Minnesota Then

At noon on December 1, 2017, Minneapolis craft brewer Modist Brewing Co. officially launched its latest offering, a limited-release Mosaic Double IPA titled 'Dilly Dilly' in its North Loop taproom. A little more than two hours later, a representative of Anheuser-Busch's InBev, the company that produces and distributes Bud Light,

On the evening of July 4, 1893, friends Theodore Beaudoin and Samuel Guion rowed a small boat from the foot of State Street, located on the Mississippi river's west side, across the river to the Dayton's Bluff area to shoot pigeons. Upon their arrival, the men walked up from the

‘Rushing the Growler’ was a slang term that gained practical prominence in the late nineteenth century. It described the process of bringing an empty growler or growlers to a local tap house to be filled with alcohol — usually beer — and then carrying the container off-site to drink its contents. Saloons

The 1985 film "That Was Then... This Is Now" put St. Paul's east side on the national stage, even if for only a short time. The movie showcased the neighborhood's eclectic mix of old and new structures along East Seventh Street, places like St. John's hospital, 7-11, 10,000 Auto

On March 13, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent a two-sentence letter to Congress. In it, he requested they enact "legislation for the immediate modification of the Volstead Act." Eight days later, legislators passed the Cullen-Harrison Act. It amended the legal definition of intoxicating liquor from .5% alcohol by weight,

In January 1885, Merriam Park was incorporated into the city limits of St. Paul. In negotiations, the parties involved agreed that no saloon would be licensed within a four-mile radius of the newly annexed area, beginning with Merriam Park at the center. This agreement included a portion of the 200-acre

During the earliest days of alcohol enforcement, from the moment public officials began to author legislation to control liquor flow, people looked for ways to circumvent those rules. One example of this is through the use of blind pigs and blind pig saloons. In the United States, near the midpoint

In 1941 the Grain Belt Beer sign, a bottle-cap shaped 50’ X 40’ billboard constructed for $5000, was put on top of the Marigold Ballroom at 1330 Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. The sign was moved to Nicollet Island in 1950. It was placed on land owned by the Eastman