You probably heard about the recent fire in one of the old Hamm’s Brewery buildings. Sometime before that, a group of Twin Cities urban adventurers, The Action Squad paid the old brewery a visit. Though many of us never had a chance to visit the brewery (and never will, for that matter) we can live vicariously through the Action Squad. They’ve got some great photos of the innards of this wonderful old Minnesota landmark.

You may or may not have seen these two sites before… regardless, Minneapolis Happy Hour and St. Paul Happy Hour are good resources for info on happy-hour drinky-drink discount information. And after a hard week of not working, I’m about ready for a Friday happy hour.

MNBeer.com is looking for a handful of individuals to take part in keeping MNBeer.com fresh. Basically we’re looking for people that enjoy beer as much as we do. Members will add cool links, news and events to the main page of the site. Homebrew club members are especially encouraged to take part as are folks from outside of the Twin Cities.

Requirements? A drive to share cool beer-related information as well as the ability to write in complete sentences. Tough, eh? Right now we’re using Blogger to manage the main page so you really don’t need any technical skills to take part… if you can remember a username and password, you meet our “requirements!”

Benefits? Right. We’ll hook you up with an @mnbeer.com e-mail address and any other MNBeer.com swag as it comes along. You have our blessing to try to impress members of the opposite sex by mentioning, “I’m from MNBeer.com…” Uh, good luck with that.

Anyway, if you’d like to take part, drop us a line.

Arcadia Brewing Company, Battle Creek, MI

August Schell Brewing Company, New Ulm, MN

Avery Brewing Company, Boulder, CO

Bandana Brewery, Mankato, MN

Barley John’s Brewpub, New Brighton, MN

Big Sky Brewing Company, Missoula, MT

Boulevard Brewing Company, Kansas City, KS

Breckenridge Brewery, Denver, CO

City Brewing, LaCrosse, WI

Fitger’s Brewhouse, Duluth, MN

Finnegan’s Irish Amber, Minneapolis, MN

Granite City Food & Brewery, St Cloud, MN

Great Divide Brewing Company, Denver, CO

Great Waters Brewing Company, St Paul, MN

Lakefront Brewery, Milwaukee, WI

Lake Superior Brewing Company, Duluth, MN

Leinenkugel Brewing Company, Chippewa Falls, WI

Mantorville Brewing Company, Mantorville, MN

Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, Minneapolis, MN

O’Hara’s Brew Pub, St Cloud, MN

Pig’s Eye Brewing Company, St Paul, MN

Rock Bottom Brewery, Minneapolis, MN

Rush River Brewing company, Maiden Rock, WI

Sleeman Breweries, LaCrosse, WI

South Shore Brewery, Ashland, WI

Stevens Point Brewery, Steven’s Point, WI

St. Croix Beer Company, St Paul, MN

Summit Brewing Company, St Paul, MN

Surley Brewing Company, Brooklyn Center, MN

Viking Brewing Company, Dallas, WI

White Winter Winery, Iron River, WI

Get your tickets!

Very nice. I guess I’ll have to start making my Xmas list early this year, cuz the Six Pack BYO Bag is crying out to me. It’s made of neoprene to keep the brews cool and ready to roll in style. Pretty cool.