Category: beer stores

Casanova Beer Cave Festival

By on February 22, 2011in beer events, beer stores

If you’ve ever woken up on a Sunday morning and realized that your plans for the day would be enhanced if there was some beer in your fridge, then there’s a good chance you’ve visited one of the finest shops just across the border, Casanova Liquors.

Their 3rd Annual Beer Cave Festival has been scheduled for April 30th, but the event always sells out in advance so the date you really need to put on your calendar is Monday, March 7th. That’s when tickets go on sale, at the shop and via phone (with credit card), starting at 9:00 am.

Tickets: $30/$35 VIP
Festival: Saturday, April 30th 1:00 – 5:00 pm

Casanova Liquors
236 Coulee Rd, Hudson
715-386-2545

Thursday Tasting at Heritage

By on February 16, 2011in beer events, beer stores

This Thursday’s tasting at Heritage involves Mexican micros… read on…

Believe it or not, there are a handful of Mexican microbreweries that are rewriting the rules for south-of-the-border brews, the most prominent being Cucapá Brewing Company. Their name comes from one of the five Indian tribes that live in the Mexicali Valley of Baja who were the first settlers of the region and whose love for water and nature took them to live in the delta of the Colorado River.

For this week’s Thursday night the 17th tasting, we will be pouring 2 of their 22oz bomber brews. We’ll have samples of *Lowrider*, a Rye Ale made with wheat, German hops and a Belgian yeast strain, and *La Migra*, their Imperial Stout named after border guards that is brewed with piloncillo, a Mexican candy.

Our Thursday tastings run from 5-7PM.

Support Surly Event at Four Firkins

By on February 16, 2011in beer stores, breweries

On Friday The Four Firkins will hold an event in support of Surly with free samples & info on local representatives and senators.

Cheers! Perhaps I’ll be there with the kiddo’ for a bit!

Support Surly’s Destination Brewery!

How? Come and drink some free Surly samples, sign a letter of support, and pick up some info on your local Representatives and Senators while you’re here.

Why? Surly wants to build a 20 million dollar “destination brewery” here in Minnesota that would have a bar, roof deck, restaurant and even an event center. It would also create hundreds of new jobs.

Currently Minnesota law prohibits such a destination brewery from being built. It is illegal for a brewery to sell pints of its own beer to the public on the brewery grounds.

It is worth noting that many states in the union DO allow microbreweries to sell their own beers at their brewery, but not Minnesota.

What can you do about it? Come down to the Firkins this Friday night from 6:00pm till 9:00pm for some free samples of Surly’s beer. We will have print-outs of the local districts and lists of the Representatives and Senators associated with them. When you’ve had your free beer go home and write or call your Representatives and Senators and tell them that you want them to support this law change.

It’s going to take every one of us to make this happen. There is some staunch opposition with deep pockets who will do everything they can to make sure this does not pass. Craft Beer lovers, we need to unite!

See you on Friday evening!

It should be noted that Surly is not sponsoring this event. The Four Firkins is doing this of our own free will and we are covering all costs involved. We strongly support Surly on this issue.

Jason Alvey.

And Yet Another Law We Should Probably Change…

By on February 14, 2011in beer stores

Also covered here and here (and others, no doubt).

From their CloudProfile page:

Firkins is also trying to change a Minnesotan liquor law.
Now, we know that this is not even in the same realm as what Surly is trying to do but it is a state liquor law and we have been working on the for a few weeks now. The draft of the Bill was just introduced so now we can tell you all about it. Currently, it is illegal for MN liquor stores to sell apparel of any kind. That is, shirts, jerseys, hats etc. See MN Statute 340A.412 subd. 14. It’s basically a list of items that MN liquor stores can sell. If something’s not on that list we aren’t allowed to sell it. Shirts and other apparel is not on that list. Which is unusual because as you know, breweries are allowed to sell shirts as well as bars here in Minnesota. I figured it was about time somebody did something about that. I contacted Rep Steve Simon here in St. Louis Park and Senator Ron Latz. Both have been very helpful in getting to this point. Rep Simon drafted the Bill and has officially introduced it. Sen Latz will take it from there. At somepoint in March I will go to the capital to testify as to why I believe this will be a good thing for Minnesotan liquors stores. Hopefully this bill (and the one Surly is working on) will be passed and then liquor stores everywhere in MN will be allowed to sell shirts with their own logo and branding on them. In know this may seem like a small thing, but to us and I suspect a lot of other stores, it will make a very big difference. I will be proud to wear a Firkins shirt to a bar, or a Firkins jersey whilst on my bike and I know a few other people too who might like one… Wish us luck! Jason Alvey. The link to the Draft of the Bill is below: