Breweries opening in Minnesota 2015/2016

Any news on Forager?

 

http://m.postbulletin.com/business/...b8d-1f83-5fd6-83c7-d88d1f6ed95d.html?mode=jqm

 

I was there on opening day as well. My experience matches the two of you as well. The bartenders were totally overwhelmed, but frinedly enough. The IPA wasn't even close to being an IPA. It also had a slight vegetal off-flavor, to my taste. The porter was fine, smelled great, tasted okay.

Still, I'm glad to have them in the neighborhood, so I'll give them a few more chances.

 

In brewery opening speak, that means they'll be open in October.

 

Some updates and additions:

• 10K Brewing*, Anoka: Planned summer 2015 opening of a taproom in downtown Anoka (note the 2015 copyright date for the website); http://10kbrew.com/
• 56, Minneapolis, Facebook, February 26: "56 Brewing granted Federal TTB license...Brew0n!;" March 1: "Clean view, ready for 5bbl of dark chocolate stout." [with a photo of apparently completed brewery equipment set-up]
• Angry Inch, Lakeville, March 3: http://blogs.citypages.com/food/2015/03/angry_inch_brewing_coming_to_lakeville_soon.php
• Bad Weather, St. Paul, Facebook, February 24: "Drywall going up, windows installed, sprinklers going in, construction sign up!"
• Barley John’s, New Richmond, WI, Facebook, February 20: "The exterior is complete including gutters and trim. Window and door installation is nearly finished. All floor slabs have been poured. The interior metal stud wall framing is still in progress..."
• Bryn Mawr, Minneapolis, Instagram, "4 weeks ago:" "You’ll know where to find us [photo of street signs for Inglewood Av and N Thomas Av]. Hoping to be brewing Fall/Winter 2015. Oasis beer garden opening Summer 2016!"
• Lakeville Brewing Co.*, Lakeville, February 24: Noted at the bottom of this article on Angry Inch http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2015/02/24/lakeville-craft-brewery-angry-inch-brewing.html
• Lupulin, Big Lake, Facebook, March 1: “This week finally marks the culmination of a long journey as we embark on our first 3 brews, an American Stout, a Belgian Blonde and a Red IPA.”
• Roets Jordan, Jordan, Facebook, January 27: "Drywall and the bar are going up now, lighting and ceilings are on the way and our first brew system has arrived...we should be ready for flooring in a few weeks."
• Sidhe, St. Paul, Facebook, March 3: Currently brewing a stout, a Trappist, an IPA, and a nut brown
• South Fork, Delano, Facebook, January 31: "The boiler installation will be happening in the very near future! Just a few other key installations need to be completed and then we’ll be working with the state to have our licensing approved."

A list with a few that are new to me: http://www.brewinginmn.com/upcoming-breweries.html

* Asterisk if I was not previously aware of the brewery.

 

Spilled Grain in Annandale has their equipment and is building-out.

EDIT: According to their Facebook page, Blue Wolf in Champlin has received financial backing.

"F-Town" in Faribault has received TTB label approval for two beers (neither of which is Fleck's)

Brewers Association has a listing for Karst Brewing LLC (Fountain, MN) -- I've found no other information at present.

 

How do you brew a Trappist? (Sidhe)

 

"Lakeville Brewing Co. owner Don Seiler confirmed last week that his company was negotiating with Metro Equity for the spot, but he could not be reached for an update Tuesday."

Going against an Erickson in Lakeville for a business deal? Good luck with that.

 

He registered "Lakevillebrewing.com" last summer, and placed this ad in The Growler; seems like he knows what he's doing.

Facebook update has it as a: "golden strong ale", but maybe the Trappist order is adding a Minnesota branch?

@islay, I didn't see this one in your update: Broken Classics Brewing. It was listed at Abe McEathron's page.

Devil's Advocate / Crazy Mountain (CO) joint plan:
http://www.bizjournals.com/twinciti...vils-advocate-minneapolis-moving-brewery.html

 

More info on Birch’s on the Lake Brewhouse & Supperclub in Long Lake: http://mspmag.com/Blogs/Foodie-File/March-2015/Coming-Soon-New-Brewery-in-Old-Billy-s-Lighthouse/

"Greene was the main brewer for [Schlafly's] research pilot brewery. As Head Brewer he was involved in making over 60 different styles of beer each year and was credited as expanding the brewery’s repertoire into sours, barrel-aging, and other specialty beers... Birch’s brewery will feature lots of innovative and experimental brews... 'the whole model of the brewery is experimental...' Work has begun and the partners are hoping for a late summer/early fall opening."

