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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
More closures in St. Paul, with brewery and American pub the latest to call it quits
Minnesota's only gluten-free brewery and a Mac-Groveland bar are the latest businesses set to close in St. Paul. Coming in a week in which the Apostle Supper Club announced its closure, citing the decline of downtown St. Paul among its reasons, Burning Brothers Brewery and Chip's Clubhouse are also on the way out. Burning Brothers Brewery, located at 1750 Thomas Ave. W. near the Hamline-Midway YMCA, confirmed that its final day of taproom operations will be Saturday, May 10. The brewery was opened in 2014 by former Minnesota Renaissance Festival performers Thom Foss and Dane Breimhorst, the latter of whom has Celiac disease. "After much consideration, deliberation, discussion, and many difficult heartfelt conversations, we have come to the incredibly heart-wrenching conclusion that we unfortunately cannot continue operations," they said. "The factors affecting this decision are numerous, complex, and varied, and we have fought hard to avoid reaching this point, but alas, the day we had hoped to avoid has arrived." Another closure, albeit a quieter one, is Chip's Clubhouse, the American pub at 272 Snelling Ave. S. A sign on the door announced the abrupt closure, but there has been no official announcement on the business's social media pages or website. "Sadly, we've made the difficult decision to permanently close our doors. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your incredible support over the years. We will cherish the memories made within these walls," the sign reads. Chip's opened in 2021 initially under an ownership team that included pastry chef Tara Coleman, who owns Hot Hands Pie & Biscuit next door. The venue was sold in February 2024 to chef Nik Donaker. Businesses at the Grand and Snelling intersection are facing disruptions from road construction, which began in April.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
St. Paul brewery Burning Brothers, state's only gluten-free beer maker, to shut down May 10
Burning Brothers, the state's first and only gluten-free brewery, is shutting down after 11 years in St. Paul. Their last day will be May 10. 'The factors affecting this decision are numerous, complex, and varied, and we have fought hard to avoid reaching this point, but alas, the day we had hoped to avoid has arrived,' co-owners Dane Breimhorst and Thom Foss wrote in a social media announcement. The pair have been friends since they were teenagers and had long planned to open a brewery together, but in the middle of planning it in the early 2010s, Breimhorst was diagnosed with Celiac disease, a strong autoimmune reaction to gluten. So they tweaked their plans, learned how to brew beer without gluten and set up shop in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood in 2014. In their 20s, both Breimhorst and Foss performed as Renaissance Festival fire-breathers — hence the name of the brewery — and revived the trick to celebrate the brewery's fifth and tenth anniversaries. Out of some 9,900 breweries across the country, only around a dozen are currently dedicated to producing exclusively gluten-free beer. With the closures of Burning Brothers and another brewery in Michigan last year, the only gluten-free brewery remaining in the Midwest is ALT Brew in Madison. Burning Brothers's taproom will be open regular hours (4 to 10 p.m. Tues/Wed/Thurs, 4 to 11 p.m. Fri, 1 to 11 p.m. Sat, 1 to 7 p.m. Sun, closed Mon) through Saturday, May 10. Burning Brothers Brewery: 1750 W. Thomas Ave; 651-444-8882; St. Paul: Sharrett's Liquors to briefly close as longtime owners retire There's a new kind of American whiskey, and distillers are buzzing about it Dirty sodas: The sweet, creamy phenomenon taking over America Your tariff questions about wine, answered Hemp-derived products boosting sales at Minnesota's municipal liquor stores
