One 600-barrel drop in Summit Brewing’s $13 million expansion project.

From Summit’s YouTube page: “The first of our twelve new 600-barrel fermenters goes airborne and then gets lowered into our expanded cellar space. Then begins the very slow process of moving it into place. Video sped up for your convenience.”

The City Pages singles out Indeed’s brew as the best among an increasingly crowded craft-brew scene.

Without looking up figures, somewhere around 500 breweries sprung up this year — or that’s how it feels anyway. While they all have some excellent qualities, Indeed Brewing Company of northeast Minneapolis stands out for its hoppy Day Tripper Pale Ale and doubly hoppy Midnight Ryder American Black Ale — two well-known styles in microbrews, but two beers that Indeed has mastered and made its own.

via City Pages.

A fight is brewing over fictitious female children with agrarian roots. Two small area beer makers are engaged in a branding dispute over their use of a young farmer on their packaging.
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Chip Walton is at it again. Here he share’s his love for home brew and 311.

Dangerous Man Brewing Co. owner Rob Miller fills a growler in his new Minneapolis brewery. (MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson)

Surly Bill that legalized taprooms is fueling continued growth in Minnesota’s beer industry.

Minnesota is undergoing a “beer boom” and catching up with the rest of the country. In just the last two years, the number of breweries in the state has nearly doubled to 53, driving a proliferation of local beers.

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Green beer isn’t just for St Patrick’s Day anymore and it doesn’t have anything to do with food coloring.

“Sandy and Jay Boss Febbo are bringing a new meaning to the word ‘microbrew.’

“Their 1,300-square-foot brew house at 2320 Capp Road is ‘small by design,’ said Sandy Boss Febbo. ‘We are a super-small building with a small footprint,’” via Twin Cities Daily Planet.

Filtered @badgerhillbeerMSB today! Hooray for craft beer! twitter.com/ruhbrewer/stat…

— Andy Ruhland (@ruhbrewer) November 27, 2012

Glad to read hops at #targetField were put to use: “Reverse The Curse Ale” #MNBeer @twins @wcco cbsloc.al/Tk1DTM twitter.com/indeedbrewing/…

— Indeed Brewing(@indeedbrewing) November 28, 2012

“Surly Brewing Co. says it wants to build a $20 million brewery on an industrial site near the University of Minnesota, if the popular craft beer maker can get public funding to help clean it up,” reports the Star Tribune.

Slideshow of the possible Surly site