and Einbecker Doppelbock), lots of good questions (I’ll get to that in just a minute), some good food (German sausage, sauerkraut and soft pretzels) and of course some great information for the beer geeks.
The questions… in case you’re curious – if forced to choose, Ted would pick the Pilsner as his favorite Schell’s beer. AND… drum roll here… the next anniversary beer is a dunkel. Details to come.
To finish out the night, Stub & Herb’s served two bonus beers. In order to win some prizes, we had to identify the beers from Stub & Herb’s selection. I knew one – I’d enjoyed it the night before, Avery’s Collaboration Not Litigation – but I couldn’t place the other. I knew it was pale, somewhat fruity, hoppy, biscuity… Left Hand Sawtooth Ale. Four people (myself included) took some nice prizes home from Schell’s and Stub and Herb’s.
Thanks to Jon and Stub & Herb’s, Ted and Schell’s and everyone who showed up. I see great potential in this series! Look for Bell’s and Ommegang at future events.