Take the Other Fork in the Road: South Fork Brewery Review

Recently, my wife Sarajo and I took a quick jaunt to Delano to visit the two new breweries there.  Our first stop was South Fork Brewing Company, located in the old down-town district.  The brewery is in what used to be a plumbing and heating building and more recently was the site of The Bohemian Wine Bar and Pub.  I actually wrote up the place back in 2013 and talked with Sarah about that venture HERE.  Interestingly it looks like the brewery has a similar 1 year or lifetime membership options for free or discounted beers and growlers on their website.

South Fork Brewing is probably closer to what Sarah had originally envisioned based on my previous talk with her, and isn’t a huge stretch to go from hosting taps of local Minnesota craft beer and wine to brewing up their own in-house.  The brewery is a small 3.5 barrel copper affair that requires two batches to fill the 7 barrel fermentors.  They’ve been open just over 7 months as of this visit.  The part-time head brewer is Brett Lin …