MINNEAPOLIS’ MODIST BREWING CO. ANNOUNCES DISTRIBUTION TO SOUTH DAKOTA & NEBRASKA

On the tail of our seven-year anniversary, Modist Brewing Company (that’s us) is proud to announce we have officially begun distributing our award-winning craft beers to both South Dakota and Nebraska. Partnering with Global Distributing, our beers will be available in limited quantities at select liquor stores and draft locations throughout both states, with most of the concentration on Sioux Falls and Omaha.

“Couldn’t be more excited to partner with Global and finally get our beer into our neighboring states,” says John Donnelly, one of the four owners of Modist. “Global really values what we’re doing and we’re excited to join their portfolio alongside some of our Minnesota brewery friends.” 

In addition to a slew of our award-winning flagship offerings, Dreamyard, False Pattern, and Supra Deluxe, we plan on including 2 limited offerings, Avalanche Splash, a punchy tropical fruited sour with pineapple, tangerine, Sicilian lemon and passion fruit, and Marble Sky, a Double Dry Hopped New England Triple IPA made in collaboration with Phase Three Brewing in Illinois.

To see where our first drop of beers in both states will be, keep scrolling down, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see a list. Well, it’s less of a surprise now that you read this… sorry.

Nebraska

South Dakota

Now Available: Taproom Only: Paloma

We have a brand new Taproom Only hard seltzer in the taproom and we used one of our favorite cocktails as inspiration, the Paloma. This Taproom Only Hard Seltzer is only available in the taproom so make sure to get to the taproom to try Taproom Only: Paloma today! Or whenever just before it runs out.

Taproom Only: Paloma
Hard seltzer fermented with agave nectar and then conditioned on pink grapefruit, lime & sea salt.

If you’ve visited the taproom recently, you may have noticed a few changes going on behind the brewhouse. No, the noise of concrete pulverized by sledgehammers and the plastic shield along the back wall isn’t our attempts at a The Last Of Us apocalypse-chic, Dexter’s Lab experimental art installation. No, it’s the sounds and looks of an active construction zone, aka, we’re doing some shit.

What shit are we doing? Well, if you’re the cunning type that reads headlines of blog posts, you’d know that we’re starting a $2 million renovation to not only create a brand new, multi-level, mural-infested, mirrored-ceilinged, neon-overdosed, brewer zoo of an event space. We’re also adding brand new employee offices, an employee lounge, and a science lab filled with beakers, microscopes, things that shake things, and other science things… but not ray guns, that’s Dexter’s Laboratory, not ours.

This 100-person capacity event space will be welcoming and inclusive of many communities and uses—corporate events, doggy baby showers, wedding parties, and just about anything else you can think of that we’re zoned for. That inclusivity doesn’t begin once we open the doors, though. That started over a year ago when we started working with Kraus Anderson (KA), in partnership with their Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) contractor J. Benson as part of KA’s multi-year mentoring relationship with the certified BIPOC-owned firm, recently named Minnesota Associated General Contractors’ Diverse Business of the Year. We’ve also been working with Perkins and Will for the past year to make sure the space hits every vibe just right.

With all this brick-busting and reverse-busting (aka building) going on, and with a lot of work with our contractor, the taproom will see minimal interruptions and beer will continue to be brewed, fermented, packaged, and consumed throughout the entirety of the process.

As it sits right now, the new event space should be completed mid-July of this year (2023, the year of our dark lord), and, of course, we’ll be throwing a party once it’s ready.

Stay tuned for updates, strange analogies, impeccably accurate descriptions, and more.

Looking for more information about hosting an event here in the future? Click the button below.

Most beers we make are brewed for you, the people. Sometimes though, the brewer says “I’m going to brew Something For Me”. And that’s what our brewer Erik did for his first recipe designed for Modist. 

Erik says he picked a saison for his first Modist recipe because “Two reasons: Saisons are probably my favorite style. They’re defined very broadly and are open to using a lot of different, expressive components and techniques so it’s a very fun process from the start of recipe design to the bottom of the glass. Reason two: I’m starting a tiny mixed culture program here and this is where I wanted to start.” You read that right, stay tuned for some mixed-culture beers. Erik used Saison Dupont and a grisette he made for his wedding at a previous job for inspiration on this beer, and his favorite sharks are Street Sharks.

