Anybody feel like drinking some beer Saturday? We’re giving away a pair of tickets for The Beer Dabbler Showcase on Saturday in St. Paul. Email your name and address to ryan AT mnbeer.com by NOON Tuesday in order to be entered to win. If you don’t win, you won’t hear from us tomorrow. If you do… we’ll e-mail you and send you a pair of tickets ASAP.
On a related note, check out a current (tentative) list of breweries here.
Even if you don’t win, think about joining us Saturday!
Summit will be at The Happy Gnome with a cask of their unfiltered Oatmeal Stout dry-hopped with East Kent Goldings.
Congratulate yourself in making it through Monday by heading over to Town Hall tonight for the release of their Simcoe Double India Brown Ale.
Ngon Vietnamese Bistro will be having a 5 course dinner paired with Lift Bridge beers on Tuesday July 21st on the new garden patio. The menu will consist of ingredients from local farms and markets. The dinner will start at 6pm and seating will be first come first serve. There will be a social hour from 5 to 6pm with happy hour drinks specials. Seats will be limited to 44 and will cost $50 per person.
Menu:
House cured Wild Acres duck prosciutto with swiss chard, snap peas, and Minnesota Tan Vinaigrette
Fischer Farms bacon & daikon cake, sliced radish, & anise cured Salmon with a cilantro sauce
Wild rice crusted Star Prairie Trout with grilled asparagus a rhubarb mango chutney
Thousand Hills short ribs braised in our pho spices with wasabi potatoes and five spice sauce
House made Lift Bridge Biscotti™ ice cream with a currant cookieWe will supply a tap and cask beers from to accompany the dishes above.
When: Tuesday, July 21st, 2009. Social hour @5PM, Dinner at 6PM.
Where: Ngon Vietnamese Bistro, 799 University Ave, St. Paul, MN
Tickets: $50.00 per person. Seating is first come first serve.
Clarification: Call Ngon to make your reservations. It is only the seating that will be on a first come, first serve basis.
If you haven’t made it over to Common Roots yet, you’ve just run out of excuses. Besides great food and a nice patio, they have a great selection of local beers. And now through Sunday, as a way to celebrate 2 years in business, you can get those fine craft brews for just $2 when you mention their 2 year special!
To save you the effort of going to their website to see if there’s enough good stuff on tap here’s their current line up:
Finnegans, irish amber
Lift bridge, cross cut pale ale (just tapped yesterday) & farm girl saison
Point, summer wheat
Summit, oatmeal stout
Surly, coffee bender, cynic ale & furious