Craft beer exploded on the scene a few years back and Duluth proudly claimed it's place front and center.
But why?
Author Katelyn Regenscheid, a longtime fan of craft beer who created a blog to track her tours of every brewery with a taproom in Minnesota, says it was a "perfect storm" of lifted restrictions on breweries, consumers who were interested in "tasting local," and young people who wanted to develop a business model that was deeply rooted in community.
Pints North: Minnesota’s Craft Beer Culture is published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
