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Weekly Online Newsletter Vol.158

We are excited to announce the Sweet Release of Lagunitas Brown Shugga’. We even included a Thanksgiving recipe – BROWN SHUGGA-IFIED BAKED CANDIED YAMS, along with some great videos from our Friends at Lagunitas.

Brown Shugga’, a seasonal brew from Lagunitas, was created in 1997 as the result of an attempt to rescue a failed batch of Olde GnarlyWine Ale by adding “boatloads of brown sugar”—or so the story goes, anyway. It was a hit and they’ve made it every year since with only one exception (the moving year).

Lagunitas, then in the process of building a new brew house, realized that they didn’t have the facilities to brew both their regular beers and Brown Shugga’ (which requires more time to make than the others). In its place they released an excellent IPA that they named Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale, with an apology for not brewing Brown Shugga’ printed on every bottle.

Brown Shugga’ – it’s less sweet than you’d expect, smooth and biscuity-tasting with a subtle brown sugar flavor and piney hops that kick in with a bitterness that intensifies for two or three seconds before starting to fade. When the beer is cold the hop bitterness is the dominant flavor, but it mellows out as it warms up, letting the malts come through more.

BROWN SHUGGA-IFIED BAKED CANDIED YAMS

It’s that time of year again… The time to gather with friends and family to enjoy copious amounts of great food, fun stories and of course some ice cold brews. So we thought we would share one of our favorite holiday shareables that can easily be whipped up, and perfectly washed down with Brown  Shugga’ Ale. How come you taste so good?!
Ingredients

• 5 medium-ish sized yams
• 8 tbsp salty butter
• 1 12 oz bottle o’ Lagunitas Brown Shugga’
• 1 tsp Crushed cinnamon
• ½ tsp Milled nutmeg
• ¼ tsp pulverized clove
• ¼ tsp powdered ginger
• 1 cup granulated shugga’
• ¼ cup brown shugga’ (the kind in the box, not the kind in the bottle…)
• 1 tbsp of the purest vanilla extract you can find.

Instructions

1. Turn the oven down from 420 F to 350 F…
2. Wash your hands… Then the yams.
3. Peel those yams, then slice em into ½ inch thick slices
4. Gently throw the yams into a 9”x13”ish baking dish thing.
5. Get a medium sized POT and put the butter in it. Get it all melty over medium heat.
6. Once the butter is melty, sprinkle in the white & brown sugar (Not the beer), ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, and ground clove.
7. Turn the stove off, then forget that you turned the stove off and check it again. Mix the ingredients, then add the ultra pure vanilla extract & all 12 ounces of the irresponsibly-sweet Brown Shugga’ (the beer this time).
8. Pour that candied mixture over the yams (try to coat all the yams with the candied goodness).
9. Next, turn the oven back on again… Cover the baking dish with a protective layer of foil, then bake the yams in the oven for 30 minutes. Make a foil hat to prevent alien brain control.
10. Remove the yams from the oven, and baste them with MORE of the candied goodness.
11. Cover the yams again, and get them BAKED for another 15-20 minutes.
12. Carefully remove the yams from the oven, with both hands and let them sit for about 10 minutes before dividing them off to friends or family. Don’t forget to save some for yourself!
13. Enjoy it best with a cold Brown Shugga’ Ale. Cheers!

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Bergseth Bros.!

Weekly Online Newsletter Vol.156

Bismarck’s first craft brewery is getting bigger to meet the growing demand for its beer.  Laughing Sun Brewing Company, which opened its doors in downtown Bismarck in 2012, expanded its operations. Thus, allowing us to form a distribution partnership with co-owners Todd Sattler and Mike Frohlich. We’re delighted to distribute their wonderful beers in our North Dakota territory.

“This community was introduced to fresh craft beer at our small downtown brewery.  They liked it, told their friends and family about it, and ignited a demand for our beers across the state.  Now we’re excited to grow and meet that demand.”

The centerpiece of Laughing Sun’s new Front Street brewery is a manufacturing facility that includes a new 20-barrel brew system – a large increase in capacity from its current 3.5-barrel system…..

“I’ve been loading our beer into my truck every week and delivering it to customers in Bismarck, Fargo and Minot and I’m tired,” smiled Frohlich.  “We really don’t want to start a trucking company.  We have awesome professional distributors in our state who, thankfully, know our beers, have relationships with the places we’d like to take it, and are willing help us do that.”  Although Laughing Sun initially will focus on distribution across North Dakota, it has reserved space in the new building to accommodate additional fermentation tanks so that it may serve regional markets beyond North Dakota as its distribution business grows.  “North Dakota wants more access to great local craft beer.  We’ll start at home, in North Dakota, and if all goes well, move outward from there,” said Frohlich.

To read more follow this link: https://www.mainstreetnd.com/news/laughing-sun-brewing-expanding-operations-bismarck

Click Play Below to Watch a recent news segment on KFYR TV, Bismarck, ND

Ask for Laughing Sun Brewing Co. products at your favorite bar, restaurant and retailer…

CHEERS!