Ciders, Beers, and Meads, Oh My!

Each week, the Beer Dabbler team highlights the most tantalizing new beers available across the state that we’re most excited to try. Check out these Top Flights at Dabbler Depot—click on each image for stock levels.

Off Color Brewing Coffee Dino Smores Imperial Stout –  Stout brewed with cocoa nibs, coffee, marshmallow, vanilla bean, and graham flour. 10.5% ABV

Bakalar Dry Hopped Lager –  An unmistakable beer with a higher original volume, characterized by a wonderful aroma of dried Saaz hops and a rich color with dark golden reflections. 5.2% ABV

MORE Brewing Co. Villa Pils German Style Pilsner – A traditional Pilsner with 100% German-bred malts and hopped with Hallertau and Saaz hops. An homage to the birthplace of More, this pilsner is ultra crispy and refreshing. This beer was lagered in a traditional horizontal lagering tank for about six weeks to ferment and develop its delicious, light flavor profile slowly. It’s bready and buttery smooth with a healthy amount of carbonation packed in every sip. 4.8% ABV

Wooden Ship Freak On A Lychee Patio Pounder –  A collaboration with Misfit Coffee, this light patio pounder is made with jasmine tea, lychee, and mango. 3.4% ABV

Portage Brewing Co. Desert Solitude IPA – Inspired by recent travels to the deserts of the American Southwest, brewed with juniper berries and branches, wild sage, and rosemary. Herbal, awakening, dry. 7.2% ABV

New beers available this week across Minnesota

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10K Brewing

• Honey Blonde Ale – 5.9% ABV and tapped earlier this month.

3rd Act Craft Brewery

• Cosmopolitan – A new “smooth cocktail” that is “less carbonated than a seltzer. Tapped at the brewery’s recent fifth-anniversary celebration.
• I’ll Be Bock – Gold in color, light in body, crisp, and clean with notes of roasted malt and raisins, the German-style maibock is bock back.

22 Northmen Brewing Co.

• Punch Face – Blueberry, lemon, tangerine, and orange merge in a 5% ABV quick sour from 22 Northmen.

56 Brewing

• Public Access IPA – Tapped for Earth Day, this collaboration with the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is 7.2% ABV, 69 IBU with a blend of Lotus, El Dorado, Trident Salvo, and Bitter Gold Salvo hops.

AEGIR Brewing Company

• Cerveza – Mexican-style lager at 4.9% ABV, 12 IBU.
• Ember’s Coffee White Stout
• Peter Danklage – A double IPA made with Chinook and Columbus hops. 8% ABV.
• Snozzberry – A fruited cream ale at 5% ABV, 14 IBU.
• Write-Off – A hazy IPA that pours at 6.3% ABV, 14 IBU.

Alloy Brewing Company

• Blueberry Lime Laser Lips – 4.7% ABV.

• Vanessa’s Caramel Afternoon Delight – A bourbon cream ale at 8.4% ABV, 10 IBU.

Back Channel Brewing Co.

• #BrewStacheStrong  –Tapped yesterday, this beer has an unofficial title of F*ck Brain Cancer. It’s a New England-style IPA at 7.25% ABV.

• IronSwish – Expect apricot, ripe peach, and citrus zest flavors in this 6.75% ABV New England-style IPA.

• Rocket Powered Wheelchair – One of two beers in last week’s “Ultimate 4/20 Party Pack,” featuring an East Coast-style and West Coast-style IPA, each made with the same hops. Rocket Powered Wheelchair is a West Coaster, offering clean, deep citrus flavors. 6.5% ABV.
• The Swirly Mammoth – Recently tapped, this limited imperial stout was made with malted milk, sandwich cookies, and coffee.
• Ursula – The East Coast-style half of the 4/20 Party Pack, Ursula is 6.5% ABV with notes of cantaloupe, melon, and guava.

Back Shed Brewing

• Floor By Four – A Belgian-style quad beer made with all German and Belgian malt, for notes of light spice and rich malts.

• Joe Blonde – Take Back Shed’s Blonde Ale and add a dose of light roast coffee. Limited in release, this beer offers notes of vanilla, berries, and tree nuts.
• Knock Knock – A gose with pineapple, orange, banana, and vanilla, inspired by an Orange Julius. Citrus forward with complex sour notes.
• Wishin’ in the Dark – An American Porter with peanut butter. “The dark malts contribute an abundance of dark chocolate, coffee, and toffee. The hops are there for you at the end with a clean herbal finish,” Back Shed says.

Bad Habit Brewing Company

• Kush Light – A pale ale, tapped on 4/20.
• Planet of the Apricots – Fruited American wheat ale.

Bauhaus Brew Labs

• Möstly Ümlaüts – A 7.2% ABV German-style chocolate stout and award winner at the 2023 Minnesota Brewers Cup.
• Short Pants – The 4.5% ABV lemon shandy is back on tap now in Northeast Minneapolis.

Big Wood Brewery

• Kölsch – A German-style light body Kölsch at 5.3% ABV, 26 IBU.

