"Cafe Buffalo" Cask Ale Tasting - Tues @ Scrooges in Jackson

Cafe Buffalo Cask Ale Tasting Scrooge's Restaurant and Pub , Southern Beverage Co and Raise Your Pints are proud to bring you a special firkin of unique craft beer called "Café Buffalo" from our friends at Tallgrass Brewing Co. It's a cask-conditioned beer consisting of the Tallgrass Buffalo Sweat stout flavored with hand roasted coffee beans. We'll tap it out on the patio behind Scrooges. Buying a pint of this craft beer will also include a Raise Your Pints pint glass that you can take home. All proceeds from the sale of Café Buffalo will go to the Raise Your Pints lobbying fund. This is our last fundraiser before the start of the 2012 legislative session, so please come out and support the efforts to bring a better selection of beer to Mississippi and to legalize homebrewing. Raise Your Pints board members will be there to discuss the upcoming session. Tallgrass IPA and Tallgrass Ale will be on tap inside the pub along with other great craft beers. Food will be available from the menu. Where: Scrooge's Restaurant and Pub, 5829 Ridgewood Rd., Jackson, MS 39211 When: Tuesday, December 27, 2011. 6-9 PM

Sierra Nevada Beer Dinner @SalandMookies, Dec 12

Yazoo Trolley Pub Crawl - Jackson MS (Dec 2)

After the fun time everyone had for our first one, we have decided to do another Yazoo Trolley Pub Crawl. We will be making the rounds on the evening of Friday, December 2nd, through 5 different Yazoo beers at 5 different stops through Jackson, Mississippi. We will meet and check in at The Bulldog (6111 Ridgewood Rd.) by 6:00 p.m. The first 25 people to check in will load up on the Fondren Trolley and head to the first stop. The next 25 people to check in will enjoy a cold Yazoo at The Bulldog as their first stop. At each stop each pub crawler will receive one Yazoo Brew.

Stops include: Bulldog, Burgers & Blues, McB's, Kathryn's, Sportsman's Lodge
 
You MUST pre-purchase tickets! Click on the trolley below.

Each person will receive a one-time-only Yazoo Trolley Pub Crawl Wearable, and a Yazoo pint glass at the end of the evening when we all return to The Bulldog. Each attendee must be 21 years of age and show proof of ID at The Bulldog upon check in. Each attendee is not expected to drink at every stop, and we encourage responsible consumption along the way, as we want this to be a fun time for everyone along the way and a celebrations of good beer with good people.

After purchase all you need to do is bring valid ID to The Bulldog on the evening of the Friday, December 2nd, and be checked in by 6:00 p.m. If you have more than 2 in your group, please check in together so we have a better chance of getting you all on the same trolley. After you check in we will give you all of the details of the rest of the stops and fun for the rest of the evening.

 

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Yazoo Store (to purchase tickets)

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Profiled

Great video about Dogfish Head Brewery by Bloomberg.com.

Emerald Coast Beer Festival - Sep 9, 2011 (Pensacola, FL)

Emerald Coast Beer Festival 2011

This is a great beer festival that I have attended many times and will be there again this year. Worth the drive over from Mississippi and a hotel room in Pensacola. The selection of high-gravity beers (that are illegal in Mississippi) is fantastic.  And for you bootleggers, Pensacola has some great places to fill up the trunk.  Spend some extra time at McGuire's Irish Pub and Pensacola's newest craft beer destination Pensacola Bay Brewery.

Several Mississippi homebrew clubs will be pouring their creations.

• Emerald Coast Homebrew Org., Panama City, FL
• Escambia Bay Homebrewers, Pensacola, FL
• Carboy Junkies, Birmingham, AL
• Central Florida Homebrewers, Orlando, FL
• Crescent City Homebrewers, New Orleans, LA
• Golden Triangle Brewers, Columbus, MS
• Homebrewers Assoc. of Middle Mississippi, Brandon, MS
• Homebrewer's Underground, Ft. Walton Beach, FL
• HopHeads, Phenix City, AL
• Hoppy Homebrewers of South Mississippi, Biloxi, MS
• LA Lagers, Mobile, AL
• Random Acts of Brewing, Mobile, AL

Breweries/brewpubs attending.  How many do you see that are available in Mississippi?

• Abita Brewing Co., Abita Springs, LA
• Bell's Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI
• Back Forty Beer Co., Birmingham, AL
• Blue Point Brewing Co., Long Island, NY
• Boulder Beer Co., Boulder, CO
• Chattahoochee Brewing Company, Phenix City, AL
• Choc Beer Co., Krebs, OK
• Cigar City Brewing LLC, Tampa, FL
• Dogfish Head, Milton, DE
• Erie Brewing Co., Erie, PA
• Florida Beer Co., Melbourne, FL
• Gordon Biersch, New Orleans, LA
• Gordon Biersch Micro Brewery, New Orleans, LA
• Grayton Beer Co., Rosemary Beach, FL
• Highland Brewing Co., Asheville, NC
• Kind Beers, Charlotte, NC
• Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co., Kiln, MS
• Left Hand Brewing Co., Longmont, CO
• Magic Hat, South Burlington, VT
• McGuire's Irish Pub, Destin, FL
• McGuire's Irish Pub, Pensacola, FL
• Moccasin Bend Brewing Co., Chattanooga, TN
• New Orleans Beer Company, New Orleans, LA
• NOLA Brewing Co., New Orleans, LA
• Pensacola Bay Brewery, Pensacola, FL
• Perdido Vineyards & Brewing Co., Mobile, AL
• Shipyard/Seadog Brewery, Portland, Maine & Orlando, FL
• Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Chico, CA
• Southern Tier Brewing Co., Lakewood, NY
• Stone Brewing Co., Escondido, CA
• Sweet Water Brewing, Atlanta , GA
• Terrapin Beer Co., Athens, GA
• The Terminal BrewHouse, Chattanooga, TN
• The Cannon Brewpub, Columbus, GA
• Tin Roof Brewing Co., Baton Rouge, LA
• Vermont Hard Cider Co., Middlebury, VT
• Victory Brewing Co., Downington, PA

Minneapolis Mayor: “Drink Beer. It’s The Law.”

An elected official that "gets it".  Listen up Mississippi.

"Beer ... will grow the local beer economy by creating new jobs and lowering the barriers for entry for new breweries, which will allow them to hit the ground running. And it complements the burgeoning local food economy that is creating new businesses and more jobs."