Red Card annual event, 2-6 pm, 1/20, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall, with unlimited beer/cheese sampling (other food available for purchase), music by Piano Fondue. $65 adv.; $95 with noon entry).
Two Minnesota beers were named some of the best brews at the Great American Beer Festival: Beers from the Freehouse Brew Pub and Surly Brewing in Minneapolis.