Category: brewpubs

MNHBA Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day at Barley John’s

By on November 1, 2006in beer events, brewpubs, homebrew

From the Barley John’s mailing list:

Teach A Friend to Homebrew Day: Come one, come all to Barley John’s Brewpub in New Brighton on Saturday, November 4th, any time from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The event is part of the American Homebrewers Association’s (AHA) national event, which is Teach A Friend To Homebrew Day. On that day, hundreds of interested parties across the country will discover just how easy it is to make quality craft beer at home. Free brewing demonstrations will begin periodically, so whenever people get there they will not be far from seeing a batch of homebrew started. This event is put on locally by the Minnesota Homebrewers Association.

There will be beginner’s brewing kits given away, so please come and bring that friend or sister-in-law who has always talked about maybe starting to homebrew

For more information, please contact John Longballa at jlongb@ties2.net, or go to the MN Homebrewers website, www.mnbrewers.com. We’ll see you at Barley John’s on November 4th!

Note: Barley Johns is not putting this event on, we are providing the parking lot space in which to host the event. For specific information contact the sponsors. Cheers!

Fitger’s Update

By on October 31, 2006in brewpubs

More new beer from Fitger’s Brewhouse.

Happy Halloween All,
Greetings from the Brewhouse with our weekly new beer update.
We have a very limited amount of Devil’s Track Pumpkin still pouring, it should make it though Halloween. Later this week we will release

Wild Blue Lager
A wild blueberry lager. Light in color rich in body with a very nice blueberry nose and finish.

New beers pouring
Old Red Beard Barleywine ’05 vintage
100% English Maris Otter malt lots of hops and lots of time spent alone and chilly aging to perfection. Enjoy during the cooler nights to come.

Amsterdam Ale
Our homage to a small brewery in Amsterdam call Brewery i
A hybrid Belgian style ale/lager/pilsner. Brewed to combine the characteristics of the amazing beer at Brewery i and the new world style of the Brewhouse.

cask ale this week Starfire Pale Ale

Have a safe Halloween

Cheers
The Brewhouse Gang

Random Brewpub News/Tap Updates

By on October 27, 2006in brewpubs

Barley Johns’ Oktoberfest is gone, and supposedly a winter ale (?) is in the works.

The Brauhaus is no longer officially a brewpub, at least in the truest sense (if there is such a thing) as they’ve moved their beer-making operations away from The Brauhaus and into a new facility. The Brauhaus is still open, but nowBrau Brothers Brewing, brews, bottles and kegs their beer off-site and supplies The Brauhaus with beer.

I’ve been told that Mr. Smooth Mild as returned to Great Waters as well as Surly’s Furious and Finnegan’s Irish Amber.

Green Mill Brewing Co. in St. Paul now has a Pumpkin Ale on tap.

The Herkimer has their award-winning Unfiltered Pilsener and a kolsch on tap.

Town Hall will have their India Brown Ale on tap at 6:00pm tonight and a Belgian IPA on tap on Saturday as part of their ninth anniverary.

O’Gara’s now has an Oktoberfest and Raspberry Lambic on tap.

O’Hara’s in St. Cloud now has their tasty Dubbel Trouble on tap. A trip to St. Cloud is in my future!

Rock Bottom has added a Coconut Stout as a seasonal beer. I’m quite curious about this one. I’m not much of a coconut fan, but I suspect it might go well with a stout.

And lastly, this probably isn’t new news, but Wellington’s Backwater Brewing Co. is no longer offering growlers, reportedly because of a rather hefty local tax on growlers.

Needless to say, MNBeer makes no claims as to whether or not this information is absolutely correct, but we try to get it right. Cheers!

Pumpkin Ale, Kolsch and Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale at Fitger’s

By on October 25, 2006in brewpubs, general beer

What?! Someone else’s beer at Fitger’s? Yes indeed. Read on:

Hi
Fitgers Brewhouse here with the latest.

Today we put a guest tap on. Something we do rarely. Our friends at Sierra Nevada in California squirreled away 2 kegs of Harvest Ale for us. Harvest Ale is a draft only beer made once a year by Sierra. Harvest is a “wet hop” beer. Wet hop beers use hops right out of the fields. No processing or drying or cureing. In order to get flavor and balance out of these hops about 20 times more must be used. this makes an expensive and labor intensive work of art. We will pour out two kegs of this elixir starting Tuesday Oct 24th. Don’t miss a very rare style of pale ale. The only other example in Minnesota comes out of Town Hall in Minneapolis if you where lucky enough to try Mikes then compare the two.

We are also releasing two more beers this week

Thursday Oct 26 will make the 2006 release of Devil’s Track Pumpkin Ale. We have limited grolwers of this nitro pumpkin ale (around 100) first come first served. The ale uses about 120 lbs of pumpkin infused with a malty red ale.

Friday Oct 27 we will release
Kamloops Kolsch
A German style ale fermented cool and slow to give a lager/fruit type ester. A great alternative to Golden ale.

As always thank you for your continued support.

Cheers
The Brewhouse Gang