[rogerd@UIC.EDU: Trip Report: Minneapolis Town Hall]

Greetings, I normally just bounce these, but wanted to preface this one. Many of us know Roger D and the excellent beer served in Chicago and at CBS events. This is very high praise from a well traveled beer hunter! Note that Town Hall Brew Guru Mike Hops is in England right now, Pete and the assistant brewer were in Madison, and they still had/have great beer on line at TH. (Kudos all around!) We have great craft beer here in MN. Please do what you can to support the MNCBG and keep the beer flowing. Have you purchased your tix for the Autumn Brew Reveiw? It's just 26 days away (9/6/03)! Cheers, Jim ----- Forwarded message from Roger Deschner <rogerd(a)UIC.EDU> ----- X-X-Sender: rogerd(a)tigger.cc.uic.edu Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:58:35 -0500 Reply-To: Roger Deschner <rogerd(a)UIC.EDU> From: Roger Deschner <rogerd(a)UIC.EDU> Subject: Trip Report: Minneapolis Town Hall To: CBS-HB(a)LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Precedence: list My just-ended vacation took me to Minneapolis, where I stayed at the Holiday Inn Metrodome, which happens to be next door to the Town Hall Brewpub. I'd heard of this place before via the Minnesota homebrewers, but this was my first taste of their beers. Very impressive! A top-notch lineup of extremely well-made beers, headlined by a perfect and perfectly drinkable hoppy IPA that was to die for, and a fruit lambic that was perfectly balanced and extremely pleasant. I've always said, "It's the beer in the glass, stupid," when rating breweries. Town Hall in Minneapolis is a winner and has a new fan - me. If in the Twin Cities, this place is a must. Directly across I-35W from the Metrodome stadium on Washington Ave - in the shadow of the high-rise Holiday Inn. Gets a very young, collegate crowd from the nearby University of Minnesota campus. (The hotel bar itself had very fresh Summit Extra Pale Ale and Grand Pils on tap, brewed just a couple of miles down the street in St. Paul, so there was great local beer all around!) Roger Deschner rogerd(a)uic.edu =================== "Draft beer, not people!" - Anon =================== ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ------------------------------ * * Dr. James Lee Ellingson, Adjunct Professor jellings(a)me.umn.edu * * University of Minnesota, tel: 651/645-0753 fax 651 XXX XXXX * * Great Lakes Brewing News, 1569 Laurel Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104 *