Category: beer stores

Beermuda Triangle Saturday in St. Louis Park

By on June 5, 2012in beer events, beer stores, breweries, homebrew

We like St. Louis Park, and not just because our offices (read: my basement & laptop) are here. The Four Firkins, Midwest Homebrew Supply and Steel Toe Brewing are nice to have in town as well. Saturday from 2-6, the three are coming together to put on an event dubbed “The Beermuda Triangle,” a collaborative, multi-location beer event. The event will feature beer samples, brewing demonstrations and swag as well as raffles to win prizes like gift cards, a brew session with Jason from Steel Toe, a night on the town with Alvey and the Four Firkins crew and a kegging system from Midwest.  More importantly, the ticket price for the event goes to support STEP, the St. Louis Park Emergency Program. STEP provides essentials like food, clothing and other resources to those in need in the St. Louis Park area. They’re one of my personal charities of choice. Couple that with beer, and I think there’s not much left to consider!

Check it out! Purchase tickets here.

New Belgium Tasting/Takeover at Heritage Tonight

By on May 17, 2012in beer stores

Heritage is getting all New Belgium-y on us. Beer Ranger Derek (aka Theo) will be pouring samples from 5-7. If that weren’t enough, the bomber of the week at Heritage is New Belgium’s Abbey Grand Cru and they’re running specials on 4 and 6 packs as well. Read on:

New Belgium Heritage Takeover!

For the price of a debt they’ll never be able to erase (the juice is running!), we’re allowing New Belgium Brewery to take over our store this week. The truth is that we’ll do all the work and they’ll get all the credit, but you’ll get to reap the benefits.

Bomber of the Week
For our BOTW, we’ll have their Abbey Grand Cru, a big, beautiful version of their Abbey Ale at 20% off.  Rich and bottle conditioned, this a great beer to cellar.

Thursday Tasting
For our tasting on Thursday the 17th, we will have Derek (aka: “Theo” aka: the sexiest Beer Ranger in whatever room he is in) here to pour samples of some of their brews from 5-7PM.

Brewery of the Month
There’s a theme developing … our featured brewery this month is … stay with me here … New Belgium.  For the month of May we’ll have their 4-packs and 6-packs on sale for $7.49 and their 12 packs (can and bottle) on sale for $12.99.

Brewed Awakening Book Events & Giveaway

By on May 1, 2012in beer events, beer stores, homebrew

Joshua Bernstein, author of Brewed Awakening, will be making a couple of stops in Minnesota this week for a couple of events. Joshua interviewed me a few years ago for a piece on up and coming craft beer cities for Imbibe magazine and edited appropriately so I didn’t sound stupid, so he must be a good guy, right? In any case, Brewed Awakening is his take on the craft beer revolution and features several Minnesota breweries. (See below).

Plus, just because we love you, if you leave a comment regarding your own “brewed awakening,” we’ll pick one winner at random and shoot them a copy of Joshua’s book. Be sure to include a valid email (don’t worry, it doesn’t get posted or shared) for a chance to win.

May 3
Four Firkins: 5630 W. 36th Street, St. Louis Park, MN 55416
6 p.m.-8 p.m.
I’ll be holding court at the Four Firkins, which is quite possibly Minnesota’s best beer store. Expect plenty of free beer  goodies to glug. And me, drinking and blabbing.

May 5
Midwest Supplies: 5825 Excelsior Boulevard,  St. Louis Park, MN 55416
11 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Come down to the Minneapolis area’s superb Midwest Supplies, the nation’s preeminent homebrew-supply shop. It’s customer appreciation day, and I’ll be on hand to sign books and drop some beer-y science. Expect plenty of food fresh from the grill, homemade sodas and plenty more beer-based goodness.

Additionally, here’s a link to the info on my website: http://joshuambernstein.com/events-and-appearances/

Two Liquor Store Bills Signed into Law By Gov. Dayton

By on April 28, 2012in beer laws, beer stores

Congrats to The Four Firkins and everyone else who supported two bills that give liquor stores in Minnesota a little more flexibility. We covered them a few months ago here…

So what will these bills allow? One will allow liquor stores to sell store-branded apparel. The other will allow liquor stores to charge a fee for tasting/education events in order to pay folks like myself big bucks to sample beer with their patrons special guest speakers.

Also included in the omnibus liquor bill are provisions to allow for beer sales at the U of M’s TCF Bank Stadium (and if I follow correctly, sales can’t be limited solely to the suites) as well as a bill allowing breweries that aren’t distributed in Minnesota to sample beer at one festival a year.