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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.
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ith tastes of Sabro, Strata, Mosaic, Nectar, Centennial, HBC-123s, and all variations of Citra, welcome to the multiverse of hops this week. There are East Coast and West Coast styles, plus hazy mash-ups that defy classic categorization. While the IPAs put the hops up front, with love at first sniff, there are also beers to feature more balanced approaches and even some bittering elements.
It’s not to say that beer in 2023 is all hops though – not by a longshot. Listed below you’ll find news of new sour ales, fruity flavors, crisp Pilsners, and toasty lagers. Which one sounds best right now?

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.
Wild State Variety Pack 9pk 12oz – Enjoy Wild State’s flagship ciders feature 2x Semi-Dry, 2x Classic Dry, 2x Raspberry Hibiscus, and 2x Pear. All ciders are made without added sugar, or concentrates, free from sorbates, and made naturally gluten-free. 6.7% ABV
Luce Line Money Trees Hazy DIPA 4pk 16oz – Money Trees is a hazy Double IPA brewed with El Dorado, El Dorado Cryo, Citra, and Strata hops which creates a sticky juice bomb with notes of candied melon, strawberry, peach, and mango. 8% ABV
Fulton Blueberry Sour 4pk 16oz – Tart enough to notice, balanced enough to keep drinking. Fulton Blueberry Sour is a harmonious marriage of acidity and the sweet allure of ripe blueberries. 5.5% ABV
Jester King Queens Order Farmhouse Ale 4pk 16oz – Queen’s Order is designed to be a nice, pillowy, low abv, dry, and drinkable farmhouse ale with pleasant fruit-forward aromas and a nice quenching hop bitterness and fermentation tartness. It’s brewed with Trinity well water, TexMalt Llano Pilsner, malted spelt, flaked oats, organic Perle hops, dried lemon peel, and Tallow honey. 4% ABV
Orval Trappist Ale Single 11.2oz – Orval is brewed unfiltered by Catholic monks at a monastery founded in the 1100s in the pastoral Belgium countryside. Three different malts and two types of hops, & Brettanomyces yeast, impart a great character and complexity as well as balance. 6.9%ABV
The beers in this gallery are now available for purchase at Dabbler Depot, 1545 7th St W, St. Paul, MN 55102
New beers available this week across Minnesota
Looking for a taste of these great new beers? The icon indicates beers available at Dabbler Depot. Keep in mind—stock is limited! Check dabblerdepot.com or text (651)-802-2112 for availability.
22 Northmen Brewing Co.
- Night Axe – A whiskey barrel-aged blend of four base stouts, with the finished 14.3% ABV product offering notes of warm vanilla, cherry, toffee, chocolate, malt, and roast.
- Punch Face – A sour ale with a heavy fruit addition of blueberry, lemon, tangerine, and orange. 5.5% ABV.
AEGIR Brewing Company
- Blood Eagle – Tapped in early July, this is a blonde ale with blood orange.
- Rhuberry – A strawberry and rhubarb sour ale.
Badger Hill Brewing Company
- Deep In Dis Pear – Sour A sour ale made with prickly pear, lime, and sea salt. 4.4% ABV.
Bald Man Brewing Co.
- Into the Mystic – A nonalcoholic, THC-infused blonde ale with a mellow 2.7mg per can.
BlackStack Brewing
- Do Not Duplicate – A New England-style IPA made with a fruity yeast strain and doses of Citra, Citra Cryo, and Strata hops. 8.0% ABV.
- Local Dream Universe – A New England-style IPA mash-up of local IPAs, merging BlacStack’s Local 755 with Modist’s Dreamyard, and Fair State’s Mirror Universe.
- Mornin’! – A session lager brewed with German Pils malt and a hint of spelt, pouring just 3.8% ABV.
- Ready To Crumble – This imperial stout has added granola, Oreos, and cinnamon streusel and was aged in bourbon barrels. 10.1% ABV.
- Real Trees: King Size – Strawberry + Kiwi – A THC seltzer, no alcohol, with two fruits and 10mg.
Canal Park Brewing Co.
- Clear Waters – This cream ale is a recent winner at the 2023 Brewers Cup.
