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The Churn by James Norton

Summit Supports Surly’s Brewery Bid

Summit Brewing Company’s statement on Surly’s controversial brewery proposal: “We fully support the idea of selling pints on premise at breweries. In fact, Summit President Mark Stutrud and Ted Marti from Schell’s have been quietly building alliances to promote this legislation for several years. As we continue to work to be able to sell our […]

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The Churn by James Norton

Surly’s $20 Million Plan

Surly Brewing is hard at work on a new $20 million brewery plan. The idea includes a bar / roof deck, a restaurant, and an event center. But the brewery’s blog notes: “We can’t be licensed as a brewpub because we brew too much beer so Minnesota law currently says we can’t sell beer in […]

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In Brief by James Norton

Moto-i in Uptown, Minneapolis

Billed as the first sake brewery restaurant outside of Japan, Moto-i is a bewildering blend of chic neighborhood bistro, genuinely cultured Japanese outpost, and obnoxious nightclub. Newly opened, there’s presumably a fair bit of fine tuning still taking place at this Uptown nightspot, which defiantly refuses to serve sushi and instead serves up classic izakaya […]

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