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City Pages Beer Festival coming June 2. Daily Deal tickets available now

The 20th-annual City Pages Beer Festival returns to downtown Minneapolis near 10th and Hennepin on Saturday, June 2. The festival is your ticket to free, unlimited beer samples from dozens of brewers, including Lift Bridge, Finnegans, Goose Island, Lucid, Lucky Bucket, Northern, Sierra Nevada, and m ... More >>

The Four Firkins picks six great beers for New Year's Eve

Why not ring in the new year with a different kind of bubbly? Jason Alvey, owner of the Four Firkins specialty beer store, helped us select a sixer for New Year's Eve--and any night, for that matter.

Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival sold out

Beer Dabbler sold out, but you can still get tickets​Once again Twin Cities beer fans have demonstrated their insatiable desire for good beer and their willingness to support those that provide it. Advance tickets for the Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival event scheduled for Saturday in Mears Park ... More >>

Match the hoppy beer with its over-the-top marketing copy

What's the hops?​This Saturday and Sunday, the Blue Nile is devoting all its taps to "that little herb called humulus lupulus," for Hop Heads Only. While we appreciate insanely hoppy beers for their fragrant, grapefruit aromas, and bitter bite, we also dig their brash attitude. According to th ... More >>

Daunte Culpepper redux: He's huge in Sacramento!

Best Mountain Lion QB ever​There's a weird Vikings reunion going on west of the Sierra Nevada: Quarterback Daunte Culpepper has just signed a deal to play football under the eye of coach Dennis Green -- for the Sacramento Mountain Lions, a UFL franchise. The first time time those two paired u ... More >>

City Pages Beer Festival: Get tickets now

​If you love beer, you've probably had dreams like this: You're wandering around a big, open space, surrounded by hundreds of great beers, and you can drink any of them you want! You can make that dream a reality at City Pages' 18th annual Beer Festival, coming up on Saturday, June 5, in dow ... More >>

Cans are the new bottles in the world of beer

Cans are replacing bottles as the go-to container for craft beer brewers, including locals like Surly and 21st Amendment.

Saint Paul Summer Beer Fest

Reviews You Can Use

Want to put your newfound wine smarts to the test? City Pages' guest taster issues his recommendatinos for bottles sure to please.

Kill the Messenger

The tragic death of one of America's most important investigative journalists

Slocum Coming Soon

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