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    Twin Cities Breweries

    So I'm going to be in Minneapolis visiting a friend from Aug 20-28. Wilco concert on the 20th and probably some time at the state fair. The main goal of this trip is to go to breweries everyday.

    So I'm looking for suggestions on breweries we should try. I'm a fan of most beer types except maybe sours. Also take any suggestions for a good pub with good/interesting food. Will celebrate my birthday while I'm in town and would like to find a cool place for dinner.

    Thanks all!
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    Re: Twin Cities Breweries

    A lot of craft beers at the fair so take advantage of that.

    Hit Surly, obviously. I've become fond of Bad Weather on 7th in St. Paul.
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    • #3
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      Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild. You can put in an address and look for breweries with a radius or look at specific cities.

      Fulton is okay. Summit specializes in pale ales, but the Oktoberfest should be coming out soon which is very smooth. Surly is a bitter beer specialist, not my favorite by a long shot. 612 was okay, but could do without another.
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      • #4
        Re: Twin Cities Breweries

        Nordeast Mpls (different from North Mpls, as any local can tell you ) has a ton of options. If you can travel a little (say, 30 minutes to any of the suburbs), I'd highly recommend Hammerheart Brewing in Lino Lakes. Very complex beers. LTD in Hopkins (about 15 minutes from downtown Mpls) usually has 10-12 taps, many different styles. They try to have something for all tastes. Another recommendation is New Bohemia (a couple locations, I believe there is one actually in Mpls city limits now). The one by me has 34 taps, and the "biggest" brewery they carry is Goose Island. Great mix of local and national crafts. They are also a Wurst Huis, with regular and exotic sausages like elk, gator, duck, rattlesnake, etc.

        Many taprooms don't serve food, something about the laws/designations, but you can bring food in, whether it be takeout/delivery/etc. Often have menus in the taproom.
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          I'd say hit up the Hopkins, Excelsior and Minnetonka area.

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            Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
            I'd say hit up the Hopkins, Excelsior and Minnetonka area.
            There are one or two in St Louis Park, which would be on the way to the three cities mentioned above.
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              There are an effing ton of little taphouses and breweries now. There are a couple of regions that have a ton really close together. Surly, Lake Monster, and Urban Growler are pretty close together. Both Surly and Urban Growler serve their own food. Lake Monster has great beer, however. If you're fine with a food truck or ordering delivery give it a shot.

              Another spot with a bunch together is the intersection of Broadway and Central. Indeed, Able, 612, and Bauhaus are all close. All of these have no food of their own. There's another place not too far called Dangerous Man. Again, no food, but it is only a couple blocks away from Anchor Fish & Chips.

              Cripes, that area is bonkers. Just thought of another one. Tattersall, which is a distillery. No beer. Liquor and cocktails. They make a mean sidecar and old fashioned. Of course, no food. Almost always a good food truck there though.
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                The no food aspect won't keep us from going to a brewery. I'm all about food trucks. My friend whom I'm staying with lives on the south side. Not to far north of the airport. She has to work during the day unfortunately (going to take at least one "sick" day). If anyone has suggestions for interesting things to do during the day time please share. I don't gave any definitive plans get. Probably the zoo one day as I enjoy zoos a bit.

                I appreciate the suggestions and will be coming crack to this thread while I'm in town.

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                  Originally posted by Proud2baLaker View Post
                  The no food aspect won't keep us from going to a brewery. I'm all about food trucks. My friend whom I'm staying with lives on the south side. Not to far north of the airport. She has to work during the day unfortunately (going to take at least one "sick" day). If anyone has suggestions for interesting things to do during the day time please share. I don't gave any definitive plans get. Probably the zoo one day as I enjoy zoos a bit.

                  I appreciate the suggestions and will be coming crack to this thread while I'm in town.
                  If you see the "Hot Indian Food" food truck. GO THERE. So f*ing good. bbdl will back me up on this.
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                  • #10
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                    Have to plug my local hometown boys. A lot to see and do in town. Half hour trek at most.

                    http://liftbridgebrewery.com/#
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                      Originally posted by brookyone View Post
                      Have to plug my local hometown boys. A lot to see and do in town. Half hour trek at most.

                      http://liftbridgebrewery.com/#
                      If you go there, a must-stop is Smalley's Caribbean BBQ in the same town. *DROOL* http://smalleyscaribbeanbbq.com/
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                      • #12
                        Re: Twin Cities Breweries

                        Surly, Bad Weather, Barley John's, Northbound, Tin Whiskers, Lift Bridge.

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                          I don't have a good eye for Minny brews, having not lived there since I was 20.

                          Grain Belt Nordeast is one of my favorite cheap beers, and my old man (in his more drinky days) went for Pigs Eye.

                          Neither are all that exciting. It's like recommending the new Schlitz or La Crosse to people visiting WI.

                          I have had Schell's and Surly, though. Both are very good (although I'm not one for super hoppy IPAs in the case of the latter.
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                            Re: Twin Cities Breweries

                            Originally posted by ExileOnDaytonStreet View Post
                            I don't have a good eye for Minny brews, having not lived there since I was 20.

                            Grain Belt Nordeast is one of my favorite cheap beers, and my old man (in his more drinky days) went for Pigs Eye.

                            Neither are all that exciting. It's like recommending the new Schlitz or La Crosse to people visiting WI.

                            I have had Schell's and Surly, though. Both are very good (although I'm not one for super hoppy IPAs in the case of the latter.
                            I think any tour (by "tour", I mean drinking) of Minnesota craft beers has to start with Summit. It's just kind of the father of Minnesota craft brewing, and candidly they just make good beer. A lot of people that I know have gotten into craft beers simply because they started drinking one of the Summits. They're just good gateway drugs into craft beers if you haven't yet developed a taste for beers with more "flavor."

                            Also, if the OP is in fact going to the fair, that's a pretty good opportunity to experience a sample from a wide variety of brewers around the state, not just from the Twin Cities area. Here is a recent update on what you might find there. I try to avoid the gimmicky ones, but I've never failed to find a handful of new ones that I really like at the fair.

                            http://growlermag.com/the-growlers-c...ta-state-fair/
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                              Summit was the original, Surly fought the legislators and blew the gates wide open. Minnesota craft brewing owes a lot to both of them.

                              I've thought of a few more that are pretty good. Tin Whiskers in St Paul, Bent Brewstillery in Roseville, Northgate in MPLS.
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