From Gose to Stouts—All the Beer for 4th of July Weekend
Photo via Schram Haus Brewery Welcome to Beer Dabbler’s Freshies, our weekly rundown on the newest beers hitting the store shelves and taproom coolers in Minnesota from your favorite local and national breweries. From clean, crisp, and bright beers to thicc hazy milkshakes, we’ve got it all here. [...]
Farmers Market Framboise – A Lambic-style recipe perfect for berry season
Farmer's Market Framboise • Illustration by David Witt Wild ales + fruit = a beguiling combination. The classic archetype is cherries or raspberries added to a mature lambic to create kriek or framboise, respectively, a sum greater than the whole of its parts. The sourness and earthy fermentation [...]
Summertime brings golden opportunities for sessionable blondes, lagers, and golden ales
Unmapped Brewing's Tonka Lite • Photo via Unmapped Brewing Co. Welcome to Beer Dabbler’s Freshies, our weekly rundown on the newest beers hitting the store shelves and taproom coolers in Minnesota from your favorite local and national breweries. Hop-forward, dank, citrusy, tropical, and stone fruit-like flavors may be the [...]
Deviant Minds founders on making the hospitality industry a safer space for LGBTQ+ people
Deviant Minds members pose during a brew day at Modist Brewing Company. From L-R: Top–Erin Dosh, Allyson Rolph, Sarah Lee, Cesar Fernandez, Tyler Mithuen, Bottom–Lauren Miller, Mai Jakubowski, Joshua Raye • Photo via Deviant Minds Founded by a pair of queer-identified craft beer lovers who wanted to help [...]
Landbier, Ho! Heritage Lagers, Honey IPAs, and Summery Fruit Ales for Father’s Day Weekend
608 Brewing Company Hop Honey IPA • Photo via 608 Brewing Company Welcome to Beer Dabbler’s Freshies, our weekly rundown on the newest beers hitting the store shelves and taproom coolers in Minnesota from your favorite local and national breweries. Light, crisp, sparkling, and refreshing ales and lagers [...]
AEGIR Brewing opens Minnesota’s first brewery dog-park at new Elk River taproom
AEGIR Brewing's new 11,000-square-foot patio leaves plenty of room for both seating and activities • Photo by Katelyn Regenscheid From the time its doors opened in 2018, people knew AEGIR Brewing in Elk River was small. The space was cozy with just a 35 person capacity and a [...]
Three Cheers for the Piney, Resinous West Coast IPA revival
Tin Whiskers West Coast IPA • Photo via Tin Whiskers Brewing Company Welcome to Beer Dabbler’s Freshies, our weekly rundown on the newest beers hitting the store shelves and taproom coolers in Minnesota from your favorite local and national breweries. Juicy, sweet, and tart. Sometimes a beer has one [...]
Say hello to hard smoothie seltzers, craft brewing’s inevitable, undeniable flight of fancy
Untitled Art Raspberry Mango Vanilla Smoothie Seltzer • Photo via Untitled Art Over the past half-decade, beer has gotten closer and closer to emulating Jamba Juice. From pulpy, ultra-turbid New England IPAs to sour beers that look like they were brewed by Smucker’s, breweries have gone well beyond [...]
Shandies, Fruit Smoothie IPAs, and a Whole Lotta Lager to Beat the Heat this Weekend
Junkyard Shake-O-Matic • Photo via Junkyard Brewing Welcome to Beer Dabbler’s Freshies, our weekly rundown on the newest beers hitting the store shelves and taproom coolers in Minnesota from your favorite local and national breweries. Banana, mango, pineapple, and 90-degree temperatures. It only takes a few words to [...]
Cerveza Más Interesante Del Mundo – All-Grain Mexican-style Vienna Lager Recipe
Cerveza Más Intresante Del Mundo • Illustration by David Witt What would happen if you transplanted the dry-yet-malty amber lagers of Vienna to the Americas and rebuilt the bulk of them with some New World raw materials? Immigrant brewers of the 19th century found that out when [...]
New Beers for Bonfires, the Pontoon, and Memorial Day Grill Outs
Giesenbrau Bier Co. Lemmiwinks with Pineapple • Photo via Giesenbrau Bier Co. Welcome to Beer Dabbler’s Freshies, our weekly rundown on the newest beers hitting the store shelves and taproom coolers in Minnesota from your favorite local and national breweries. Memorial Day Weekend is a time to honor loved [...]
Veteran-Owned Warrior Brewing Company Serving Up Craft Beer in Duluth
Benjamin Gipson standing in the production facility at Warrior Brewing Company in Duluth • Photo via Warrior Brewing Company The building that once held one of Duluth’s first craft breweries is home to its newest. Warrior Brewing Company has moved into the space on Superior Street that was [...]
Prickly Pear, Bog Myrtle, and Heather Tips Flavor This Week’s New Beers
Inbound North Star Cowboy Prickly Pear IPA • Photo via Inbound BrewCo Welcome to Beer Dabbler’s Freshies, our weekly rundown on the newest beers hitting the store shelves and taproom coolers in Minnesota from your favorite local and national breweries. The new Freshies this week won’t just have you [...]
Microdistillery Little Round Still Has Wadena in High Spirits
Little Round Still • Photo by Jordan Wipf Since late 2020, Little Round Still in Wadena, Minnesota, has been distilling small-batch rum, vodka, and bourbon made from Minnesota grains, water from a local aquifer filtered by natural sand, and aged on Minnesota white oak. It was that same [...]
Preserve The American Dream in Minnesota—Remove the Growler Cap
Photo by Dan Murphy Kyle Marti is Vice President of Operations at August Schell Brewing Company in New Ulm, Minnesota. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author. When my great-great-great-grandfather, August Schell, traveled from Germany to Minnesota, he was set on achieving the American [...]