Category: general beer

PedalPub Update

By on January 10, 2007in general beer

News from the PedalPub guys:

JANUARY 2007

It’s getting exciting! As of Friday, we’ll have our new business phone number – 952-703-9000. Our purchase agreement is being finalized, with a March 1 planned delivery date. We also met with Paul Selcke, proprietor of CycleSeven.com”, who has been running a seven-person conference bike in Minneapolis for about 14 months. Paul was VERY helpful, and we look forward to partnering with him on several events in the future.

And we’ve narrowed our logo down to two choices. A VISUAL question for you this time: DROP US A NOTE and tell us which one you like best! We’ll call them “THE TRIANGLE” and “THE SCROLL”. (see attachments.) Tell us what you like (or dislike) about each one.

Thanks so much for all our leads with people in the city government, police department, and parks department last month! We have contacted many of them, and many of them are excited about the PedalPub, and are helping us on our way. And one of your leads was a channel 9 reporter who wants to do a story on us. Woo hoo!

Our website is still under construction, but at least the one we have up now is a little more graphical. Stop in once in a while to check our progress!

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January Boiler Now Available…

By on January 5, 2007in general beer, homebrew

Yes, another late post…

The January issue of THE BOILER, the newsletter of the Minnesota Home Brewers Association, is now online at: http://www.mnbrewers.com/newsletters/2007/2007_01.pdf

Take note: Their article on Winterfest mentions that the attending breweries will include Rock Bottom, Herkimer, Fitger’s, Barley John’s, Town Hall, Summit, Brau Brothers, Mantorville, O’Hara’s, Surly, Great Waters and August Schell. We can neither confirm or deny that list (we’re too lazy), but at least a couple of those breweries/brewpubs have been absent from recent Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild fests…

Cask Surly at the Happy Gnome

By on December 27, 2006in general beer

I’m not sure if I’ll be present, but Surly will have a cask of Bender at the Happy Gnome Wednesday night as part of a kick-off for the introduction of cask beer at the Happy Gnome.

Get Tea-Bagged for free tomorrow! Come on down to the Happy Gnome in St.
Paul, Wednesday the 27th, to grab a free glass of Surly’s Bender Beer on
Cask. This little guy has been sitting on a pound of Amarillo hops for a
couple weeks and should be crowd pleaser. We are at the Happy Gnome to help
kick off their cask beer program. To help celebrate, the Gnome is giving a
pair of tickets away to our Anniversary dinner coming up on the 10th of
January. For our 1st Anniversary Dinner, all our beers should be available,
Bender, Furious, Coffee Bender, Darkness, Bourbon Bender and our newest beer – one.

In addition to the cask of Bender, Coffee Bender will be on tap tomorrow.
Tapping happens at 9:00, show up early to get a free drink ticket.

Who’s going?

Like I Said, Beer is the Best Gift…

By on December 27, 2006in general beer

Hopefully everyone had a great holiday and received plenty beer and beer-related gifts. Among other things, I received some nice (huge) mugs from my mom as well as Ray Daniels’ Designing Great Beers, a nice thermometer and a growler pack from Town Hall. Much to my surprise, my brother’s girlfriend joined us on the 25th with a bunch of beer from New Glarus. Clearly, she’s a keeper… and she brings good beer. 🙂