Modist Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Modist Brewing Company
Established in 2016
Contact
Description
At Modist, we push past traditional brewing by embracing creativity and unconstrained experimentation.
This starts with the approach to recipe development taken by our Head Brewer, Keigan. Contrary to starting with a style guideline in mind, then moving forward – he starts with a flavor and experience in mind, then works backward. And since we’ve decided to not be bound by style guidelines, he’s free to use whatever ingredients in any amount with whatever technique he wants to create a new beer experience.
To enable this philsophy and to enhance our creativity, we created a custom built brewhouse that allows us to make the beers we want to make. It’s centered around the region’s first mash filter. This piece of equipment allows us to use any grain in any percentage – and do so while using a fraction of the water and energy of a traditional brewery.
This starts with the approach to recipe development taken by our Head Brewer, Keigan. Contrary to starting with a style guideline in mind, then moving forward – he starts with a flavor and experience in mind, then works backward. And since we’ve decided to not be bound by style guidelines, he’s free to use whatever ingredients in any amount with whatever technique he wants to create a new beer experience.
To enable this philsophy and to enhance our creativity, we created a custom built brewhouse that allows us to make the beers we want to make. It’s centered around the region’s first mash filter. This piece of equipment allows us to use any grain in any percentage – and do so while using a fraction of the water and energy of a traditional brewery.
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Aromas are malt, lime and salt. Flavors are similar to nose. Just slightly more sweet than bitter with okay lime and barely noticeable salt. I guess it does what it's supposed to do and nothing more.
Tried
from Can
from
La Crosse People's Food Co-op
on 02 Jun 2026
at 23:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Aromas are malt and varnish. Flavors are much better than nose with citrus and resin added in but still remnants of the varnish. Slightly more sweet than bitter with decent carbonation.
Tried
from Can
from
La Crosse People's Food Co-op
on 24 May 2026
at 03:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear dull gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has dank citrus and light grass with a bit of pine and light grains coming through. Flavor has citrus and some dank onion with a bit of light pine and grain backing.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modist Brewing Company
on 24 Apr 2026
at 23:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a hazy milky orange with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has sweet grains and mango with a bit of sweet citrus and some melon underlying. Flavor is full of mango with light citrus and sweet grains backing.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modist Brewing Company
on 04 Apr 2026
at 00:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has straw and grass with some oak and a bit of hay underlying. Flavor has is straw and oak forward with hay and a bit of grass coming through.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modist Brewing Company
on 04 Apr 2026
at 00:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear gold with a slight yellow hue and a white head that lasts throughout the beer and laces slightly. Aroma has a nice grass and a hint of melon with straw and hay notes supporting. Flavor has more hay, growing grass, a touch of melon and a straw backbone.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modist Brewing Company
on 04 Apr 2026
at 00:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours black with an earthy brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has dark grains, chocolate and coconut with some rum underlying. Flavor has sweet dark grains and coconut with rum and some chocolate backing.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modist Brewing Company
on 21 Feb 2026
at 23:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Not many black lagers in my history but I have generally liked them. This time I have a 16 oz can of Supra Black acquired from Half Time late last year. I have a new-to-me tall pilsner glass in place for the tasting and I proceed. I have to say the view is glorious in the proper glass. Super black with a complementary, decent-sized khaki head that is slow to settle. The nose is grain-heavy with a bit of chocolate. The drink is much the same, scorched grain, malt and a slight amount of semisweet chocolate. The finish has an all right hops bitterness. Nice way to break in the new glassware.
Tried
from Can
from
Half Time
on 14 Feb 2026
at 22:33
8.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours black with a dark brown head that starts and remains at the edges. Aroma has vanilla and bourbon supported by rich dark grains and a bit of chocolate underlying. Flavor has marshmallow and bourbon with light roast and a sweet dark grain backbone.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modist Brewing Company
on 14 Feb 2026
at 19:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear straw yellow with a white head that lasts throughout the beer and laces. Aroma has earthy and funky grass with a bit of straw and a growing hay presence. Flavor is grassy with a hint of rind and a nice backbone of straw and hay.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modist Brewing Company
on 14 Feb 2026
at 19:34