How many different beers are produced in Duluth and commercially available in July 2011? Could you drink a pint of each in one day and not require a stomach pump?
As of last week, Dubh Linn Irish Pub had three beers on tap:
Double Hop IPA
Péche Radle
Maple Ale
Carmody Irish Pub usually has about four or five beers on tap.
Lake Superior Brewing Co. has:
Special Ale
Kayak Kolsch
Mesabi Red
Sir Duluth Oatmeal Stout
Windward Wheat (early-summer seasonal, probably in short supply)
Fitger’s Brewhouse has:
Finn’s Finest #9
Dread Pirate Dunkelweizen
Lake Erie
Apricot Wheat
Timmy’s Edlestoff
Starfire Pale Ale
Brewhouse Brown
Wildfire Lager
El Nino Double Hopped IPA
Big Boat Oatmeal Stout
Lighthouse Golden
Burrito Union also has Apricot Wheat and Lighthouse Golden, in addition to:
Blue Label Grand Reserve
Six Finger Hefeweizen
Tugboat Irish Stout
Chester Creek Pale Ale
Superior Trail IPA
Plus there’s Dubrue beer floating around, as well.
So that makes something like 30 Duluth beers out there to try!
And there are six beers from Castle Danger Brewery in Two Harbors at certain Duluth locations, I think, along with four beers from South Shore Brewery in Ashland making the rounds (maybe only two of them are at Duluth bars).
And finally, you can’t buy it in Duluth, but Thirsty Pagan Brewing in Superior has about eight brews on tap.
I guess what this means is that it’s a good time to quit drinking.
