Minnesota’s newest microbrewery, Lift Bridge Brewery, will be at Flat Earth Brewing Co. in St. Paul today (Thursday), brewing their first batch of beer for distribution, Farm Girl Saison. Join them for a toast to celebrate just before 5:00 pm. Flat Earth will be open from 4:00 – 6:00 for growler sales.
Let’s give a warm welcome to our newest brewery. I wish them the very best of luck! Dan tells me that they’ll be at Autumn Brew Review, and I look forward to trying their beer.
The second annual Byggvir’s Big Beer Cup beer competition will take place over over Labor Day. Brewers – you’ve got until August 23rd to enter your beers. Get to it!
Beer judges… you’re needed!
This year’s MN State Fair Competition had an overwhelming number of entries and as such, they really need more judges for this weekend! If you can help, please sign up here NOW!
Chad Bacon, self-described “licensed pseudo meteorologist” at Town Hall is reporting a major summer Thunderstorm headed our way next week. If I recall from similar past weather events, it usually involves copius amounts of honey, orange peel, lemongrass and Belgian candy sugar, but it does tend to knock one senseless, so maybe my memory isn’t serving me correctly. I’ll leave it to the professionals to describe:
The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the following counties, Carver, Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington. Doppler radar and trained weather spotters have observed rotation with baseball size hail and winds in excess of 85 mph. The track of the storm has followed a path from Meeker through Kandiyohi counties with a straight easterly track. This storm is extremely dangerous capable of producing a swath of misery, silliness and frivolity, simply taking shelter is not an option. The National Weather Service strongly recommends enjoying a cool pull, good friends and a quiet prayer as this life altering event approaches. The damage of this storm will be massive, so please join weather geeks, at Town Hall on the 18th at 5:00pm. It is not a matter of if the T-Storm will hit it is a matter of when.
Chad Bacon Pint Club Member, Licensed Pseudo
Meteorologist at THB
Oh yeah, and the annual pig roast and bocce tourney is happening this weekend.
The time has come for another pig roast and bocce ball tourney- This coming weekend have some Brewers grain fed roasted pork Sat starting at 4pm.
If you still want to play bocce we would love to have you. I think we still have room for 5 teams and if they fill up you are playing for a $1000 prize! call a manager for info (612.339.8696)
I ran into an alarmed blog post or two (via east-lake.net) regarding the PedalPub and it’s fate in Minneapolis. I dropped Al a line to check on this and you’ll be glad to know that the hearing was actually just a meeting to discuss regulating the PedalPub. Al says there are no changes in store for now, and probably nothing until next year. He also mentioned that creating regulations will be a collaboration between the city and the PedalPub that he expects “will go smoothly and professionally.”Fear not pedalers!