Create-a-thon 2015, General

Board games and beer

Whoops, forgot to post this last night, so it’ll be a 2-fer today. I forgot because my son and I were having a great time at a local brewery that was hosting a Settlers of Catan night. They asked people to bring their own games, but then they gave a free beer to anyone who […]

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Create-a-thon 2015, General

Free beer to end my Friday

Today is June 12th, or another way of stating it is that it’s 6/12. Those three numbers are significant because one of the original taprooms in Minneapolis is called 612 Brew, and therefore today was declared 612 Day in the city of Minneapolis. For me, the numbers 612 have some other significance as well, as […]

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Create-a-thon 2015, General

Kinney Creek Brewery Review

This weekend the wife and I escaped for a night to Rochester, MN. Neither of us had ever been here before, though we’d driven past the city a couple of times. So of course I had to turn it into a bit of beer tourism. We headed out from the Twin Cities mid-morning and arrived […]

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Create-a-thon 2015, General

Surly Taproom review

Bonus blog today! I visited the Surly taproom today and wanted to share a review of my experience. This was my second attempt to visit, the first time being when we tried to visit on what we thought would be a tame Thursday evening. After seeing cars parked over three blocks away we knew that wasn’t going […]

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