Finnegans?

I will say their beer has vastly improved since the Summit days. They have two good brewers at the helm now which should expand the beer lineup. But on the other hand is Finnegans cool with the kids these days?
Are people seeking out their beers? I am not but if I see a new I may try it. As for the tap room I have been there twice and both times were pretty dead...more dead than Summit normally is for comparison. I think people want small comfortable taprooms within distances of another small cool taproom.

 

In their Summit days, the Irish Amber was their primary product. Summit also made a very nice blonde ale for them, and their stout, Dead Irish Poet. All were fine beers. Clean, and well executed, if not terribly exciting. Now that they have their own brewhouse, they produce a bunch of different stuff. Makes sense right? Gotta fill them draft lines for the taproom after all, and yeah, it’s good beer for the most part, but I wouldn’t say vastly improved over Summit considering Summit only made a few beers for them.

 

A joke as in too expensive, or in another way? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

Finnegans is conceptually AWESOME!

As a charitable organization*, hmm: Food give-aways and “reverse food trucks”, all funded by the profits accrued from the sales of a luxury item (beer).

Why would anyone NOT support that?

I am an old guy (way over forty, and even over fifty - get off my lawn) and on occasion I talk a bit of the Millennial Internet era smack, but seriously: Finnegans backstory is incredibly cool, and as real as it gets.

So what exactly is the problem?

Are they up to date?

By all accounts, yes: Top-tier Brewing talent, multi-function brewery and event space, even a “BrewTel” and Finnovation Lab - nobody else has anything like this here in the Twin Cities area. All of which out-weighs the sterile, suburban soccer mom-approved decor of their Multi-million dollar taproom, in my book.

But to be perfectly honest...

If by kids (and I am a fair bit older than you) you mean newly-legal drinkers, then I would think that the obvious answer is NO.

Those downtown prices and that upscale taproom do not jibe with young and hip.

But the on-site experience is only half of the equation: Are they selling more beer through retail and on-sale than they were in the Summit days? That’s the real question in my mind. Either way, they need to turn all of that profit into free food for the needy.

I wish them luck - as always.

*I am unsure whether or not Finnegans was re-organized as a B corporation since their founding, but I would think that they would have been.

 

I have had some of their beers both on tap and in cans and all seemed solid. Dead Irish Poet probably my personal favorite.
I have never been there- but that might change this weekend, they have a helluva tap list at the moment!
Not too sure about some of the styles that are barrel-aged but it’s got me interested. I hope the web site is up to date!

 

Their barrel-aged event ends today, July 20.

 

Glad to have read this thread. I had no idea they had a taproom, & still think of them as the brewery with only two or three beers. I'm going to have to get over there eventually before a Twins game.

 

Correct, far too expensive, have zero desire to return. Finnegans sounds far better.