Earlier this year I was living the geek life at the 50th anniversary of Minicon, Minnesota’s oldest science-fiction and fantasy fan convention. If you’re interested, you can read my take on the event, as well as some internal geek monologue HERE. At the amazing complimentary CON bar I had tasty Surly Furious and Summit Porter, but more intriguing to me was what I thought was some homebrew. As I ordered my free taste of the mythological Greenman’s Harvest brown ale, I discovered that my server was actually Kathleen Culhane, the brewer for the then nearly open Sidhe Brewing Company. As a beer geek and beer blogger I was excited to hear about a new brewery that I was not already aware of. Even more, I was also happy to discover this at an unexpected place and time! Getting to be the first test market of a budding new brewery while hanging out with a ton of science fiction and fantasy lovers? Sign me up for that! I talked briefly with the busy Kathleen, and got a little background … |
Source: JABlog: A Minnesota-Centric Beer Blog
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