Dangerous Man Brewing Company
- Boysenberry Rhubarb Pastry Ale – Boysenberry meets rhubarb meets vanilla, plus Mosaic Cryo hops. 5.5% ABV, contains lactose.
- Juicy Tension – A session IPA with notes of tangerine, marmalade, orange, lime, and peach. 5% ABV and light, crisp, and crushable, the brewery says.
- The Nordic Squeeze – A farmhouse ale collaboration with Nouvelle, made with juniper, honey, smoked wheat, lemon, and tangerine for a rustic, tart, and earthy character. 5.5% ABV, 20 IBU.
Duluth Cider
- Capri Sunset – A summer cider made with pineapple, watermelon, apple, and sea salt. 4.8% ABV.
Earth Rider Brewery
- Grapefruit Radler – On tap at 5 pm today, this summer jam adds grapefruit to Earth Rider’s hefeweizen.
Eastlake Craft Brewery
- Dream Dogs – Back on draft now, expect “Vibrant flavors of ripe, juicy fruit melding with smooth vanilla undertones,” the brewery says of its creamy orange beer made with real Mexican vanilla.
Fair State Brewing Cooperative
- Superclear – Tapped on Thursday, this German-style Pilsner is described as “Bright, crispy, lemony, spritzy, [and] dry.” 4.5% ABV.
Falling Knife Brewing Co.
- Spectral Operators – A double dry-hopped double hazy IPA collaboration with Elm Creek, featuring Nectaron, HBC 586, and HBC 630 Cryo hops, giving notes of grapefruit, peach, tropical fruits, and berries.
Giesenbräu Bier Co.
- Pineapple Berliner Weisse
- Schwarzbier
Heavy Rotation Brewing Co.
- American Bock – A pre-Prohibition amber lager.
THIS SATURDAY!
‘American Bock’ Pre-Prohibition Amber Lager Release.
FREE All Beef Meat Raffle.
Yellowstone Show Trivia.
Food Truck.
Live Music.
Beer Poking.
Saddle Up & Join Us! pic.twitter.com/T7e0Ft4OZ1
— Heavy Rotation Brewing (@heavyrotationBP) July 6, 2023
- I’m Not A Hugger – Hazy IPA
Two New Beers on FREE Meat Raffle Day?! Yeah, it’s how we roll.
Welcome to the rotation…
‘I’m Not A Hugger’ Hazy IPA & ‘Oatmeal Breakfast Stout’ Stout Brewed w/ @bizzycoldbrew, Cocoa Nibs & Oats.
Open 3-10
Red Rocket Pizza Company (Weather Permitting) 4-8
Raffle 6-8ish pic.twitter.com/1WrkPUZjNy— Heavy Rotation Brewing (@heavyrotationBP) June 28, 2023
- Liv Your Life – A tart and fruity sour ale made with strawberry and kiwi.
?NEW BEER ALERT ?
Welcome To The Rotation….
‘Liv Your Life’ Strawberry, Kiwi Sour. This tart, fruity sour is perfect for these hot summer days.
Stop by and have one. Or two. Live Your Life!
Open 3-10 pic.twitter.com/1JEOgKwq2M
— Heavy Rotation Brewing (@heavyrotationBP) June 30, 2023
- Oatmeal Breakfast Stout – Made with cold brew coffee, cocoa nibs, and oats.
- Say Less – A sour ale with banana and passion fruit.
Shhhhh ?
Don’t tell anyone but we have another sour on tap.
‘Say Less’ Banana Passionfruit Sour is now flowing.
Grab a pint and a jar today! pic.twitter.com/tzqBR3FHiM
— Heavy Rotation Brewing (@heavyrotationBP) July 6, 2023
LocAle Brewing
- Bachelor Farmer – A hazy pale ale with citrus and orange flavors. 5.5% ABV.
- Summer Weizen – “A new 5.5% ABV Bavarian-style wheat beer (aka a hefeweizen or weissbier). We’ve gotten numerous requests to make a hefeweizen, so here it is! Much like classic cloudy Bavarian hefeweizens, it has a balance of clove-like notes and fruity esters with low bitterness. We used Wisconsin-grown Vista hops in the whirlpool for light melon notes,” the Mankato brewery says.
