Breweries Opening/Closing in Minnesota 2018

I enjoyed my visit to Wooden Hill. Just by the crowd you can tell this area was starving for a taproom. I liked the beer but nothing that is going to blow up a skirt of todays beer geek. Loved the house nachos.

 

Spiral Brewery in Hastings announced it's holding its grand opening April 20-22.

In St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, Trap Rock Brewing Company is aiming for a May 25 opening. St. Croix Falls is about an hour northeast of the Twin Cities and just across the river from Taylors Falls, Minnesota, which has two BIPs of its own (Fell Run and The Lincoln Brewery).

 

Half Pint Brewing Company will open sometime in 2019, judging by @islay's "Double It" rule.

 

Confirmed via FB, they are opening this Friday and Saturday and will be closed on Easter.

 

Taproom Beer list for SPIRAL

 

https://www.facebook.com/Yoergbeer/
Yoerg's opening has been delayed to August 15 or later

At first we were more than crushed, but this now does give us time to rework our distribution system in the Twin Cities for our packaged beers. We have had a nightmarish 18 months with an absolutely horrible group of wholesalers (try finding a 6pk of Yoerg's Beer on any store's shelves). We now have a new wholesale company that has been built around Yoerg's beer distribution and we should be back on your favorite retailer's shelves within a couple weeks. Our Bock is bottled, in the warehouse and waiting to be unveiled as well. We will be doing tastings all over the cities this summer, so make sure you stop in and introduce yourself as we spread the word. Thank's again for everyone's support.

 

I hope the people at Yoerg's were just tired or didn't check their response to a question about their own product. When asked about the benefit of a "lager drinking like an ale", they responded that

"Yoerg's Beer is a 'Steam' beer. Which means it's literally boiled at the beginning of fermentation which brings out a rich, toasty, intensely malty character."

Probably should be a little more knowledgeable about your own product. Not only is that so impossibly wrong, it's not even remotely close to what a Steam, or California Common, beer is.

You just can't do that in today's environment. Credibility is a very finicky currency

 

...and wow, I just read more on their Facebook page that they promote that their beer "improves in the bottle over a very long time".

This is beer, right?

 

Boathouse Brothers Brewing Co. in Prior Lake is holding its grand opening on April 20 and April 21. That's the same opening weekend as Spiral Brewery in Hastings.

The Growler also has a "Sneak peek of Bent Paddle's new taproom and pilot brewery, opening April 12."

 

Invictus update <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We passed the final inspection to become a licensed brewery, so we can now legally brew. Just some clean-up and prep work to do in the production area and we will be able to brew. Our target first brew date is the week of April 16th. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/progress?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#progress</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/finally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#finally</a></p>&mdash; InvictusBrewingCo (@InvictusBrewCo) <a href="">April 6, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

Since No one has said anything I’m guessing no, but has anyone heard anything about Northgate Brewing since Tod Fyten shut it down? I didn’t see any indication that it was again for sale or anything. Presumably, they’re still paying on the lease so I’d think something has to happen.

Any rumors?

 

Here's an article on the upcoming 3rd Act Craft Brewery in Woodbury, which the owners "plan to open... by the end of the year" (which of course translates to well into 2019). It will fill perhaps the biggest remaining brewery hole in the Twin Cities metro area, as there are no breweries in the state that are east of St. Paul between Stillwater to the north and (soon) Hastings to the south.

@Seamus_McGuire Re: NorthGate: I have nothing new beyond what I've already relayed on this thread (that NorthGate had discussions with a potential buyer who emerged after the Fyten sale fell through).

 

Opinion Brewing has: “Passed everything with City inspector.” I would imagine they’ll be reopening as a bar, and won’t change the name.

 

Now they need to get their liquor license back

 

That was fast. Are they starting out as a client brewer, or are they already all licensed, set up, inspected, and ready to brew in Minnetonka? I know they're projecting a summer opening for the taproom.

Elsewhere in the southwest metro, rumor has it that there's finally a brewery-in-planning in Bloomington in the vicinity of Normandale Blvd., possibly at the closed Famous Dave's space at 98th St. That's all I've got; I have no idea how legitimate or firm the plan is. Have at it, gumshoes!

 

It appears that existing brewery in Ontario is in fact related to the Minnesota BIP. In a unique business model, it's planning locations in both Minnesota and Manitoba near its famous namesake lake.