Nightlife news & notes: Surly to open on Friday

The moment you've all been waiting for is here, Surly Nation. After four years in the law-changing making, Surly opens the doors to its $30 million destination brewery at 11 a.m. Friday. The beloved beer-maker's new 49,000-square-foot home sits on an 8-acre plot in Minneapolis' Prospect Park neighborhood, not far from the Green Line (free Metro Transit rides opening weekend). The 220-seat beer hall boasts a full food menu — a taproom rarity — driven by executive chef Jorge Guzman and a smaller, second-floor restaurant with more traditional dining will open in late spring.

"We don't brew our beer to style, so food is not going to be any one specific style," said restaurant boss Linda Haug, who for years ran Cafe Twenty-Eight with her husband, Surly brewmaster Todd Haug. "As long as it goes well with beer."

Menu items range from foie gras to hog frites, burgers to bone marrow, to be washed down with one of a dozen-plus unique beers in the beer hall, though Linda Haug hopes to up the specialty selections eventually. A 2,300-square-foot event center debuts in March and finishing touches to the 1.5-acre beer garden and currently furniture-less main deck will come. Weekend brunch and a formal grand opening party are also in the works. But fans can now behold the presumed beer-manufacturing majesty of Surly's new brewery.

11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sun. through Thu., 11 a.m. to midnight Fri. and Sat., 520 Malcolm Av. SE., Mpls., www.surlybrewing.com

Minnesota-born, L.A.-based dubstep producer Vaski caps his First Avenue residency with a holiday blowout Saturday. Spirits (and some partygoers) will likely be high, as Vaski moves into the main room with support from Mad Decent's TWRK, McNally Smith-spawned duo Boombox Cartel, World Class Art Thieves, CFANS and more.

9 p.m. Sat., 18-plus, $15-$20, 701 1st Av. N., Mpls., 612-332-1775, first-avenue.com

Free beer for a year is a helluva prize. But free beer for six years? OK, it's not exactly free, but Bedlam Theatre is offering free-ish beer at its Lowertown restaurant and show space through 2020 to anyone donating $1,000 to the arts-rooted organization by year's end. We could think of worse ways to spend an extra grand.