Couple of pieces of good news for beer lovers in Memphis. First of all, Ghost River Brewery at Main and Crump is spending $750,000 on an expansion. That will allow them to bottle beers and sell them at retail locations. Pretty soon you’ll be able to pop open a bottle of Ghost River Golden, and people who come to visit from out of town will be able to take some fine Memphis beer home with them.<\/p>\n
If you’ve ever thought about brewing your own beer at home, this weekend would be a good time to give it a try. Groupon has a deal with weekend for a $40 beer brewing kit from Midsouth Malts<\/a> for $20. There are two different kits to choose from.<\/p>\n It’s South Main Trolley Night from 6 to 9 tonight, with many of the galleries and shops on South Main open, and some will put out free appetizers and wine. Couple of insider tips if you go down there:<\/p>\n 1) Stop by 431 S. Main, where the Memphis Songwriters Association will have a CD release party at the Memphis Music Foundation headquarters. Live music by local artists, and you’ll be able to buy the new CD full of performances by MSA members. 6-9 PM. Light snacks provided. Free food? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.<\/p>\n 2) If you’re looking for something to do after Trolley Night, check out the Prime Cut Band at the Marmalade Lounge on G.E. Patterson. They perform from 9 to midnight.<\/p>\n Couple of events for the kids tomorrow. First of all, there’s a skateboard competition at Greenlaw Community Center at 190 Mill Avenue. Get the details in this Memphis Daily News article<\/a>.<\/p>\n Secondly, there’s a dance party tomorrow at the Rumba Room from 2 to 5. Kids 7 and under are invited to come get down to kid-friendly dance tunes at “The Little Disco.” There will be healthy snacks, stroller parking, and changing stations. Adults not allowed unless accompanied by kids 7 and under. $10 adults, $10 kids, free for non-walking infants.<\/p>\n The Grizzlies host the Washington Wizards tomorrow night at the FedExForum. O.J. Mayo will serve the first game of a 10-game suspension for testing positive for over-the-counter substance DHEA. Ironically, tomorrow is O.J. Mayo bobblehead night with an O.J. mini-bobblehead for the first 5,000 fans.<\/p>\n I’ll be out at a couple of parties tonight. Will bring the camera in case anything blog-worthy happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Couple of pieces of good news for beer lovers in Memphis. First of all, Ghost River Brewery at Main and Crump is spending $750,000 on an expansion. That will allow them to bottle beers and sell them at retail locations. Pretty soon you’ll be able to pop open a bottle of Ghost River Golden, and … Continue reading “Fri update: Good news for beer lovers, Trolley Night tonight, events for the kids tomorrow, get your O.J. Mayo bobblehead”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8754,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}