We’ve never claimed to be all-knowing with regards to beer in Minnesota. In fact, rumor has it that we’ve even made a mistake or two on occasion. In any case, now that MNBeer is well over a year old, we thought it would be fun to look back into some of our resources and ask you, dear readers, to tell us a little more about a number of breweries/brewpubs that are listed on some of the infrequently-updated beer resource websites. Ideally it would be nice to do this in our new, lonely forum, but even the comment area would work. So… tell us what you know or remember about these places:

Ambleside Brewing Company, Kasota Avenue, SE Minneapolis

Black River Brewery & Pub, Elk River

Black Moon Brewing, St. Paul

Black Widow Brewing, St. Paul

Boundary Waters Brewing, Isabella (planned?)

Bowery Pub and Brewery, Minneapolis (w/ Herkimer’s address…)

Brew Station Brewery, Shakopee

Chang O’Hara’s, St. Paul (listed as a brewpub on some sites)

Clubhaus Brewpub, Rochester

Dave’s Brewfarm

District Warehouse Brewing, Minneapolis

Glacial Lakes Brewing Co., New York Mills/Perham

Harwell’s Steakhouse and Brewery, Shakopee

Northern Plains Brewing Co., St. Paul

Patrick McGoverns (listed as a brewpub?)

Shannon Kelley’s Brewpub, St. Paul

Trader & Trapper, Moorhead

Wolf’s Brewery, Stillwater

And the list goes on. It seems as if there are always a couple of breweries listed in Great Lakes Brewing News that are nothing more than a concept and/or a business plan. And of course let’s not forget some more recent losses such as Union Station, Bandana, Watertower, Hops and Sherlock’s, among others.

Shed some light on these places friends. It’s Friday, you’re working… or hardly working… here’s a new distraction for you…