Archive for September, 2008

The Beer Brotha: Found another Oktoberfest… Yes

And I thought I had found all I could down this way without resorting to beer trading. We braved the roads of downtown to go to The Sauce, as that and a couple of Chinese and Mexican joints are the only ones that are open. Broken glass everywhere.The …

MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Get your Hop Wh0re!

Tyranena is giving you three chances to get in on their local Hop Wh0re release.
Monday, September 22
7:00 pm
Acadia Café
329 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis
Tuesday, September 23
5:30 pm
The Happy Gnome
498 Selby Avenue, St. Paul
Tuesday, September …

Good Beer Show, The: Everything Ted

What can I say? The group featured on the long awaited GBS 160 is one of my favorite local groups, “Everything, Now!“. They have a new album coming out in November and guess what? The Good Beer Show gets to play some songs off of it fi…

A Good Beer Blog: Triples: Kerberos, Flying Dog, Frederick, Maryland, USA

Stan brought me this one, triggered I think by this conversation instigated by Travis, developing into a bit of a pile-on but joined in by Josh of Flying Dog before it got channeled into a consideration of the concept of styles. All that and here was …

Beer Me! Blog, The: Back at it

There’s always lots to do after a week’s trip.

Monday: Fixed the seal in the kettle pump, cleaned and sanitized a bright beer tank, did the excise tax report, filled some kegs.
Tuesday: Brewed a desperately-needed batch of Bugeater Brown Ale, filled…

Stonch’s Beer Blog: Racy casks

Racy casks

Hedonist Beer Jive: SMUGGLED ONTARIO BEER NOTES, PT. 1

I’ve got a contact up in Canada, let’s call him “Peet” – a guy whom I regularly work with in my 9-5 professional endeavors whom I’ve also learned is a total beer hound like myself. Well, this fella’s been expounding upon some of the beer…

[BW] Beer Blog: Full Sail Top Sail Imperial Porter (Bourbon Barrel Aged 2008)

Brewery: Full Sail Brewery
Style: Porter
BeerAdvocate.com Rating: A- (Community)
RateBeer.com Rating: 3.89 (98th percentile)
Serving: 22oz Bottle

I have mixed feelings about Full Sail. On one hand they have a commitment to sustainability rivaled by …

beernews.org: Tyranena Hop Whore Update; Blueberry Lambic-style beer will return

(Lake Mills, WI) –

Tyranena Brewing’s latest newsletter provided that Hop Whore is on its way to areas like the Twin Cities, Milwaukee and Green Bay. 534 cases, which were bottled on Monday, should be available soon. The beer was tapped over …

Eagle Rock Brewery: Success!

Just a quick note today…Last night’s meeting with the Neighborhood Council was a success, and the board unanimously agreed to write a positive “community impact statement”, in support of our project!  We love this neighborhood…