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Beer Dabbler at Pride This Weekend

By on June 18, 2012in beer events, breweries, brewpubs

In case you hadn’t heard, The Beer Dabbler is hooking up with one of the nation’s largest Pride festivals with a beer & food truck throwdown fit for… well… you. And you and you and you… In any case, it’s this weekend, and you’d be missing out if you weren’t there. 5:30 – 9:30pm in Loring Park, Minneapolis. Tickets are $35 in advanced or $45 at the gates.

  • Access to one of the largest gatherings of Minnesota’s favorite Food Trucks
  • A chance to try some very special food & beer pairings – each Food Truck will offer one menu item specially paired with a local brew. Paired menu items will be $3 each. (Food not included in the ticket price.)
  • Entertainment including DJ Jake Rudh & Apollo Cobra on the Lavender Magazine stage and a chance to dance to your own beat at The Schell’s Silent Disco
  • Games and activities – including a Stanley’s Barroom Dunk Tank with proceeds benefitting The Finnegan’s Community Fund and Real Pirates Treasure Hunt presented by The Science Museum of Minnesota

Pairing rundown? Okay… Whose idea was it for me to go out of town this weekend?!?!

SurlyFest

By on June 17, 2012in beer events
SurlyFest is back, Sept. 22, from 2-6:17 p.m. A regular ticket gets you a commemorative half-liter SurlyFest stein and 4 beer tokens, and a designated driver ticket gets you 2 soda tokens. There’ll be bike parking, live music, food vendors, and of course, beer, including the release of SurlyFest.
SurlyFest is brewed with three different types of Rye and a single variety of American Hops. Malted Rye, Flaked Rye, and Crystal Rye impart a distinctive biscuit flavor to the lush Vienna Malt body, and dry-hopping with Sterling Hops adds bright, floral hop aromas.What:
5th Annual SurlyFest

When:
Saturday, September 22, 2:00 pm – 6:17 pm

Where:
Surly Brewing Co.
4811 Dusharme Dr.
Brooklyn Center, MN

Tickets:
Tickets are SOLD OUT!

Regular Ticket: $35/each for 4 beer tokens, a SurlyFest stein and admittance
Designated Driver Tickets: $10/each for 2 soda tokens and admittance
Note: Beer tokens will NOT be available for purchase at the event.

Live Music:
The Goondas, Koo Koo Kanga Roo and Abstract Artimus

Summit Beer Dinner at Barrio

By on June 16, 2012in beer dinners, beer events

There are still a few seats left for the Summit beer dinner at Cocina del Barrio in Edina.

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Passed appetizers with Saga IPA

1st Course: Diver scallop ceviche with orange, cucumber, cilantro and avocado with Summit Pilsener

2nd Course: Squash blossom rellenos with local goat cheese, pickled onion and pumpkin seed mojo with Summit EPA

3rd Course: Compart Family Farms pork tenderlion with swiss chard, new potato, pig cheek carnitas and manchamanteles mole with Unchained: Dunkel Weizen

4th Course: Creekstone Farms natural ribeye with chipotle, smoked onion, maitake mushrooms and huitlacoche with Summit Great Northern Porter

Dessert: Chocolate tres leches with toasted hazelnuts and cherries with Summit Oatmeal Stout

Cost: $55/person
Reservation form

Brewing TV #64 – Tallgrass Brewing Company

By on June 15, 2012in beer travels, breweries, Features, general beer, homebrew, video

Brewing TV takes Manhattan… Kansas! BTV visits Tallgrass Brewing Company, where they find themselves happily surrounded by good people, great beer and a lot of homebrew equipment. While Dawson brews a freestyle small-batch collaboration beer with head brewer Andrew Hood, Jake talks with Tallgrass founder Jeff Gill about the brewery’s evolution, off-beat brands and new Northern Brewer Pro Series Beer Kits. (Drinking game included. Critical!)

Don’t forget – there’s also a release party tonight (Friday, June 15th) at the Nomad