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Minneapolis Town Hall Mango Mama IPA

As many times as I’ve been in to Minneapolis Town Hall to enjoy their fantastic Masala Mama IPA, I’ve never ventured beyond my safe zone to sample Masala’s distant cousin from southeast Asia, Mango...

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Taking Care of Some Chores

Half case of smoked porter on left, port barrel-aged Belgian brown on right All  kinds of homebrew fun this past weekend. But unfortunately, not much of the actual brewing variety. For one reason or...

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Flat Earth Xanadu Cygnus X-1

Flat Earth Brewing has a pretty good thing going over in St. Paul. Stopped in last week to check out their growler selection and have another sample of their Cygnus X-1 porter, which I recently...

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21st Amendment Brewery Coming to Twin Cities

While they’re still being courted by distributors to determine who will carry them locally, the highly regarded 21st Amendment Brewery out of San Francisco will be hitting the Twin Cities market in...

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Sunday Sampling at Stubs

  My time this afternoon tippling a few at Stub & Herb’s, just a stone’s throw from the gleaming new Gopher football stadium on the U of M campus, greatly reinforced my perception that the place is...

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Home Brew Review: The Captain’s Raspberry Wheat Stout

Last time I won a ribbon for anything was during my fourth grade spelling bee, where I placed third after incorrectly spelling the word “restaurant” (I went with restaraunt). In retrospect, I should...

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Founders Cerise

To describe something as a fruit beer is actually to not really describe it at all, considering the extremely wide spectrum within the category.  Fruit can be added to nearly any base style you’d...

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Michelob Tasting at GABF

In some respects, one could consider Michelob Anheuser-Busch’s craft brand (if you’d like to take it that far). Sure, they pump out millions upon millions of barrels of watery, adjunct-laden fizzy...

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Food and Beer Pairing Made Easy at GABF

Anyone who’s read The Brewmaster’s Table, Garrett Oliver’s eloquent, foundation-laying book on the relationship between food and beer, already understands that creative pairing can take what is...

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New Glarus Unplugged Cherry Stout

Thanks to New Glarus for bringing back their Cherry Stout, a past gold medal winner in the Wood and Barrel Aged Beer category at GABF, and the first in this year’s Unplugged Series. Appearance is...

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