Category: beer stores

Thursday Tasting at Heritage: Weyerbacher

By on March 7, 2011in beer events, beer stores

Another Thursday at Heritage and no doubt another great tasting, this time with Weyerbacher:

We might not want to admit it, but there’s still a little cold weather time left, and we have some new, malty brews to finish out the winter. Pennsylvania’s Weyerbacher Brewing just brought 3 beers into Minnesota for the first time and we’ll be tasting them out this Thursday the 10th from 5-7PM.  We’ll have samples of Fireside, a smoky Dark Ale, Old Heathen, an Imperial Stout, and Insanity, their bourbon barrel aged Barleywine.  And we’ll have 10% off these beers Thursday night only.

I tried Old Heathan a while back and thoroughly enjoyed it!

TODAY! Fitty’s First Friday: Sierra Nevada

By on March 4, 2011in beer events, beer stores, free beer

It’s the first Friday of the month, so that means Fitty over at Thomas Liquors will be cracking open some beer for your tasting pleasure at 4pm TODAY! He’s welcoming Brain Bade  Sierra Nevada to the store…lots of great stuff coming from our friends to the west lately, so I’m sure he’ll be opening some of of their regular line-up, seasonals and some of the new brews (Hoptimum anyone?).

And who knows maybe there’ll be something from the cellar (*cough* BFBW vintages *cough*) …

Thursday Tasting at Heritage: Mad River

By on February 23, 2011in beer events, beer stores

Thursday, 5-7 at Heritage.

The roots of Mad River Brewing go back to the early days of the craft beer movement. Excursions to buy homebrewing supplies led Brewmaster Bob Smith to Ken Grossman’s Homebrew Shop in Chico, California. After Ken shared his plans to build a brewery in Chico to be called Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Bob became determined to found a similar brewery in Humboldt County. In the spring of 1989 Sierra Nevada, having outgrown its starting brewery and with a new larger plant under construction, offered to sell their original equipment to Smith. Fast forward to 2010, which saw Mad River win Small Brewery of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival, in addition to three medals. For our tasting this Thursday the 24th we’ll be pouring a bunch of brews from Mad River, including 2 from their Artisan Reserve series, The Mad Belgian and Serious Madness. Our Thursday tastings run from 5-7PM.