Flat Earth Brewery

M and I went to Flat Earth Brewing Co. for a beer brewery tour last Saturday.  Flat Earth is located in St. Paul and is a stone's throw from Summit Brewery.  The brewery was founded in 2007 by a husband and wife team and they're celebrating their five year anniversary this year. It's a very small operation with just a handful of employees.  Even the co-founder, Jeff Williamson was our tour guide.  We walked down a set of stairs into a room with all the beer vats and the tour guide said, "You've now completed the walking portion of the tour."  That's how small it is.  After hearing about the beer and allowing questions, we were able to try and few beers.  Some of the beer we had was just in the vat two days prior so that's probably the freshest beer I've ever had.  They have a beer called Red Cape Ale, which has a Vulcan on the label.  I've always had a love/hate relationship with the Vulcans.  I was scared of them as a kid but fascinated with them at the same time.  We also tried Cygnus X-1 Porter and Angry Planet Pale Ale.  After being there and knowing they bottle everything by hand and especially after watching the documentary Beer Wars recently, it definitely makes me want to support the Minnesota local breweries. Jeff said that the Minnesota breweries help each other out and are not in competition with each other but with other craft breweries in other states. Summit Brewery tests all their beers for them for alcohol content and IBU's for free. We had a great time and I'd definitely recommend scheduling a free tour which are held every other Saturday.  They even have delicious root beer on tap.

The tour was short and sweet and afterwards you could purchase beer and merchandise. Michael left with a growler of Winter Warlock and another growler of Cygnus X-1 and I left with a t-shirt and a slight buzz.

Michael and co-founder, Jeff Williamson