-----Original Message----- From: Northern Ale Stars [mailto:northernalestars@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:41 PM Subject: Upcoming Events March is here and with it comes no sign of spring. But that's not going to stop us from gathering at the annual spring beer weekend at Hestons Lodge, Casino and Golf. The grand event will commence March 23rd and rage on uncontrollably until March 26th, at which time the police will be summoned to throw us all out. Here's the line-up of events planned fro the weekend: -For those showing up on the 23rd, the traditional Pub Night will signal the beginning of the festivities. Bring a food item to Pub Night to share with the group. -On Friday there will be a group brew. An all-grain IPA will be the beer of choice so plan to hang out and add your two cents on how the beer should be made. -Returning to beer weekend after a short absence will be Tee-Pee Mark and his Tee-Pee (thus the name). Mark has requested a brown ale-porter-stout tasting in the tent, so bring one of those along with your peace pipe to sit around the fire and tell lies. -Of course we will be having a Belgian beer tasting, so bring your best. -The Saturday night meal theme will be Italian. However, as stated earlier, Greg has only consented to this theme as long as there are not 40 different versions of Spaghetti...that includes SpaghettiOs. Anything else will pass muster and spare you the wrath of Greg Pub Crawl April 29th will mark the return of the Northern Ale Stars Pub Crawl. The tentative schedule for the crawl is as follows: -5:00 - Start at Lake Superior Brewing for beer, tour of the brewery and pizza. Lake Superior will also be selling growlers by then and you can purchase one or more to bring home with you. -6:30 - Next we will drive to Fitgers Brewhouse and enjoy their beers. -7:20 - Since we'll be in crawling distance of Sir Benedicts, we'll do just that. -8:15 - From there we will crawl to Carmody's, a new Irish bar in downtown Duluth. -9:15 - Enough crawling, at this point we'll board the DTA Trolley and head across the bridge to Twin Ports Brewing. -10:30 - We board the trolley and head back across the bridge to either The Dubliner (another new Irish bar in Duluth) if it has opened by the 29th, otherwise we'll head to Old Chicago. -11:30 - We pour ourselves back into the trolley and head back to Fitgers. Tickets are $25 in advance and includes the trolley ride and pizza at Lake Superior Brewing. Please make your check out to Northern Ale Stars and send it to Walt Pittack, 5979 Birchway Rd., Hermantown, MN 55810.