Category: cask beer

Alaskan Launch Week in Minnesota

By on April 27, 2011in bars/restaurants, beer events, beer laws, beer stores, brewpubs, cask beer

Dumping these all into the calendar would be an exercise in futility (though we might do it if we don’t sit and enjoy these Alaskan samples, instead), but here’s the list of events that the Original Gravity folks have planned. Here’s what we have thus far… things may change:

Launch Week Events mapped out
http://bit.ly/AlaskanMeetsMN

Alaskan will be awarding some lucky individuals at various events throughout the week with:
-A bottle each: 2010 Smoked Porter, 2010 Barley Wine and Imperial IPA
-Seats to the Smoked Porter Vertical on Saturday, May 14th with Alaskan Brewing founder, Geoff Larson
-Tickets to 2011 City Pages Beer Fest
-A case of 2010 Smoked Porter and one case of 2010 Barley Wine

In addition to these great events, Geoff and Marcy Larson (The founders of Alaskan) will be in town for events around MN Craft Beer Week. Read on for complete details of Alaskan’s launch week in Minnesota.

Firkin Friday @ Grumpy’s Downtown

By on April 27, 2011in bars/restaurants, beer events, cask beer

Chisago Lakes [sorry guys, not Hohenstein’s] is sending a special firkin to Grumpy’s Downtown this Friday for their regular Firkin Friday.

As summer approaches (albeit not quickly enough for most), that means a hold on some firkins until the snow rolls in. (They just don’t travel well in the warmer months I guess). So this is one of the last English firkins coming into town for awhile.

And just what is it? A perfect cask beer, the tasty Bitter and Twisted IPA from Harviestoun Brewery. It will tapped Friday at NOON, and Grumpy’s usually some free munchies while they last.