Brewing TV is celebrating May Day with homebrew. BTV associate Joe Giambruno drops some knowledge and history as he goes old-school on a double-decocted maibock at Northern Brewer Minneapolis. Joe and Chip then join homeboy Andrew Bartelson for tasting notes at his annual May Day Parade party in South Minneapolis. Brew, Share & Enjoy!

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Brewing TV turns two years old in proper style – brewing a beer! Jake, Mike, Chip and the brew dogs gather to make Keeler’s Reverse Burster Altbier. During the brew session, we look back on two years of BTV production. We also field some FAQs from our fans. There’s even a contest and a birthday [...]

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[ May 5, 2012; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Customer Appreciation Day is Saturday from 10-5pm at Midwest Supplies in St. Louis Park. The event will feature brewing demonstrations, a book signing, free food, contests and other fun stuff.

-Jack of All Brews, 2nd Best Brewers, and St. Paul Home Brewers Club will be on site brewing.

-As previously mentioned, Brewed Awakening Author Joshua Bernstein will [...]

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[ May 3, 2012; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. May 5, 2012; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Joshua Bernstein, author of Brewed Awakening, will be making a couple of stops in Minnesota this week for a couple of events. Joshua interviewed me a few years ago for a piece on up and coming craft beer cities for Imbibe magazine and edited appropriately so I didn’t sound stupid, so he must be a [...]

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Here’s a little press piece on the homebrew portion of Between The Bluffs Beer Wine and Cheese Fest in Lacrosse that features local judge and homebrewer, Steve Piatz. The fest is today should you find yourself bored, thirsty and hungry. The Cassanova Beer Cave Festival is today, too and is highly recommended, but sadly sold [...]

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In this episode of Brewing TV, Chip brews his annual favorite Chocolate Stout with real chocolate additions. Most of the beer gets kegged, but some is aside for an eising experiment. He’s joined by his buddy, local chef Zander Dixon, for tasting notes on both versions and a discussion about the eis process. Get eisy!

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[ April 21, 2012; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] The Grand Finale of Northern Brewer Minneapolis’ Grand Opening. The day will include homebrewing demonstrations outside. This is a great chance to see various techniques and equipment being used. And what’s even better than homebrew? A bunch of craft beer! There’s a beer festival with some local breweries pouring beer outside. Local breweries include Harriet [...]

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[ April 18, 2012; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. ]
Jake, Mike & Chip from Brewing TV will be kicking it at Northern Brewer Minneapolis (6021 S. Lyndale Ave) Wednesday night meeting and greeting Twin Cities homebrewers and BTV fans. Event is from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. There will be a raffle at 6:30 p.m. for some BTV goodies and other cool surprises. Come hang [...]

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[ April 15, 2012; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ]

It’s art for beer’s sake! Join the crew at Northern Brewer Minneapolis this Sunday (April 15th from 11-4pm) as they honor one of their most popular homebrew beer kits, Dead Ringer IPA.

NB has teamed up with acclaimed poster artist DWITT to create this badass poster for a most badass beer. DWITT is known locally [...]

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Northern Brewer Minneapolis (6021 S. Lyndale Ave.) has a week full of events and specials to celebrate their Grand Opening. For complete details of the events see – www.northernbrewer.com/mpls
Minneapolis Grand Opening — April 14th-21st
15% off Starter Kits Sale the whole time
Saturday the 14th: 11am-4pm
Sale: 10% off Blichmann Engineering products.
Event: John Blichmann Day
Sunday the 15th: 11am-4pm
Sale: [...]

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This episode of Brewing TV all about the Double IPA (aka Imperial India Pale Ale). Brewing TV associates Kris England and Nathan Smith team up to brew a split-batch of DIPA as part of a dry-hop and yeast experiment. Then Dawson joins Kris for tasting notes and a bit of discussion about the important elements [...]

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What’s this: a homebrew challenge? In the latest episode of Brewing TV, Keeler and Dawson go head-to-head brewing mystery beers on a subzero brew day. Two months later, they put each other’s keen sense of beer dorkery to task with a taste-test. Plus, Fox 9′s M.A. Rosko stops by Jake’s kitchen and we bust [...]

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Harriet delivery driver extraordinaire and all-around nice guy Andy Heater had an unfortunate incident with a glass carboy that gave his right hand the business recently,and the crew at Harriet would like to help him out. The incident left Andy with a pile of bills and sadly, no “Vader-like replacement hand.” Medical bills suck. Carboy [...]

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This episode of Brewing TV finds the guys in Aurora, CO living it up with the folks at Dry Dock Brewing Company. Talk about a brewery with a close ties to the homebrewing community – Dry Dock grew out of small homebrew shop to become one of the country’s most awarded small breweries. Find [...]

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[ February 25, 2012; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Penny Pickart of Briess Malting Company will be at Northern Brewer in Minneapolis on Saturday, February 25th from 11am – 1pm. to talk about the history of Briess, their malting facilities, rye extract collaboration, Maltster Reserve Series and more. Free. Prizes, too!

6021 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419

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