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1. Barrel Theory Beer Company
St Paul, Minnesota, United States
Our name is derived from Liebig’s Law of the Minimum which explains that the capacity of a barrel is always limited by its shortest stave. Picture a barrel on standing upright with varying stave lengths, the content that the barrel can hold isn’t determined by the taller staves, but by its shortest. At Barrel Theory, we don’t define our brand by our best-selling or most successful product, but by the overall quality of our beers and customer service. Our quality-control philosophy is simple: If the beer isn’t something we are proud of, we won’t serve it to you. Barrel Theory’s founders Brett Splinter, Timmy Johnson, and Todd Tibesar bring years of combined industry experience and knowledge. There’s an understanding among the owners that it is a team effort to run a successful brewing operation that produces real quality and that no one channel of the business can reach a high level of success without the others.
2. BlackStack Brewing
St Paul, Minnesota, United States
BlackStack Brewing produce's flawless beer and is ranked #4 in Minnesota. They are most well known for "LOCAL 755", which is a New England IPA and "DDH 755", which is a New England IPA. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Sours.
3. Modist Brewing Co.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Modist Brewing Co. produce's world class beer and is ranked #5 in Minnesota. They are most well known for "DREAMYARD", which is a New England IPA and "False Pattern", which is a New England Pale Ale. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Pale Lagers.
4. Falling Knife Brewing Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Falling Knife Brewing Company produce's world class beer and is ranked #10 in Minnesota. They are most well known for "Verbal Tip", which is a New England IPA and "Hidden Temple", which is a New England IPA. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Sours.
5. Surly Brewing Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
You do enough settling. That’s part of life. You owe it to yourself to drink a beer that doesn’t settle. Not settling drives Surly. It’s what drove us to convert a suburban Minneapolis abrasives factory to a brewery in 2004. It’s what drove Surly’s owner, Omar Ansari, to go bar to bar, asking them to carry our beer. It’s what drove us to earn medals from the Great American Beer Festival and Best Brewery in America honors. It’s what drove us to change a Minnesota law that had been on the books since Prohibition. It’s what drove us to build a state-of-the-art destination brewery in the heart of the Twin Cities in 2014 featuring a massive beer hall, pizza place, outdoor beer garden, company store and event center. And it’s what drives us today. Surly’s not for everyone. It’s for you.
6. Fair State Brewing Cooperative
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
We started a brewery because we love great beer. We made it a cooperative because we believe that when people come together, amazing things can happen. We share stories, come up with new ideas, and start to see the world a little differently. At Fair State Co-op, we’re brewing community.
7. Dangerous Man Brewing Co.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
We are a microbrewery with a production facility in Maple Lake, Minnesota. Our focus is high-quality, small-batch production beers with ever-changing cans and kegs. We are currently dreaming and scheming up what our future "taproom" looks like while we focus on production.
8. Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery produce's high quality beer and is ranked #15 in Minnesota. They are most well known for "Masala Mama", which is an American IPA and "Hope & King Scotch Ale", which is a Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Dark Beers.
9. Waldmann Brewery
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Named after its original owner, Anthony Waldmann, our brewery is housed in the oldest surviving commercial building in the Twin Cities — a limestone saloon built in the fall of 1857. Since the Fall of 2017, Waldmann is once again welcome to everyone with the warmth of wood fire and lamplight. From hand-hewn woodwork to period engravings, every detail reflects the care and craftsmanship at the soul of this restored pre-Civil War original—including, of course, the beer itself. Using old-world horizontal fermenting techniques and noble and heritage hops, the Waldmann brewing team is making traditional German-style lagers with an approach to recipes and brewing processes that stay true to the building’s 1850s heritage. Pull up an authentic steamboat chair and choose from one of several enduring styles, like Pilsener, Dunkel and Wiener. Our beer is the perfect complement to tasty bites from the kitchen, including freshly made sausages, heritage wheat pretzels, and limestone potatoes roasted under a slab of Platteville bedrock. We pride ourselves in carrying on German-inspired cooking traditions using locally sourced ingredients, whenever possible. Waldmann is a humble, memorable place — full of stories and traditions that just may inspire you to make a few of your own.
10. Wild Mind Ales
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Wild Mind Ales specializes in wild, farmhouse, saison, and rustic ales through traditional, old-world brewing methods. Our expansive wood cellar is filled with foeders and a wide array of a barrels that have traveled from as far as Italy to help promulgate complexity into each beer and build a strong terrior. To add complexity, we use our custom-built coolship to inoculate beers with funky microflora and bacteria. Spontaneously fermented ales are barrel-aged and blended to provide each beer with a unique texture and an intense depth of flavor. After all this work to promulgate funk, time and patience becomes our most important ingredient. Beers may age anywhere from a couple months to many years before being ready for your glass — and it’s always worth the wait. #weirdlytraditional