Category: breweries

HopSlam on it’s way

By on January 7, 2008in beer stores, breweries

Ok, another non-Minnesota blurb. Bell’s HopSlam is once again headed our way, but in a more limited fashion than last year. Bill over at Princeton Liquor’s sent me a rather long email explaining the situation.

Hey all beer folk,
Just in case your wondering what that loud screech was on January 1st, it was the holiday business bus coming to a screeching stop. After a wicked 3 weeks of crazy business, we slow down considerably here at the store. Now does that mean I stop ordering great beer? Most certainly not. In fact the reason the outline of this email looks like paradise is the beer that will be coming in soon, will remind you all of paradise. Yes thats right HopSlam is on its way to our beautiful state. Now potentially I will be getting my shipment this week. Potentially. I have another source who says it may not reach us by late next week.


Tyranena Headed to Greater MN

By on January 7, 2008in breweries

I almost missed Tyranena’s news about growing distribution in Minnesota, sidetracked by their hilarious reaccounting of  the “Dirty Old Man” label being rejected by the government.

We’ve got a few new distributors in Minnesota!

  • Rohlfing of Duluth will be covering all of Carlton, Cook and Lake counties as well as the majority of Pine, St. Louis and Aitkin counties.
  • Dahlheimer Distributing will be covering all of Chisago and Isanti counties as well as areas of Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Pine, Sherburne, Stearns and Wright counties.
  • D&D Beer will be covering all of Benton, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd and Wadena counties as well as portions of Aitkin, Cass, Hubbard, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Stearns and Swift counties.

All three distributors should be receiving their first shipment of product in the next few weeks!

Click here for the full email, including the label rejection story.

Surly Two

By on January 4, 2008in bars/restaurants, beer events, breweries

EDIT: The event has been moved to The Blue Nile. 

Taken from BeerAdvocate…

I just stopped by and saw Jeff and Ted hard at work at the new Acadia Cafe. The new location will be next to Midwest Mountaineering in the old New Riverside restaurant. The location is the corner of Riverside and Cedar in Minneapolis. Seems like their place would be a great place to debut Surly Two. We have penciled in January 23rd to bring out the beer. Look for two along with Darkness 2006! Ted and Jeff squirreled a 1/4 barrel of it away for over a year. See you then.
Omar

Penciled in..we’ll edit this post should we receive further details…

Coming soon from Flat Earth…

By on January 3, 2008in breweries

fe1.jpgFlat Earth Winter Warlock should be available by the end of January both on draft and in bottles. Their newest seasonal is a golden English Barleywine weighing in at 9% ABV.

Flat Earth Belgian Pale Ale and  Element 115 are both available in 22 oz. bombers – keep your eyes open for bombers of Cygnus X-1 by the end of the month.

If you’d like to see where the Flat Earth magic happens their next tour will be January 19th at 1 pm. They can also be found that same night at 6:30 at the Lilydale Pool & Yacht Club pouring their Belgian pale ale at a Belgian beer tasting sponsored by Chisago Lakes Distribution. $25 gets you tastes of 10 micro and imports. For more information contact Petchen’s Southview Liquors at 651-455-7070 or petschen@mindspring.com.

Stop by Common Roots Cafe January 31st from 5:00 – 7:00 pm for a Flat Earth evening.

And for a whole meal accompanied by Flat Earth’s fine creations head over to The Happy Gnome on February 5th for their first beer dinner. I’ve heard these beer dinners usually sell out so make sure to call The Gnome ahead of time to make your reservation (651-287-2018).

Brew52

By on January 3, 2008in breweries, brewpubs, misc. mn beer

Brew52.com, a new website described as “an online beer tasting festival” caught my attention yesterday after Jeff sent me the link and Rett followed-up with a message on MySpace. Aside from the nice design, what really separates this site from your typical beer review sites is the fact that they’re keeping it local:

Minnesota has a ton of great breweries and participants of Brew52 will sample many of them during the 52 weeks of 2008. In addition to sampling beer in the comfort of their homes, participants meet up for the occasional beer-sampling at local brew pubs. These events will be announced in the upcoming weeks and anyone is welcome to join.

This sounds like fun… another local alternative to at least some facets of BeerAdvocate and RateBeer.