Light And Bright Beers Just In Time For Spring

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.

Venn Brewing Co. Cosmosis Blueberry Lemonade Sour Ale –  Venn Brewings MEGA sour with a blast of blueberry and lemonade flavor. 9% ABV 

Oliphant Brewing The Raspberry Experiment Sour Ale – The perfect sip of raspberry sour ale with lactose. 5% ABV

Broken Clock Brewing Co-Op Red Coats NE IPA – A hazy, juicy IPA with the aroma of a hopped up IPA, but without the harsh bite. Loaded with hops with citrus and tropical fruit flavors. Blood Orange infusion gives this beer a tart citrusy bite. 6.6% ABV

Portage Anywhere But Here Scotch Ale – Created by layered in a number of malts to provide the perfect base for a big addition of Madagascar vanilla bean. Notes of sweet cream and caramel. 8% ABV 

Brewing Projekt The Stolen Mile Golden Ale – Basil lemon ale brewed with real fresh lemon zest and real fresh basil. 5.2% ABV

New beers available this week across Minnesota

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Alloy Brewing Company

• Rye Barrel Aged Neodymium – A big 9.3% ABV, 60 IBU limited take on the brewery’s imperial stout. On tap in limited supply.

Angry Inch Brewing

• Love Potion #208 – A lemon and ginger batch.
• Red Clover – An Irish-style red that tapped earlier this month.
• Tynan Tirim – This Irish-style stout was pouring on nitro at Angry Inch, as of St. Patrick’s Day.

Bear Cave Brewing

• Rockaway Beach – A “summer crusher” of a hazy pale ale, with lime, orange, and papaya flavors. 5.2% ABV, 15 IBU.

Bent Paddle Brewing Co.

• Copper Coast  – A copper lager, 6.0% ABV, 20 IBU, with grain flavors, bread crust, and lightly spiced hops. Taproom exclusive.

• Dankswagon – A limited-release double West Coast-style IPA with a dank, bright, citrus character, available from Bent Paddle and in cans. 8.2% ABV, 70 IBU.

• Golden Fez – “A NE hazy IPA with notes of peach, pineapple, mango sorbet, starfruit, and clementine. It washes down silky smooth with a doughy wheat and oat body and medium-low bitterness,” and is available exclusively at Pizza Luce.

• Little Dūssel Do-Ya – A Dūsseldorf-style altbier (same recipe as Altbear) with flavors of toast, bread crust, toffee, dark fruit, subtle roast, and floral, herbal hops. 

• Shire Mild – A “Middle Earth-style” mild ale, this 4.0% ABV, 16 IBU offering has flavors of coffee, dried dark fruit, light roast coffee, and peanut butter toast, complimented by fruity English yeast esters and floral hops.

• THC+: Berry Stash is A new flavor of THC-infused, non-alcoholic sparkling water. THC 5mg, CBD 5mg.
• Towering Pines – A porter driven by rich, dark chocolate and toasted bread flavors, says Bent Paddle. 6.2% ABV, 24 IBU.

Brew d’État

Both debuting at Minnesota Craft Beer Festival 2023 on Saturday:

• Berry Amber Ale – “Built like an ESB but hopped with Belma, Hüll Melon, and Barbe Rouge to amplify fruity flavors,” the brewery says. 6.5% ABV
• Juce Campbell IPA – The brewery’s flagship wheat IPA, this time dry-hopped with Mosaic and Enigma. 7% ABV.

Eastlake Craft Brewery

• High & Dry: Pamplemousse – A new batch of THC seltzer, this time with more grapefruit flavor.
• Southside Pils – A Czech-style Keller Pils “with noticeable bitterness and spicy aroma from noble hops,” the brewery says.

Fair State Brewing Cooperative

• #1 Beer – A light-body, lightly hopped light American lager collaboration with Disco Death Records. 4.7% ABV.

Firestone Walker Brewing Company

• Double Hopnosis – “We call this our new-school rendition of a classic imperial West Coast IPA,” says Firestone Walker. Available in 19.2-ounce cans. 8.3% ABV.

Forager Brewery

• Pin Skeer Pilsner – A traditional lager recipe brewed in collaboration with Fair State and on tap now.

Fulton Brewing

• Lonely Shandy – Lonely Blonde gets another twist, this time in shandy form with added lemon flavors. 4.9% ABV.

Hacienda Beer Co.