It sounds highly promising to me. I hope that a wealthy, lake-dominated suburb can support a sort of approach that seems more at home in Minneapolis.

 

After some work getting rid of a few, my number of growlers currently stands at 43. Beat that!

 

You got me. I'm at 26 but starting my growler buying boycot a year ago.

 

What will be happening to the old Barley John's location when the new brewery opens in New Richmond? I'm sure I knew at one point, but my memory has never been the best.

 

The last I'd heard...

The old thread:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/barley-johns-new-richmond-wi.178165/

More from "The Growler":

And yeah: Barley John's production brewery is located in Wisconsin, so it's yet another brewery with Minnesota roots (like the BrewFarm, RushRiver, Oliphant... ), but that doesn't necessarily make it appropriate to discuss it in this forum. Discussion of it and other breweries located in Wisconsin should probably best be relegated to the Great Lakes forum since Wisconsin is in the Great Lakes designation as per Beer Advocate's very own designation, and many of our regular users hereabouts are sticklers for this sort of thing.

I'll add this much: I posted about the new facility in the Great Lakes forum when I first learned of it. It got two "likes", a relative handful of views, and no replies. Basically I think @Beerbelly22 had it right:
"I don't think many people in WI even know who Barley John's is."

 

It will remain open and operating, as Chaz noted. The whole point of putting the production facility in Wisconsin is that Minnesota law in all of our legislators' profound wisdom prohibits someone from running both a production brewery and a brewpub in the state. By the way, I've seen people in the Great Lakes forum send people to the Midwest forum to discuss goings on in western Wisconsin. In practice, it's an extension of the Twin Cities and Duluth beer scenes.

In unrelated news... Lucid has more formally announced plans to open a taproom. It may or may not be at its current facility, and it may or may not be in Minnetonka. Even if it builds a taproom at a different site, Lucid would continue to brew the majority of its beer at the current facility. The brewery at the taproom would be for smaller and experimental batches. Lucid is targeting an early summer opening for the taproom, which sounds unrealistic to me especially if the taproom is at a new site.

Note also that Bad Weather will be doing the majority of its brewing at Lucid's current site even after it opens its own brewery and taproom in St. Paul. My understanding is that Badger Hill has shifted all of its production from Lucid's current brewery to Badger Hill's Shakopee brewery, but now I am wondering if that understanding is accurate.

We may be entering a new phase of taprooms with small pilot brewing systems separated from the "real" breweries. Brewers may want to consider placing their core brewery in a cheap suburban industrial park and putting a tiny glorified homebrew set-up in the back of what is essentially a beer bar in, say, downtown Minneapolis. Does anyone know if Fulton is brewing the majority of its beer at its new, taproom-free Nordeast Minneapolis facility? Note that Surly is doing the reverse of what Lucid may do, with mass production at its new brewery that has a taproom and smaller and experimental batches at the older, smaller Brooklyn Center brewery at which Surly can no longer sell beer for on-site consumption.

http://m.bizjournals.com/twincities...brewing-adding-taproom-minnetonka.html?r=full

 

That's a good question.
http://fultonbeer.com/blog/brewery/

This 2013 list places their 2011 output at at total of 400* barrels, while this recent article says that they've changed positions, from being the 18th largest brewer in the state to the 4th largest in the state of Minnesota, with 9,516 barrels produced in 2012.

Aside from contacting the brewery directly for a straightforward number (and that takes effort, and I am too lazy, frankly), we can only run our own math in order to figure ot what an 80 barrel brewhouse "brewing and bottling since around the middle of last year" has produced circa last half of 2014. My best guess? "Yes, Islay. Yes they are brewing the majority of their beer at the new production facility."

*Saint Cloud Times journalist Jake Laxen (an excellent "beer reporter", by the way) notes that as 1,400 barrels as per a Brewers Association disclosure. 1,400 barrels does seem more a more accurate number than 400 barrels, as they were brewing at Sand Creek at the time. But Fulton, rather than Brewers Association, ought be queried in order clear up that simple numerical confusion.

 

This is exactly what TG does. Not sure how MN and IA laws differ on this front, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see more of this.

 

Going from memory, in MN (Surly Law) a brewer of less than 250,000 barrels per year can put a taproom in 1 of their breweries (if they have more than 1), either in the same building or an immediately adjacent building. They can serve any of their beers in this taproom, not just the beers brewed in the adjacent/on-site brewery. But, I could be wrong / incomplete on this.

 

I think the reason Barley Johns is opening in Wisconsin is the brewpub wants to be able to still serve mixed drinks and wine, and guest taps, none of which they could do as a brewery tap room

 

I thought they were opening in WI because they wanted to package their beers to sell in stores.