Saturday was the first ever St. Cloud Craft Beer Expo. St. Cloud, Minnesota is a medium-sized city about an hour-and-a-quarter northwest of the Twin Cities. While the Minneapolis and St. Paul see a number of great beer fests through the year, this was one of the first to take place in St. Cloud. No one [...]
The Rock Bottom brewpub chain has a big secret. It’s an open secret, but something that most people, even many beer nerds, don’t know. I myself was unaware of this secret until a ten-minute talking-down from the brewer at the Chicago location corrected my misconception of the chain. The secret is this: There are no [...]
A year ago on New Year’s Day I began listing all of the beers I drank each day. It would have been a fascinating list to look at today, but by mid February it became clear to me that the task was too herculean for me to keep up with. Even looking back to the [...]
