News & Updates

Northbound Smokehouse on Beer Geeks TV

northboundThis is cool. Our friends over at Northbound Smokehouse & Brewpub will appear on Beer Geeks TV on November 9th at 12:30am. Locally, the show is on WFTC/Fox 29. To celebrate, Northbound Smokehouse is hosting a pair of special screenings of the episode on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10.

Stop by Northbound to watch the episode – they’ll be offering an extended late night happy hour with $3 house beers from 10 pm to 2 am. And to honor the collaboration with Indeed Brewing, Northbound will also offer a partial “tap takeover” with several special Indeed Brewing beers along with Northbound’s house beers.

“We’re thrilled to be one of the first Minnesota breweries featured on Beer Geeks TV,” said Northbound Smokehouse Co-Owner and General Manager Amy Johnson. “Having recently celebrated our first birthday, it’s quite an honor to receive national attention. We’re also thrilled to share the spotlight with our good friends at Indeed Brewing.

The episode centers on Hot Box, a collaborative beer created by Northbound Smokehouse and Indeed Brewing Company. To create this Imperial Smoked Porter, Northbound hickory smoked 150 pounds of jalapeño and Fresno peppers and cold-smoked malts. The ingredients were then incorporated into the brewing process at Indeed Brewing Co.’s Northeast Minneapolis brewery.

For those unable to attend the late-night screening, Northbound Smokehouse will host two additional screenings on Nov. 10 at 11:00 am and again at 7:00 pm.

“We truly hope that our loyal customers will join us to watch our television debut with us,” said Johnson. “None of this would be possible without their continued support.”

StoutFest VI at The Blue Nile Saturday

Al from the Blue Nile. Photo: Star Tribune

For the sixth year running, The Blue Nile turns their taps over the dark side for one day, celebrating porters and stouts. Look for sample sets –  3 4-ounce pours for $7.
Here’s the line-up this year:

Surly Darkness Russian Imperial Stout
Surly Cacao Bender (Coffee chocolate vanilla brown porter)
Left Coast Voodoo American Stout
Great Lakes/Deschutes Imperial Smoked Porter
Moylan’s Dragoon Irish Dry Stout
Southern Tier Plum Noir Imperial Porter with Italian Plums
Southern Tier Warlock Imperial Pumpkin Stout
Sierra Nevada Narwhal Russian Imperial Stout
Bell’s Java Stout
Bell’s Expedition Stout
Weyerbacher Heresy Russian Imperial Stout
Stone Espresso Imperial Russian Stout

Summit: New Property & Cans… Booya!

Summit 's new label designs.

EPA label

 

The business of my day gig caused me to miss this one in my inbox yesterday. Exciting stuff, folks. As you probably know thanks to our sleuthing, Summit has had some really good things up their collective sleeves as of late, and they continue to step up to the table with more great news…

Yesterday, Summit announced that they’d purchased property adjacent to the brewery that includes a 40,000 s/f building and 3.5 acres of land. More space, more beer, more better. Of course the thing that will likely excite our dear readers is the fact that their new space will include a canning line, sometime in the 2nd quarter of 2014. We’ll see a select number of brands in cans after that point, which begs the question… can they do a nitro/CO2 mix with the new canning line? I’m not going to hold my breathe, but I’d love to see their Oatmeal Stout in cans. 🙂

Congrats Summit!

Darkness Eve at Stub and Herbs

DARKEVEStarting at 8pm, Stub & Herbs will celebrate the eve of Surly Darkness day with a whole lotta’ Surly and a whole lotta’ dark beers. Here’s the list thus far, along with 5 minutes of Photoshop madness just because I love you.

Surly:
Darkness 2012
Darkness 2013
El Hefe Negro
Damien 2013
Syx
Seviin
SurlyFest
Dumpster Fire

Deschutes:
Black Butte XXV
Abyss 2012
Abyss 2013

Goose Island:
BCS
Big John

Green Flash Double Stout
Indeed Haywire
Founder RIS
Fulton War and Peace
Grand Teton Black Cauldron
New Holland Night Tripper
Odell Lugene (nitro)
Stone WootStout
Clown Shoes Porcine
Ommegang Take the Black
Brau Brother Ivan the Great (cask)

…maybe 1 or 2 more as well. Enjoy!