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It's almost #DandyHour! We're celebrating the release of our third flagship beer Dandy Lager in cans with a tasting blitz the likes of which you've never seen.

Wherever you are in the Twin Cities on Friday July 10th, join us for #DandyHour! It's your chance to get one of the first sips of Dandy Lager straight from the fresh new can.

Someone from Indeed will be sampling at all of these fine liquor stores, all at the same time:
Cheers Wine & Spirits (Bloomington location)
Eden Prairie Liquor (Near Cub Foods)
Edina Liquor (Southdale Location)
Haskell's Excelsior 
Lowertown Wine & Spirits
Lunds & Byerlys Downtown Minneapolis
Total Wine & More - Woodbury
Northgate Liquors (5-7pm)

Get social! Meet us at the tasting blitz and tag your photos and tweets with the hashtag #DandyHour. It's #DandyHour somewhere!

Indeed is a growing brewery, and things are getting a little tight round these parts, especially in the taproom area.  As Co-founder and Director of Operations Tom Whisenand told reporter Clare Kennedy at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, "The demand for taprooms has grown like crazy and ours has only gotten busier. Our biggest complaint now is that people can't get in." Now, we're not whining! This is a great problem to have. But we thought, why not work to make a little more room for everyone to enjoy if we can?

Enter our as-yet-unnamed second taproom! It's a work in progress, but we've got big plans for the space, housed on the first floor of the Solar Arts Building down the hall from our current taproom. Not only will we pour and serve beer at our newly installed 17-foot bar and accommodate overflow from the busy taproom, but we'll also have a gift shop for guests to peruse our latest selection of Indeed merch, and an increased capacity for private events, currently only held on Mondays and Tuesdays when our main taproom is closed.

The crew has been chipping away at this major project behind the scenes; construction, wiring, plumbing, and all the technical details of the space are well underway. If everything goes swimmingly, we expect to open the new space to the public by July. Stay tuned for developments along the way! We can't wait to throw the door up and welcome you in.

Can we take a minute of your time? After all, a week has 10,000 of them.

Our Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild presents 10,000 Minutes of Minnesota Craft Beer from May 4 – May 10, 2015. It's a week-long celebration of our craft brewing scene here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, from tap takeovers and beer releases to specialty casks and happy hour specials. Over 100 events are happening around the state.

We're not suggesting you spend the whole week with us, but carve out some time in your busy beer-focused schedule for Indeed! Here's where you can find us during 10,000 Minutes of Minnesota Craft Beer:

MONDAY, MAY 4TH

PINdeed @ Grumpy’s Northeast, 5-10:30pm
Three pins, plus Wooden Soul #1 and #2, and Port barrel-aged BeCherry!

MN Craft Beer Dinner @ Cocina del Barrio Edina, 6:30-9:30pm
Featuring Indeed, Summit, Fulton, Surly, and Bauhaus!

TUESDAY, MAY 5TH

Barrel-Aged Reckage @ Halftime Rec, 4-10pm
Indeed Rum King, Surly Darkness, Lift Bridge Silhouette

Indeed & Surly @ Grizzly’s in Plymouth, 4-7pm
Wooden Soul #2, Haywire, Mexican Cousin, Port Barrel-Aged BeCherry

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6TH

L.S.D. Release @ Indeed Brewing Taproom, 3pm

Shenanigans Cocktail Extravaganza @ Bryant Lake Bowl, all-day
Shenanigans cocktails and bowling!

Indeed Tap Takeover @ 3 Squares in Maple Grove, 5-7pm

THURSDAY, MAY 7TH

L.S.D. Vertical Flight @ Indeed Brewing Taproom, 3-6pm

Indeed Tasting @ Total Wine Woodbury, 6:30-8:30pm
‘Support Your Local Craft Brewery’ Sampling Event

Indeed Tasting @ Falls Liquor Minneapolis, 5-7pm

Acoustic Happy Hour with Dandy Lager @ The Dubliner, 5-8pm
Buy a Dandy Lager, keep the pint glass!

FRIDAY, MAY 8TH

Infusion Bonanza @ Indeed Brewing Taproom, 3pm

Indeed Tasting @ G-will in Brooklyn Park, 5-7pm

Let It Ride Firkin @ Grumpy’s Downtown, 12pm

L.S.D. Firkin @ The Happy Gnome, 5pm

Lager Fest @ Republic 7 Corners, all-day
Featuring Dandy Lager and Derailed Series Bock!

SATURDAY MAY 9TH

Indeed Tasting @ Total Wine Bloomington, 12-3pm

Get Whirly! Same big bash, big new name. Indeed Brewing Company presents WHIRLYGIG 2015. Whirlygig is our third annual spring celebration, and it’s going down during the Northeast Arts District’s biggest weekend of the year!

Our brewery blow-out kicks off Friday May 15 through Sunday May 17. Fuel your artistic adventures all weekend long with three days of live music presented by First Avenue, food trucks, and plenty of your favorite Indeed brews.

Whirlygig hours: Friday May 15, 3-11pm. Saturday May 16 12-11pm. Sunday May 17 12-8pm. 

Fast and loose. Up for anything. That’s our Derailed Series. It’s a breeding ground for new ideas, and a welcome chance for our brewers to break out of their everyday routines and recipes. These guys are experts at brewing the beers you know and love, but they’ve each got their own backgrounds and taste and technique they bring with them; Derailed offers them a chance to test, to play, to create. If our flagship beers are our foundation, and the seasonals are our four walls, then Derailed beers are the personalized touches around the house, the things you don’t really need but which fill a place with personality. Like a vintage tiki bar in the basement. Or taxidermy.

Thanks to the Derailed Series, and our adventures in infusion and casked beer, we were able to represent at an event like the Minnesota Craft Brewer’s Guild’s Winterfest 2015 with 12 different styles of beer poured over the course of two nights, almost all of which were rare, limited release, or otherwise unique to the festival. It was a treat for us to share these beers with this group of craft beer enthusiasts, beers like the previously retired Derailed BeCherry aged in port barrels, our newly released Derailed Bock, and big hits of the weekend like our Margarita Mexican Cousin infused with lime and salt, and the wildly popular Apricot Saison. We had a blast, and being voted Best Brewery on Friday, February 27 of Winterfest 2015 was a happy bonus! Cultivating Derailed and its spin-offs embraces exploration, and allows us to fill out our line-up with out-of-the-box brews.

So, what’s on tap for Derailed right now? Let’s revisit that Bock. Toasty and nutty, with aromas of caramel and juicy raisins, our Derailed Series Bock was masterfully crafted by brewer Dan Stavig with an all-German malt bill, German hops, and “the power of the Reinheitsgebot [German beer purity law].” Dan comes to us by way of Schell’s Brewing Company, and as he puts it, “Working at Schell's for a couple years gave me a passion for German lagers. There's never a shortage of hoppy ales at Indeed, so I figured a big but balanced lager would be a nice change of pace, both from a brewing/fermentation standpoint and from a drinking one.” Malty and satisfying, Dan’s Derailed Bock pours a deep mahogany brown and goes down smoothly with a luxurious mouthfeel. Round-bodied, well-balanced, and warming, it’s just the kind of liquid bread we need to see us through to Spring.

Thirsty yet? Then come see us in the taproom! With the exception of festivals and special tappings around town, our taproom is often the only place to get a taste of the latest Derailed Series offerings. We're hearing whispers of Derailed beers to come, from an oatmeal stout, to a session IPA, to an homage to a local donut shop's much-loved maple stick (fingers crossed). Stop in, see what's new, and stay awhile. You might just be shoulder to shoulder with the brewer behind that beer in your hand.