Category: brewpubs

Fitger’s Update

By on October 31, 2006in brewpubs

More new beer from Fitger’s Brewhouse.

Happy Halloween All,
Greetings from the Brewhouse with our weekly new beer update.
We have a very limited amount of Devil’s Track Pumpkin still pouring, it should make it though Halloween. Later this week we will release

Wild Blue Lager
A wild blueberry lager. Light in color rich in body with a very nice blueberry nose and finish.

New beers pouring
Old Red Beard Barleywine ’05 vintage
100% English Maris Otter malt lots of hops and lots of time spent alone and chilly aging to perfection. Enjoy during the cooler nights to come.

Amsterdam Ale
Our homage to a small brewery in Amsterdam call Brewery i
A hybrid Belgian style ale/lager/pilsner. Brewed to combine the characteristics of the amazing beer at Brewery i and the new world style of the Brewhouse.

cask ale this week Starfire Pale Ale

Have a safe Halloween

Cheers
The Brewhouse Gang

Random Brewpub News/Tap Updates

By on October 27, 2006in brewpubs

Barley Johns’ Oktoberfest is gone, and supposedly a winter ale (?) is in the works.

The Brauhaus is no longer officially a brewpub, at least in the truest sense (if there is such a thing) as they’ve moved their beer-making operations away from The Brauhaus and into a new facility. The Brauhaus is still open, but nowBrau Brothers Brewing, brews, bottles and kegs their beer off-site and supplies The Brauhaus with beer.

I’ve been told that Mr. Smooth Mild as returned to Great Waters as well as Surly’s Furious and Finnegan’s Irish Amber.

Green Mill Brewing Co. in St. Paul now has a Pumpkin Ale on tap.

The Herkimer has their award-winning Unfiltered Pilsener and a kolsch on tap.

Town Hall will have their India Brown Ale on tap at 6:00pm tonight and a Belgian IPA on tap on Saturday as part of their ninth anniverary.

O’Gara’s now has an Oktoberfest and Raspberry Lambic on tap.

O’Hara’s in St. Cloud now has their tasty Dubbel Trouble on tap. A trip to St. Cloud is in my future!

Rock Bottom has added a Coconut Stout as a seasonal beer. I’m quite curious about this one. I’m not much of a coconut fan, but I suspect it might go well with a stout.

And lastly, this probably isn’t new news, but Wellington’s Backwater Brewing Co. is no longer offering growlers, reportedly because of a rather hefty local tax on growlers.

Needless to say, MNBeer makes no claims as to whether or not this information is absolutely correct, but we try to get it right. Cheers!

Pumpkin Ale, Kolsch and Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale at Fitger’s

By on October 25, 2006in brewpubs, general beer

What?! Someone else’s beer at Fitger’s? Yes indeed. Read on:

Hi
Fitgers Brewhouse here with the latest.

Today we put a guest tap on. Something we do rarely. Our friends at Sierra Nevada in California squirreled away 2 kegs of Harvest Ale for us. Harvest Ale is a draft only beer made once a year by Sierra. Harvest is a “wet hop” beer. Wet hop beers use hops right out of the fields. No processing or drying or cureing. In order to get flavor and balance out of these hops about 20 times more must be used. this makes an expensive and labor intensive work of art. We will pour out two kegs of this elixir starting Tuesday Oct 24th. Don’t miss a very rare style of pale ale. The only other example in Minnesota comes out of Town Hall in Minneapolis if you where lucky enough to try Mikes then compare the two.

We are also releasing two more beers this week

Thursday Oct 26 will make the 2006 release of Devil’s Track Pumpkin Ale. We have limited grolwers of this nitro pumpkin ale (around 100) first come first served. The ale uses about 120 lbs of pumpkin infused with a malty red ale.

Friday Oct 27 we will release
Kamloops Kolsch
A German style ale fermented cool and slow to give a lager/fruit type ester. A great alternative to Golden ale.

As always thank you for your continued support.

Cheers
The Brewhouse Gang

Town Hall’s Ninth Anniversary

By on October 22, 2006in brewpubs

Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery turns nine this week and in celebration, the barrels of beer are being rolled out in grand style. I’m particularly interested in their Belgian IPA, but all of the beers should be tasty. Go early, go often. Enjoy!

*Beer will be tapped at 6:00pm unless othewise noted.*

Hey All,
Town Hall Brewery is about to turn nine years old! Thanks to all of you for helping us make that happen….Now we must celebrate! Here is the schedule for this coming week (AKA Anniversary week)

Monday- 10/23
*1 keg release Twisted Reality Barleywine aged in Jim Beam oak
*1 keg release Foolish Belgian Quadruple aged in French Oak red wine oak

Both 10+% abv and limited number of growlers of each available

Tuesday- 10/24
*1 keg release 1800 India IPA -no growlers 10oz. glasses only

Wednesday- 10/25
*U-pick um $2 pints house beer
*1 keg release India Wheat Ale -no growlers 10 oz. glasses only

Thursday- 10/26
*1 keg release Warrior Double IPA -no growlers 10oz glasses only

Friday- 10/27
*1 keg release India Brown Ale -no growlers 10 oz. glasses only

Saturday- 10/28
*3:00-4:00pm Release Anniversary Ale (annual celebration style ale)$2 pints (growlers avail.)
*4-5 Pint Club Reception-complimentary house pours. WELCOME NEW PINT CLUB MEMBERS!
*7-8pm Release NUMBER 9 (in celebration of our 9th birthday)10oz pours $2. Those of you that like Belgian made Urthel-HOP IT and LaChoufe-Houblin are going to love this beer! We borrowed some information from each of those Belgian Double IPAs and created our own. This is a 9%abv Belgian stlye IPA is complete with about 60BU and dry hopping with American Amarillo hops, the same as those crazy Belgian brewers. 10 OZ. POURS $2. Growlers Available.

Each of these beers will be released at 6:00pm sharp unless otherwise noted.

How does that grab you?

See you next week
Mike

P.S. Sunday I would suggest a day of rest!

P.S.S.- We contracted a Minnesota potter to hand make a limited amount of growlers for us. He is a talented craftsman that does all of his firing in a wood fired kiln thus creating a 30hr process for compleation of these pieces. These flip-top stone growlers are signed, numbered, and each a one of a kind. I guess the clay will react to the heat/ashes differently depending on location in the kiln. Very cool stuff! Check him out online.. his name is Bill Gossman. We consider our beer very lucky to be partnered with him. These will be available starting Anniversary Week in VERY limited numbers. They will be part of our new VIP Stone Club. They will guarantee you the opportunity to purchase certain beers via your stone growler that may not be available to the general public, such as Czar Jack. Further details available at the Town Hall.