For a bit of levity, check out this story about a “space beer” developed by Sapporo. Let the lame one-liners come forth!
Disclaimer – this has nothing to do with Minnesota Beer, unless the International Space Station plummets to Earth, turning our fine state into a smoking crater.
Did you get your hands on the hottest ticket of the day? Unofficial reports say Winterfest tickets sold out in 6-8 minutes. Whether you need to drown your sorrows because you were unable to get ’em or you’d like to celebrate, stop on over at Flat Earth for some brew to cure what ails you.
Week 5 of Porterfest brings another new infusion! Bravado is a cherry-fudge infusion.
We’ll also have the following goodies for sale:
Belgian Pale Ale
Cygnus X-1 Porter
Curly Tail Ale
Bermuda Triangle Triple
Black Helicopter Coffee Stout
Oatmeal Stout
Bravado – Cherry-Fudge Cygnus
Join Lift Bridge Brewery at The Chef’s Gallery in Stillwater Friday night for good eats and great beer.
The Lift Bridge crew is dedicated to eating and drinking with the utmost regard to pleasure – pure and simple! Learn about the brewing process and beer ingredients while sampling several distinct Lift Bridge beers that you will learn to taste from a culinary standpoint from the characters who brew it! They will prepare some of their favorite tailgating foods: Brad’s Famous Bloody Mary Bar, Crosscut Pork Lollipops (made with Crosscut Pale Ale), Bacon-wrapped Jalepeno Poppers, Mini Blucy Burgers (inspired by friends and owners of The Blue Door Pub in St. Paul), and Fall-spiced Vegetable Skewers, made with exclusively local produce.
Have you ever heard of the Brookston Beer Bulletin? Yeah, me neither. Regardless, they’ve compiled one of those end-of-the-year must haves, a top ten list.
According to author Jay Brooks, the 10 most important and influential breweries that began within the last ten years, belong mostly to the West Coast, but our very own Surly Brewing got awarded #6. Here’s the full article and list.
Regardless of what I might think my choice of beer says about me or what your choice of beer says about you, this is serious stuff to the people whose job it is to figure out what I drink, why I drink it and how that might influence my choices about new products coming on the market. Of course the folks I’m talking about are the ones who are in charge of advertising.
Check out this article from Advertising Age. You’ll have to scroll down most of the way to get to the section on craft beer drinkers, although some of the findings about certain macro drinkers is at least mildly interesting.