breweries

LynLake Brewery, Waconia Brewing Company, Wooden Hill Brewing and Steel Toe Brewing offer up their best beers for summer nights.

By: Anthony Brousseau

With so many different craft breweries and beers to try in Minnesota, how do you sort the wheat from the chaff?

Luckily, the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild is here to help. Recently, the state’s preeminent organization of beermakers held its inaugural MN Brewers Cup, “the Guild’s first state-wide professional brewers competition.” Perusing the list of winners and runners-up will give you plenty of local beers to sample.

Carver County has long had beer due to the talents of its early German immigrants, who were master brewers.