UPDATE: Vine Park will up the rewards by offering a Free Batch of Beer Brewing to the winning entry if it includes their name.
The Minnesota Craft Brewer’s Guild is launching a “Beer-Ku” contest, in which Minnesota craft beer fans are encouraged to write and email in a beer haiku that pays tribute to Minnesota [...]

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[ September 14, 2011; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Haute Dish will be hosting a Founders Beer Dinner with guest Dave Engbers , the co-owner of Founders Brewing. The dinner will take place Wednesday, September 14th with a meet and greet beginning at 6:00pm and dinner being served at 7:00pm.

The dinner will consist of 6 courses paired with the following 6 Founders beers:
Blushing Monk
Imperial [...]

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In this episode, Brewing TV visits Lift Bridge Brewing Company. After three years of contract brewing their beers, Lift Bridge has established a nice home of its own, turning out the beers they love for Stillwater and other Twin Cities communities. BTV visits Lift Bridge on a brew day and gets put to work!

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We have to admit this episode of Brewing TV is for the hardcore homebrew geeks – especially the yeast junkies in the house. Northern Brewer foot soldier Jeremy King is back in the building with another yeast experiment. This time, he’s trying to wrangle wild yeast out of his neighborhood for possible commercial production. We’ve [...]

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Now that you’ve had the beer, see the source. In this episode, our buddies from Brewing TV are at Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido, CA. They spend a day livin’ the life at Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens, touring the brewery, and talking about the creative process with brewmaster Mitch Steele. Are you worthy [...]

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Brewing TV is in Stone mode. Join the BTV posse for the premiere of their newest episode featuring a tour of Stone Brewing Company (and interviews with Greg Koch and Mitch Steele). It’s going down this Thursday, July 28th, from 5-7 p.m. at Stanley’s Northeast Bar Room. There will also be a keg of Stone’s [...]

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I hate canceling things, but sometimes it’s better to ere on the side of caution, so with today’s (supposedly) rapidly rising temps and a fairly solid (?) threat of severe thunderstorms post-tour, we’re going to cancel our ride out to Flat Earth.
Join us next month!

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The boys at Brewing TV have a new episode featuring a Twin Cities homebrewer. In this installment of BTV we’re off to one Bad Ass Brewery to brew one bad ass beer! Chip spends the day in Brooklyn Park hanging out at Bryon Adams’ awesome basement brewery for some beer geek gadgetry, a crazy-hopped (more [...]

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Keep your eyes open over the next couple of weeks. That bottle of Stone IPA you pick up may have a special message on it. Stone is releasing bottles with unique label text here in the Twin Cities – 120 cases for Minneapolis, 120 cases for St. Paul. They’ll be landing in MN soon. Spread [...]

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The St. Paul Summer Beer Fest program is now online. (1.8MB PDF)

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[ June 23, 2011; 6:00 pm; ] Brewery Ommegang is taking over The Republic this Thursday evening. They will be offering 5 beer selections paired with five different artisan cheeses. Each pairing will run you $6 and they will be available all evening, while supplies last of course. The menu will look something like this:

Hennepin 4 month aged Manchego and quince paste

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Northern Brewer is expanding again… to Minneapolis.

“For 18 years, Northern Brewer’s goal has been to foster the enjoyment of brewing, drinking, and sharing great beer, so we are very excited to announce Northern Brewer Minneapolis, opening Fall 2011. NB St. Paul will always be the heart of our company; NB Milwaukee will always be our [...]

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Whew… ~76 brands will be represented at this Saturday’s St. Paul Summer Beer Fest! See you there?
21st Amendment
Abita Brewing Company
Alaskan Brewing Company
Anchor Brewing Company
Avery Brewing Company
Barley John’s Brew Pub
Bell’s Brewery
Big Sky Brewing Company
Boston Beer Company
Boulder Beer Company
Boulevard Brewing Company
Brau Brothers Brewing Company
Breckenridge Brewing Company
Brewery Ommegang
Brooklyn Brewery
Capital Brewery
Central Waters Brewing Company
Crispin/Fox Barrel
Dark Horse  Brewing Company
Deschutes Brewery
Dundee [...]

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[ June 7, 2011; 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Epic Brewing of Utah will host their MN draft kickoff tonight, June 7th, at the Muddy Pig  (162 Dale Street N. St. Paul) from 5 – 9 p.m. Owner David Cole and Sales Manager Michael Malachowski will be there.

Flights or whole pours of the following will be available :

Sour Apple Saison
Chardonnay Cask Brainless [...]

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Market analysis conducted, regulatory hurdles hurdled, financing hassles handled, operating plan executed, important thoughts thunk, and now its time to turn up the dial of competition in the tipsy-powered mobility market.  Pedal Pub has got a little competition now in St. Paul, as reported by the Pioneer Press, in the form of City Cycle.  Check [...]

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