[ September 12, 2011; 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Vine Park is once again sampling growlers of beer from their nano brewery Monday. Check it out!

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[ September 12, 2011; 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Vine Park invites you out for free beer samples from 5-7:30 on Sept. 12th. Beers to enjoy:

Stumpjumper Amber Ale

Cuvee de Beertrips

Coffee Stout

Capitol Hill Pilsner

Black Bavarian Schwartzbier

Tornado Alley Alt

India Ink Black IPA

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[ September 2, 2011; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] This Friday is the first Friday of the month, so you know what that means….Thomas Liquors is hosting Fitty’s First Friday, when resident beer geek, er guru, Fitty opens the bar for some samples.

This week, Fitty welcomes Shaun Wolf from Duvel Mortgaat.  Shaun will be be pouring Belgian classics from Duvel, Maredsous, Chouffe [...]

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[ August 8, 2011; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Haven’t tried the Summit Unchained #7 Honeymoon Saison yet? First: what’s the matter with you?! Well you have a chance tonight at the Four Firkins, with samples being poured by the brewer himself, Sam Doniach.

In the mean time, check out Michael Agnew’s recent Star Tribune piece on the newest batch.

Cheers!

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[ August 5, 2011; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Up in the northwest suburbs this afternoon? If not, you should be, because Princeton’s in Maple Grove will be sampling the new beers from Summit! The Unchained #7, Honeymoon Saison, and the 25th Anniversary beer will be open for you to enjoy. That’s today, Friday, in about a half an hour!

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[ August 5, 2011; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Fitty just got back from Oregon and he’s all jacked up about Deschutes.  This Friday Derek from Deschutes will be at Thomas Liquors in St. Paul pouring their year-round offerings as well as a handful of their specialties.  Fitty also has some goodies from Oregon he might want to share.

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[ 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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