Big Wood Brewery hopes to set up a taproom in White Bear Lake (zoning code update required), Northgate Brewing is opening early this fall in Northeast and will make English session beers, DeRusha digs Cafe Levain and praises the short rib burger, a construction boom in Lowertown could bring some new restaurants and bars, Madison will soon be home to a local grenadine by Quince and Apple and a Death’s Door Spirits distillery, and why you should grill clams, cheese, and other crazy stuff.
The Twin Cities Perfect Pint Beer Club enjoys a night of nine different Belgian brews, these coconut zucchini blondies will put your extra zucchinis to good use, some tempting pizza gets sliced up on the Heavy Table’s Flickr pool, cross those Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies off your grocery list and make these instead, and it’s exactly four weeks until the State Fair — get ready to hear the phrase “on a stick” way more than you ever need to.
