McCann’s Food & Brew released Spaltfest today. Spaltfest is a celebration of St. Cloud’s sister city Spalt, Germany Which is in the Bavarian region. Spalt is known as the “city of hops”. This octoberfest style lager highlights the Spalt variety of hops and is a little more hop foward than most octoberfests. 100% German malt rounds out the character of this brew. Ein prosit!
News & Updates
Be’wiched Beer Dinner–correction
The dates for the remaining Be’wiched beer dinners were mixed up a little–next week will actually feature the beers of Snake River Brewing Company, while Flat Earth will be at the one on 30th. Below is the info for the one on the 23rd. Click here for info on the event on the 30th. Sorry for the confusion!
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Explore the US microbrew scene with Michael Gottschalk of Snake River Brewing as you enjoy a specialty dinner prepared by chefs Matt Bickford & Mike Ryan of Be’wiched Deli.
Tickets are $35 per person–or reserve a table of four and pay only $30 per person. Reserve yours today by calling the deli at 612-767-4330.
Flat Earth Thursday Growlers
Today is Constitution Day! Here’s a quick link to Our Constitution. Why not swing by the brewery and pick up a growler of fresh Flat Earth beer and sit at home and refresh yourself on our Constitution and beer?
Tonight we’ll have:
Belgian Pale Ale
Bermuda Triangle Triple
Cygnus X-1 Porter
Element 115 Lager
Mummy Train Pumpkin Ale
Unfiltered Cygnus
Unfiltered 115Cheers!
Jeff
This maybe more my speed.
Beer Dabblin @Groveland Tap
Check out Groveland Tap for their upcoming sampling of beers.
$25 gets you 5 hours of beer tasting, a complimentary tasting glass and the warm glow of do-gooding (partial proceeds of the event will go to Finnegan’s Community Fund).
Click on the image for a (readable) listing of all the breweries that they’ll be pouring beers from.
Surly Wet
[Big thanks to our buddy Chip for providing his first write-up for MNBeer! -ra]
Hopheads, beware. Surly Brewing Company has really gone and done it this time. Last week, the brewery got a fresh delivery of 1,400 lbs. of fresh wet hops (Centennials and Chinooks according to the boxes I saw) from Washington state. And they all went into ONE beer. One 50 lbs. bag at a time. They’re calling this hop monster ‘Surly Wet.’
It took much of the day for head brewer Todd Haug to get all those beautiful babies into a the kettle for steeping and owner Omar Ansari says it took until well past midnight to get them all back out.
Surly Wet is a juicy lupy American IPA. It’s expected to hit taps sometime in October either before or after the American Homebrewers Association Rally, which takes place at the brewery on October 10th. If you love hops, make it a point to track this one down. It will not be canned.
Brewer Todd Haug and Owner Omar Ansari buddy up to dump a 50 lbs. bag of hops into the kettle for steeping.
A look inside the kettle with only 500 of the eventual 1,400 lbs. of hops.