This Friday presents the May installment of Fitty’s First Friday at Thomas Liquor. Fitty welcomes the brew crew from Alaskan Brewing, the newest brewery to hit the Minnesota scene. Alaskan will be pouring their fllagship Amber Ale along with IPA, White Ale, and the summer seasonal Friday, May 6 from 4pm to 7pm.
Category: free beer
Taste Some Wheat TONIGHT @ Zipp’s.
Tasting tonight at Zipp’s Liquors! Wheat Beers. All things wheat… Hefe’s, wheat ales, weizen bocks, smoked wheats and more! Free (21+) in-store from 6:30-8. See you tonight!
Beer School In Session
Beer School starts next week, and the professors have announced May class dates for your information. All classes will be held at the Happy Gnome from 5:30pm – 6:30pm and are free!
Classes start May 4th, with Goose Island to kick things off. More details can be found on their Facebook page here, including info about your chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to the St. Paul Summer Beer Fest!
Other May dates include (details posted as we get em):
May 11th, Artisanal Imports
May 18th, Summit
May 25th, Great Lakes
Classes haven’t even started and they’re already doling out the homework: Bring in receipts for the beer from the previous week to win more free beer.
Also, upon graduation, if you have a stellar attendance record (attend at least 10/12 classes), you’ll receive a card which gets you $1 off every beer at Happy Gnome and 10% off large format bottles at the Ale Jail for the next semester and $1 off beer school beers in the week following a class.
Moylan’s in the Ale Jail TONIGHT
Tonight from 5-7pm, Adam will be cracking open some bombers from Moylan’s! Nor Cal IPA, Moylander Double IPA, Hopsickle Double IPA, Celts Golden Ale, and Kilt Lifter Scotch Style Ale will all be open for your libatious pleasure.
Quad Tapping (and Bryon’s final) at Rock Bottom
You’ve probably already heard that Bryon Tonnis will be leaving Rock Bottom shortly. Wish him well in his new endeavours and savor his quadruple Barrel Aged Belgian beers.
The four beers are from the Belgian Trifecta Series, plus Fantome Wheat, that have spent six months aging in French Oak wine barrels.
As is par for the course, be there at 6:00 and the first pint is on the house.