Introducing Something For Me, our Saison Brewed with Bohemian Pilsner malt, Red Wheat Malt, Spelt Malt, Triticale Flakes, and hopped with Hallertauer Hersbrucker and Bravo. Then fermented with a hybrid blend of saison yeasts. Prickly carbonation, creamy mouth feel, dry and a little tart finish. Light aromas of black pepper, orange zest, clove, light bubblegum, and a touch of hay flavors of lemon pepper, banana, fennel, vanilla, wintergreen/spearmint

Something For Me is available in the taproom now for a limited time, nerds.

Have you had it?

As Lizzo said, “It’s about damn time!”

We’ve doubled it, we’ve dry hopped different hops into it, we’ve mashed it together with other local favorites, we’ve even added fruit to it, and now. We. Are. Tripling. Dreamyard.

Introducing Triple Dreamyard a New England Triple IPA brewed with oats & wheat malt, hopped & triple dry hopped with our hand-selected Citra, Citra Cryo, Sultana & Sultana Cryo

Triple Dreamyard will be released in the taproom on Saturday, March 11th, and will begin to make its way to liquor stores on Tuesday, March 14th. Check back here on the 14th for the local delivery schedule

Have you had it?

Delivery Day	Liquor Store
Tuesday	Apple Valley Liquor 1
Tuesday	Apple Valley Liquor 3
Tuesday	Cub Liquor Shakopee
Tuesday	Edina Liquor 50thFrance
Tuesday	Edina Liquor Grandview
Tuesday	Edina Liquor Southdale
Tuesday	EP 1 Liquor 78th Street
Tuesday	EP 2 Liquor Den Road
Tuesday	France 44
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquor Keokuk
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Galaxie
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Heritage
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Kenrick
Tuesday	MGM Bloomington 98th
Tuesday	MGM Bloomington Old Shakopee
Tuesday	MGM Chaska
Tuesday	Savage Wine and Spirits
Tuesday	Viking Liquor Barrel
Wednesday	Harbor Wine & Spirits
Wednesday	Liquor Barn
Wednesday	Lunds & Byerly’s Ridgedale
Wednesday	MGM Hopkins
Wednesday	MGM Minnetonka
Wednesday	MGM St. Louis Park
Wednesday	MGM Waconia
Thursday	Cellars Wines & Spirits – Stillwater
Thursday	Haskell’s Stillwater
Thursday	MGM Eagan
Thursday	O’briens Wine + Spirits
Thursday	Total Wine-Eagan
Friday	Hums Liquor
Monday	Nano Beer ‘n Wine

Everyone’s favorite abomination of a lager with a skull bleeding pastel colors and a marshmallow between its jaws is back!

Reintroducing Mallow a refreshing Lager brewed with pilsner malt, marshmallows, Madagascar vanilla beans & milk sugar.

Mallow will be released in the taproom on Saturday, March 11th, and will begin to make its way to liquor stores on Tuesday, March 14th. Check back here on the 14th for the local delivery schedule

Have you had it?

Delivery Day	Liquor Store
Tuesday	Apple Valley Liquor 1
Tuesday	Apple Valley Liquor 2
Tuesday	Apple Valley Liquor 3
Tuesday	Cub Liquor Shakopee
Tuesday	Edina Liquor 50thFrance
Tuesday	Edina Liquor Grandview
Tuesday	Edina Liquor Southdale
Tuesday	EP 2 Liquor Den Road
Tuesday	France 44
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquor Keokuk
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Galaxie
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Kenrick
Tuesday	MGM Bloomington 98th
Tuesday	MGM Chaska
Tuesday	Savage Wine and Spirits
Tuesday	Total Wine-Bloomington
Tuesday	Total Wine-Burnsville
Tuesday	Total Wine-Chanhassen
Wednesday	Harbor Wine & Spirits
Wednesday	Liquor Barn
Wednesday	MGM St. Louis Park
Wednesday	MGM Waconia
Thursday	Cellars Wines & Spirits – Stillwater
Thursday	Haskell’s Stillwater
Thursday	MGM Eagan
Thursday	O’briens Wine + Spirits
Thursday	Total Wine-Eagan
Friday	Hums Liquor

The badass women of both Modist & Arbeiter got together at our place and at Arbeiter to create two special beers to celebrate International Women’s Day. Led here at Modist by our very own Bri, she crafted and designed her first beer from start to finish. Introducing Get In Where You Fit In, a celebration of the women, nonbinary, & femme folx (especially BIPOC) that didn’t wait for an invite, but instead found their own way in and took up space. They didn’t only push themselves into something that might not have been made for them, but got in and made it their own while using their found space to propel others to do the same. Fuck yeah, Bri, fuck yeah, Kate at Arbeiter, and a big FUCK YES to all of the women, nonbinary, & femme folx making the beer industry a more inclusive and more diverse place.

