Brewery Updates in Minnesota (2019)

That would be U4ouric...

 

Inver Grove Brewing Co is advertising in Growler magazine as coming soon. They are related to Lakeville Brewing. Are they going to brew in Inver Grove as well? Does anyone know?

 

They posted in ProBrewer.com a while back looking for a brewer for that location, so I'd say yes, they'll be brewing there.

 

For those who live in the Rochester area, another new brewery coming your way August 13th.

 

Inver Grove Brewing Co is hiring....

"We are currently hiring for ALL POSITIONS for our Lakeville and Inver Grove Heights locations. Open interviews for both this Monday, Aug 5th from 12-3.
8790 Upper 208th St
Lakeville, MN 55044
Can’t make it? Download an application from our websites and drop it off during business hours."

 

Bloomington, the largest city in the state that lacks a brewery, will have on the November ballot an initiative that, if approved by at least 55% of voters, will amend the city's charter to allow taprooms and brewpubs. The city would still have to pass regulatory ordinances as a legal infrastructure for such establishments, and they still would have to gain individual approval. The word I've always heard is that the powers that be in Bloomington are hostile to breweries, but at least this is a step in the right direction even if quite a few years behind the times.

This Growler article is a few weeks old, but it contains some interesting info on Minnesota brewery developments:

1. Portage Brewing Co. in Walker says sour and wild ales will be its bread and butter when it reopens.
2. Lupulin in Big Lake is launching a new brand for its sour program, Scribbled Lines, which will be slow sours only (no kettle sours).
3. ONE Fermentary & Taproom in Minneapolis, which was originally billed as a sour-and-wild-ale-oriented brewery, seems to have pivoted, now claiming that such beers will constitute 1-5% of its production

It's not a brewery, but White Bear Meadery is now open in White Bear Lake.

 

Article about Fat Pants from Southwest News Media. From the article:

"Don Anderson will be the head brewer, and since his favorite beer style is IPAs, that’s what the brewery will specialize in. But he says they’ll cover the spectrum of styles with their 18 taps, such as stouts, porters, lighter beers, non-traditional beverages and eventually some sours.

Those non-traditional beverages are important to Linda Anderson. She hopes they will cater more toward women and people who don’t typically drink beer, with Don Anderson noting to make them, they’ll likely use barley based alcohol to mix into a cocktail.

“Because as a woman myself, going into a brewery with him (her husband), he would know immediately the kind of beer he wanted, and I’m looking at the menu going ‘Alright, well, what am I going to like?’ So my whole idea was, while this is Fat Pants, we want to bring a Fancy Pants menu to Fat Pants so that women can walk in and have a menu for them,” she said.

The Fancy Pants menu will feature the mocktails and Fat Pants’ lighter beer options."

My wife declared that she'll never set foot in the place.

 

was there any timeline for opening Fat Pants?

 

Arbeiter Brewing, in planning for Minneapolis, released a West Coast IPA in collaboration with Bad Weather at Bad Weather's St. Paul taproom last week (Instagram).

It appears that Fergus Brewing Co. in Fergus Falls has produced beer and is distributing to some bar accounts. Its taproom still is under construction (Facebook).

Forbidden Barrel Brewing in Worthington expects softly to open before the end of August (Facebook).

Sleepy Eye Brewing Company and Coffee Shop in Sleepy Eye hopes to open the coffee shop portion in September, but the brewery supposedly will open this winter.

Thesis Beer Project in Rochester softly opened this past weekend and has its grand opening on Tuesday, 8-13-19 (Facebook).

 

Boom Island is having a soft opening August 16th at the new location

 

Lupulin Brewing Co. of Big Lake opens its Sioux Falls, South Dakota satellite taproom, in the former Hydra Beer Co. space, on Thursday, 8-22-19.

The Growler covers the newly opened Thesis Beer Project in Rochester.

 

Trout City Brewing in Preston opens today (8-15-19). For you obscure brewery fans, there's a connection to the shuttered 2 Rivers Brewery in Lanesboro.

 

If your heading south this weekend (towards Iowa) stop at Karst in Fountain,then Trout City a little further south both right off of Hwy 52.

 

Pretty impressed with New Boom Island. What a big time change. Hope they don’t run out of beer!

 

Don't have links but breweries/taprooms planned for Park Rapids and Hackensack. Both about a year out. A new one in Grand Rapids should open before the end of the year.

 

I found a reference to the Hackensack brewery:

 

Behind a paywall.

It’s easy to figure this one out, not so much the other ones that @ZAP identified.

You and @Bighuge makin’ a play in your golden years, hey?

 

I wish. Thought about it but not at this point. Park Rapids was discussed at the city council meeting last spring. They were looking to get laws changed to allow and the indication was the council wa open to changing the laws. Haven't heard much since but a logical place. The Grand Rapids one has been in the works for awhile..will be in an old movie theater or something like that.

 

If you're speaking of Rapids Brewing Company, it's going to be in a new building just south of the Hwy 2 and Hwy 169 stoplight. Was looking like a nice place when I was up there mid-July.