E-Malt.com News article: USA, MN: Canal Park Brewing Company to open in Duluth by the end of the month

The Canal Park Brewing Company will open to the public at the end of this month, duluthnewstribune.com reported on November, 9.

The Canal Park Brewing Company, the Twin Ports’ newest brewpub, could have opened last week. But the beer wasn’t ready.

“When the beer’s done, we’ll open,” co-owner Rockie Kavajecz said.

The new state-of-the-art brewery includes 10 large tanks, a chemical lab and an outdoor silo full of malted barley.

“The brewery will dictate our opening,” said Kavajecz, who’s aiming for a late November opening. “This is truly a brewpub. It’s going to be a fun place.”

Indeed, at the Canal Park Brewing Company, it’s all about the beer.

The brewery itself dominates one end of the narrow, 8,000-square-foot building along the Lakewalk. Its two-story-tall brewery windows allow passersby to glimpse the large operation that can have seven beers fermenting at a time.

“We built this more like a production facility than a brewpub,” said brewmaster Badger Colish. “It’s pretty high-tech.”

A changing rotation of eight house brews will be offered for $5 per pint-size glass, with sampler packages available so patrons can taste each one. Among the first offerings will be an India pale ale, Belgian Tripel and an oatmeal stout, with special holiday brews coming. Growlers of the craft beers will be sold in the pub’s gift shop for about $14.

“Variety — that’s what makes people come back,” Colish said.

Its opening about November 29, with initially limited hours, will further the vision of Duluth becoming a destination for beer enthusiasts, similar to Boulder, Colorado and Seattle. It joins the Twin Ports line-up of brewpubs — Fitger’s Brewhouse, Carmody Irish Pub and Dubh Linn Irish Brew Pub in Duluth, and the Thirsty Pagan in Superior — which make their own craft beer on site. In addition, several area microbreweries produce craft beer that’s served in local bars.

16 November, 2012