Browse the tap listings at right and you’ll notice a few changes here and there. First off, Bandana Brewery is down to two beers, their St. Peter Red and the Walnut Grove ESB.

I spoke with someone from the Brauhaus in Lucan, MN today and they won’t have anything on tap for about four weeks as they’re moving their brewery off-site. I’m anxious to learn more.

Great Waters now has a stout on cask and Tighty Whitey Wit on tap. Rumor has it that they’ll have an English pale ale on cask in a few days.

Green Mill Brewing Co. over in St. Paul has a raspberry wheat along with a honey brown ale as seasonal offerings, The Herkimer now has an Oktoberfest, Dortmunder lager and their Tooler’s Weiss in addition to their regular line-up, Minneapolis Town Hall has a surprise (?) Grand Cru on tap along with their smoked porter and Simcoe pale ale and Rock Bottom will be tapping their “Rocktoberfest” in less than two weeks!

Prost!

Hot damn, Minneapolis Town Hall has brought back a favorite, Simcoe Pale Ale. It’s a wonderful hop, some have suggested that it’s piney or citrusy. Certainly they may be on to something, however I like to think of it as almost fruit punch-like… for a hop, anyway. In any case, I’ll save you the babble and give you the lowdown…

Yep,
That’s right! You asked for Simcoe, so we made it. Tomorrow is the day (8/30). Get your pint of Simcoe Pale Ale for a buck from 5-6pm.

Cheers

P.S. The annual Autumn Brew Review is quickly approaching (10/7 this year). We will again serve as a ticket outlet for you fine folks, so you can pick them up here for the advance price. Last year this event nearly sold out, this year we expect that it will. So get your tickets early. Don’t worry….there will be more toilets and the site will be configured to fully utilize Peavy Plaza thus giving you more room. Should be a blast!
WE DO NOT HAVE TICKETS AT THE BREWERY UNTIL NEXT WEEK. AS SOON AS THEY ARRIVE I WILL LET YOU KNOW. PLEASE DO NOT ASK OUR STAFF FOR TICKETS UNTIL I LET YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE THEM.

An update from our friends in the northern suburbs, Surly.

Hello Surly Nation,

a few things:

We debut our newest beer Wendesay night (8/30) at the New Hope Cinema Grill
for a special showing of Beerfest, the movie. The new beer is SurlyFest, our
take on an Oktoberfest beer. Look for this single-hopped lager to appear
around the cities in a couple weeks.
We will start drinking around 6:00 at the theater and the movie starts at
7:00.

Thursday night we will be tapping a pin of Cask Furious at the Bryant Lake
Bowl. See you there at 7:30.

Looks like drink specials and fun in Duluth. Surly will be the ‘beer of the
month’ at Pizza Luce.

For all the folks up North, stop by and say hi at the Big Lake Brewfest and
the “Beer Train.”

New places to get Surly:
Pizza Luce – Duluth
Green Mill – St. Paul
Punch Pizza – NorthEast Minneapolis
Northeastern Saloon & Grille – Cloquet
Carmody’s Irish Pub – Duluth

More coming soon – thanks for asking for it!

See you drinking,
Omar

Hello Everyone,

As some people know (and some more than others) My email skills are pretty dang bad, I apologize. So I want to clarify for this Saturday and new media events.

MHBA BOS Event is this Saturday at MN State Fair at the State Fair Grounds in front of the Creative Activities/Education building on the outdoor stage. Time, is 10am to 2pm. BOs will start fairly soon after. Robert G. is doing our brewing demo. (Thanks, Robert) Also, I have enough ticketed volunteers to help the brewer, handing out club brochures, homebrew store catalogs and just talk to thousands of people about brewing but…

If you plan on being at the State Fair anyways for any of the days listed below. I encourage you to come and support us and the homebrewing hobby!

Here a list of media days for all homebrewers:

Friday, August 25th
AM1500 KSTP
during Garage Logic with Joe Soucheray
3:30pm – 4pm

Saturday, August 26th
Our BOS show day from 10-2 AND….
1280AM Patriot Radio interview
(time TBA)

Monday, August 28th
WCCO Channel 4 during the 6pm NEWS
Interview the BOS winner!!

Any questions or please call or email. Thanks everyone.

Regards,

Sean Hewitt

Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition Organizer

This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands on a Saturday. Actually I’ve been toying with an idea that involves MNBeer tap handles (more information forthcoming) for a while and decided to finally rough out a prototype. Of course I don’t have the equipment and/or skill to properly create the 1.5″ x 2.5″ diamonds, so a jigsaw, sander and a few prayers helped to make my prototype look decent, more or less.

Is anyone interested in cutting a dozen diamonds for me sometime in the future? I just don’t own the proper tools or skills.

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Also, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of our wonderful visitors. MNBeer is slowly creeping toward its first birthday, and without any begging or pleaing, we’ve just about paid our hosting fees (and that of another couple of sites) with the simple Google ads on the right side of your screen. Thank you! Your clicks are greatly appreciated!