Category: general beer
Who’s going to Great Taste?
Dawn and I are taking Friday off of work and rolling into Madison sometime during the day. I think we’re going to visit Leinenkugel’s on our way (as we’ve both never been there) and then spend the rest of the day in Madison. We don’t have any hard-set plans, though I’d like to venture over to the Great Dane at one point or another. We’re staying at the Sheraton near the event.
In any case, dear readers, who else is going? Where are you staying?
Local hop growing efforts highlighted in Strib.
Great story in today’s Strib about local hop growing efforts, with tons of insight by Minnesota homebrewers. Thanks to Don for bringing this to my attention.
Brewers hop to it.
The grow-your-own movement now extends to hops, as a worldwide shortage has prompted home brewers to add a new crop to their gardens.
By Bill Ward
The Willamette vine made it; the other two croaked. His fiancée ran over the Nugget with the lawn mower, and “the Centennial, I found out, had been planted on top of an ant mound,” said David Toews of Minneapolis. Such are the pitfalls of a new gardening project.
So, are we talking heirloom tomatoes? Exotic melons? Actually, this is another type of vine providing something that won’t be found at any farmers’ market.
Hops.
Click here for the full story.
Beer in Pi Press
Couple beer-related pieces in the Pioneer Press today, one on the expansion of the craft beer scene, especially “big brews,” and what I thought was a more interesting (and relevant to mnbeer.com) piece on the recently-opened National Brewery Museum in Potosi, WI, including a current exhibit on Minnesota brewing.
Good Sunday reading!