Category: breweries

Ratebeer loves Minnesota-made beer

By on February 4, 2008in breweries, brewpubs

Nice honors from Ratebeer.com for a handful of Minnesota beers and breweries…

Best Beers of the United States 2008: #2 Surly Darkness, #29 Surly Barrel-Aged Darkness, #32 Barley John’s The Dark Night Returns

Top 100 Brewers in the World 2008: #11 Surly Brewing Co., #31 Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, #40 Barley John’s Brew Pub

Best Beers in the World by Style Category 2008: #3 Surly Bourbon One (Bocks), #1 Surly Coffee Bender (American Brown Ales & English Milds), #5 Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery India Brown Ale (American Brown Ales & English Milds), #4 Surly Darkness (Stouts), #4 Surly SurlyFest (Dark Lagers).

Best Beers in the World Overall 2008: #5 Surly Darkness, #37 Surly Barrel-Aged Darkness, #77 Barley John’s The Dark Night Returns, #85 Barley John’s Barrel-Aged Rosie’s Ale (Batch 2)

Congrats!

Flat Earth Update: Winter Warlock has left the building… er brewery…

By on February 1, 2008in breweries

Flat EarthSome news from our friends over at Flat Earth Brewing Co. in St. Paul. As an aside, I was relayed a story about a fellow who was fortunate enough to brew with Jeff back in November. He’d never brewed beer before and had a new respect for the craft, and perhaps a few sore muscles from shoving around bags of grain and shoveling mash. Not surprisingly, he had a very good time.

Greetings,

We searched in vain but, we could not find the Winter Carnival medallion this year, hopefully we’ll have better luck next year.

Flat Earth is having its first ever beer dinner! We will be at the Happy Gnome on Tuesday the 5th. The price is $75 a person. We will start with a meet and greet at 6 p.m. Dinner starts at 7 p.m., a 6 course meal pairing 6 Flat Earth beers; Belgian Pale Ale, Element 115, Angry Planet, Cygnus X-1, Bermuda Triangle and Winter Warlock.
Call the Happy Gnome for more detail and tickets 651-287-2018.

Winter Warlock kegs have left the building. This is a very limited run of Golden English Barley-wine. Smooth as freshly resurfaced ice with a mellow malt and hop flavor. Enjoy this 9% barley-wine slowly. Bottles should be out in a few weeks.

Grumpy’s ten year anniversary

By on January 31, 2008in bars/restaurants, breweries

Grumpy’sHere’s a quick note from Tony at Grumpy’s NE. They’re celebrating their ten year anniversary this month ant to kick it off, Surly will bring some Two and a firkin of Oak-Aged Bender! Read on…

Hi Ryan! This came together last minute, but might be of interest! Thanks! Tony/Grumpy’s NE

Friday, February 1st marks the beginning of a month long celebration of our 10 year anniversary. Surly Brewing is going to help us get the month started right. If you come to Grumpy’s NE this Friday, Feb 1st around 4 pm or so, you will have access to this sweet beer. Surly Two, Surly’s 2nd anniversary beer. Fresh tapping. oh, but wait. Just for the hell of it, Omar is bringing a firkin of Oak Aged Bender. Rock it.