Big Wood Brewery hopes to set up a taproom in White Bear Lake (zoning code update required), Northgate Brewing is opening early this fall in Northeast and will make English session beers, DeRusha digs Cafe Levain and praises the short rib burger, a construction boom in Lowertown could bring some new restaurants and bars, Madison will soon be home to a local grenadine by Quince and Apple and a Death’s Door Spirits distillery, and why you should grill clams, cheese, and other crazy stuff.
In case you didn’t know, @Nordeast reports that Grumpy’s NE offers half-price MN beer every Monday from 5-9pm — that just may be the cheapest Surly and Summit around! @HotDishBlog serves up the original recipe for the Banoffi (banana-toffee-coffee) Pie available at Victory44, @GreenMill001 is handing out free pizza slices tomorrow at a St. Paul TCF bank, and @CooksCrocusHill now offers online waitlists for full classes. Also, have you ever wondered what’s in all of those miraculous energy drinks? @Vita_MN tweets that 900 boxes of “energy-boosting” coffee were seized in Malaysia over the weekend for being laced with Viagra. This, combined with @The_Wedge’s report that 5 cups a day might reverse Alzheimer’s, implies that coffee really can be a cure-all!
