Northern Brewer is now taking pre-orders for hop rhizomes. Available varieties include Brewer’s Gold, Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, Fuggle, Hallertau, Goldings, Mt. Hood, Nugget, Sterling and Willamette. Personally, I’m thinking about growing some Centennial and Mt. Hood this year.

Have you ever wanted to grow your own hop plants? If so, you will need to
purchase a hop rhizome, which is a root cutting from a female hop plant.
We have a good selection of hop rhizomes to offer this year, and they
are available for pre-order on our website:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/rhizomes.html

This year, we will be shipping rhizomes to you directly from Oregon, in
the heart of hop country. Since hop rhizomes are a living plant, we feel
that this is the best way to get healthy rhizomes from the hop growers in
the Pacific Northwest to your door.

There are shipping restrictions on rhizomes — we can’t send them
internationally, or to Hawaii or Idaho. See our website for details.

Another release from Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, this week, a smoked dunkel weizen. Last week’s Simcoe Pale Ale was awesome. Save some for me you thirsty bastards!

Hey All,
The ESB is about gone, we will release a new beer Wed. 3/1….but keep
this in mind. When the ESB runs dry (probably tonight) we will fill
that line with a few favorites from the cellar until the Wednesday
release. You may want to call and see what treat is available, I don’t think
they will last long.

Our Wednesday release is Smoked Dunkel Weizen, no fancy names here.
This beer speaks for itself. Stop by and have a pint Wednesday, 5-6pm
Smoked Dunkel for $1 per pint. Some of you asked for another
fire…this may be our last chance.

If you’re a member of the American Homebrewers Association, MNBeer.com would like to suggest that you vote for Curt Stock of St. Paul for the 2006 Governing Committee.

I’m out of town and my mom’s wireless connection sucks, but here’s the link to the Star Tribune article about Surly.

This will probably be one for all of us beer nerds to argue about… regardless, the Star Tribune gives us the 10 best beer experiences around the Twin Cities.”

Bonus points if you can guess which ones MNBeer suggested.