Category: breweries

Surly Post-Turkey-Day Tour and Growlers

By on November 21, 2006in beer events, breweries, free beer

Growlers, growlers, growlers! Did we mention that our friends at Surly will have about 29 growlers of SurlyFest available on Saturday? Furious and Bender will also be available. Tours, too… Read on:

…Now if you just can’t stand coming by the brewery and NOT staying for a while, come on back Saturday Nov. 25th . It will give you something to do with all those family members you don’t know what to do with when the turkey is gone. Take a tour. Have a free drink or two. Hang out. We will have Furious, Bender and SurlyFest (29 only) for sale in growlers. Doors open at noon, tours at 12:30 and 1:30.

If you are already hibernating (you poor bastard), then stock up on some cans at the following liquor stores.

Brooklyn Center Municipal Liquor Stores:
5625A Xerxes Avenue North – 763.561.2420
6930 Brooklyn Boulevard – 763.561.0506

Burnsville:
Blue Max – 14640 10th Ave S – 952.432.3350

Cottage Grove:
Dennis Brothers Liquor Store – 7155 Jorgensen Lane South #150 – 651.458.8932

Eagan:
The Cellars – Cliff Rd. between 35E & Cedar, Cedar Cliff Center 2113 Cliff
Rd – 651.405.6681

Golden Valley:
The Liquor Barrel – 7890 Hwy 55 – 763.544.9881

Maple Grove:
Princeton’s Liquors – 12790 Bass Lake Road – 763.559.3259

Minneapolis:
France 44 – 4351 France Avenue South – 612.925.3252
MGM Liquors – Calhoun Village 3254 West Lake St – 612.922.1130
Surdyks – 303 East Hennepin Ave. – 612.379.3232
Zipp’s Liquor – 2618 E Franklin Ave – 612.333.8686
Skol Liquors – 27th Ave S & East 25th St. – 612-729-2333
Lowry Hill Liquors – 1922 Hennepin Ave S – 612.871.2500

Minnetonka:
MGM Liquors – 17730 Highway 7 – 952.470.2078

Roseville:
The Cellars – 1649 County Rd. C West – 651.636.4404

Richfield:
Richfield Liquors – 6444 Lyndale Ave S – 612.861.9375

St. Paul:
Big Top – 1574 University Avenue – 651.644.4501
1st Grand Ave. Liquor Store – 918 Grand Avenue – 651.227.7039
Thomas Liquors – 1941 Grand Ave – 651.699.1860
Sharrett’s Liquors – Raymond and West Univ. Ave – 651-645-8620

Woodbury:
The Cellars – 1815 Radio Dr- 651.738.8110

Coffee Bender Growlers @ Surly, This Saturday

By on November 14, 2006in beer events, breweries

No tour, no fuss, no mess. Just Surly. Oh, did we mention that they’ll have growlers of Coffee Bender?

Thanks to all of Surly Nation that showed up last weekend and purchased over 200 growlers! The wait was a bit long, and we will work on shortening that next time. Over 300 drinkers showed up and went home happy.

We will be selling growlers this coming weekend – November 18th – noon-2:00. That will include 29 growlers of Coffee Bender! They will go fast. We are only selling growlers at this time. No tours, No tastings. That’s the way we roll.

Three Minnesota Listings on Beer Advocate’s Top 100 American Beers

By on November 11, 2006in breweries, brewpubs, free beer

I haven’t bothered to look at the rankings for a while, but I’m happy to report that Surly Bender and Furious (#76 & 92 respectively) have joined the ranks behind Town Hall’s beloved Masala Mama IPA (#7).

And speaking of Surly… just a reminder that there is a tour today at noon. You can also get your hands on growlers today. I’m tempted to go today, despite the fact that I’m currently job hunting and trying to maintain a budget. A growler of Darkness sounds quite tempting, and free tastings & tours are always a good time.

Anyway, regardless of whether or not I go, if you haven’t visited Surly, I recommend you do so today.

Let’s Talk About Recent Beer History…

By on November 10, 2006in breweries, brewpubs, history

We’ve never claimed to be all-knowing with regards to beer in Minnesota. In fact, rumor has it that we’ve even made a mistake or two on occasion. In any case, now that MNBeer is well over a year old, we thought it would be fun to look back into some of our resources and ask you, dear readers, to tell us a little more about a number of breweries/brewpubs that are listed on some of the infrequently-updated beer resource websites. Ideally it would be nice to do this in our new, lonely forum, but even the comment area would work. So… tell us what you know or remember about these places:

Ambleside Brewing Company, Kasota Avenue, SE Minneapolis

Black River Brewery & Pub, Elk River

Black Moon Brewing, St. Paul

Black Widow Brewing, St. Paul

Boundary Waters Brewing, Isabella (planned?)

Bowery Pub and Brewery, Minneapolis (w/ Herkimer’s address…)

Brew Station Brewery, Shakopee

Chang O’Hara’s, St. Paul (listed as a brewpub on some sites)

Clubhaus Brewpub, Rochester

Dave’s Brewfarm

District Warehouse Brewing, Minneapolis

Glacial Lakes Brewing Co., New York Mills/Perham

Harwell’s Steakhouse and Brewery, Shakopee

Northern Plains Brewing Co., St. Paul

Patrick McGoverns (listed as a brewpub?)

Shannon Kelley’s Brewpub, St. Paul

Trader & Trapper, Moorhead

Wolf’s Brewery, Stillwater

And the list goes on. It seems as if there are always a couple of breweries listed in Great Lakes Brewing News that are nothing more than a concept and/or a business plan. And of course let’s not forget some more recent losses such as Union Station, Bandana, Watertower, Hops and Sherlock’s, among others.

Shed some light on these places friends. It’s Friday, you’re working… or hardly working… here’s a new distraction for you…