• Back To The Flow – A hazy IPA made with Nectaron, Motueka, and Strata hops. 6.7% ABV.
• Excited To Be Here – A 5.1% ABV Kolsch-style ale, available on Saturday, April 1. No foolin’.

Imminent Brewing

• Bawk, Balk, Bock – A malt-forward spring lager at 6.5% ABV, 22 IBU.

Lake Monster Brewing

• House that Beer Built – A charitable hazy pale ale, pouring at 5.2% ABV with malted oats in the grain bill, plus Amarillo and Southern Cross hops.

Lupulin Brewing Company

• Flamingo in a Flock of Pigeons – Available today, this is a light pale ale with raspberry and peach and features the Pink Boots hop blend. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the National Pink Boots Society and the South Dakota Chapter.

Mineral Springs Brewery

Recently tapped for St. Patrick’s Day: 

• Gorman Irish Ale 
• Shea Stout 

Nine Mile Brewing

• Yachtbience – A pale ale with lots of guava, passion fruit, and citrus zest with dank aromas and a dry finish. 6.0% ABV.

Oliphant Brewing

• Animals With Human Lips – A 5% ABV tropical sour ale, Oliphant explains.
• The Raspberry Experiment – This is a cream ale with raspberry. 5% ABV.

Portage Brewing Company

• Comfort In The Fog – Double dry hopped with Sultana Lupulin, Cashmere, Citra, and Sabro, driving big aromatics of pineapple rings, tangerine peel, and mango candies” set the tone in this double dry-hopped New England-style IPA, says Portage.

• Darklines Mild Ale – “Roasty, toasty, medium-bodied, with notes of cacao and caramel, says Portage, and just 3.4% ABV.
• One Oh One – Citra and Mosaic hops combine in a cold IPA with notes of citrus and berries.

Sisyphus Brewing

• Our Oatmeal Pale Ale v.2 (aka OPA²) – A recipe from Sisyphus’ opening day recently returned an oatmeal pale ale with Citra and Simcoe hop character, plus a creamier body than the average pale ale.

Snarky Loon Brewing Co.

• Shenanigans – An Irish-style ale that tapped in March.

South by SouthEast Brewing

• Magical Unicorn – Recently tapped, this is “[A] pink, sparkly/ glittery honey wheat beer,” with a portion of sales donated to Pink Boots Society, says the southern Minnesota-based brewery.

Spilled Grain Brewhouse

• Bockbier – A 7.2% ABV German-style spring lager.

• Old ’22 – A 5% ABV Irish-style red.

Utepils Brewing

• Glocal IPA – An amber-hued Belgian-style ale with spicy panache, citrus, pineapple, and floral notes, the brewery says. 5.5% ABV, 64 IBU. On draft and sold in the Summer Weekender Mixed Pack.
• Hoppestokk – A hoppy and crisp lager with citrus tones. 5.6% ABV, 36 IBU. On draft and sold in the new Summer Weekender Mixed Pack.
• Luce’s Big Adventure – Available at the Utepils taproom and coming to all Pizza Luce locations, this is a light-bodied ale featuring Calista and Mandarina Bavaria hops for fruity and citrus notes.
• Season of the Wit – A Belgian-style wheat ale, on draft and sold in the new mixed pack, this mellow and fruit-forward beer pours at 5% ABV, 12 IBU.
• Sköse – A gose-inspired take on Skölsh for Finite Fridays, this “sko-zuh” is lightly salked and soured.

Waconia Brewing Company

• Women’s Day White IPA – Brewed at the start of the month and available now.

Wicked Wort Brewing Co.

• Raspberry Wheat

Wild Mind Ales

• Floating Signifier – A thiolized hazy pale ale with big notes of citrus, tropical fruit, and a hint of spice, the brewery says. 5.4% ABV and on tap this Friday.
• Such Wonders – A wine hybrid farmhouse ale, “This white wheat saison is fermented to dryness with a Lithuanian farmhouse ale yeast and hopped with Moutere and Nelson Sauvin. But that’s not all – we’ve also refermented it with Italian Pinot Grigio must, resulting in a dry and lively beer with pleasing minerality and refreshing herbal notes,” the brewery explains. 13.8% ABV.

Wooden Hill Brewing Company

• Cahill – Back on tap, this is a cream ale made with flaked corn and Triumph hops. 6% ABV.
• Kiwi Mint Shrub – A hard seltzer cocktail made with kiwi, mint leaves, sugar, and apple cider vinegar. 5.5% ABV.

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