My younger sister rules. If you don’t hear back from me, it’s because I’ve overdosed on hops and hot peppers.

Thanks Stacey.

Somebody at MNBeer.com is slacking this week… anyway, Minneapolis Town Hall released a hefeweizen yesterday and unless people are extremely thirsty, there should be some left for you to go and enjoy.

Next week they’re releasing an Irish Red (as opposed to an “Irish” green beer that you may find at other bars)… March 15th, 5-6pm $1.00 pints…

Say no to green beer.

The following week, TH will be releasing a Dortmunder Lager called “Slamma-Jamma Juice.”

Hey brew lovers, Dave here from the Brewhouse with some news. We continue our stout-a-thon at the Brewhouse with the release of Plymouth Rock Stout. 6.3% We released this beer on cask last week to good response so Monday we will release the CO2 version. An English style robust stout. Less bitter black malt and more crystal malt and a medium bodied middle and an oak laden finish. We are also giving a nod to the Belgians. Currently we are pouring Amsterdam Ale, Blue Label Grand Reserve, and Hair O’ the Monk Triple. We will release El Diablo Strong Golden early next week. El Diablo is a light beer with a secret. It’s 10% alc. Smooth and drinkable but look out. 10 oz pours only, for safety. We will make growlers available of this beer. On Sunday 2/26 we will release Castle Greyskull Pale Ale 6.1% An English style pale this is a companion beer to Castle Danger. Very English in flavor with a crisp dry flavor and a woody finish. Sunday 2/26 also brings the pre-release cask of Gandvik Maple Porter 7.9% A Baltic style strong porter. Dry and roasty/chocolaty with an aroma and flavor of local maple syrup. (Lutsen Maplery) This beer will not see the light of day for a few months. Try the younger cask version this week. It has come to our attention that you would like more Big Boat Stout growlers made available to the public. In response we will ramp up the Big Boat brews and go from 25% of the time growler availability to 75% of the time. We hope this helps. check www.brewhouse.net as always for the latest. Thanks for your awesome support. Cheers The Brewhouse Gang

In case you haven’t yet seen it, there’s a small write-up on Surly in the Rake.

This is cool. Minnesota Home Brewer’s Association President John Longballa will be teaching a beginning homebrewing class at the Science Museum of Minnesota on Thursday, March 16th, from 6-9pm.

I am teaching a beginning brewing class at the Science Museum of Minnesota on Thursday, March 16th from 6:30-9:00. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please have them go to
http://www.smm.org/educationprograms/adult/catalog.php
very soon. We need a few more people to register by Tuesday in order to make the class viable.

Registration may seem steep, but the $110 includes an equipment starter kit and brewing text, while the $60 includes the brewing text. The SMM also needs to cover their overhead. I am not being paid for this; this partially fulfills our obligations to the SMM for the grant project that we participated in.

The class will include a discussion and tasting of a few beer ingredients and styles while we brew a batch of extract beer.

If you know of someone who is interested, please have them contact me if they have other questions.