[ July 18, 2011; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Free beer on Monday; well just a little free beer. On Monday, July 18th Vine Park will be kicking off its 1st growler beer tasting & free brewery tours. Stop by with empty growlers and leave with full ones. They will offer 3 ounces samples of the beers for sale. If it’s popular, they’ll keep [...]

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[ July 7, 2011; 6:00 pm; ] The state government maybe shut down but local beer lovers can still get a free handout. Thursday July 7th @ 6pm Rock Bottom will be tapping their new seasonal beer. The Eurotrash Brunette ale. This is a brown ale made with the finest European malts, hops and fermented with a German ale yeast.  This beer [...]

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[ June 10, 2011; 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come to Zipp’s this Friday as they welcome Epic Brewing from Salt Lake City, UT to Minnesota! Epic will be launching MN with 23 (yes, count ‘em… 23) different beers! Dave Cole (co-founder) and other representatives from Epic will be on-hand to sample at least 16 of their beers.

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[ June 9, 2011; 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Tonight (June 9th) 5-8:30 PM France 44 in Minneapolis will host sales manager of Epic Brewing in Utah,  Michael Malakowski and “Brad the Beerguy” for a gala opeing of 19 different style of beer, including Intermountain Wheat, Spiral Jetty IPA, Hopulent IPA, Brainless on Cherries, Brainless on Peaches, Sour Apple Saison, Smoked Porter, Smoked and [...]

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[ June 6, 2011; ] There’s a free beer waiting for you today if:
1) you’re near the U of M campus AND
2) you’re willing to brave the tropical weather

Campus Pizza is offering a free pint of Summit Gold Sovereign Ale Ale with any food purchase today.

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[ June 9, 2011; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Rock Bottom will be tapping their latest seasonal, Newbie Belgian IPA. A combination of Belgian and American beer styles, it offers rich citrus and hop characteristics with spiciness from the use of Belgian yeast. Be there at 6:00 and get the first one on the house.

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[ June 3, 2011; June 4, 2011; ] I had a chance to sample some of the Lucky Bucket brews over at Thomas Liquors last night (wowzers, good stuff), and learned that they’ll be all over town the next few days.

Friday
1:00pm MGM Calhoun, Princeton’s, Cork & Cask in St Cloud
3:30 Chet’s in Lilydale Haskell’s in Minneapolis Coborn’s Cooper in St Cloud
6:00 First Grand, [...]

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[ June 5, 2011; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] This week’s Thursday tasting at Heritage? Three nice beers from Liefman’s for all you wild-beer loving fools… as well as those of you who don’t quite know whether or not this kind of beer is for you. Try it…
For all of you that say ‘I don’t like beer” well this is a tasting you have [...]

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[ June 3, 2011; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Hoooo, I never get tired of posting “FFF” and having folks think we’re talking about that brewery from Indiana…

No, we’re talking about Fitty’s First Friday at Thomas Liquors, when chief beer guy Fitty opens some beers for you all to try. This Friday kicks off the summer season with Abita for the June installment [...]

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[ June 2, 2011; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Join Fitty and native Minnesotan and brew master Zac Triemert for the first ever tasting of Lucky Bucket in the state of Minnesota.  Zac will be tasting out their flagship Pre-Prohibition Lager, IPA, and the mega-complex Certified Evil Stout.  The first shipment to Minnesota is scheduled to arrive on Thursday and [...]

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[ May 10, 2011; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] A tangy saison? An easy drinking pilsner? A cloudy hefe (hold the lemon please)? You got it!

In honor of this bout of summer weather, the Ale Jail will crack open some of their favorite summer beers tonight from 5pm – 7pm. Stop on by!

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[ May 7, 2011; 5:00 pm; ] With Spring comes Mother’s Day, fishing opener and of course, Maibock!

Morning,

We are coming up on the first Saturday in May which means one thing…….Maibock! For those of you unfamiliar- Maibock is a German Lager that is generally released in spring. It is the Blond Bock, expect a nice medium to heavy body with a crisp [...]

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[ May 4, 2011; 7:15 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Maybe you’ve seen the twitter tease, the BA banter, well here’s the deal about the new brewery entering Minnesota.

Tomorrow night at the Ale Jail, directly after the Alaskan tasting (5pm – 7pm), Epic Brewing Co. from Salt Lake City, UT brings their wares to the Ale Jail. This will be the first tasting of [...]

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[ May 6, 2011; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] This Friday presents the May installment of Fitty’s First Friday at Thomas Liquor. Fitty welcomes the brew crew from Alaskan Brewing, the newest brewery to hit the Minnesota scene. Alaskan will be pouring their fllagship Amber Ale along with IPA, White Ale, and the summer seasonal Friday, May 6 from 4pm to 7pm.

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[ May 3, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Tasting tonight at Zipp’s Liquors! Wheat Beers. All things wheat… Hefe’s, wheat ales, weizen bocks, smoked wheats and more! Free (21+) in-store from 6:30-8. See you tonight!

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