No-mayo potato salad, grass-fed mini burgers, crunchy swai with basil-goat cheese potato puree, curried pea soup, pickled rhubarb (etc.), white bean ragout, Italian sausage grill with gnocchi, leftover oatmeal pancakes, and cheddar chive buttermilk biscuits with extra creamy scrambled eggs.
Twin Cities Business Magazine reports that craft beer growth in Minnesota in 2008 was up… drumroll… 74.5 percent. Holy moly. The national rate was 6 percent. [via Captain's Chair, which has additional perspective]
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Too bad there was a really good brewing company that couldn’t start up because of this and thier economy. So, investors, hows that stock market treating you?
If I had $100,000 lying around… and I wasn’t already trying to launch a magazine… I think Minnesota craft brewing might well be the smartest place to put it. It’s going to level off eventually, but it feels like that’s going to be a couple years from now, if not further down the pike.
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