Category: brewpubs

This Week in Minnesota Beer

By on March 19, 2012in bars/restaurants, beer stores, breweries, brewpubs

It was a quiet week in my hometown, the land of 10,000 beers…

As per usual, if we’re missing something (surely we are!) leave it in the comments! Cheers!

Tuesday
The Hanger Room in Willernie will be hosting a beer dinner with Lift Bridge
Liquor Barrel Miracle Mile (St. Louis Park) will host a tasting with Jason from Steel Toe Brewing. 5-8pm.
The Four Firkins are hosting Capital Brewing Co. for a sampling of their Capital Square Series. 6-8pm.

Wednesday
Beer School at Republic, guest TBD. 5:30 & 7pm classes.
Midweek Beer Geek at Nomad World Pub with MNBeerActivists & beer TBD. 6pm.
Blackbird is tapping a keg of Founder’s KBS. 3pm

Saturday
Firkin Fest at The Happy Gnome. 1pm

Tycoon’s Grand Opening Continues

By on March 16, 2012in bars/restaurants, beer events, brewpubs

Perhaps you hit the ribbon cutting event last night? If not, there’s still plenty going on this weekend at Tycoon’s in Duluth. The photos of the space are beautiful and I’m looking forward to a visit – you can’t really go wrong with Fitger’s Brewhouse beers!

FRI 3/16
21st Amendment Party! Celebrate our right to celebrate with beer! 5 — 6PM $2 pints 6:30PM North Shore Big Band 10PM Communist Daughter with Coyote

SAT 3/17
St. Pattie’s Day! Celebrate beer drinking again! 10PM Retribution Gospel Choir with Toby Churchill & Actual Wolf

Barley John’s 12th Anniversary

By on March 16, 2012in beer events, brewpubs

Barley John’s celebrates their 12th anniversary today with specials on pitchers and growlers.

It is our 12th Anniversary, and we’re ready to party with you!

To celebrate we are offering select pitcher and growler specials, as well as Irish-themed food specials. We hope you join us this Friday and check out what we have cooking/brewing!

Beer Specials:

All day on Friday 3/16 enjoy $12 Pitchers & $12 Growlers of the following beers:

Little Barley Bitter

Stockyard IPA

Old Eight Porter

Northern English Brown Ale

Schwarzbier

& our 12th Anniversary Ale

– Even better, those growler prices include the growler. If you have a jug of your own, bring it in and get one of these beers for just $9! — limit four growlers.

Also, don’t miss out on trying our Oatmeal Irish Stout, it pairs perfectly with our Irish food specials listed below!

Anniversary Food Menu:
Housemade Corned Beef Hash — $12

Potato-Oat Cakes w/ Nettles, Dubliner Cheese & Cahill’s Porter Cheddar — $12

Double Beer Braised Grassfed Beef Stew — $12
(Braised in our Old 8 Porter & Oatmeal Irish Stout)

Boiled Dinner — $24
(House Braised Corned Beef, carrots, onions, potatoes and cabbage in a beef broth, served with fresh baked Irish Soda Bread)
– add soup or salad for $3

Specials will be available after 4pm, except our Irish Stew, which will be available all day. (These specials will be available tomorrow’s for St. Pat’s Day as well, but not at these prices.)

GWBC 15th Anniversary

By on March 12, 2012in beer dinners, beer events, brewpubs, cask beer

Great Waters is coming up on a milestone, their 15th anniversary, and to celebrate they’re offering a week’s worth of celebrations. You don’t have any excuse not to make it over at least once.

Throughout the week, we’ll be releasing 15 different cask beers – 15 beers for 15 years, so every days cask list will be a little different. We’ve had 4 beer engines pumping everyday for the last 15 years, so this seemed a fitting tribute. Come in and get a “Caskport” and chart how many of the 15 you’ve tried. Try 10 or more throughout the week and you’ll be elligible to win a brew day with Bob & Chad where you get to name the beer and come back when it’s done to tap up the first firkin!

On Sunday, April 1st at 5PM we’ll be releasing one last keg of our ginger spiced Yuletide Ale (although given the date, maybe we’ll call it Fooltide Ale) with $1.50 pints of that all night.

Monday, April 2nd will feature our all-cask 5 course Beer Dinner. That’s right, each course will be paired with a Cask Ale. $65 regular/ $55 MBA Members. More details, including menu and exact start time will be released this week.

Tuesday, April 3rd is Old Home Night. All former GWBC staff is invited down for reunion to wax nostalgic and share a few pints. If you’ve been a regular for quite a while, there’ll be some old familiar faces to visit with that night.

Wednesday, April 4th will be a 15th anniversary MBA party. All active MBA members are invited down starting at 6PM for some free food, a bit of free beer followed by very cheap beer, and good company. Not an MBA member? There’s still time to join but only a few spaces remain at the moment!

The rest of the week will feature more Cask Ales released, drink specials, and possibly more events and giveaways. Stay tuned to this site or our Facebook and Twitter for more details.

Please note that we will be closed on Sunday, April 8th for Easter.

A big thanks to all of you that have supported us and made these 15 years possible!