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Darkness Day

By on June 28, 2010in beer events, breweries

Darkness Day, Oct. 23, 2010 @ Surly Brewing.

Here are the details. (updated Oct 7, 2010)

-Gates open at 12:00, event goes to 6:30.
-We will be selling about 7500 bottles of Darkness here at the brewery
-$18 per bottle. CASH ONLY!
-Maximum of 6 bottles per person..
-If you are intoxicated, we can not sell you your bottles of beer. Please plan accordingly.
-Bottles will be for sale at local liquor stores the following week.
-Rain or shine!
-There are no tickets, no servers to crash. First come, first served. No reservations. No rainchecks.
-Food & beer available for purchase at the brewery.
-Bands will be playing
-Please plan on arranging safe transportation options.
-Under 21 can attend with parents
-Sponsored by the City of Lakes Nordic Ski Foundation!
-Sale of beer provided by the City of Brooklyn Center Liquor Stores
-Further updates to come


Firkin Video Contest

By on June 25, 2010in beer stores, contest

Might be time to bust out all that clay you have laying around from the 6th grade.

Want to win a $200 gift card for the Four Firkins? Like playing with video? Then this is for you…

After seeing how creative you all are with video commercials for Surly and other beer related businesses around town we thought it’d be fun to see what you could come up with for the Firkins.

Get together with a group of your friends and make a video “commercial” for The Four Firkins. Get as crazy as you like: animation, stop-action clay figures, kittens, real video, the possibilities are endless!

It should be no more than 2 minutes long but can be as short as 30 seconds if you like.

While filming inside the store is totally cool with us it would have to be done with a handheld camera only to avoid getting in the way of other people (I.E. no tripods or light umbrellas!)

Firkins employees can not be featured in the video, although animated likenesses of us might be fun..

Oh, one more thought: as much as we appreciate George Carlin style cursing, if we are going to display your video on our websites it might be best if there were no “F” bombs…

Submissions in by September 30th 2010. The winning video will be announced on October 17th and linked to our main Website, Cloud Profile and Face Book. Send you submissions or links to them to alvey@thefourfirkins.com

Grand prize: $200 gift card to the Four Firkins: That’s a lot of good beer!

Runner up prize: One bottle each of Surly Darkness (2009), Smoke, and Four.

We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Newport, OR comes to St. Paul

By on June 14, 2010in bars/restaurants, beer events, homebrew

Lots of stuff is happening this week in conjunction with the National Homebrewers Conference in town this week. Here’s one more, in case you missed it.

Taste of Newport at the Happy Gnome | St. Paul, MN
June 15, 2010 | 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Join Rogue Ales Brewmaster, John “more hops” Maier, at The Happy Gnome for a Taste of Newport, Oregon

The beers on tap include:

* Chatoe Rogue Oregasmic, a special debut keg brewed with hops and barley grown at the Rogue Farms in Oregon.
* Glen Ale, a special vintage keg named for and brewed in tribute to Glen Falconer (www.glenfalconerfoundation.org)
* Rogue Imperial Porter, served cask conditioned from a firkin.
* John John Juniper Pale Ale, a special release of Rogue Juniper Pale Ale, aged in Rogue Spirits Spruce Gin casks.
* Somer Orange Honey Ale, brewed with Oregon Wildflower Honey, chamomile, barley, wheat, oats, coriander and orange peel.
* Dead Guy Ale, quintessentially Rogue, based on a German-style Maibock and brewed with John’s proprietary Pacman Ale yeast.

300 Yaquina Bay Oysters were shipped to Happy Gnome from the Oregon Oyster Farm, located up the bay from Rogue Ales’ brewery in Newport. The bivalves will be served on the half-shell.

John Maier is a lifetime member of the American Homebrewers Association and was Homebrewer of the Year in 1988.

He will be attending the National Homebrewers Conference in Minneapolis. Rogue Ales is the sponsor of the Banquet Awards Dinner at NHC.

The Happy Gnome is located at 498 Selby Ave, in the Cathedral Hill Neighborhood of St. Paul, MN.
Phone: 651-287-2018

Join us for the Journey!