News & Updates

Barley John’s 13th Anniversary Celebration

Barley John’s is celebrating 13 years and giving you presents like growler and pitcher specials. Check out all the details.

It is our 13th Anniversary, and we’re ready to party with you! (Who said 13 is an unlucky number?)

This year we’re starting the celebration on Tuesday the 12th with a growler sale that lasts through Saturday.

Saturday, the actual day of our anniversary, we will have a special Irish menu available in addition to our regular menu. Also, all pitchers of our Pub-Brewed Beer will be $13. (or less)

Sunday the 17th, St. Patrick’s Day, we are doing something truly special: We’re opening our doors! Starting at noon and going until 9pm we will be serving our Irish Menu. We will be open until 1am. Party with us on a rare and auspicious OPEN SUNDAY! Happy Hour all day if you’re wearing green!

Growler Sale – Get $3 off a Growler of the following Pub-Brewed Beers:
Stockyard IPA
Wild Brunette
Steam Train
Sour Mash Rye
Kaffir Pale Ale
Grätzer
Doppelbock
And starting Friday: 13th Anniversary Ale

Get $1 off: Little Barley Bitter

When you purchase any 3 growlers, get an extra $1 off

Chop & Brew: New Locally Produced Homebrew Podcast

Chop AND Brew? We’re listening.

Chop & Brew is a new webcast produced by Chip Walton, former video nerd for Northern Brewer and Brewing TV. He’s now working a full-time day job at Summit Brewing Company and producing this beer and food vodcast in his free time. To learn more about the show’s mission statement, see this link for an interview with Chip by Minnesota Beer Activists’ Andrew Schmitt.

C&B is already three episodes deep so there’s some catching up to do:
Episode 01 “Two Reds are Better Than One” was the “pilot episode” and resulted in two homebrewed red ales.
Episode 03 “Brewing for 311 and Dre Day” was released this week. In it we join the C&B Crew as they homebrew three ales in tribute to the band 311 and a malt liquor that was a part of the recent Dre Day party at Triple Rock Social Club.

We’ll embed Episode 02 here because… well, beacuse they’re “Makin’ Bacon!” And bacon is goooooood. Check out Drew Flaten from the kitchen crew at Northbound Smokehouse & Brewpub droppin’ some mad science on making bacon at home.

As we did with Brewing TV episodes, we’ve invited Chip to post his episodes here at MNBeer. He expects the release schedule to be every other Friday.

Chop for Chop, Brew for Brew!

Lyndale Tap House Brooklyn Beer Dinner Tonight

The Lyndale Tap House in Lyn-Lake is having a Brooklyn Beer dinner tonight (March 12, 2013) at 6pm. It’s four courses and $40 – pretty reasonable, if you ask me.

Check out their Facebook page for more information and the tasty details. Call to make reservations: 612-825-6150.

And have you seen their new t-shirt design by Chuck U? It’s almost as great as the stuff he did for Indeed.