Thursday, Feb 2, five random Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild members will each tweet one question about the Minnesota Craft Brewer’s Guild.
The first person to email minnesotabrewers@gmail.com with all five answers gets the last pair of tickets to Winterfest. Which members will be tweeting, you ask? Well, click the link and follow all the members [...]

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[ February 11, 2012; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. February 25, 2012; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Alongside classes on homebrewing and winemaking, Northern Brewer Minneapolis is hosting several events in February that may interest all craft beer lovers.

Town Hall Brewing Company
Feb. 11th / 1-3 p.m.
Round Table Discussion with Town Hall Brewer Mike Hoops and crew, topics include going professional, Pro Series collaboration, barrel aging.

Briess Malting Company
Feb. 25th / 11 a.m. – [...]

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Take a few minutes to read/listen to this MPR story by Curtis Gilbert (“Small breweries ready to tap into market – or fall flat“).  The central question being posed is whether or not the Twin Cities market can/will support the plethora of new breweries popping up all over the state/region or will the market saturate [...]

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Here’s one for the homebrewers trapped somewhere between extract and all-grain homebrewing. Brewing TV goes deep undercover on some BIAB action! After reading so much about how easy and fun it can be, Jake Keeler decides to give the “Brew In A Bag” method a try. To put it bluntly – he’s hooked! Join us [...]

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[ January 26, 2012; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_8555" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Event host Nicole Erny"][/caption]

Wanted everyone to know about a seminar on beer pairings with Master Cicerone® Nicole Erny. Nicole recently earned her certification joining the ranks of only three others to earn the title of Master Cicerone and is the first woman to hold the top level of this program.

In [...]

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[ January 14, 2012; 10:30 am to 11:30 am. January 26, 2012; 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm. January 28, 2012; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Northern Brewer is hosting several events this month that may be of interest to craft beer fans and homebrewers in the Metro area. All events take place at the Northern Brewer Learning Center inside Northern Brewer Minneapolis (6021 S. Lyndale Ave.). These events are free and open to the public.

Fulton Brewing Company
Saturday, January 14th, [...]

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Brewing TV wraps up 2011 with the BTV Pro-Am Beer Fest. Three dudes. Three pro beers. Three homebrews. Come along for a quick taste tour of the beers… then saddle up for a wild ride as we deliver your BTV Holiday Gift in the form of bloopers and outtakes from the past year of production. [...]

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From Town Hall’s Facebook feed…
Mike Hoops (Town Hall’s Head Brewer), along with other representatives of Minnesota craft beer, will be on NPR in Minneapolis (91.1 FM) at 10am this morning.

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New Brewing TV episode online now. Northern Brewer Minneapolis is more than NB’s third and flagship retail store. It was built it to be a forum for demonstration, discussion and documentation of homebrew and pro brewing. Join BTV for the first few weekends of events at NB Minneapolis including a test-brew for an upcoming beer [...]

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Northern Brewer Homebrew Supply hosts a discussion with Jerrod Johnson, brewer at Surly Brewing Company. Brewing TV‘s Jake Keeler moderates the discussion/Q&A in which Johnson talks about how he got into the brewing business, brewing at brewpubs vs production breweries, his role at Surly Brewing Company, and the brewery’s future. And also – red flannels. [...]

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Perhaps you’ve stumbled upon this initiative already, but if not, you should. The Better Beer Society will be sort of a Better Business Bureau for beer. The Heavy Table has a nice write up today about the effort here.

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Northern Brewer hosts a discussion with award-winning homebrewer and soon-to-be professional brewer Kristen England. Brewing TV’s Jake Keeler moderates the Q&A in which England talks about his time spent building recipes for Northern Brewer, the origin of Patersbier, considerations to make between extract and all-grain, fine-tuning your palate and your homebrew, going pro, and we [...]

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[ December 10, 2011; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] In celebration for the joy of homebrewing and the passion of local homebrewers, Mayor R.T. Rybak and the City of Minneapolis have proclaimed Saturday, Dec. 10th “Minneapolis Home Brewing Day.” City Council Member John H. Quincy will be on hand to say a few words during the symbolic event at Northern Brewer’s store in Minneapolis [...]

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Orders need to be in on Monday by 9pm central for this batch. Thanks!
Through Monday, we’ll be taking pre-orders for a batch of MNBeer Pint & Crossbones t-shirts. We’re offering both a men’s specific t-shirt & a women’s shirt. Ladies have the option of a pink shirt. Sorry guys. $20 (slightly more for 2XL & [...]

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In this episode, Brewing TV is off to the original Beer City, USA – Milwaukee, Wisconsin – to visit Lakefront Brewery. The good people behind the innovative brewery are craft brew pioneers that still cherish their homebrewing roots and do a lot to support both their local and national homebrewing community.

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