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Weekly Online Newsletter Vol.160

We’re extremely excited, to let everyone know that we have launched Fair State Brewing Cooperative in our full territory. We will have draught only until the spring of 2019 when we launch cans in our market. The brewery is well known throughout Minnesota, garnering many local, regional, national and world-wide accolades. From our very first meeting with the crew at Fair State Brewing Cooperative, it just felt right. The quality of the beer and the people behind it is top notch. We are confident that you will feel the same way as we do.

The three men behind the brewery – D. Evan Sallee, Niko Tonks, and Matthew Hauck – met in college, playing rugby and brewing beer. As homebrewers are wont to do, they talked about opening their own brewery for years, until one fateful and somewhat foggy night when the dream became a little more real. None of the three had started a brewery co-op before, but they longed to return to the Twin Cities and do so. The timing was right. Minnesota has beneficial craft beer co-op legislation and the law changes, including those allowing on-site taprooms, worked in their favor. Now with the right timing and right ideas, Fair State is off and running. Catch it if you can.

Press Play to watch – Evan Sallee, the president of Minnesota’s first consumer-owned brewery, spoke with the Mid-Morning crew about Fair State’s new cans (2:43). WCCO Mid-Morning – Jan. 17, 2018

CHEERS!