Brew 52: GENIUS
“BREW 52.com–sampling a different Minnesota brew each week for an entire year. Oh for fun!”
Oh my god, yes.
I signed up last week. I was honestly reticent to make another commitment. Especially a year-long one (quality, not quantity, whatnot). But I could not pass this up. Because I am a beer snob picky. I’m all about the locally brewed stuff, but I also don’t actually drink that much and I am not trying to blow through a six-pack a week trying to figure out what I like, since there’s a pretty good chance I won’t like much of it.
Rett Martin is the man behind Brew 52. He’s also the proprietor of Overheard-for-Metro-Transit site Bus Tales.
Rett made it even easier to participate by organizing a brewpool. He (or possibly another volunteer) buys the next several weeks worth of beer and divvies them up so each person doesn’t have to buy their own six pack (or 24-pack, yikes) of each one. Head to Rett’s house, give him your money, and you can take home a mixed box of your next several weeks of beers to review. I believe there are a few stores in town that will let you do that yourself, but I couldn’t tell you what they are. I also know that not one liquor store in Eden Prairie carries anything from Flat Earth. Bastards.
I drank my first beer (Schell Snow Storm) last night. It’s week 2 and I’m already a week behind.
You can still sign up if you like. It’s not the end of the world if you miss a week here and there. There are also fun things like a facebook group and flickr photos.
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Does any liquor store sell the Town Hall stuff? I assumed that since they are a brew pub, they only sell growlers on site.
It says on the site that you can get all the beers at surdyks (http://www.surdyks.com/).
Oops, not Town Hall. I meant Flat Earth. Just changed it up above.
The proposed Flat Earth brew only comes in tall bottles and apparently is a little harder to come by. I’ve still got a couple weeks to find it.
I got some at my local MG beer store, Princeton’s Liquors. The owner’s a real beer head, so he’s got a great selection. 494 & Bass Lake Road.
We’ve got Rett from Brew52 on Flak Radio this week!
We also had Carey from Summit’s social network site, The Social Element.
Check it out on Friday: http://www.flakradio.com
And, good lord, we had a lot of beer at the podcast this week.