Category: general beer

PedalPub!

By on November 29, 2006in general beer

PedalPub is an upcoming local venture that looks like a lot of fun.

In August, we sent you an email requesting your help to name our new business – a bar on wheels that holds 17 people from the Netherlands. In addition to the choices we sent out – there were MANY very creative alternate names that you all came up with – some we could even print! ;-D But one name emerged as the most popular amongst all the rest. Eric and I are please to announce that the name of our new vehicle is:

(DRUM ROLL PLEASE…..)

THE PEDALPUB

Thanks to all of you who participated and help name our new business! We have incorporated with the State of Minnesota as “PedalPub, LLC” and we are planning on having the PedalPub here by March 1st of 2007.

We are starting this “Friends of the PedalPub” to keep you informed of our progress – and in an attempt to continue to tap your amazing creativity and talent. We will probably send out an email about once every two weeks or so. If you want to be REMOVED from the list, just drop us a note and we’ll take you off. If you know anyone else who would like to get on our list, have them send an email to:

INFO@PEDALPUB.COM

Oh, did we tell you? We have a WEBSITE also – http://www.PedalPub.com! Right now, it’s just a picture of Eric
sitting on the Fietscafe (basically Dutch for PedalPub) when we
visited there in July. But it will be changing right before your eyes into a snappy, snazzy wonder!

YOUR NEXT ASSIGNMENT:
We want to have 4-6 round-trip routes around Minneapolis of 2 hour, 4 hour, or 8 hour durations. The route has to be very flat (the PedalPub doesn’t like hills), it has to have a starting spot with a parking lot for the towing vehicle and trailer, and it has to be scenic, with stops along the way for freshening up (and
RE-freshment-ing up! ;-D) If you know just such a place, email us at INFO@PEDALPUB.COM!

Thanks!

Al Boyce & Eric Olson
PedalPub, LLC proprietors

Minnesota Malting Facility in Cannon Falls to Reopen?

By on November 1, 2006in breweries, general beer

This article sounds interesting, to say the least.

Craig Belser, the founder of Bard’s Tale Beer; Bill Sill, vice president of product and industrial development for Progressive Rail; and Rick Young, CEO of True Source Foods, presented an ambitious plan that starts with reopening the malthouse, and eventually includes the construction of a new brewery and other gluten-free food processing facilities in Cannon Falls. If he’s unable to get the use of the malthouse, Belser said he would take his entire proposal elsewhere.

Pumpkin Ale, Kolsch and Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale at Fitger’s

By on October 25, 2006in brewpubs, general beer

What?! Someone else’s beer at Fitger’s? Yes indeed. Read on:

Hi
Fitgers Brewhouse here with the latest.

Today we put a guest tap on. Something we do rarely. Our friends at Sierra Nevada in California squirreled away 2 kegs of Harvest Ale for us. Harvest Ale is a draft only beer made once a year by Sierra. Harvest is a “wet hop” beer. Wet hop beers use hops right out of the fields. No processing or drying or cureing. In order to get flavor and balance out of these hops about 20 times more must be used. this makes an expensive and labor intensive work of art. We will pour out two kegs of this elixir starting Tuesday Oct 24th. Don’t miss a very rare style of pale ale. The only other example in Minnesota comes out of Town Hall in Minneapolis if you where lucky enough to try Mikes then compare the two.

We are also releasing two more beers this week

Thursday Oct 26 will make the 2006 release of Devil’s Track Pumpkin Ale. We have limited grolwers of this nitro pumpkin ale (around 100) first come first served. The ale uses about 120 lbs of pumpkin infused with a malty red ale.

Friday Oct 27 we will release
Kamloops Kolsch
A German style ale fermented cool and slow to give a lager/fruit type ester. A great alternative to Golden ale.

As always thank you for your continued support.

Cheers
The Brewhouse Gang