Category: breweries

Dark Days Are Upon Us…

By on October 22, 2013in breweries

Surly Darkness 2013 label…apocalyptic? Not really. Dark and dank? Yup. Surly’s Darkness Day is this Saturday. The gates open at 11am on Saturday, though no doubt people will be lined up as early as they can, hoping to get their hands on some of this year’s Surly Darkness. As per usual, there will be plenty of food trucks, plenty of beer and some good music. There’s no charge to enter, but if you want to buy some Darkness or a beer on site, bring cash.

Food Trucks:
6am – 11am:
Caribou Coffee & Glam Doll Donuts

11am – 5:30pm:
Stanley’s On Wheels, Scratch Food Truck, Gogi Brothers Korean BBQ, Natedogs and Asian Invasion.

Live Music:
11-11:30am: Fallen Empire
Noon-12:30pm: God Came From Space
1-1:30pm: Rivers of Nihil
2-2:45pm: Vulgaari
3:15-4pm: Exhumed
4:30-5:15pm: Impaler

Barrel-Aged St. Whatshername

By on October 17, 2013in breweries
clip_stwhatsPour Decisions Brewing Co. is releasing a barrel-aged version of their Belgin Tripel, St Whatshername.  THis version has been holy fermented with three strains of Brettanomyces and aged in white wine barrels. It’ll be available at the brewery Thursday (today) through Saturday in limited quantities – only about 20 cases of 750ml bottles will be available.

Description from the brewery: St. Whatshername was made traditionally and fermented funkily. Pear drops, hay, clementine orange, pineapple, pepper and spice. 3 types of brettanomyces lend a rounded funky, bright fruity kick to the long, very dry and crisp finish. Strong willed, thoroughly dirty and utterly dangerous…the beginning, or end, to a magnificent story.

Congrats Minnesota GABF Winners

By on October 14, 2013in breweries, brewpubs

gabf13_logo_insideCongrats to our Minnesota winners at the Great American Beer Festival. All in all, Minnesota breweries took home four medals – twi silver and two bronze medals. The winners:

Silver – Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery – “Twisted Trace” (Wood and Barrel-aged Strong Beer)

Silver – Summit Brewing Co. – “True Brit IPA” (Extra Special Bitter)

Bronze – August Schell Brewing Co. “Oktoberfest” (American-Style Amber Lager)

Bronze – Surly Brewing Co. “Pentagram” (Wood and Barrel-aged Sour Beer)

You can check out the complete list of winners here.

Fitger’s Brewhouse Representing at GABF

By on October 11, 2013in breweries
Photo: Tim Nelson

Photo: Tim Nelson

This is cool… a Minnesota beer was selected as the official welcome beer for this year’s Great American Beer Festival Media luncheon. The festival is in its 32nd year and hosts the largest collection of US beer ever served. The luncheon is attended by 200 beer journalists from around the nation and this year Fitger’s Brewhouse’s Gooseberry Gose was the official welcome beer.

“If we get more Minnesota brewers on the national stage, I think Minnesota will get a little more respect for making decent beer,” Fitger’s master brewer Dave Hoops says.

Hoops was been asked to give a ten-minute speech to the assembled journalists and talked about the rise of Minnesota brewing. Our state was 10th for overall craft barrel production in 2012. Last year there were 5,100 beers and only 3% of breweries that entered won, so winning a medal is a big accomplishment. Town Hall has won 13 medals in previous years, Fitger’s Brewhouse has won 2, Summit has won 7, and Surly has won 1.

Indeed Mosaic Fresh Hop Release Today

By on October 8, 2013in beer events, breweries

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Why do just one fresh hop beer when you could do two? Indeed steps up to the plate for round two with their Mosaic Fresh Hop – and you can taste it today at Republic (7 Corners) at 6pm.

Here’s Indeed’s description:

Our second fresh hop beer of this harvest season is brewed with wet Mosaic hops from Yakima, Wa., the epicenter of hop growing in the United States. Mosaic, a relatively new variety of hop, gives this limited beer an intense aroma of blueberries and tropical fruit.(4.8% ABV, 30 IBU)