Click here to read our interview with Dave Hoops of Fitger’s Brewhouse in Duluth. This month we decided to take on both of the Hoops brothers and ask them silly questions. For those of you out of the loop, Dave’s brother Mike (who we interviewed recently)is the head brewer over at Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery. [...]

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Wanna’ win a pair of tickets to the Beer Dabbler Showcase at the St. Paul Winter Carnival? Send us your best “winter beer photo by 3:00pm Friday, January 15th and we’ll pick a winner!
Rules? Sure. Send ONE photo to ryan AT mnbeer.com. One. Only one. Not two. Not four. Include your mailing address, so we [...]

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Congrats to Jen! She and a guest will be joining us at Autumn Brew Review Saturday! Favorite beer: Surly Darkness. We didn’t bother with any statistics, but from a rough glance at all of the emails, it seems that those of you looking for ABR tickets are big fans of Lift Bridge Farm Girl Saison [...]

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[ August 22, 2009; 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] C’mon over to Thomas Liquors in St. Paul this Saturday afternoon to sample some beers from Grand Teton Brewing Co. Along with the IPA, ESB, and blonde they will also be pouring the limited and highly regarded Weizen Doppelbock!

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Wow! We won Reader’s Choice for Best Local Blog in City Pages’ Best of the Twin Cities!
Wow. Other year’s we’ve encouraged you to vote… this year we never even got around to it… THANKS! Let’s go get a beer!
UPDATE:
The Muddy Pig won Best Neighborhood Bar (St. Paul). Reader’s Choice, Groveland Tap.
City Pages editors take note: [...]

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The first five of Josh Pepper’s Beer Commandments, as read by MNBeer’s Eric Haugee.

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Thanks everyone! Saturday night’s MNBeer party at Stub & Herb’s was an absolute blast! It was ridiculous… in the best way of course. I don’t know where to start – five casks of beer, tons of great people, way too much swag… birthday cake, noisemakers and streamers… crazy. Lots of fun! Photos to come…
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Nightlife by Tom Horgan, Star Tribune
…the bar will be especially busy that night because the guys behind the Twin Cities’ best beer blog — MNBeer.com – are celebrating their “3.5 Year Anniversary” with special cask ales from local breweries starting at 8 p.m.

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[ April 18, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Mark your calendars. Make arrangements for a sober cab. Feed the dog and then come on down to Stub & Herb’s on Saturday, April 18th, at about 8pm. Enjoy a local beer, chat with the folks that bring you MNBeer.com and have a good local beer with other great people! More details forthcoming. Suffice to [...]

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My turn. Jim Norton asked me Five Questions for City Pages’ Twin Cities Eater. As you’ll see, I’m plugging the locals left and right. Drink up!

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Yeah. Finally. We decided to scrap the WordPress board and just go with PHPBB. Enjoy.

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Five Questions with Kris and Mag of Beer Musings
Look for five questions with me in December.

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Bonus points for anyone who catches the song reference… in any case, we’re giving you far too much advanced warning, but we’re having a party in April. MNBeer turned 3 this year and we were all to busy to celebrate (or perhaps we were celebrating other things). So in light of that fact, we’ve decided [...]

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We’ve got swag! You can buy glasses at Autumn Brew Review and Alvey at The Four Firkins has a case as well. Openers are free. The plan is to move on up to something fancier once these glasses go. Drink up!

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…go on sale at noon Friday. Regular tickets are $25, early access tickets are $35, and if for some reason the event doesn’t sell out, tickets will be $30 at the door. MNBeer.com has signed on once again as a media sponsor, so we’ll share some space with Twin Cities Imbiber and offer up some [...]

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