To start of with, I know "adult beverages" are not allowed at PAX. This is an idea that popped up for the hours in which we are not running around PAX jiffed out of our mind on Bawls.
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in bringing beer from your local breweries to PAX to trade with other peoples' microbrews? Just something else to do during the after hours parties that go down when PAX closes up for the night.
Myself, I'd bring some beer along from the two medium sized brewers from around here: Bell's (
http://www.bellsbeer.com/ ) and Arcadia (
http://www.arcadiabrewingcompany.com/ ). I'd also bring some from our small in-town brewery, Dark Horse (whose website is so full of uselessness that I won't bother posting it). I can also take requests if anything those guys have listed sounds particularly tasty.
Let me know if this is something anyone out there would be interested in.
P.S. I haven't bothered to install OpenOffice on my FreeBSD laptop (because compiling 650MB of source code makes the baby jesus cry) so I'm too lazy to spellcheck this post.
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I can get behind this cross county tasting. But I can only offer one brewy/microbrewy http://www.valleybrew.com/, and my own attempts a stout that is due to be bottled before PAX. Sound good?
Every bottle comes with a free stabbing.
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Do we have a proposed time/meetingplace for this trade to go down? Should we wear name badges and just seek each other out?
I'd be glad to pitch in on this though. Only problem is I'm inviting my little brother and sister up for the weekend (why the hell did I do that?!?) so I don't know if I'd be such a good older brother going out drinking at night and leaving them in my apartment.... We'll see.
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Sweet! I love the Shakespeare and Dead Guy...
I was thinking about getting some growlers from the brewery that's downstairs from my apt (Rock Bottom - and yes having that RIGHT downstairs is awesome). They have a yummy porter right now and my boyfriend seemed to enjoy the red and the pale ale while he was down... any requests?
Maybe we could arrange a night to sample eachothers brews? It could be like a potluck, but with beer!
I'll host that party!
Good old Rock Bottom: good beer, horrid atmosphere =p Any of their's is good stuff.
If we need a place to meet let me know, although Moe already seems to want to host it, so I'll leave it to him to post the necessary info.
Have you been to the one in downtown Minneapolis? I live in the same plaza so I frequent there. I agree it's good stuff and the carrot cake is so yummy... hrmm, I'm not always sure having a brewery so conveniently close is always a good thing... that's starting to sound really good right about now...
[EDIT] I realized they have multiple locations including one IN Bellevue... anyone know if they're brewing the brown porter there? I really like that and would rather NOT bring it with me all of the way from MN if I don't have to. I was thinking of maybe getting something from Granite City instead? Hrmm, I don't know of any midwest exclusives... I just don't think they exist.