| July 15, 2009 |
| 12:00 pm |
Are you feeling a little fest-neglected? After Indulge and the St. Paul Summer Beer Fest on back to back weekends, the rest of the summer is looking a little less packed with local festivals. But not to fear! The MN Craft Brewers have just announced the date for ticket sales for September’s Autumn Brew Review.
Autumn Brew Review 2009 is September 12th at the Historic Grain Belt Brewery Complex in NE Minneapolis
Tickets for Autumn Brew Review 2009 will go on sale:
July 15th at noonThey will be available online only and a link will be provided on the MN Craft Brewer’s Guild website to securely purchase.
This event historically sells out so purchase early!
$30 + processing fees
Brewery and Festival Information will be available closer to the event. Visit www.mncraftbrew.org/ for further information where you can sign up for our email list to receive updates about ABR 2009!
Thank You For Supporting the MN Craft Brewer’s Guild!
Beer-a-Day #183
side, promoting beer cocktails in an attempt to increase sagging beer sales. For anyone with any remaining respect for German beer culture these bastard beer concoctions must be a nail in the coffin for any respect one can muster for German beer heritage. 
It’s the identifiable characters in beer that differentiate beers from one another. These characters lend personality and flavor and aromas of interest – but the most delicious and interesting are often not very stable. If a character in flavorful beer is not stable, then for mass beer producing brewers it’s not a good thing. For them consistency in character is king. If a beer changes on the shelves or while in the distribution system, well then, you can’t advertise its character. Why? Because it changes. 
system to continually feed hops to the brew tank as brewing process goes with fresh hops. The Suffocater Imperial Amber ale they call it was also tasty. It was 8.6% so it can make you forget the night if you’re not careful. This was a blast and I need to see this place when it is in full tilt serving all the locals.
Interesting piece on sour beer in the 
21st Ammendment is about to push their canned lineup a bit further. The brewery is set to release it's new Signature Series of beers in cans. This line of beer is a long ways off from the beers that started off 21st Ammendment in cans. The series will kick off with Monksblood, a "dark Belgian with a ton of West Coast hops that’s port-infused with an oak finish and vanilla notes.” This Belgian-style brew is supposed to change how you think of beer in cans. It weighs in at 8.5% and was inspired by the brewery's trip to Belgium this year.
Valley Brew is set to release their first batch of bottled beer. Their first run of bottles will happen very soon, July 15th. Available in the initial run will be their IPA, Uberhoppy Imperial IPA, Luna Blanca, and London Tavern Ale. The total initial run will be approximately 900 cases with the largest portion being bottles of IPA. Uberhoppy is probably their most sought after brand right now and is likely to sell out very, very quickly. It's been a beer many have sought out for quite some time, and this will be the first time that it will be available in commercially done bottles.
While IPA, Luna Blanca, and London Tavern Ale will be available year round, Uberhoppy will be a rotating bottled offering, likely being available two or three times a year for now. There will be more styles bottled at a later time, including their Imperial Stout. 
Beer-a-Day #182
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Independence comes in many forms. For instance, Flying Dog Brewery has been bucking the trends of what it is to be a craft brewery since we started in 1990. Plus craft beer is as American as apple pie and Uncle Sam put together. Everything started about 233 years ago, when our Founding Fathers also decided that they weren’t going to take any more shit from anyone. People like Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin broke from the centuries-old tradition and brought back the long-forgotten concept of Democratic society, and I don’t think I need to tell you about how successful that was. The parallels to Flying Dog are obvious, as we’ve broken the mold of what the traditional brewery should be, in both our award-winning taste as well as our Gonzo labels. We can only hope that the People’s Republic of Flying Dog lasts as long as this great Republic of the United States.
Anita Thompson, as you probably know, is the widow of Hunter S. Thompson. She recently edited a book called Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson, which compiles 400 pages of interviews with the famed Dr. Gonzo (many never-before-available) starting all the way back in 1967. It’s nice to get new content from Hunter, four years after his death. 
It doesn’t matter whether it happens in Germany, USA, 
Yes, I was at Camden Yards Tuesday night , sipping beers as the Os battled the Red Sox. Yes, I left before the comeback.
