For the 14 breweries participating in Grumpy’s Limited Action Beer Festival this Saturday, the rules are simple: brew a beer exclusively for the event that uses hops picked from Grumpy’s Northeast, something Minnesotan, and an aromatic herb or flower. Aside from the hops, the other two ingredients are completely up to the breweries, and when … [ Read more]
Grumpy’s Limited Action Beer Festival and the story behind Insight’s Crab Apple Tart
Filed Under: Beer, Drink, Sublanding Featured Tagged With: Grumpy's NE, Grumpy’s Downtown, Insight Brewing Company
The Book Dabbler: AWP 2015 Off-Site Events
The Book Dabbler, here, keeping you up-to-date on all the beer-friendly off site readings for this year’s Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference in the Twin Cities. Your favorite taprooms and beer bars will be full of literary people from all over the country. So make sure to get out and enjoy some ales … [ Read more]
Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Sublanding Featured Tagged With: 612Brew, AWP, books, Brit's Pub, bryant lake bowl, Grumpy’s Downtown, Harriet Brewing, Icehouse, Kieran's Irish Pub, Liquor Lyle's, literature, Mason's Barre, Open Book, Patrick's Cabaret, poetry, Republic Calhoun Square, the book dabbler, The Loft
Holiday Theater (and Your Best Beer Bets Nearby)
By Juliana Bryarly A look at the many seasonal theater offerings and the best beer bets nearby Long lines, present purchasing, and marketing madness can instigate that holiday havoc. Avoid stressing over the small details and remember to enjoy the season by dedicating an afternoon or evening for a live holiday performance and a beer. … [ Read more]
Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Arts and Culture Tagged With: A Christmas Carol, All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, Ballet Minnesota’s Nutcracker, Brave New Workshop, bryant lake bowl, Burger Moe’s, Cabaret Theater, Children’s Theater Company, Christmas Impossible, Don’t Hug Me Christmas Carol, Eagle Street Grille, Elf, Fifty Shades of White: A Minnesota XXXmas, Gluek’s, Great Waters Brewing Company, Grumpy’s Downtown, Guthrie Theater, Herkimer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Illusion Theater, Jasmine 26, Lyndale Tap House, MacKenzie Pub, Miss Richfield 1981 “2012: We’ll All Be Dead by Christmas”, Moscow Ballet, muddy waters, New Century Theater, O’Shaughnessy, Ordway, Orpheum Theater, Pantages Theater, Rock Bottom Brewery, Senor Wong, State Theater, The Black Forest Inn, The Chatterbox, The Crooked Pint, The Groveland Tap, theater and beer, Tiffany Sports Lounge, Trailer Park Boys, Tuna Christmas