While visiting family in Fergus Falls this weekend, I found information about The Home Brewer’s Festival in Fergus Falls, courtesy of The Midweek’s July 2006 Vacation Guide:

One of Otter Tail County’s more unique summer events is back. The Home Brewer’s [Festival?] is scheduled for Friday, August 18, 7:00 pm at the Elk’s Event Center in beautiful downtown Fergus Falls.

The Brewer’s Festival is a fundraiser for the Otter Tail County Historical Society. It features home brewers and fermenters providing samples of their finest wine and beer. As the Festival gains attention more home brewers have asked to participate. This year there will be a wide variety of wine nand beer to satisfy the most discriminating palate. In addition to sampling, the brewers are glad to offer advice on how to get your home brewing started. Bread, cheese and other snacks will be available throughout the evening.

What better way to spend part of your visit to Lakes Country than an event of sampling homemade beer and wine. And, you can feel good about supporting one of the finest historical societies in Minnesota.

The doors to the elk’s Special Event Center open at 7:00 pm. Admission is $12 and includes visits to all sample stations and snacks. No one under 21 will be admitted. For more information, contact the Historical Society at 218-736-6038.

Interesting! Has anyone been to this event or taken part in it? With two municipal liquor stores and the best on-tap offerings in town are limited to Guinness and Sam Adams, I believe. Regardless, Fergus Falls has spawned a couple of industry pros (Dave Berg, formerly of Bandana Brewery and Lanny Hoff from Artisanal Imports) and there’s a homebrew shop in nearby Pelican Rapids (Pelican Homebrewing) and of course Country Cannery in Moorhead is only about an hour away.

In any case, if you know anything more, or plan on going, let us know!

Hey All,
Our floor is fixed and we will soon have all our beer back on tap, until then enjoy the Surly Bender and the Summit Grand Pilsner as well as our hoppy Ipa and Centennial Pale ale.

Next Wednesday 8/2 we will release our Tripel Vision. This Belgian style tripel was a very popular beer last time it was brewed and it is equally delicious this time around. Remember this beer is very strong! Release at 5:00 (8/2) $2 pours for this big dog.

Dates to remember
Aug. 5 Summit Porter & ESB on cask

Aug 6&7 TOWN HALL BREWERY CLOSED
-Boss man will close the brewery and invite all the workers to his cabin “up north”. Thanks boss man…but look out northern Minnesota

Aug 19&20 BOCCE TOURN and PIG ROAST at the brewery. Throw stones, eat pork, and drink Smoked Porter. A sure recipe for fun! Many teams are already signed up and space is limited

Cheers
Mike

…or those of you, like myself who wouldn’t mind being in Duluth right now…

Subject: Das Firkin Friday this Week

Firkin Friday returns this Friday with a real ale
classic……………Kolsch! Yes, those crazy guys at Lake Superior
Brewing
are at it again and this time have cask conditioned a firkin of their Kayak
Kolsch. This bubbling gusto will be available on a good ole traditional
German hand pump at Sir Benedict’s this Friday for happy hour.

Be sure to stop by with your favorite stein and give it a try.

Prost!

805 E. Superior St.
Duluth, MN 55802

Phone: 218-728-1192

Cool. Minneapolis Town Hall will be pouring beer from Summit Brewing on cask on August 5th.

Mark your calendars…Saturday, August 5 we will feature two fine beers from Summit Brewing Company ON CASK! Those crazy brewers have been working on cask versions of some of their finest and thought you folks would be a great market to test the beers out on. We are very excited to offer Great Northern Porter and the limited release ESB on cask Saturday, August 5. Stop in and try some of Minnesota’s finest, then drop me a feedback email that I can forward to our friends at Summit Brewing Company.

Cheers,
Mike

Oh, and on a side note, I’ve been told that the 1800 IPA is once again gone…

I couldn’t pass this one up, so once now that I’ve placed my order, I’ll share this one with you… KFAN has great gift certificate deal for The Muddy Pig in St. Paul. For $25 (plus a $4.50 handling fee), you can get a $50 gift certificate for a visit to The Muddy Pig. The only catch is that you can only use it on one visit (big deal… don’t drink alone…) and it expires in January. I’d say it’s a hell of a deal, especially considering that The Muddy Pig has such a great selection of beer.

Anyway, I’ll shut up now and give you the link.