Bumbling Fools Mead

• Two Ravens – “This light and crisp drink is flavored with hibiscus, hops, and Earl Grey. The tannic back end of this dry mead makes is pair well with rich foods,” the Saint Paul’s new mead maker says.

Dangerous Man Brewing Company

• Barrel Aged Belgian Peach – A bottle release, available today.

Duluth Cider

• Raspberry Habanero Cider – A semi-sweet cider, both fruity and juicy, with a medium dose of peppers, described as “only about a 4 out of 10 on the heat scale.”

Fair State Brewing Cooperative

• Interior People – A light and crisp light American lager, brewed in collaboration with Hopewell (Chicago, IL). 4.3% ABV.

Fargo Brewing Company

• 1.21 Gigahops Double IPA – “This is HEAVY. 1.21 Gigahops is a Double IPA dominated by ripe tropical flavors with notes of luscious blueberry, sharp citrus, and dank, earthy pine sap,” the brewery in Fargo says.
• Age of Aquarius – A tart and sweet, balanced Belgian-style blonde ale with blood orange. Expect light malt, gentle clove and spice, and blood orange.

Firestone Walker Brewing Company

• Hop Fighters – A “new-age West Coast IPA,” with hop-forward fruity and citrus flavors.
• Psychedelic Arcade – A limited West Coast Golden Rye IPA sold in the IPA Mixed Pack, with tropical fruit, blueberry, and grapefruit flavors.

Gambit Brewing Company

• Lunar Person

Half Pint Brewing Company

• Gardenaire Gose with Raspberry – One of two beers tapped in mid-April.
• Hannah’s Honey Cream Ale

Imminent Brewing

• Pineapple Watson’s – A 5.5% ABV wheat ale.

Junkyard Brewing Co.

• Basket Weaver – A juicy, hop-forward New England-style IPA, now available in 4-packs of cans at the brewery, this beer has ripe citrus flavors, with lesser notes of peach and white grape juice. A collaboration with Pro Disc Golfer Cale Leiviska of Brooklyn Park.

• Citra-Zaic – Citra and Mosaic hops in a West Coast-style IPA.

• Keep Me Cold Mango – A juicy, tart, and sweet offering, on draft now.

• Money Honey – A once-a-year blonde ale with peanut butter, banana, and honey. Tapped on Tuesday at Junkyard’s Patio Pollinator Party.

• Slammin Slammers POG Sour – It’s right there in the name: a sweet and tart ale with passion fruit, orange, and guava flavors.

La Doña Cervecería

• Berry Basil Bliss – A new flavor of THC tonic, which debuted last Thursday.
• Doña Fría –  A Vienna, Mexican-style lager made with flaked maize, expect, in the brewery’s words, “Subtle toffee, caramel and corn notes with a hint of cascade hop aromas. 5.1% ABV, 15 IBU.

Lupulin Brewing Company

• Dance in the Rain – A recently tapped Czech-style dark lager collaboration with Garth’s Bar (Madison, WI), this beer just took third place in the Brewer’s Cup awards. Rene v.2, a foeder-aged golden sour in the Scribbled Lines (and also available now in bottles), also won an award, as did Barrel God Cuvée ‘20/’21/’22 Blend.

Modist Brewing Co.

• Avalanche Splash – A tropical fruited sour, tapped for the brewery’s anniversary last week and now in liquor stores too.

• Marble Sky – Released last week, this is a double dry-hopped New England-style triple IPA collaboration with Phase Three. On draft and in liquor stores.

Oliphant Brewing

• ZoZo GunGun – This triple IPA was made with Cryo Mosaic and Wakatu hops, pouring 10% ABV. Available at the Somerset Brewery now, with limited distribution.

Pryes Brewing Co.

• Main Squeeze  – The blonde ale enchanted with lemon and lime is back for spring.

Schell’s Brewery

• Sangria – Tapped in the Bier Halle earlier this month.

South By SouthEast Brewing

• Frontage Road Toasted Coconut
• Maypole Maibock – Just tapped.

• Scenic Series #16: Berry SxSE Wheat Ale – “Strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries make this a delicious spring sipper,” the brewery says. Tapped last weekend.
• Serendipity – On tap now, with ginger, lemon, and lime in a low-carb, gluten-reduced beer.

Venn Brewing Company

• Cosmosis: Zest Fest Tangerine, blood orange, grapefruit, lemon, and lime combine in this 9.0% ABV imperial sour.
• Golf Beer – Inspired by a certain nonalcoholic beverage, this beer version is an American wheat ale base with added lemon and black tea. 5.5% ABV.
• Haze 3: The Nectareckoning – A 6.5% ABV hazy IPA made with New Zealand-grown Nectaron hops, offering big and juicy pineapple and tropical fruit flavors.
• Old School IPA – A 6.3% ABV throwback West Coast-style IPA.

Waconia Brewing Company

• Hop Water –A nonalcoholic carbonated water offering made with hop oil for citrus and tropical fruit flavors.

Wooden Hill Brewing Co.

• Gold Top – Pale wheat, Pilsner malt, and light hopping define this classic, hazy hefeweizen. 5.4% ABV.

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