Category: Beer

written by Bennett I’m calling it. Yes, it is unofficially the official start to stout season. This past weekend was one final hoorah of basking…read more

You have seen the commercials: a vendor shouting “ice cold beer, here” while navigating through the football stadium; two arctic explorers abseiling into a crevasse…read more

For the beer staff these days, the only constant has been change. On any given week we are likely to receive north of 50 new…read more

Written by Bennett Revived in Minnesota’s beer culture by Castle Danger Brewery from Two Harbors, cream ales have a rather mysterious ethos for such a…read more

We talk a lot about the weather here in Minnesota, it’s a go-to icebreaker that frequently segues into another Midwestern topic like the goin’ up…read more

Thanks to a few dedicated importers, a recent surge of shiny, fresh cans of old world beer styles have been pouring onto our shelves from…read more

…IPA, that is. The seemingly annual tradition lives on. February has low-key become the seasonal month of Double IPA releases. It’s probably because Midwesterners are…read more

New year, new you! Hey, you really crushed it in 2019—you accomplished some goals, got a few projects done, hopefully treated yourself here and there….read more

We’ve already waxed poetic about beer, wine, and spirits choices for Thanksgiving, but what if you want to go Pilgrim-style with your beverage choices? Cider…read more

As we set reminders to move our clocks back an hour, a heavy precipitation of new, adjunct-laden, dessert-style beers is blanketing our beer world. The…read more

Sometimes it can be hard to talk about your birthday. It means you are getting old(er). You think to yourself, “I want to go back…read more

Ah, the ceaselessly-divisive pumpkin beer—a perennial autumn release that is met with a medley of excitement and displeasure. Whether or not you care for it,…read more