Boom Days 2018 – The Beer

Many of you know and love Boom Days. We pull all the stops to celebrate summer and beer. What makes Boom Days special is the beer, the very special beer: Cuveé de Boom. This year we sweeten the deal and will  be releasing our Petite Rosé as well! Both will be available to take home …

Bike to Boom Days 2018, July 13-15

  A Summer Celebration of Beer, Bands and Bicycles For our 5th annual Boom Days summer celebration, we will be pulling out all the stops, and more than a few corks. It all begins on Friday evening with the much-anticipated release of Cuvée de Boom and Petite  Rosé. Cuvée de Boom is unhopped beer that …

Boom Days: Meet the Bands (6)

 Eleganza! Performing: Saturday,  July 16 at 8PM Headlining this year’s Boom Days on Saturday , July 16th is local rockers Eleganza!. Eleganza! was formed by Brian Vanderwerf, guitarist/vocalist for the Estrus Records band The Midnight Evils and the celebrated Chooglin' (Fat Possum/Big Legal Mess Records).   Eleganza! is a 3-guitar ROCK AND ROLL attack featuring …

Boom Days: Meet the Bands (4)

Crossing Guards featuring Martin Devaney Performing: Saturday, July 16 at 3PM   Crossing Guards began as a recording project in 2007 between songwriter/frontman Martin Devaney and bassist and sometimes drummer Sean Hoffman. In the years since they've played on and off in clubs and headlined festivals such as the Pizza Luce Block Party and the …

Cuvée de Boom

As the name implies, this is a beer which reflects the role that winemaking has had on the beer culture of Belgium. Cuvée de Boom is roughly half Pinot Grigio and half Belgian Blond. The Cuvée is corked and caged then refermented in the bottle in the very same method as Champagne. This year, we …

Boom Days: Meet the Band (3)

The Bill Patten Trio Performing: Saturday July 16 at 5:00PM The Bill Patten Trio (aka the bp3) is a Minneapolis based rock band that specializes in a fuzzed-up, 60's kinda mish mash of styles with effects-laden acoustic guitar (Bill Patten), bass (Jon Olson), and drums (Mark Har). Putting their spin on tunes from the Great …

Boom Days: Meet the Bands (2)

Our Own Boom Room Jazz Band Performing: Friday, July 15th at 8pm Brad Bellows is a valve-trombonist that has lived and performed at jazz clubs, coffee houses, restaurants and music halls in the Twin Cities for 35 years. This includes years playing with saxophone greats Eddie Berger, John Devine and Donald Washington, trombonist Dave Graf …

Boom Days July 15-17

Our biggest event of the year, Boom Days, is around the corner.  So, what is Boom Days?  Well, it all started from one beer:  Cuvée de Boom. This unhopped ale consists of 45% Pinot Grigio grapes and 55% Belgian style blond ale.  Our brewer Kevin Welch specifically created it for our first Boom Days Festival …