Mike Frohlich, owner of the Laughing Sun Brewing Co. The menu included a butterscotch-flavored Imperial Butter Beer (inspired by Harry Potter), an insane mango sour infused with five different hot peppers, and a Key Lime Pie kettle sour served on nitro - which, like a Guinness, produces smaller bubbles and a creamier top, apropos of a pie.
Later in downtown Bismarck, I tippled at tiny Gideon's Brewing, where funky flavors are always in rotation.
After sipping on some Bison Spit, a delicious passionfruit IPA, I traveled across an acre of Black Leg Ranch to where a baby bison sucked the brewer's finger. On almost 20,000 acres, they run a bison herd, a hunting outfit and a brewery that produces exceptional beers. George Doan homesteaded 160 acres of Dakota Territory land, which today's descendants have turned into an empire. As loyalists to the crown, they handed George Washington a defeat in battle, escaped to Canada and waited a century to return to the States. The Doan family had originally come to America in 1629. Everything was flat and green, besides the once-in-a-while white wind turbine and whorls of tan hay bales.Ī bison calf is part of the scenery at Black Leg Brewery, part of Black Leg Ranch in central North Dakota.Īs I neared the capital city, Black Leg Brewery was open on the ranch of the same name. The hotel rooms will pay homage to various Drekker beers, and food stalls will feature some Fargo favorites, including three new concepts from chef Ryan Nitschke, a 2022 James Beard semifinalist for his work at Luna restaurant.Īfter polishing off a few in Fargo - and a good night's sleep at the new, boutique Jasper Hotel - I drove west on I-94 to Bismarck. Fargo-based artist Punchgut, who does all the fascinating illustrations for each Drekker beer label, is also responsible for the murals.īy year's end, Drekker plans to open Brewhalla, an attached 100,000-square-foot food hall, event center and 40-room hotel. Grab a pint and stroll the huge beer hall to admire the murals, which look like the thought projections of a metalhead hallucinating after watching Jon Snow battle the Army of the Dead. While a third of those offerings rotate out each fortnight, Drekker is always pouring thick smoothie sours and delicious double IPAs. After pouring concrete over the tracks, Drekker installed brew tanks, pinball machines and 24 taps to serve their inventive beers. Originally located in a downtown space where Drumconrath Brewing now operates, Drekker moved a few blocks west into a huge brick building that once housed a locomotive repair company. for haircuts.įargo's most impressive brewery, in both size and beer offerings, is Drekker Brewing Co. A few other businesses operate out of the brewery, too, including Wild Terra, a great local cidery with a taproom nearby, and Nice Barber Co. FBC has hosted big-name acts in its concert hall and parking lot, including 311, Hanson, Atmosphere and Cheap Trick. While they also serve a session IPA called Dad's that speaks to the midlife-crisis age, the brewery still rocks pretty hard. Focusing on classic beer styles, FBC makes a conscious effort to be Fargo-proud, having named its first beer Woodchipper.
One of the first breweries to respond to the changed law was Fargo Brewing Co., which had contract-brewed its beers in Wisconsin before 2013.
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