- The Timekeeper – A Czech-style amber lager, light in body with tasty malt flavors and Wisconsin-grown hops. 4.8% ABV.
Modist Brewing Co.
- Sigil of Shadows – “A shadow ale with Maris Otter barley malt, malted oats, crystal malt, chocolate wheat malt, roasted crystal malt, hopped with Bravo and Simcoe,” the brewery says. 5.5% ABV. On tap Saturday.
Odell Brewing Company
- Peach Stand Rambler – A summery blonde ale with peach.
Oliphant Brewing
Behind The Fart Side – A cold IPA made with both Centennial and Mosaic hops. 7% ABV.
- Lizardize Mariguanas Pale Ale with Pineapple – A special collaboration with Stinson Liquor, “Our pale ale with pineapple added,” explains Oliphant.
Pryes Brewing Company
- Melody Maker – A witbier with grapefruit sweetness, citrus zest, banana, clove, and bubblegum notes.
- Parasol – This Idyll Forest release is a Sauvignon Blanc wine hybrid ale: “An artistic combination of our mixed cultures and Sauvignon Blanc grapes. It blends beautifully tart flavors of peach, apple, and apricot, which were delicately aged in oak barrels,” says Pryes.
Sierra Nevada
- Hop Hunter IPA – Back for a limited time in the Fan Favorites Pack. 6.2% ABV.
- Nooner Pilsner – Back for a limited time in the Fan Favorites Pack. 5.2% ABV.
- Ruthless Rye – Back for a limited time in the Fan Favorites Pack. 6.6% ABV.
- Summerfest Lager
Steel Toe Brewing
- Big Chats – A team beer from Steel Toe, this new hazy double IPA has peach, passion fruit, and tropical fruit notes and pours at 8.85% ABV.
?? Our loudest beer yet! “Crew Brew: Big Chats Dbl Hazy IPA” out today ?️?
Our latest crew brew comes from our amazing bartender, Nick. This hazy double IPA has hop aromas of peach, passionfruit and tropical fruit. Brewed w/ Galaxy, Citra and Meridian hops. 8.85% ABV ? pic.twitter.com/lRaVBWkpOG
— Steel Toe Brewing (@SteelToeBrewing) July 19, 2023
Town Hall Brewery
- Saaz Pils – “This 5.8% Bohemian style lager is brewed to showcase the iconic Saaz hop. Clean ‘noble’ hop spiciness with a soft malt finish,” the brewpub says.
Trout City Brewing
- Mango Peach – Tapped in June.
Uncommon Loon Brewing Company
- Apricot Wheat
Unmapped Brewing Co.
- Gold Rush – A California common with toasted malt and caramel notes at the forefront, light in color and sweet, the brewery notes.
- Last Rites – A Keller Pils variant of Purgatory Pils flagship, this small batch is unfiltered, with malty character, Unmapped says.
- Paddle North – Tapped in late June, this is a wild rice cream ale, adding earthy and fruity notes of pear or apple to its cream ale base.
- Partners in (Wheat) Wine – A limited wheat wine collaboration with OMNI, recently back on tap in Minnetonka.
- Thrash Unreal– A coffee altbier, light in body with malt-forward sweet notes. “Think toffee coffee,” Unmapped says. Named in honor of musician Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!).
Ursa Minor Brewing
- Drink and Be Marri – “Is a new marionberry lemon sour and it’s loaded with fruity flavor and the lemon gives it the perfect amount of tartness,” Ursa Minor explains.
Venn Brewing Company
- Dream Lager – A light European-style lager.
Wabasha Brewing Co.
- Czechin’ In – A crisp and floral Czech-style Pilsner. 5% ABV.
- Heroic – Pineapple, grapefruit, and strawberry flavors in a double dry-hopped hazy IPA.
- Orange Cream Kveik Blonde – A limited batch, 4.8% ABV experimental ale.
- Sasquatch Sanctuary – “The new batch has yielded a wee bit more piney character and a bitter bite. Balanced nicely with that same malty sweetness layered with juicy hop flavors,” the brewery says of its West Coast-style IPA. 6% ABV.
Wooden Hill Brewing Co.
- Tropic Typhoon – A hard seltzer slushy, tropical, and blue with citrus-lime notes. 5.5% ABV.
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