Category: bars/restaurants

Stanley’s NE Craft Beer Festival and Block Party

By on May 1, 2013in bars/restaurants, breweries

stanleysartStanley’s NE aims to make your Art-a-Whirl experience just a little better. Okay, perhaps a lot better. On Saturday, May 18th, they’re blocking off Lowry and planning a day filled with beer, music, food, photo booths, hand rolled cigars, pretzel necklaces, hammerschlagen and more. Doors open at 1pm and the beer festival portion of the event runs from 2-5pm with live music from Orange Whip from 4:30-9:30pm in Stanley’s parking lot. Tickets are $59 and include the requisite sample glass as well as a glass lanyard, signature photo w/ your friends, $15 Stanley’s gift card and build-your-own pretzel necklaces.

Breweries include Summit, Schell’s Brewery, Fulton, Finnegans, Indeed Brewing, Northgate Brewing, 612 Brew, Surly, Cold Spring Brewery, Lucid Brewing, Founders Brewing, Fox Barrel Cider/Crispin, Odell Brewing, Deschutes Brewery, Brooklyn Brewery, Sierra Nevada, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Alaskan Brewing Company, New Belgium Brewing, Bells Brewery, Goose Island, North Coast Brewing and more.

Click here for more info and tickets.

Minnesota Beer Dinner With Homebrew Chef Sean Paxton

By on April 19, 2013in bars/restaurants, beer dinners, breweries
Beer dinner with homebrew chef sean paxton

Beer dinner with homebrew chef sean paxtonThe Better Beer Society is hosting a beer dinner of epic proportions. An all-Minnesota beer dinner is cool in itself, but BBS is turning the proverbial dial to 11 by bringing in famed beer chef Sean Paxton (aka The Homebrew Chef). Paxton is no stranger to world-class beer dinners, having crafted beer dinners for tons of great breweries as well as events like The Great American Beer Festival and the Craft Brewers Conference.

This particular dinner is set to take place on Friday, April 26th at Republic in Uptown. Brewers and owners from Surly, Schell’s, Indeed, Summit and Steel Toe will join Paxton and BBS as they discuss the finer notes of cooking with beer and beer ingredients and pairing beer with food. Tickets are are $90. Call 612-886-2309 to reserve your spot. No doubt this will sell out.

 

Michigan Night at Pracna

By on April 19, 2013in bars/restaurants

MICHIGANNIGHT.1Pracna on Main is hosting a night of Michigan madness on Thursday April 25th starting at 5pm. They’ll have limited release beers from both Bells and Founders. Check it out.

Bells:
Harry Magills Spiced Stout, 2012 Expedition Stout, Bourbon Barrel Aged Batch 9,000, Raspberry Ale, Roundhouse IRA, Black Note 2011

Founders:
Imperial Stout, Bolt Cutter, 2012 Curmudgeon, Better Half, Backwoods Bastard, Oatmeal Stout Nitro

Butcher and Boar Beer Bash with Founders

By on April 13, 2013in bars/restaurants

butcherOn Sunday, April 21st, in the tented beer garden (heated if needed), Butcher and the Boar will be throwing a beer bash with Founders from 4-10pm. They’ll have 11 Founders beers on tap including Dirty Bastard, Reds Rye, All Day IPA, Nitro Pale, Nitro Oatmeal, Curmudgeon, Imperial Stout, Bolt Cutter, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Doom and Founders porter.

Doom, Founders double IPA (no reference to the UK crust punk band as far as we know) will be released a day early for this event. The beer’s distributor, Hohenstein’s, received a grand total of six kegs for the market, so yup, it’s a bit rare.

Live music, too.

Cheers!