So please raise a beer (who cares if you’re at work?) to Eric, Kat, Kris, Mag & Truthbrew… and all of the beer geeks that visit the site with a thirst for beer news in Minnesota!

And, uh, is it really time for a redesign?

Congrats also to our friends at Surly, Town Hall, Muddy Pig, The Hanger Room, Bryant Lake Bowl, Triple Rock Social Club, Grumpy’s, Haute Dish, Moto-i, Common Roots, Victory 44, Washington Square and Blue Max for being chosen as winners by City Pages. Also of note, our friends at Heavy Table, Bryant Lake Bowl, Blue Door Pub, Surly, Merlin’s Rest, Muddy Pig, Haute Dish and Pizza Luce who made the cut as some of the Reader Poll winners.

Rules? Sure. Send ONE photo to ryan AT mnbeer.com. One. Only one. Not two. Not four. Include your mailing address, so we know where to send the tickets. The winner will be announced after January 15th. We’ll pick the winning photo and share it on MNBeer.com.

Hints? Well the site is MNBeer.com… so the Corona you’re painfully sucking down in Jamaica in January probably won’t be our top pick. It’s Minnesota… we have a lot of great local breweries and brewpubs… be creative.

Photo/graphics savvy? Ideally, we’d love it if the photo were saved as a jpg 500 pixels wide and saved at 72 dpi. If not, we can deal.

So you didn’t get tickets to Autumn Brew Review… You hesitated an the event sold out. You’ve resisted the folks trying to gouge you on Craigslist… but you still want to go, drink good local beer with good people… well you may be in luck.

We’ve got two general admission tickets to Autumn Brew Review courtesy of the Minnesota Craft Brewer’s Guild. In order to have a chance to win these tickets, you’ll need to email us (ryan AT mnbeer.com) with your name, your mailing address and your favorite Minnesota-made beer (i.e. Summit Horizon Red, etc.). Failure to include everything requested will result in disqualification… and we’ll make fun of you. You’ll also need to act NOW as the cut-off is midnight in the central time zone. The winner will be notified via email and your tickets will be mailed Saturday. We’d really appreciate it if you’d only sign up if you actually need tickets. Please don’t sell these on Craigslist, either.

So follow the instructions, cross your fingers, click your heels and perhaps we’ll see you at Autumn Brew Review!

Note: we know it’s hard to pick just one… just provide us with one of your favorite Minnesota-made beers.

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: Though it’s a great place, The Happy Gnome is, most certainly, not a brewpub.

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

P.S. Drop me a line at ryan AT mnbeer.com if you’re interested in a shirt. I’ve still all sizes, from small to XXL.

…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.

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 say that you’ll have a good time!

Update:

• Cask beer from Summit (IPA dry-hopped with Amarillo), Lift Bridge (Double-hopped Pale Ale), Surly, Brau Brothers!
• Swag/prizes!
• Bagpipes
• More?!