On Thursday, December 6th at 5pm McCoy’s in St. Louis Park will tap a firkin of Summit Winter Ale as they celebrate “Minnesota Made” every Thursday night. They will be offering $4 pints of Summit EPA and Summit Winter Ale until 10pm.
Also live music from Rattlebag from 5pm to 7pm and complementary appetizers while they last.
Brent Schoonover, this year’s Surly Darkness label artist, will be at Brooklyn Center Liquor from 5-7pm on December 14th to sign Darkness bottles, posters, swag, numbered prints, your manboobs*, etc. BYOB Darkness bottles or other swag for signatures. Cheers!
5625A Xerxes Avenue North (Map)
Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
*I don’t know that he’ll actually sign manboobs. You’ll have to ask.
UPDATE: Seasonal Six Pack tickets are SOLD OUT for the year.
We talked about this change-up a bit earlier this season, but things are now finalized. Your very first opportunity to buy Winterfest tickets will be on December 1st at noon as part of the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild’s “Seasonal Six Pack Holder,” which will include a pair of tickets to All Pints North, Autumn Brew Review and Winterfest. This ticket pack runs $290. If you’ve ever sat in front of a keyboard waiting to order Winterfest or ABR tickets, you’ll likely find this a relief… and you’ll have an excuse to visit Duluth for All Pints North, which was a really great event this summer.
This year’s Winterfest takes place on Friday, February 1st from 7-10pm at the Minnesota History Center. Tickets for this event will be $75 and will go on sale on Monday, December 10th at noon. Mark your calendars!
For those unfamiliar with the event, Winterfest is the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild’s premiere event, highlighting Minnesota breweries and brewpubs. Breweries and brewpubs all put their best foot forward and bring some of their rarest, most-interesting, and just plain weird beers to this event. There’s really nothing like it. No bones about it, this event isn’t cheap, but I try to remember that the Guild is a non-profit and this is a special event. It’s not for everyone, and that’s okay.
For those of you who didn’t catch their launch yesterday, I’m excited to share a little news about a new brewery-in-progress in Duluth, Bent Paddle Brewing Company. It’s been a long journey and no doubt they’ve got a lot of work ahead of them, but I have no doubt brewers Colin Mullen (Barley John’s) and Bryon Tonnis (Rock Bottom, Twin Ports/Thirsty Pagan) and their wives & partners Laura (Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild) and Karen will create something special in Duluth with Duluth’s first production brewery and taproom. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Colin and Laura from day one with MNBeer – at the time Colin was brewing at Barley John’s and Laura was organizing the annual Arborfest at Macalaster.
In short, their plan is to launch sometime around the spring of 2013. They’re planning on three flagship beers, kegs, 12 oz. cans and of course the taproom. Needless to say, this should be another great reason to visit Duluth!
You can follow their progress on their website: here.
Best of luck to Colin, Laura, Bryon and Karen!