Strata Hopped Brews Set The Pace 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.

Fair State Strong Friend Moves Hoppy Pilsner – Hoppy lil’ pilsner, extra crispy style, brewed with north star pils malt from the north star state. 4.5% ABV 

Evil Twin Greenhouse Hoppy Pilsner – Our classic pilsner base dry-hopped with Citra & Simcoe for an extra blast of hop freshness. 5% ABV

Drekker Majik Milk Plop Fruited Hard Seltzer – Majik Milk PLOP is loaded up with pineapple, banana, cream of coconut, blue spirulina, and lactose-free vanilla soft serve ice cream and it tastes just like the most amazing cereal milk from when you were a kid. You know, from the good cereal with marshmallows and stuff. And did we mention that it’s blue? It’s blue. 6% ABV

Lift Bridge Mai Bock – Hoppier than traditional german, maris munich pilsner malts. 7.7% ABV

Dangerous Man Brewing House IPA – Citrus and an especially fruity yeast profile round out this India Pale Ale. Medium-bodied, the wheat addition sneaks into the malt profile of this beer and helps to highlight the grapefruit and orange flavorings. A pleasant, lingering bitterness finishes the beer. 7% ABV 

Dangerous Man Brewing Cream Ale – Clear, bright golden coloring, large, lush snow-white head. Fresh, fruity, and floral aromatics with spicy and citric notes abound with just a touch of tropical notes like pineapple and grapefruit. 5.5% ABV 

Dangerous Man Brewing Peanut Butter Porter – A true-to-style robust Porter with a healthy dose of peanut butter offering a dry, not sweet, making it extremely drinkable. 6% ABV 

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.

Avery Brewing Co.

• Clear Horizons – One of two new IPAs, This crisp IPA boasts brilliant clarity with a vibrant blend of tropical hop flavor, and a perfectly balanced bitterness, the Colorado brewery proclaims.
• Nomadic Dreamer – A New England-style hazy IPA with orange and mango flavors and a smooth finish.

Badger Hill Brewing Company

• Stoneface Peach and Apricot Sour

BlackStack Brewing

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Guava – A mixed culture guava sour with heavy guava, plus vanilla and lacrosse. 6.4% ABV. Available on draft and in cans.

• Catch A Wave – Wavy IPA intensified with a dose of Mosaic, Mosaic Cryo, and Sultana hops. 8.3% ABV.
• Magic Misfits – A 6.5% ABV West Coast-style IPA made with a blend of Strata, Nugget, and Motueka hops.

• White Owls – A 7.0% ABV double dry-hopped IPA made with Citra Cryo, El Dorado Cryo, Talus Cryo, and Experimental 17701 with grape-like flavors.
• Stacksman – A collaboration with Axman Surplus, this recent beer is made with Strata, Citra, Mosaic, and Columbus Cryo hops.

Boathouse Brothers Brewing Co.

• Birthday Cake Cream Ale – A limited beer for the brewery’s fifth anniversary, on tap today. Brewed in collaboration with Spiral, who also have an anniversary this weekend.

Duluth Cider

• Pineapple Sour Cider – Fresh pineapple gives this semi-sweet city a sour tartness. The cidery is also selling Pineapple Sour THC Gummies.

FINNEGANS Brew Co.

• Blood Orange Pilsner – The taproom favorite is now available in 12-pack so cans. 6.0% ABV, 35 IBU.
• Mischievous Pixie Pale Ale – An old-school pale ale, crisp and slightly bitter, and 4.8% ABV, 45 IBU.

Foxhole Brewhouse

• Coffee Stout – 6.6% ABV and on tap in Willmar.

Founders Brewing Co.

• All Day: Crimson Sky – A red IPA version of the session-able IPA, sold in an All Day mixed pack with the original lighter India-style pale ale and two additional variants.
• All Day: Haze – A hazy session IPA.
• All Day: West Coast – Also sold in a mixed pack from the brewery.

Heavy Rotation Brewing Co.

• Heavy Lean – A thick yet juicy triple hazy IPA.

• How We Do It – A cranberry, pomegranate, and hibiscus sour.

• Raffle Winner – Hopefully not a joke, this April 1-tapped hazy IPA pours at 6.5% ABV and has notes of smoke, in respect to meat raffle partners Osseo Meats.

High Pines Brewing Company

• Strawberry Marga-Riva Seltzer Slushie – A seasonally appropriate beer alternative.

Lakes & Legends Brewing Company

• Pink Boots Cold IPA – Brewed on International Women’s Day, this beer was also made by women in and near the Loring Park community taps today.

Lift Bridge Brewing Co.

• Mai Bock – The featured beer at Lift Bridge’s bock party this weekend (with hot beer poking) in Stillwater, was brewed with Maris Otter, Munich, and Pilsner malts and noble hops. Another bock party takes place in New Richmond next Saturday.

