Granite City Food and Brewery, a brewery profile

This profile of Granite City Food & Brewery is the seventeenth in our series profiling all of South Dakota breweries. Look for a profile of another brewery next week. Above, Daily Freeman-Journal photo by Billie Shelton. John Dunkin Jr. and Corey Birkey stand next to the large tanks where the wort is brewed at Ellsworth, Iowa.

Official Brewery Name: Granite City Food & Brewery

Ownership: Granite City Food & Brewery Corporation

Brewers: Locally it is Austin Wolwhend, Dustin Sayler, Justin Christensen, and Karl Petersen

Year Founded: 1999

Address: 2620 S. Louise Ave. in Sioux Falls

Website: gcfb.com/location/sioux-falls-south-dakota

Flagship Beer:
Northern Lights

Year-round Brews:
Northern American Lager, Bennie Boch, Broad Axe Oat Stout, Duke Pale Ale, Batch 1000 Double IPA, Prairie Vixen Hefeweizen

Notable Seasonals/Features:
Peel Off Summer White Ale

Brewing equipment:
We have a fully operational brewery with a brew kettle that holds up to 600 gallons of water along with a mash tun and

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