In case you couldn’t make it to Barley John’s New Year’s Eve dinner, you have another chance coming up to enjoy some of their tasty fare at a special time. Sunday, January 20th they will be offering a Sunday Night Supper with your choice of Handmade Chicken Potpie, Family Style Roast Beef or a vegetarian option (TBD). All meals are served with homestyle sides, salad and choice of dessert. Reservations are recommended. Call for available times and price.
Whether you make it to the Supper or not, stop on by soon to enjoy their current seasonal – Belgian Dubbel weighing in at 6.8% abv.
News & Updates
No More Surly Tours Until Spring
I’ll take the lack of access in exchange for more beer. From the Surly MySpace page:
NO TOURS UNTIL SPRING 2008! We are cutting out the floors, taking walls down and adding 6 more brewing tanks. Because of all the construction, we will not be having any tours until the Spring of 08. That means no group tours or private tours. Sorry folks.
Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha
Greetings and Happy New Year!
We are looking for volunteers to help steward and judge the 2008 Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha in the Twin Ports of Duluth MN and Superior WI. The competition is set for February 8-9, 2008 and will be held at the Belgian Club in Superior, WI. Following the flights on Friday night, there will be an indoor pub crawl featuring samples of our local brewpub favorites. Saturday evening will have the awards ceremony at the Belgian Club, followed by a party at Thirsty Pagan Brewing.
To volunteer steward or judge, please visit our website at:
www.northernalestars.org/greatnorthernbrewhaha.htmlBeginning January 14th entries will be accepted for the 2008 Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha sponsored by the Northern Ale Stars Homebrewers Guild from the Twin Ports of Duluth, MN and Superior WI. The Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha is the second leg of the 2008 Midwest Homebrewer of the Year award.
There will be prizes and medals for all 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners as well as Best of Show, novice, best brew name and our very own “Snowblower Brew” (you know, the brew you grab after a long day of cleaning up after a blizzard!). In addition, the Best of Show winner will have the opportunity to brew their winning entry on a grand scale, and have it featured, at Thirsty Pagan Brewing in Superior, WI.
To save on shipping costs, entries may be dropped off at the Upper Mississippi Mash-Out in St. Paul, MN on January 25-26, 2008. Or, they can be dropped off at the Thirsty Pagan Brewing in Superior, WI any time between January 14th and February 1st.
Cheers!
Dan Slick
Judge/Steward coordinator
Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha
Herkimer Hiring Headbrewer
Love brewing lagers? This might just be for you then. Oh, you should be good at it too.
The Herkimer Pub and Brewery, a well-established, financially stable Brewpub in the thriving Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, is looking for a Head Brewer. The current Brewer is leaving in February for another opportunity; however, we would like to hire immediately to minimize baton-passing issues. We produce approximately 900 bbls per annum on a 10 hl Beraplan brewhouse (3 vessel system). We specialize in German-style products and have won GABF gold medals for our Kellerbier and Alt; the ideal candidate will have the abilities and desire to expand on this tradition. This is a hands-on processing situation – the brewery is on two levels, so one must be able to climb stairs carrying 55 lb sacks of grain. Mechanical abilities would be a plus, as would experience in lager brewing and brewing and/or science education. Pay and benefits are competetive.
This is a stable job in a fun urban environment, hours are flexible within reason and we plan to add tankage and bring on an assistant in the near future. Please apply by sending resume, references and cover letter to blake@theherkimer.com.
An update from Brau Brothers Brewing Co.
Here’s note from Dustin Brau from Brau Brothers Brewing Co., a Minnesota brewery…
We have started to ship the Frame Straightener! By the end of the week, well over half of our entire production of this ale will be on store shelves or on tap. If you need help finding a retailer, let me know. We will begin production of the next Single Batch Series beer next week, I have an idea of what it will be but I am still open to ideas. I’m going to bust open a couple growlers of the dubbel and trippel I found that we brewed back in ’04. Depending on what we think about it, we may bring it back to Winterfest this Feb. Also, we finally got the Brau Gear section of the website up and running. Just in time for Christmas – 2008! Now we are not only the number 1 brewery in Lucan, but also t he number 1 textile exporter.
Cheers from the little brewery on the prairie,
Dustin
Dustin… save me a shirt!