Category: Beer
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The Invisible Hangover
Fads in bars: 1990: every bar that could find three TVs was re-branding itself as a “sports bar”. 2000s: those same bars found a couple old church pews and a Guinness tap, and became “Irish Bars”. 2010s: Those same bars found themselves some brew vats and became “Microbreweries”. I don’t drink a lot of beer…
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Everything…
…is going just great in MInneapolis.
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Comfort Food For Thought
Stouts Pub at Snelling and Larpenteur opened as an English pub, serving bangers and mash, fish and chips, and Guinness beer on tap. Lately, with the cool wet weather, I’ve been feeling a need for comfort food. Mutton stew with thick warm bread. Maybe a shepherd’s pie. But when I looked at their menu online…
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The One Time Bernie Sanders Was Right
Well, partly The former presidential candidate, Democrat rigging victim and socialist once famously complained that Americans had “too many choices” in the free market (to audiences of bobbleheaded millennials and vacuous hippies whose lifestyles would not exist without the surplus wealth the free market creates). He was an idiot, of course. But he was right…
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Build It And They Will Come
If you follow Great Britain at all, after a while you start to realize that if there’s one thing they’re short of, it’s enough alcohol in their lives. And you wonder; if there was only a way Brits could only get more booze, faster. Well, fear not. While Britain may be a shadow of its former…
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All In The Timing
Surly opens its new brew pub near Dinkytown today… …as the craft beer world finally starts to ask “do we need to apply hops to beer the way William Westmoreland applied napalm and Agent Orange to the Viet Cong?”
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It’s That Time Of Year Again
The time of year for senseless-but-fun studies trying to associate peoples’ traits, behaviors and peccadilloes to their politics. Today? What your choice of beer says about yoru politics: Smithwick’s is never mentioned. What are they afraid of? (And who am I kidding? It’s always that time of year. Although I’m sure it’s time for a “study” “proving” that liberals…
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Only At The U Of M…
…could they manage to lose money selling beer at a football game: The school released the figures to the Associated Press after a records request, which showed it incurred significant expenses from its first season selling alcohol stadium-wide at TCF Bank Stadium. Those include hiring additional police and security officers, setting up tents and other…
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Priorities
Governor Dayton vetoed all the GOP budget bills, casting his vote for continued autopilot budget increases, an eternal burden on the state’s productive class, and forcing the rest of us to work ’til we’re 70 so that Dayton’s union supporters can retire at 55. But at least Minnesota’s brewers got their money’s worth: On the same…
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It Is Risen
The Nook – the teeny little Saint Paul bar and burger joint that burned down last December – is set to reopen today: The restaurant, located on Hamline Avenue, across the street from Cretin-Derham Hall High School, has been around since 1938. Their specialty was the Juicy Nookie, a burger stuffed with cheese. The restaurant was…
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Six Million Bottles of Beer on The Road, Six Million Bottles of Beer.
I suppose this isn’t the first time beer has stopped traffic. A kilometre-long convoy of beer vats is on the move, shutting down roads and downing hydro and cable lines in its path. Massive vats that can hold six million bottles of beer are being hauled from Hamilton Harbour to a Molson Coors facility near…
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Dear Every Single Twin Cities Liquor Merchant
To: Madames and Sirs From: Mitch Re: Huge Mistake To whom it may concern, Get “Mike’s Hard Limeade” back on your shelves immediately or face the consequences. That is all. Mitch Berg
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Beer Commons
I’ve lived in the Twin Cities for almost 25 years, now. And for most of that time, being from North Dakota has meant I’m my entire social circle’s connection for Everclear (the full-strength 195 proof stuff, not the pantywaisted 175 proof swill they sometimes sell in Minnesota), fireworks (the NATO-graded stuff) and cheap cigarettes. But…
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Bathroom Review: The Flash Mahal
As part of my ongoing series of reviews of the great bathrooms of the Twin Cities, I reviewed Flash’s newly-reopened master bathroom, the “Flash Mahal”. A frequent stop on visits to Flash’s Garage – the social center of the Midway – Flash’s master bathroom was once a fairly undistinguished little cubbyhole – just a toilet,…
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Speaking Of The MOB
It’s high time we threw a MOB Winter Party. The MOB has always thrown its parties at Keegans, largely because the group really was born at Keegans; Terry Keegan has always shown bloggers (and, let’s be honest, the Northern Alliance) a lot of love, and it’s only right to show it right back What kind…
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Hot Beer Friday
I just wanted to use my new “Beer” post tag again. Anyone have a problem with that?
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Gatesgate Begets Beergate
One controversy after another dogs El Presidente as he pours a cold one with his new-found beer buddies. Earlier this week the White House indicated each man would drink the beer of their choice — Bud Light for President Obama, Blue Moon for the police officer, and perhaps Red Stripe or Beck’s for Gates. But…
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Sit Down, Have a “Beer.” Hugs All Around.
Is it just me or does it seem like The President might have more pressing issues than shipping his “Perfesser” and the Perfesser’s cop cousin to the White House for a Beer? (Not that Bud Light is actually beer). Obama, 47, has picked the top-selling beer in the U.S. for his get-together at the White…
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Charter Schools: The Hit Is Out (Part I)
Established; the left hates, and wants to extinguish, charter schools. Charter schools – invented about twenty years ago in Minnesota, and given life by a 1991 law that allowed schools, run by sponsoring organizations and elected boards of parents, teachers, sponsors and other interested parties, to use the money that would have been allocated to…