Summit is looking for more enthusiastic fans to become volunteer tour guides! These guides lead our free Saturday public tours, and have a great time telling the Summit story, showing off the beautiful brewery, and pouring samples for the masses. If this sounds like you, please email your letter of interest to info@summitbrewing.com with “Tour Guide” in the subject line. Cheers!
Month: September 2007
Autumn Brew Review T-shirt Winners…
Congrats to Cory, Joe and Christopher… your shirts will be in the mail soon… you’ll either get a lovely t-shirt from MNBeer or one from our friends at the PedalPub.
Yesterday was truly a blur… I had my first sample at about 11:30am (Coffee Bender… heavy on the coffee… mmm…) and proceeded to touch base with many old and new friends. I met a number of people for the first time and was truly humbled by all of the nice things people had to say about the site. It was a good day… one of jokes and insults and many, many good beers. Many thanks to Laura and the entire Minnesota Craft Brewer’s Guild for putting the event together and putting up with my stupid questions. Thanks to the new MNBeer contributors, the people who filled my tasting glass while I wanted in line for another beer and the people who saved a spot for me near the front of the line in too many of the “special releases.” Thanks to Jeff for rolling out with some spectacular non-Minnesota beer even with a kid in the hospital. Thanks everyone, really…
I’ll go through the program again later and reflect on a few of my favorites from the day and provide a little feedback on what I thought went well, what I thought didn’t work and where there might be room for improvement. I have a few pictures, too, though the rain kept me from going too crazy. Overall, like many an Autumn Brew Review, I had a great time and look forward to the next big beer event in Minnesota.
Cellar’s in Eagan has Tyranena
I spoke with Jason at The Cellar’s in Eagan yesterday and found out that they do currently have Tyranena beer. Although I don’t recall all of the ones he mentioned there were at least six including Bitter Woman IPA, Rocky’s Revenge and Hop Wh0re Imperial IPA. So after I’ve teased my tastebuds sampling their fine beers at ABR today I just might have to head over there and pick some up.
(More) Surly news
“Stop with all the Surly news already,” you might be saying. But they keep sending it to us, so we’ll keep printing it. And they keep making good beer, so we keep drinking it. Maybe if we all stopped drinking their beer they’d stop making it, and therefore stop sending us news.
God, I hope not.
Hello Surly Nation,
I hope you got your tickets to Autumn Brew Review, ‘cause it’s sold out and we’re bringing out the big guns.
Here is our pouring schedule for the fest:Limited QuantitiesVIP Oak Aged Cask Bender1:30
Dahmer2:30
Bourbon One3:30
Barrel Aged Darkness4:30
Darkness – 2007 Available All Day(Hopefully)
Coffee Bender Bender Furious CynicSurlyFest Cask Tea- Bagged FuriousWe were planning on pouring oak aged cask furious at 4:30, but Todd drank it all. So instead you will have to settle for a preview of this year’s Darkness.
What’s Dahmer you ask, good question.
I let Todd brew it and name it (remind me not to do that again.)
Anyway, the beer is a Smoked Baltic Porter. It will be released sometime in the next few months as a draft only beer. As our tradition continues at ABR, wear your Surly swag and we’ll give you a pint glass at the fest (while supplies last).We are doing a couple beer tastings tomorrow evening – Thursday, September 27th
#1 – Princeton Liquors in Maple Grove will be hosting a tasting from 4:00-6:30. I will be standing around. Stop by and say hi and check out the 17% discount on all craft beers, including Surly.Princeton Liquors is located on Bass Lake Road just off of 494. These guys have been big fans of Surly and pushing our beer hard in the NW suburbs.
Stop by and say hi and grab some beer.Princeton’s Liquors12790 Bass Lake Road
(763)559-3257
www.princetonsliquors.com.#2 – The second tasting will be taking place at The Liquor Barrel in Golden Valley.
The event starts at 6:30 in Brookview Park in Golden Valley, right across the highway from The Liquor Barrel.
It is an Oktoberfest party of sorts, brats will be grilling and Oktoberfest beers will be poured for sampling.The cost is $5 to get in and you get a couple beer coupons for Oktoberfest beers. Call 763.544.9881 so they know how many brats to get.
Being that the event is happening at a park, I hope the whole Ansari clan will be there. Proceeds to go to a local charity.The location is on Hwy 55, just east of 169. http://www.ci.golden-valley.mn.us/parks/parks/BrookviewPark.htm Lets see, what other news do we have…
Next tour – November 3rd
New Surly Bars –
Zorbaz in Detroit LakesDock Café in StillwaterMore coming soon!
Darkness will be released right around Halloween.
We will have tapping news listed soon!Surlyfest has left the building!
Almost all the Surlyfest we brewed has been delivered.
You guys are drinking it like its gonna go outta style, or at least out of stock. I promise we will make more next year.See you drinking,
Omar
Surly makes Metro 100…
The latest issue of Metro magazine gives a nod to two good friends of MNBeer. In addition to placing our friends from Aesthetic Apparatus on the cover, Surly Brewing gets some press as well.
Metro Magazine places Surly Brewing company at #77 in their “Metro 100 – An Essential Guide to Everything.” That’s cool, we always appreciate the pub. However, I got an issue with some of the bit. I did say that “People here were clamoring for a better beer.” However, the way the article flows, it looks like I’m saying Summit Brewing does not make those better beers, and that is simply not the case.
Also, my office is not windowless! I have a 4″x8″ window overlooking the tasting room! And if somebody is gonna say I got Guinness-colored eyes, how about using a domestic beer as a reference, like Bender-colored.