Buster’s beer special of the week: $4 pints of Rodenbach Grand Cru. While you’re there have some of their fresh cut potato chips with French onion dipping sauce…heavenly!
News & Updates
MNBeer survey closed…
…thanks for playing along at home. Winners have been notified by e-mail and I’ll have shirts processed as soon as I receive mailing addresses.
Cheers!
Ratebeer loves Minnesota-made beer
Nice honors from Ratebeer.com for a handful of Minnesota beers and breweries…
Best Beers of the United States 2008: #2 Surly Darkness, #29 Surly Barrel-Aged Darkness, #32 Barley John’s The Dark Night Returns
Top 100 Brewers in the World 2008: #11 Surly Brewing Co., #31 Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, #40 Barley John’s Brew Pub
Best Beers in the World by Style Category 2008: #3 Surly Bourbon One (Bocks), #1 Surly Coffee Bender (American Brown Ales & English Milds), #5 Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery India Brown Ale (American Brown Ales & English Milds), #4 Surly Darkness (Stouts), #4 Surly SurlyFest (Dark Lagers).
Best Beers in the World Overall 2008: #5 Surly Darkness, #37 Surly Barrel-Aged Darkness, #77 Barley John’s The Dark Night Returns, #85 Barley John’s Barrel-Aged Rosie’s Ale (Batch 2)
Congrats!
Borrowed feed problem solved…
Long story short, Dave tipped me off to a site that was automatically pulling posts from both MNBeer.com and RealBeer.com’s “Beer Therapy” blog. I heard back from the owner of the site and the content has been removed. Apparently this “feature” was pre-loaded into WordPress by a previous owner of the site. I’m glad that the action to correct the mess was taken so quickly.
You see this sort of thing on the web from time to time and it’s frustrating when it happens to you. I don’t pretend to be a journalist or an author, but I still feel the need to protect the hard work that all of us at MNBeer do.
There are a couple of sites that have MNBeer as part of a big group of aggregated feeds. The difference, in those situations, is that they asked permission beforehand and proper credit as well as a link back to each and every post is given. For whatever reason, that didn’t happen in this case.
…but… it’s done. Water under the bridge, I hope. Let’s drink some beer… or wine, even. I’ve got a spare 1/4 bottle of Coppola Cabernet just waiting for Dawn and I to drink it. The other 3/4 of a bottle is in a mason jar with strips of a French oak barrel for an upcoming homebrew project. Yup. Cabernet Stout. It was tasty at Town Hall… hopefully I can come up with something tasty as well.
Flat Earth tour
Head down to Flat Earth Brewing Co. for a tour!