Category: breweries

Autumn Brew Review 2007

Saturday, September 29th, 1-6pm at the old Grain Belt brewery complex. Tickets are $25 and are available through Ticketworks. Tickets will be available at the door for $30. Beer? Yes. Plenty. Here is a list of current participating breweries:

Abita Brewing Co. – Abita Springs, LA
August Schell Brewing Co. – New Ulm, MN
Avery Brewing Co. – Boulder, CO
Barley Island Brewing Co. – Noblesville, Indiana
Barley John’s Brewpub – New Brighton
Bell’s Brewery Inc. – Kalamazoo, MI
Big Sky Brewing – Missoula, MT
Boulder Brewing Co. – Boulder, CO
Boulevard Brewing Co. – Kansas City, MO
Brau Brothers Brewing Co. – Lucan
Brewery Ommegang – Cooperstown, NY
Finnegans – Twin Cities
Fitger’s Brewhouse – Duluth
Flat Earth Brewing Co. – St. Paul
Gluek Brewing Company – Cold Spring
Granite City Food & Brewery – Twin Cities
Great Waters Brewing Co. – St. Paul
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. – Chippewa Falls, WI
Left Hand Brewing Co. – Longmont, CO
Mantorville Brewing Company – Mantorville
New Belgium Brewing Co. – Fort Collins, CO
New Holland Brewing Co. – Holland, MI
North Coast Brewing Co. – Fort Bragg, CA
Pig’s Eye Brewing – St. Paul, MN
Rock Bottom Brewery – Minneapolis
Rush River Brewing Co. – River Falls, WI
Schmaltz Brewing Co. (He’Brew)
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. – Chico, CA
South Shore Brewery – Ashland, WI
Sprecher Brewing Co. – Glendale, WI
Summit Brewing Co. – St. Paul
Surly Brewing Co. – Brooklyn Center
Town Hall Brewery – Minneapolis
Tyranena Brewing Co. – Lake Mills, WI
Victory Brewing Co. – Downington, PA
Viking Brewing Co. – Dallas, WI
White Winter Winery (Mead) – Iron River, WI

Music? Yes:

1:00 pm  Traditional Bag Pipe Opener – Dennis & Thom
1:15 pm  Coal Car Caboose
2:30 pm  Hip Replacement
3:45 pm  Romantica
5:00 pm  The Alarmists

Tyranena coming to Southern Minnesota

More from Wisconsin…this time, Tyranena arrives in southern Minnesota. Thanks to Ben for passing along the info!

Tyranena Soon To Be In Minnesota. Our first Minnesota distributor is picking up an order on Friday. Schott Distributing will cover parts of southeastern Minnesota, including the counties of Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Winona, Olmsted, Dodge, Wabasha and Goodhue… that would mean such cities as Rochester, Winona, Austin, Rushford, and Wabasha. If you live in this area make sure to ask for the beer at your local store!

Hopefully this will lead to it’s availability in the rest of the state.

The Surly Open (Disc) Golf Tournament

This sounds like a good time, and if I didn’t suck at disc golf (or have plans that day), I’d probably go. Surly Open.

That’s right. Surly is putting together a golf tournament Sunday, August 5th. Leave your golf shirts, clubs and balls at home, this one is a disc golf tourney. We will have sign-up on the web-site in a few days. The plan is to have to waves of a shotgun start. What’s that mean? Everybody that signs up will head out to a designated hole and start playing at the same time. We are planning on start times of 9:00 and 1:00. Cost is going to be $25. That includes the game of golf, a Surly disc golf and dinner. We are working on putting together some fun hole prizes. Like longest drive gets a case of beer, stuff like that.

Tell your friends and plan on signing up, we need to fill this event up so we can repeat it next year.

One more thing, this event is open to everyone. This is not a competitive tourney, the idea is to have a little fun. See you throwing!

Flat Earth Update

Here’s an update from Jeff and the gang over at Flat Earth Brewing Co.

Wow! What a month we had. Thanks to everyone who enjoyed our beers at A Taste of Minnesota this year. We went through over 200 cases of Belgian Pale Ale and Element 115 in less than 5 days and we look forward to next years’ Taste to serve you even more styles. To top it off we landed on the front page of the Pioneer Press on July 4 (see www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_6293341).

Our open house was June 29 and what an awesome time we had. Nearly 500 curious and thirsty beer drinkers passed through our doors. Thanks to everyone who came out for the evening. In case you missed your chance then we will be having another brewery tour this Saturday, July 14 at 1 p.m.

Mark your calendars for two upcoming beer festivals. Saturday, July 21 we will be at the 14th annual Clayton Lion’s Brewfest in Clayton, WI near Turtle Lake. We will also be heading to Madison, WI for the Great Taste of the Midwest on Saturday, August 11. Check our website for upcoming brewery tours in August as well.
Thank you for your continued support.

Cheers!

Jeff Williamson
Flat Earth Brewing Co.