Wanna drink beer for a good cause? Who doesn’t!

The 6th Annual Julia’s Journey fundraiser for Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota will be a unique food, beer and wine event at Create’s Dining Studio. Each dish of Chef Philip Dorwart’s five course tasting menu will be paired with two beers and two wines as we explore the limits of flavors both complimentary and contrasting. Join us for an evening of culinary wonder, an exciting silent auction, and help us celebrate An Evening to Remember!

Julia’s Journey is an fundraising organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for families of children battling cancer. Our mission is to help relieve financial stress, make daily life easier, and provide opportunities for quality family time. All proceeds from our efforts go to benefit Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Visit www.juliasjourneyinfo.com for more info.

Good beer, good food, good cigars, hopefully good weather…sounds like a winning line up to me!

Thursday, June 24th 2010
Summer Beer & Cigar Dinner
Charlie’s at the Historic Water Street Inn, Stillwater
6pm Registration, Hors D’ourves & Social Hour, Appetizer served at 7pm

$49.95 per person includes two premium cigars

This event is planned to be outdoors on our beautiful patio over looking the scenic St. Croix River. This would be an excellent gift for Dads for Father’s Day. Call 651-439-6000 to order your gift certificate ($63.68 w/tax & grat)

Join us for this special dinner with guest speakers from the Lift Bridge Brewery and try one of the first batches of Minnesota Tan, the seasonal lingonberry ale from Lift Bridge.

Butler Passed Hors D’ourves
- Golden Beets with Gorgonzola
- Savory Mussels
- Lotus Root with Pulled Pork and Fennel
Served with Farm Girl Saison

Appetizer
Baked Brie en Croute with Lingonberries
Served with Minnesota Tan

Salad
Spinach with Marinated Grilled Pears,
Goat Cheese and Candied Walnuts with Balsamic Vinaigrette
Served with “Pear Girl” – Farm Girl Saison with a Pear Flavor Shot

Main Course
Grilled Minnesota Lamb Burger
With Truffled Potato Wedges
Served with Crosscut Pale Ale

Dessert
Key Lime Pie Mousse
Served with Guests’ Choice of Lift Bridge Beer

Pracna on Main is helping celebrate craft beer and those who love to drink it next week.  Kicking everything off on Monday, we will be tapping a keg of Bell’s Batch 9000 at 3pm.  Throughout the week we will be having specialty flights of other great beers from around the country.  The flights will have 3 6oz pours for $8 ($7 on Happy Hour).  Flights will change as barrels run out, so we’ll have new combinations on a daily basis.  Brews that we will be featuring will include… New Holland’s El Mole Ocho and Envious, Furthermore Thermo Refur, Dark Horse’s Plead the 5th, Rouge John John, Flying Dog Woody Creek, New Belgium Eric’s Ale, and Avery Maharaja.  Happy Hour will run as normal, from 9-11pm every night with most of the micros/domestics on tap for only $3.

Pittsburgh Blue, in Maple Grove, is holding a 5-course Summit beer dinner.

Menu:
Tree Island Oysters – Two Ways:
On the half shell with creme fraiche and sturgeon roe
Baked “Oysters Dynamite”
Summit Pilsener

Coriander Crusted Sea Scallops with frisee salad and preserved lemon vinaigrette
Summit Hefe Weizen

Smoked Pork Shank with southern style cheese grits and eight hour tomato puree
Summit Horizon Red Ale

Achiote Roast Beef “Sandwich” with chimmichurri cole slaw
Summit Great Northern Porter

Caramel & Chocolate Bread Pudding
Summit India Rye Ale

Cost: $60 (plus tax and gratuity)
Reservations: 763-416-2663

This isn’t your standard, pay in advance, reserve your space beer dinner. But it still sounds lip-smacking good!

Brasa Rotisserie has teamed up with Founder’s Brewing & local craft beer distributor / beer geeks Hohensteins to create a paired beer & food dinner feature at our Minneapolis location on Thursday April 29th at 6:00 pm.

The dinner will feature the Bourbon barrel aged Kentucky Breakfast Stout along side some Kentucky BBQ inspired food specials that will run until they’re gone. We are open for regular business and our regular menu will be available, but expect a good turnout to taste this exceptional brew along side our Kitchen Manager Mark Andrews’ locally sourced meats, slow cooked & barbecued over hardwood.

The Specials:
A 12 ounce pour of Founder’s Kentucky Breakfast Stout with

BBQ Berkshire Baby Back Pork Ribs with Shaved Country Ham
OR
BBQ Shepherd’s Song Mutton

Served with BBQ sauce on side, hush puppies, collard greens and pecan pie
$22

12 oz pour of KBS beer is available for $8

Brasa Minneapolis - 600 E. Hennepin Ave.

Per usual, no reservations at our Mpls location. But, if you make it down we will do our very best to get you a drink, a seat and a flavorful, nourishing meal in a timely manner.

Join the bacon craze! Lots of things go with bacon, and beer is no exception.

Join us on Tuesday, April 27 for Beer & Bacon at The Muddy Pig. Starting at 5pm on the 27th when you purchase a glass of Two Brothers Heavy Handed or Two Brothers Domaine DuPage you will get a side of bacon to enjoy with the beer (until the bacon runs out). Muddy Pig tapas. So why beer and bacon? I don’t know, it just sounded like fun. See you on Tuesday.

The Muddy Pig will have six of Odell’s great beers lined up for the event including their flagship 90 Shilling Scotch Ale, St. Lupulin Pale Ale and Saboteur Brown Ale.  And maybe even a firkin.  Learn all about Odell, enjoy dinner and 6 (or 7) great beers all for the ridiculously low price of $20 per person.

*****THIS DINNER IS SOLD OUT*****

Beer dinners are popping up these days as quickly as the dandelions. And it’s nice to see that they’re happening at some less than standard locations. Rush River, one of our just-across-the-river breweries, will be holding a dinner at a West St. Paul gem, the Cherokee Tavern. Recently remodeled and showing early promise at being committed to a great craft tap line up, if you’ve never been or haven’t been lately, it’s worth checking out.

Back to the dinner…
4 course meal
6:00 cocktail hour, 7:00 dinner
$35/person

Call 651-457-2729 to reserve your seat today!

Here’s one for your western Suburbanites….

Goose Island will bring their wares to the Gold Nugget Tavern & Grille in Minnetonka for a beer dinner.  The menu is:

• First Course–312 Urban Wheat Ale paired with grilled vegetable antipasto with crostini, herbed cherve & balsamic.

• Second Course–Sofie paired with pan seared halibut with clementine gremolata and wilted greens.

• Third Course–Matilda paired with grilled lamb rack with chimmichurri and olive oil crushed fingerling potatoes.

• Fourth Course–Bourbon County Stout paired with chocolate stout cake with chocolate frosting served with salted caramel ice cream.

$40/ person (tax and gratuity included)

Call 953.935.3600 for reservations

Join Goose Island at Harry’s Food & Cocktail on April 20th for a four-course dinner featuring three beers from their Belgian Style Series along with the IPA. Tickets are $40 and can be bought by calling (612) 344-7000.