4/7 What’s Happening This Weekend

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Mike Marcotte from Minnesota Live is here to fill us in on what’s happening this weekend!

Fair State Brewing Cooperative: Turning into a pop-up tropical cafe for only 4 days.

  • Serving hard seltzer-based cocktails and specialty slushies
  • Painkillers, mai tais, jungle birds, hurricanes
  • Some will be on tap
  • Patio is open too

Happy National Beer Day! Minnesota Craft Beer Festival: Saturday at the Minneapolis Convention Center

  • 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  • More than 450 beers
  • Over 115 breweries – Minnesota and beyond
  • Each brewery is asked to bring a taproom only beer or a rare limited release option
  • Tickets are $45 but if you pay $65, you’ll get in an hour earlier!

Bachman’s Galleria Flower Show: Ends Sunday, 4/10

  • More than 100 types of flowers, trees and plants
  • Theme is sugar coated — all things sweet
  • 1,800 bulbs, some traveling from 4,000 miles from Holland
  • Started March 27, and all were replaced halfway through
  • Don’t miss the larger than life gummy bear and 13 foot ring pop!
  • FREE

Twin’s Opening Weekend

  • First game Friday against Seattle — they’re here through Monday
  • Watch TCL tomorrow: Kristin is live at Target Field

Lots of giveaways

  • Jacket giveaway to first 10,000 fans through the gates, Friday-Sunday
  • On Monday, the first 10,000 fans get the Twins magnet schedule

Later this season…

  • Star Wars t-shirt giveaway
  • Bobbleheads, including Tony Olivia and Byron Buxton
  • TC Build-A-Bear in September