Introducing Get In Where You Fit In: a Hibiscus Lemon Gose brewed with floor malted Bohemian Pilsner & wheat malts, kettle soured & conditioned on hibiscus, dried lemon, coriander & Himalayan sea salt.

A portion of the proceeds of this beer will be donated to Haven Housing to support their effort to provide stable housing for women and children in need of emergency shelter and supportive housing.

Shout out to the insanely talented Xee Reiter for thoughtfully designing this badass label.

Get In Where You Fit In will be released in the taproom on Saturday, March 4th.

Have you had it?

Little known fact, the meme where Emma Stone is saying “yum” is actually from a clip of her saying “Yummerz” after trying our brand new Fruited Sour and not from her looking at a delicious plate of crab and seafood stuffing. It’s a little technique called “acting”.

Introducing Yummerz, our Blueberry Guava Fruited Sour brewed with pilsner malt & malted wheat then kettle hopped with cryo mosaic and conditioned on blueberry & pink guava.

Yummerz will be released in the TOMORROW, February 21st!

Have you had it?

Some things in life go by way too fast. Like childhood, warm weather vacations in February, Minnesota summers, and that pint of pilsner you just finished. You should Slow It Up. Take a deep breath, slow pour that pilsner, sip it, enjoy it. Slow down and enjoy the little things.

Reintroducing Slow It Up, a Pilsner brewed with bohemian pilsner malt, kettle hopped with Huell Melon, Triple Pearl and Cryo Citra, then aged slowly in our oak foeders.

Slow It Up will be available at the taproom starting Saturday, February 18 and will begin to go to our retail partners Tuesday, February 21. Check back here for local delivery details.

Have you had it?

Delivery Day	Liquor Store
Tuesday	Cheers Bloomington
Tuesday	Edina Liquor 50thFrance
Tuesday	Edina Liquor Grandview
Tuesday	Edina Liquor Southdale
Tuesday	EP 2 Liquor Den Road
Tuesday	EP 3 Liquor PC Drive
Tuesday	France 44
Tuesday	Jack’s Bottle Shop
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquor Keokuk
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Heritage
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Kenrick
Tuesday	MGM Bloomington 98th
Tuesday	North Loop Wine & Spirits
Tuesday	The Vintage – Wine Spirits & Beer
Tuesday	Top 10 Chanhassen
Tuesday	Total Wine-Bloomington
Tuesday	Total Wine-Burnsville
Tuesday	Total Wine-Chanhassen
Friday	Liberty Village Wines & Spirits
Friday	O’briens Wine + Spirits
Friday	Total Wine-Eagan

Our friends from Burnsville, Bricksworth Beer Co., told us they were moving in across the street. To celebrate our new neighbors and to introduce them to the neighborhood, we’re eating too much pizza and too many wings (not actually possible) while hanging out with our good friends. Oh, we also made a beer with them.

Introducing Meet The Neighbors, a collaboration with our new neighbors, Bricksworth Beer Co. A Cold IPA brewed with pilsner malt and flaked corn, hopped and dry hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, HBC 586, and Cryo Columbus, then fermented and lagered with our house lager yeast strain.

Meet The Neighbors will be available at the taproom starting Saturday, February 18 and will begin to go to our retail partners Tuesday, February 21. Check back here for local delivery details.

Have you had it?

Delivery Day	Liquor Store
Tuesday	Cheers Bloomington
Tuesday	Edina Liquor 50thFrance
Tuesday	Edina Liquor Grandview
Tuesday	Edina Liquor Southdale
Tuesday	EP 2 Liquor Den Road
Tuesday	EP 3 Liquor PC Drive
Tuesday	France 44
Tuesday	Jack’s Bottle Shop
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquor Keokuk
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Galaxie
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Heritage
Tuesday	Lakeville Liquors Kenrick
Tuesday	MGM Bloomington 98th
Tuesday	MGM Eagan
Tuesday	MGM Waconia
Tuesday	North Loop Wine & Spirits
Tuesday	Riverside Liquors Inc.
Tuesday	The Vintage – Wine Spirits & Beer
Tuesday	Top 10 Chanhassen
Tuesday	Total Wine-Bloomington
Tuesday	Total Wine-Burnsville
Tuesday	Total Wine-Chanhassen
Wednesday	Lakeside Wine and Spirits
Friday	Liberty Village Wines & Spirits
Friday	Lunds & Byerly’s Eagan
Friday	Total Wine-Eagan