The team at NorthGate will not be open for our regularly scheduled growler hours on June 1st in order celebrate the nuptials of our Head Brewer Tuck and his fiancee Hilary. We will be open the Wednesday before though if you want to stop in and get a growler for the weekend.
We added 3 new taps this week with a few more in the works. There is a good chance we will “tap” the breaks after that. Being a small brewery it is important to us to make sure that the places that take a chance on us always have a keg in the cold room…
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Looks like we will be one of the 25 breweries for the Beer Dabbler Pride event at Loring Park on June 28th. Each brewery will be paired with a food truck to get some special combinations. See you all there!
On the rocky shores of northeast Ireland there was once a beautiful young woman named Maggie. She was the daughter of a renowned poacher from Ballyvaston and the pair were constantly drew the ire of the of the landed gentry and their hired soldiers. Even thought they were never caught, any time a deer went…
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While we were busy making beer and getting everything ready we forgot one important thing, updating our site. We have remedied that now and hope you can use the additional information. We can now keep you updated on where we are located, what events we will be doing, and most importantly what beers we have!
Glad to report on a busy and successful first week. If you didn’t make it out to Grumpy’s NE for the release you missed a good time. A packed time, but good. Don’t worry, even though we had to make a mid-event run back to the brewery for more beer, we left them with plenty…
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Today we received word that the state alcohol agency has approved our license. We are now ready to release and will be doing so soon. The later this week we will make a formal announcement for the date and location but our Wall’s End Brown Ale will be debuting in Northeast Minneapolis very soon. We…
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The year is almost ended and with just one state inspection to go before we are having a very happy holiday season indeed. From the team at Northgate we just want to tell everyone to be safe and merry!
After discussions with the owners of Northbound Smokehouse & Brewpub, we have reached an amicable resolution regarding the potential confusion between the “Northgate” and “Northbound” names. Although the terms of our agreement are confidential, we can share that our face-to-face meetings with the owners of Northbound went very well, and reinforced to us Northbound’s commitment…
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Man that was a horrible pun but we have a couple of pieces of news to relay. First, we had the last of our plumbing work today and hope to have city sign off by the end of the week which just leaves the state Ag and Alcohol inspections left before we can open. Second,…
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Looks like we have our holes cut up for the new trap and venting. Luckily we were able to get someone from the inspectors office to come out again and let us know exactly where it needed to be so we only had to make two small openings. Or it’s the leftovers from our haunted…
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We got our kegs today, nothing like a little castle to hold all our beer in! I found an up close picture:
So…Growler application is ready to go.
Last week we took a break from getting the brewery set up to enjoy a once a year tradition with friends. For the last few in a row Andrew, Sarah, and Brian have brewed a wet hop double IPA with fresh hops. The crop from Sarah’s bines was great this year and we decided to…
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Well now that we have our tanks it is time to start hooking all the pieces together. First we have to make sure we have the paperwork in order. All in all the Minneapolis Development Review department has been pretty danged helpful, especially Becky, but we still have a ways to go before we can…
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Well this was a big one folks. When we set out to make this brewery we wanted to keep overhead as low as possible to give us the greatest chance of long term success. Whenever we can, we like to reuse or repurpose equipment but the one place we didn’t want to do this at…
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While searching the darkest corners of the Internet, or, you know…a commercial auction site We found a cold room for sale. It was used by a local community college as their milk storage room and if it’s cold enough for milk then it’s cold enough for keg storage. Since the price was right, we gathered…
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After hours scouring the internet we finally found a boiler that was perfect for us with just one caveat, it was just outside Rochester and in a “walk in cellar”. No biggie right, it will be just outside the door. I mean, that is the same thing as a walk out basement right? Not exactly….
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Last Wednesday we received our Brew House from our guy James in Wisconsin. It was an early morning for Todd and Tuck but after the cobwebs were shook off we were able to get it off the truck. Since we just finished the floor last month we were able to get it basically in to…
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