Category: bars/restaurants

ABR Week Events from Capitol

Wednesday Sept 12th:
Acadia Café:  Widmer Brothers Happy Hour featuring Widmer Drifter Pale Ale and Old Embalmer Barleywine 4pm to 6pm.  Special guest Widmer Co-Founder Rob Widmer.

Meet the Brewer Night @ the Nomad featuring  Widmer Brothers Co-Founder Rob Widmer.  Beers on tap: Widmer Raspberry Russian Imperial Stout and Shaddock Rotator IPA.  7pm to 9pm

Thurs Sept 13th:
Stanleys NE Barroom:  Alaskan Baltic Porter launch party along w/ a hop rocketed version of their IPA and Amber on draft.  Brewer Terwiliger Paige will be on hand as well.  7pm to 9pm

Friday Sept 14th:
Republic:  Alaskan Night featuring Brewer Terwiliger Paige and some of their beer including: 2011 Barleywine, 2011 Smoked Porter, 2012 Baltic Porter and Alaskan Amber on draft.  6pm til 8pm.

Pour Decisions Release Events This Week

How about some Pour Decisions? This week, Pour Decisions is celebrating around the metro, releasing The Pubstitute and The Patersbier at a variety of venues with giveaways, pint & food specials and more fun. Read on for details:

9/10 – Monday – Stout’s Pub – Roseville – 5pm
Sitting on the north side of Larpenteur ave, just off UMn St Paul campus, Stouts is an up and comer in the Roseville beer scene. We’ll have both beers on tap and importantly it’s the first time you can get The Patersbier ANYWHERE and it’s right in our own Roseville backyard. There will be pint and appetizer specials for most of the evening. Be the first of your friends to try the Patersbier!!

9/11 – Tuesday – Muddy Waters – Minneapolis (Lake/Lyndale) – 4:30pm
For those that haven’t been to Muddy’s, you are missing out! They have excellent coffee and superb food but the beer selection, thanks to the beer chops of Paddy Whelan, is one of the best craft  selections in the Cities. They’ll be doing a pint and a bite special where they will be custom making one of their famous specialty dogs to go specifically with the Patersbier. Pint in one hand, dog in the other. Repeat, ad nauseam. Then do it all again!

9/12 – Wednesday – Stanley’s Bar Room – Minneapolis (Northeast) – 5pm
For those in the know, Stanley’s is the place in the Northeast to go. Stanley’s, in the former Stasiu’s Bar, have kept the famous urinals but went gang busters with the phenomenal food and craft beer selections. For our release Stanley’s has come up with some great pint and food specials including both of our beers and their delicious sliders and ungodly awesome smoked brisket nachos! To add a little more fun to the mix, BJ considers himself the ‘king of bags’ so if you are up for it, challenge him to a toss off on the patio! You might be able to win a beer off him!!

9/13 – Thursday – Lone Oak Grill –Eagan– 5:30pm
The newly opened Lone Oak Grill (in the old Joe Sensor’s building) is quickly becoming the new go-to craft beer place in the southeast metro. Lone Oak Grill has a wonderful tap selection of which they will be serving both of our beers. Did we say that The Pubstitute goes great with a nice bourbon on the side? Well it does and boy does the Lone Oak have a great bourbon selection!! May we suggest the Knob Creek Single Barrel? The Pubstitute does a great job of cutting the cask strength deliciousness! There will be food and pint specials plus a little competition. Have you seen the bocce pitch!? Want to win a free pint? See if you can beat Kristen rolling the stone balls as there definitely will be some Bocce vs the Brewer action going on!

9/14 – Friday – Grumpy’s Bar – Roseville – 5pm
At less than a 5 minute walk from our back door, Grumpy’s is literally our ‘backyard’ pub. We’ll be walking the ceremonial first keg poured at Grumpy’s from the brewery, right to the Grumpy’s cooler. There will be food and drink specials and again, if you feel competitive, we’re sure you can talk BJ and Kristen into a little pool, darts or bags…quite sure actually. You might even win a beer off them!

Oktoberfest Duluth Update

You may have already caught our piece on Oktoberfest Duluth a couple of weeks ago (link), but below you’ll find some updated information, including a little information about Oktoberfest Duluth returning to Bayfront Festival Park for 2013.

Short version. Oktoberfest Duluth, Sept. 21 & 22 at Fitger’s Brewhouse & Tycoons Alehouse. Beer, music, food, fun.

Achtung! The 3rd annual Oktoberfest Duluth takes place Friday, Sept. 21 and Saturday, Sept. 22 to coincide with the opening weekend of Germany’s Oktoberfest in Munich.

Minnesota’s legendary Chmielewski Funtime Band will once again polka the party, joined by the International Mainstreet Polka Band and Adam & The Jolly Jammers. From the first tapping of Fitger’s Brewhouse Oktoberfest lager to the famous Chmielewski Fun Time Band’s party-raising polka’s, the 2012 Oktoberfest Duluth will once again bring out the beer drinkers and fun seekers.

Some will return to perform feats of beer-leticism in the Oktoberfest Games: Beer Pong, Hammerschlagen, Stein Holding Strongman Contest, Sauerkraut Eating Race and Team Boot Chug. There will also be a photo booth and raffle.

Mostly, revelers, many in lederhosen and dirndles, will drink giant Oktoberfest biers and enjoy a full German menu that includes brats, sauerkraut, schnitzel, baked chicken, hand-rolled pretzels, German potato salad and beer-cheese soup.

Oktoberfest Duluth is moving festivities closer to the Fitger’s Brewhouse Brewery for 2012. This year’s event will be held just four-blocks away at Fitger’s Brewhouse’s newest tap-house, Tycoons Alehouse (132 E Superior St, Duluth). What about Oktoberfest Duluth’s switch from Bayfront Park this year? Both the inaugural and the second years of Oktoberfest Duluth were held in Duluth’s incredible Bayfront Festival Park. To ensure the sustainability of the now regionally endeared event as Fitger’s Brewhouse continues to grow operations, Fitger’s Brewhouse last month announced a one-year shift in venue to Tycoons Alehouse.

And, believe it or not, planning is already underway for 2013 when the 4th annual Oktoberfest Duluth will return to the Bayfront Festival Park. With an all-out effort to organize local and regional breweries and food vendors, everyone expects to enjoy an expanded return of Oktoberfest Duluth to the outdoor setting. With the continued support of Visit Duluth and other organizations and businesses, this free autumn ethnic event will return to thrive for the enjoyment of visitors and locals alike.


 

Oktoberfest Duluth (www.oktoberfestduluth.com)

Tycoons Alehouse (www.tycoonsalehouse.com)

Fitger’s Brewhouse (www.brewhouse.net)

Chmielewski Funtime Band (www.funtimeband.com)

International Mainstret Polka Band (www.imspb.com)

Adam & The Jolly Jammers (www.jollyjammers.com)

Autumn Brew Review Week of Events

I hope you guys are ready for a week of rare beers, amazing dinners and other generally awesome beer events because that is what is about to happen to the Twin Cities! The week of September 10-15th Minneapolis and Saint Paul will be teeming with beer events, with the finale at ABR on the 15th. Attached to this post is a PDF outlining what, when, where and in some cases how much each of these events are.

CLICK HERE FOR AUTUMN BREW REVIEW WEEK EVENTS (PDF)

Please note, these events are largely Hohenstein’s events and not necessarily everything that’s happening leading up to ABR. -Ed.