Category: breweries

Stanley’s NE Craft Beer Festival and Block Party

By on May 1, 2013in bars/restaurants, breweries

stanleysartStanley’s NE aims to make your Art-a-Whirl experience just a little better. Okay, perhaps a lot better. On Saturday, May 18th, they’re blocking off Lowry and planning a day filled with beer, music, food, photo booths, hand rolled cigars, pretzel necklaces, hammerschlagen and more. Doors open at 1pm and the beer festival portion of the event runs from 2-5pm with live music from Orange Whip from 4:30-9:30pm in Stanley’s parking lot. Tickets are $59 and include the requisite sample glass as well as a glass lanyard, signature photo w/ your friends, $15 Stanley’s gift card and build-your-own pretzel necklaces.

Breweries include Summit, Schell’s Brewery, Fulton, Finnegans, Indeed Brewing, Northgate Brewing, 612 Brew, Surly, Cold Spring Brewery, Lucid Brewing, Founders Brewing, Fox Barrel Cider/Crispin, Odell Brewing, Deschutes Brewery, Brooklyn Brewery, Sierra Nevada, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Alaskan Brewing Company, New Belgium Brewing, Bells Brewery, Goose Island, North Coast Brewing and more.

Click here for more info and tickets.

Summit Cellar Expansion

By on April 27, 2013in breweries, video
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Every time I hear progress of one of our locals (especially one that my gullet has so much history with, I beam with a little bit of pride. Here’s some video of the progress of Summit’s cellar expansion. That’s one hell of a fridge! Way to go Summit!

Bathwater Beer and Taxes

By on April 27, 2013in breweries
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Kurt Zellers

Whoops. Regarding the proposed excise tax increase on beer, representative Kurt Zellers drew some grief at home for this quote:

“To say that it’s only seven cents a beer, that’s like promising a case of Summit to the party and showing up with that bathwater called Leinenkugel’s,” and went on to say “It’s not a fair deal at all. Good Minnesota beer for Wisconsin bathwater, no sir.”

When he returned to the house, he came with an apology. Apparently his wife is quite a fan of Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy.

“The little joke I played last night got me in trouble at home last night. So most importantly, my apologies to the Leinenkugel family. They are a great family-owned business. But as it usually goes at our house, ‘I’m sorry, honey.”

Of course Leinenkugel’s is owned by SABMiller. And while I wouldn’t call their beer “bathwater,” Summit would be preferred in my world. My suggestion? Someone should send his wife a case of Schell’s Shocked Radler and be done with it.

Indeed Rails & Ales: A Celebration of Music, Art & Beer

By on April 24, 2013in breweries

Artawhirl_2013_11x17It only makes sense that Indeed Brewing Company should be part of Art-A-Whirl. So it should come as no surprise that they plan to host “an insane collision of music, art and beer” during the event this year on Saturday, May 18th from noon – 11pm. Whether their crowning jewel is brewer Josh Bischoff’s L.S.D. Honey Ale (and that’s Lavender, Sunflower Honey and Dates… no little pieces of paper floating in this beer, suckers), lots of music or tons of art remains to be seen. Either way, you should make plans to roll over to Indeed during Art-A-Whirl.

Look for Shenanigans Summer Ale, Day Tripper, Midnight Ryder, Let it Ride IPA and the aforementioned L.S.D. Honey Ale. Music? Why yes… how’s about Como Avenue Jug Band, The Cactus Blossoms, Martin Devaney, The Brass Messengers, Pennyroyal, The Brian Just Band or perhaps The Roe Family Singers?  If that doesn’t tickle your fancy, then how about a little art? Resident Solar Arts Building Artists, Riot Act Reading Series, Poet Elisabeth Workman with visuals by Erik Brandt, Paris 1919.

Food from Natedogs and Gastrotruck. Your welcome.
SPECIAL BEER RELEASE: L.S.D. HONEY ALE A kaleidoscopic combination of Lavender, Sunflower Honey, and Dates set the stage for a mind-bending beer experience as delicate floral aromas dance atop rich notes of fruit, and honey. Conceived by our head brewer, Josh Bischoff, LSD was originally produced by the Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery where it received a medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2011. (7.2 ABV, 20 IBU)