Biz Beat

8th anniversary of the David Minor Theater

• The David Minor Theater celebrates its 8th anniversary with a special viewing event “Beer and Beyond” 6:45 pm and 9:15 pm Saturday, Oct 22. The theater says, “An evening of celebrations including discounted movie tickets and a special back-to-back screening of the new Star Trek Beyond epic are planned.” Tickets are $4. For more info, go to davidminortheater.com.

• At the Oct. 8 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Eugene’s Alesong Brewing & Blending tells us it earned a gold medal in the “brett beer” category for its “Touch of Brett” saison. “GABF is the largest commercial beer competition in the world and recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the United States,” Alesong says. The 2016 GABF competition winners were selected by an international panel of 264 expert judges from the record number of 7,227 entries received from 1,752 U.S. breweries across 96 categories.