Breweries opening in Minnesota 2013/2014

Right you are. Pour Decisions has one or two beers available in 750's pretty much any time you go in there. Fitger's (Duluth) occasionally sells 750's, though that probably doesn't help most visitors.

 

The brands at Boom Island fall under the "750 = growler" rubric, so that's another place where you can visit, have some taps, and pick up some bottles to take home.

 

Looks like another is planning to open next year in Jordan:

http://roetsjordanbrewery.com/

 

They have a pretty good story to go along with the opening. I could see them doing quite well if they start using the caves again and give tours of the operation.

 

What's going on with Shakopee Brewing?

Chaz, have anymore to tell us about?!

Come on!

 

And the one in Chaska.

 

Here's an updated list, and note to @HammsMeASAP: three plans for Shakopee~! (maybe).

Planned breweries (and taprooms & pubs) listed alphabetical by city:

Belle Plaine - u4ic Brewing Inc. — 23436 Union Trail, St. 1 Belle Plaine MN 56011-9008
Blue Earth - Oswald Brewing — 110 S Main St, Blue Earth, MN 56013
Buffalo - Hayes' Public House — 112 First Street South Buffalo MN 55313
Chaska - Minnesota Valley Brewing — 8750 County Road 43 Chaska MN 55318 (952) 484-3417
Faribault - Patriot's Brewing Company (name may change) — 22 NE Fourth Street Faribault MN 55021
Grand Marais - Gun Flint Tavern's "Big Swamp" Brewery - 111 W Wisconsin St Grand Marais, Minnesota 55604
Jordan - Roets Jordan Brewery Co. — 415 S. Broadway Jordan, Minnesota 55352
Hopkins - Live The Dream Brewing Co. — Hopkins MN 1016 Mainstreet Hopkins MN 55343 (715) 441-1391
Minneapolis - Day Block Brewing Company — 1105 Washington Avenue South Minneapolis MN 55415
Minneapolis - Fair State Brewing Cooperative — 2506 Central Avenue NE Minneapolis MN 55418
Minneapolis - Loose-Wiles Freehouse — 701 Washington Ave N Ste 101. Minneapolis, MN 55401
Minneapolis - Pryes Brewing Company — 2528 Hennepin Avenue South Minneapolis MN 55405 (612)787-7937
CIDER Minneapolis - Sociable Cider Werks — 1500 Fillmore St. NE Minneapolis, MN 55413 - (612) 758-0015
Montgomery - Montgomery Brewing Company — 306 2nd ave NW Montgomery, Minnesota 56069
St. Paul - Burning Brothers Brewing — 1750 Thomas Avenue Saint Paul MN 55104
St. Paul - Fytenburg Brewing Company — 363 Webster St. St. Paul, MN 55102 (651) 387-0708
St. Paul - Mr. McGeasil Brewing — E 5th St, St Paul, MN 55101
St. Paul - "Steiner Brewing" — 2104 Carrol Avenue Saint Paul MN 55104 (651) 206-0337
St. Paul - Tin Whiskers Brewing Company — 125 East 9th St, Suite 127 Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102
St. Paul - Urban Growler Brewing Company — 2325 Endicott Street Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114
St. Paul - as yet un-named Schmidt Brewery / Dominium Development project — 882 7th Street W
Shakopee - "Shakopee Town Brewing" - Shakopee -- (c.f. old notes -- three plans!)
Shakopee - Un-named Project - Shakopee (Rahr?)
Shakopee - "Shakopee Brewing Company" - Shakopee — 334 2nd Avenue Shakopee MN 55379

Some of these are much, much closer than the others to their opening date (as early as Thanksgiving for at least one soft opening) and a few of the planned brewing operations listed above haven't done much to update (website, blog, social media) in quite some time --including one or two added by Siegfried Binge and others to BeerMe!, and a couple that get bounced around between some of the other beer rating and beermapping sites.

Likewise, there was a plan called "Last City Brewing" which had a great City Pages write up 17 months ago and which had been planned to be St. Paul-based, but which seems to have dropped off the map altogether (traditional emails from yours truly went unanswered, and their social media presence has been dormant for quite a few months. Anyone know any more about that one?)

 

WOW, that is a lot of new breweries.

 

Still nothing new on the StP West Side brewery? ;^)

 

Hah! Well, I just did some cross-checking between the various lists, and think that one is among the as-yet unnamed BIP listings. I mean, there were about eight such listings for St. Paul the last time I looked!

(* A couple of those we now know will end up in downtown St. Paul plus a few in the Midway area, so that leaves three -- or more; I'm going on BA's 2012 PDF and their searchable database, here, plus my own list compiled from sources and listings outside of Brewers Association.)

 

Chaz: I'll have to dig for some links because I just keep a list on a Word file (and never bothered to include links, sadly), but I have a couple of others to potentially add. Boettcher is one that I saw on a planned list, but the last time I checked (a few months ago), I couldn't find anything.

Blue Wolf Brewing (**** Rapids) (2014) – Possible Taproom
Rocky Coast Brewing (Silver Bay) (2014) Taproom
Wenonah Brewing (Goodview) - Taproom
Boettcher Brewing (Winona) (no information)
Flynntown Brewing (Collegeville) (2013 / 2014)

 

Thanks! Of those you list, this much I do know:

1. Boettcher's been in planning since 2006 (Internets say 2007) and may be permanently back-burnered.
2. Is Blue Wolf still* in-flux from his old plan (homebrew supply-to Craft/Nano brewer)?
3. Flynntown is new to me! I hope that Tron is made aware...
4. The Rocky Coast plan I have heard of -- I'd emailed them and they shined me (oh well, I ain't Andrew!)
5. Wenonah see above ^ (also now handily-listed here at BeerAdvocate. )

Also --and for what it's worth-- I just exchanged a set of very polite and friendly emails with Ms. Erin Glass of Brewers Association, and I would think that by now, it is clear that even BA is finding it challenging to keep up with all of the new plans -- and they have a staff of 47!

Cheers!

* Whoops! I see the new site. Verified. I'm off to update the other sites...

 

Boettcher's is one of those that I found a listing on a couple of years ago, I added it to my list, but because there wasn't more easily found public news - I forgot all about it (which why my list has a section titled "Forthcoming, Maybe").

That section ultimately includes: Boettcher's, Blue Wolf, Flynntown, Last City, Minnesota Valley, Pyres, and Steiner.

The main forthcoming list is all stuff I've seen more recently (and now with a handful of additions from your list - so thank you for the extra updates on that).

 

Looks like I don't have to worry about trying new locals anytime soon.

 

Wenonah just opened.

 

I will be ther quite often along with surlytwinsfan and 3hops. Excited about this!

 

Looks like Hayes' Public House is opening this weekend.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=579877332081746&id=125904500812367

 

Yeah!* That place is looking really sweet.

(* I'd heard soft-opening on Thanksgiving and thought: "Who'd open on Thanksgiving?" But then realized that I'm working on Thanksgiving, too.)

 

Rocky Coast is on permanent hiatus. So is Last City.

 

Thanks! The second one I'd guessed to be the case.