Author: Kris

Great Waters Cask Beer Dinner

By on April 18, 2012in beer dinners, beer events, cask beer

Great Waters’ Anniversary Week may be over, but due to a turn of events (fortunate for you if you missed the orignal date), one last hurrah comes in the form of a rescheduled All Cask Beer Dinner.

The Menu:

1. Smoked Tomato Capsicum with GW House Ale
2. Carnitas Lettuce Wrap with Blackwatch Oat Stout
3. Almond Encrusted Walleye & Tomato Scallop Sauce with Dry-Hopped St. Peter Pale Ale
4. Pork Tenderloin, Polenta & Mild Chipotle Sauce with New Centurian Mild Ale
5. Fruit Pizza & Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookie with Cask Brown Trout Brown Ale

$65 reg / $55 MBA members (includes tax and grat)
Seating Limited – Call 651-224-2739 to reserve your spot.

St. Croix Valley Brew-B-Que

By on April 17, 2012in beer events, breweries

Satisfy your BBQ and beer hunger the last Saturday in May at Lift Bridge Brewing Company in Stillwater.

The St. Croix Valley Brew-B-Que is the collaborative effort of Croix Valley Sauces, Heritage Liquor, and Lift Bridge Brewing Co. The main focus of this party is a BBQ competition, tasty craft beers, and highlighting our local businesses. We set out to have an event that we would want to attend, with the financial benefit going to our local food shelf Valley Outreach. But wait, there’s more… games, bands, chicken races, prizes, eating contest, beer dunk tank, more food, and more beer!

Cash, check and most credit cards accepted.

*** You must be 21 to attend and you must have a valid ID. No underaged persons allowed at the event. Sorry, no refunds.

Tickets: $20/person (Buy now)

Wild Cask at Barley John’s

By on April 16, 2012in beer events, brewpubs, cask beer

Barley John’s is upping their Wednesday cask beer game this week with a “wild” version.

Mark your calendars now – this Wednesday around 4pm we will be tapping a cask of Saison Brunette – our first WILD Wild Brunette. I kept 5 gallons of the wort last time the beer was brewed, fermented it with a French Saison Yeast as well as Brettanomyces bruxellensis. It has been aging for nearly 7 weeks in the cask now, so it should have some great bretty-funk to it. This one is going to go fast, folks!

Gitchee Gumee Brewfest

By on April 2, 2012in beer events, breweries, brewpubs

You’ve got a little time yet to make your plans to head north and take in all that is the Gitchee Gumee Brewfest in Superior, WI. Tickets range from $25 for general admission to $75 for VIP (which gets you a 3:30 admission as well as a VIP room with pizza and your very own VIP restroom).