Kare 11‘s Boyd Huppert was at Surly Brewing this past Friday night during a facility tour filming footage for a story he’s working on. Preliminary word is that this story will air on Thursday, May 14, but I imagine that is subject to change. Keep it on your radar screen. I tried to get my ugly mug in every shot I could. Hi mom! What a dolt.
Category: general beer
Pig Happenings
The engine is running, Vanberg & DeWulf stop by, and the Pig celebrates 7 years.
Beer Lovers,
The cask conditioned beer is flowing again at The Muddy Pig. A shortage of product in the market kept our beer engine dry for a couple of weeks but things are looking good again. We are pulling pints of Surly’s Bitter Brewer but it won’t last long. Stop in soon to enjoy this incredibly easy drinking beer from our friends at Surly.
Our next event is scheduled for Tuesday, May 19 with the beers from importer Vanberg & DeWulf. We will be sampling 8 great Belgian beers from brewers Brasserie Dupont, Brasserie Castelain, Brasserie Dubuisson and Brouwerij Slaghmuylder. Seating is limited as always so plan on purchasing your tickets in advance at The Pig. The fun starts at 7pm and the cost is just $20 for the tasting, education and food by Oscar.
And it is never too early to start planning for The Muddy Pig’s 7th Birthday Bash on Saturday, June 27. Once again all draft beers will be ½ price all day long. I know it’s crazy but that’s just what we do.
Cheers,
Mark
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…And Yet Another Cask (Fass) for the MNBeer Party Saturday!
August Schell Brewing Company is providing a fas of Zommerfest for the MNBeer party tomorrow. Mmmm. Can’t wait! See you there!
WSJ & Beer?!
For those of you unfortunate souls who don’t have the luxury of sitting on your soft butts in expensive chairs, feet comfortably propped up on disregarded Ponzi-scheme proposals, eating doughnuts and drinking fru-fru coffee purchased with TARP money, idly chatting about the plight of the common man, and perusing the daily paper favored by fat-cat financiers (the Wall Street Journal) like myself, I’d like to point you to a pretty good article in today’s online WSJ focusing on Lambics. I’d like to thank Half-Caff-Double-Donut-Frazier for bringing this to my attention. It’s got nothing to do with Minnesota Beer, but it does make for a good read and I hope you enjoy it. I’ve seen an increasing number of craft beer related stories in the WSJ and similar periodicals. I guess that means it’s a legitimate industry for today’s Gordon Gekko to exploit. Interestingly enough, many of the more recent stories have touched on the relative health of the craft beer industry in the broad economic malaise.