Northbound Smokehouse & Brewpub

Brewpub in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
2716 East 38th St, Minneapolis, MN, 55406, United States
Description
Northbound Smokehouse & Brewpub opened in September 2012 with much anticipation. A neighborhood, crowd-funded, investment model put this brewpub on the national scene. This was due to the offer of free beer for life, in return for a $1000 investment. Three years later, Northbound is an award-winning brewpub and operates in its humble space with several nods from the City Pages ‘Best Of’ issues, 2015 Kind-of-A-Big-Deal Awards and a Silver Medal from the World Beer Cup, as well as being featured on an episode of ‘Beer Geeks’ and most recently the Piggin’ Out episode of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.

Unlike most brewery taprooms, Northbound is a bonafide full-service brewpub with a restaurant and full bar that includes a great whiskey selection. Northbound continues to grow and evolve with its scratch kitchen, equipped with two industrial smokers and also by consistently pumping out adventurous top-notch beers. Look for the highly anticipated Snow Series Beers this winter, which includes the award-winning Snownami, a Chocolate Raspberry Imperial Stout.

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8

Clear copper brown body medium foamy light brown head. Toffee caramel fruity aroma. Toffee fruit caramel bready flavor. Full body low carbonation. 8/5/8/4/16 4.1

Tried from Draft on 06 Jan 2024 at 13:47


7

Dark brown body small creamy tan head. Roast bready aroma. Roast bready ashy flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/4/7/4/15 3.7

Tried from Draft on 04 Jul 2023 at 12:53


8

Clear dark amber body thin off white head. Toffee caramel aroma. Toffee caramel molasses flavor. Full body moderately low carbonation. 8/4/8/4/16 4.0

Tried from Draft on 04 Jul 2023 at 12:51


7

Clear golden body small foamy off white head. Floral resiny aroma. Floral resiny flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/3/7/4/15 3.6

Tried from Draft on 04 Jul 2023 at 12:42


7

Clear amber body small off white head. Toffee caramel bready aroma. Bready earthy caramel flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/3/7/3/15 3.5

Tried from Draft on 04 Jul 2023 at 12:32


7

Clear amber body small foamy off white head. Dry earthy grassy aroma. Grassy earthy floral flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/3/7/3/14 3.4

Tried from Draft on 04 Jul 2023 at 12:29


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Sampled from the tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear amber brown with a light brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a light smoke bread note with sweet grains and a rum note underlying. Flavor has bread and light roast with a growing rum presence.

Tried from Draft on 10 Apr 2022 at 02:48


4.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Sampled from the tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear slightly earthy gold with a white head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has sour grape and oak with caramel and sweet grains backing. Flavor has an odd combination of caramel, sweet grains, oak and slightly sour fruits.

Tried from Draft on 10 Apr 2022 at 02:38


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Sampled from the tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has light grass and a bit of pine with a wheat note backing. Flavor has a good amount of grass with some pine bitterness and a touch of wheat in the finish.

Tried from Draft on 10 Apr 2022 at 01:57


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Sampled from the tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has light grass and light earthy peach with a bit of a grain backbone. Flavor has sweet bread and a bit of biscuit backed by grass and sweet onion.

Tried from Draft on 10 Apr 2022 at 01:49