The first annual St. Paul Santa Pub Crawl will take place on Wednesday, Decenber 16th, 2009. This is a charity event for Toys for Tots. $20 gets you on the bus and $20 and a toy to donate gets you complimentary drink tickets. The bus will take you to Groveland Tap, Tiffany’s, O’Gara’s, Eagle Street, Mancini’s, Shamrock’s and Billy’s. Specials at each bar! Prizes for best costume! (Including naughty and nice! “You must be in costume!” (?)) Sign up at any location.
News & Updates
Fulton Meet and Greet at 3 Squares
Fulton Beer will be on hand to meet and greet the guests of 3 Squares Restaurant on Tuesday, December 15th from 6-9 p.m. Meet the brewers and enjoy $2 taps of Sweet Child of Vine IPA and walk away with some sweet Fulton swag.
Belgian tasting at France 44
France 44 Wines & Spirits is holding a free Belgian beer tasting on December 11th and will run from 4-7pm. Jason Wallace from Merchant du Vin will be on hand to answer any questions.
Flat Earth Saturday Growlers
Just a quick reminder we’ll be open noon – 3 p.m. tomorrow. We have a brewery tour at 4 p.m. and then we open up for sales again at about 4:30.
Cheers!
We’ll have:
Angry Planet Pale Ale
Belgian Pale Ale
Curly Tail Ale
Oatmeal Stout
Black Helicopter Coffee Stout
Bermuda Triangle Triple
Bravado – Cherry Chocolate infused Cygnus
Granite City Batch 1000
Bob McKenzie from Granite City dropped us a line with the lowdown on Batch 1000, which will be tapped at all Granite City locations on Monday. Assuming MNBeer Jr. doesn’t arrive this weekend, I’ll be crossing the street after work on Monday for a sample in St. Louis Park.
…this is either a Huge IPA, or a Light Double IPA, depending on your 1/2 full or 1/2 empty view point. We brewed it with large amounts of Cascade and Summit hops. The Summit was primarily for bittering, then the Cascade for Flavor/aroma and dry hopping. For malt we used a mix of 2 row, dark crystal and wheat malts. It has an OG of 1068, the fermentations have proceeded nicely, it turns out our yeast likes hops as much as our brewers, and we are looking at a finishing strength of around 7.5% abv.
If folks haven’t been to a Granite City for a while the beer should be a worthwhile reason to stop in. We still fill growlers for $5 on Tuesday’s and Thursdays, so choose your day and save some cash. One final request, if you enjoy this beer please let the management at the restaurant know.
Thanks,
Bob McKenzie,
Brewery Field Manager