New Glarus Brewery

• 30th Anniversary Quadruple – “This Belgian Quad was brewed using malted barley to give it hints of raisin, vanilla, dried fruit, and dark chocolate,” the Wisconsin brewery says of this limited release.

Odell Brewing Company

• Imperial Mountain Standard – A new 9% ABV version of Mountain Standard hazy IPA with big juicy, hop-forward flavors and a malt backbone, the brewery says.

Oliphant Brewing

• BBA 2Blazed2BPhazed – A peaches and cream sour ale aged in 45th Parallel bourbon barrels, available at the brewery directly.

• BBA Super Squishy – A limited-release sour ale, aged in bourbon barrels and fruited with blackberry, raspberry, and coconut.

OMNI Brewing Co.

• Doppelbock – On tap at this Saturday’s Bock Party, with beer poking from 12-5 pm.
• Lions Don’t Like Water – A New England-style IPA.
• Marzen – On tap at this Saturday’s Bock Party, with beer poking from 12-5 pm.

Pryes Brewing Co.

• Forêt des Esprits – “We are excited to announce a collaboration with the band Nothing More on a new release from our Idyll Forest series! Forêt des Esprits is in celebration of their new album – Spirits. This Brett IPA is dry hopped with Strata, Sultana, and Cryo Sultana hops,” the brewery says. On tap today. The band plays Saturday at The Fillmore Minneapolis.

Rapids Brewing Co.

• Orange Dream Cream Ale – “This brew was infused with Cara Cara Oranges and Madagascar Vanilla Beans. Expect a silky smooth, sweet, orange flavor followed by a delicate dose of vanilla,” the brewery says. 5.0% ABV.

Red Wing Brewery

• Pepie’s Porter Back on tap in Red Wing.

Rustech Brewing Co.

• Polar Lime – A draft only blueberry lime sour, tapped in later March.
• Sweet Inferno – A 5.8% ABV, 28 IBU raspberry wheat ale with habanero peppers. Tapped in late March.

Spiral Brewery

• Maelstrom IPA – A collaboration wit Boathouse Brothers in joint celebration of the two breweries’ fifth anniversaries, this is a bitter and hop-forward IPA with notable malt character, the brewery says. 7.2% ABV.

Toppling Goliath Brewing Co.

• Meteora Barrel-Aged Barleywine – On draft in Decorah, IA now, with an upcoming lottery bottle release.

Town Hall Brewery

• Ol’ Blarney Irish Ale – A rich Irish-style red ale, tapped in March, with notes of fruit bread, nuts, toast, and caramel.

Uncommon Loon Brewing Company

• Lady Rosella – Brewed with the women from Oliphant and Uncommon Loon, this collaboration hazy pale ale with hibiscus and apricot is available one month after International Women’s Day.

Urban Growler Brewing Company

• Basil Limeade – A double hard seltzer cocktail with fresh basil and homemade limeade. Available at the brewery.

• Sour Outage – Banana, passion fruit, guava, Urban Growler, and Granite City come together in a 4.5% ABV, 5 IBU beer collaboration.

• SourPuss – A new sour ale.

Ursa Minor Brewing

• Intergalactic Double Face Slap – A double Galactic Face Slap IPA with bold, hop-forward flavors. Available on draft and in liquor stores soon.

Utepils Brewing

• Juniper infused Broomstacker – A limited infusion for Finite Fridays at the taproom.

Wabasha Brewing Co.

• Altered States #2 –  The second in an IPA series, this batch features Citra Incognito, Citra Cryo, and Mosaic Cryo hops.

• Bourbon Barrel Night Queen – An English-style barleywine, available on draft. This beauty has only gotten better with age. 12 months in bourbon barrels has added cherry vanilla, oaky spice, and deeper caramel notes, says Wabasha.

• Chit Chat Witbier – Tapped in late March, this witbier is cloudy in complexion with sweet and herbal notes. 5.1% ABV.

• Strata Implosion – Notes of candied berries, mango, citrus, and pine define this Strata dry-hopped IPA.

• Strawberry Rhubarb Kolsch – A 4.8% fruited Kolsch-style ale with berry notes to start and a tart rhubarb finish sandwiching a traditional beer base. On tap and available in cans.

Wild Mind Ales

• Deep Unreal – A coffee cake-inspired imperial stout, this 11.9% ABV big beer has added nutmeg, cinnamon, and coffee.
• Secret Prism – A pillowy, hazy IPA made with Vic Secret, Mosaic, and Mosaic Cryo hops. 6.3% ABV and only available from liquor stores.
• WLD WTR Infusions: Serenity – A THC sparking water with 20mg CBD, plus passion fruit, orange, and guava.

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