Category: general beer

Tickets for Belgian Beer Seminars on Sale NOW

By on August 18, 2008in general beer

Oh man these look sweet! Stop in to the Muddy Pig to get your tickets!

Beer Lovers,
Tickets are now available for the seminars to be held in conjunction with The Muddy Pig’s Belgian Beer Festival.
Session 1:  Friday, September 12 @ 5:00pm.  Belgian Beer Styles
Session 2:  Saturday, September 13 @ Noon.  True Lambics
Session 3:  Sunday, September 14 @ Noon.  Belgian Beer Culture
Each seminar will be hosted by a Belgian beer authority, will last about 1 hour and will include samples.  The cost is $20 per session or $50 for all three.  Space is very limited and all sessions will likely sell out quickly.
The Pig will be open normal business hours throughout the weekend and we will be serving over 40 different Belgian and Belgian-style beers on draft.

Who’s going to Great Taste?

By on August 3, 2008in general beer

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.

By on July 31, 2008in general beer, homebrew

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.