Come celebrate 5 years of great beer and food at the Happy Gnome the first 5 days in December. Each day The Happy Gnome will celebrate their 5 year anniversary with specials on beer. Enter your name and email for a beer gear drawing, including some Surly posters.
All flights and tappings start at 5pm, bottles [...]

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[ December 3, 2010; December 10, 2010; December 17, 2010; December 31, 2010; ] Pracna on Main and Deschutes are celebrating the holidays all throughout the month of December. Each Friday (excluding Christmas Eve) they will tap a specialty keg from Deschutes.

Dec 3: Nitro Obsidian Stout
Dec 10: The Dissident
Dec 17: The Abyss
Dec 31: Jubel 2010

From Pracna on Main:
Throughout the month we will also have chances [...]

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[ October 27, 2010; ] Summit’s Unchained #5, an Imperial Pumpkin Porter, will be released on draught Oct 27, with the official release party at Stub and Herbs from 5pm – 7pm.

This ain’t your usual release party tho–like to drink beer and carve pumpkins? Sterbs will provide the pumpkins and carving equipment. The good folks at Summit will be judging, [...]

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Corey at Hohenstein’s continues to rock the beer scene…this time with a Mini Beer Scavenger Hunt! Can you handle it?!
General Rules

You will need to find the 6 locations via clues. 3 locations on Thursday Sept 30, 3 locations on Friday Oct 1st. (keeps everybody responsible)
When you get to the bar you have to PURCHASE the [...]

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Might be time to bust out all that clay you have laying around from the 6th grade.
Want to win a $200 gift card for the Four Firkins? Like playing with video? Then this is for you…
After seeing how creative you all are with video commercials for Surly and other beer related businesses around town we [...]

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The Beer Dabbler folks continue to add components to the Highland Fest Beer Dabbler, first with a series of classes, and now with a home brew contest.
The most important part of your entry is of course your beer, which must be dropped off between 1:00 and 3:30 pm on July 17th. For all the [...]

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The organizers of Minnesota Craft Beer Week in May want your best beer toast! Participating bars will make the toast when they tap the first kegs of beer week. Submit your entries by Friday, April 23rd for a chance to win a private beer tasting for the winner and 10 friends with Mike Rose from [...]

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Although the HopChart party at the Edina Grill had to be cancelled on Saturday, that didn’t stop four lucky folks from winning a set of tickets to the St. Paul Summer Beer Festival. Congrats to:
- mothman, who was the first user to get 10 new members to join HopChart
- nilspils and FrauBeger, who were at the [...]

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The February winners have been announced in Summit’s “Get to the Bottom of It” contest and congrats to out to:
Matt McRitchie, St. Paul – Winning Headline
If we lived in a world without bad beer, how would we know what good beer was?
Joe Thiel, Fridley – Runner-up
Why aren’t toasters clear so you can see when your [...]

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The St. Paul Summer Beer Festival, which debuted in 2009, will be held Sunday, June 20th and if you want to go, FOR FREE, then check out the contest HopChart is running.
Do you want to go to the St. Paul Summer Beer Festival? If you answered yes to that question then you should definitely check [...]

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