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Craft Brewery
BENT BREWSTILLERY:
Innovation on Tap By: Nan McCreary
B artley Blume may work twice as hard sumption to a true appreciation of craft beverages,
to produce both beers and spirits in
to sip and not swill.”
Minnesota’s first combination brew-
ery-distillery, but he also enjoys twice As the brewstillery’s name “Bent” implies, beers
the opportunity to roll out new products that and spirits are “bent” and not made strictly to
come from his ever-creative brain. They include a style. “This sometimes comes from combining the
hoppy IPA without bitterness and a whiskey aged in best parts of two different styles,” Blume said, “and
American white oak and finished on toasted pimen- sometimes from just making something I think my
to wood to complement the spice of the grain. friends and family will like.”
“When I opened the brewstillery, I wanted to Judging by the brewstillery’s success, not to men-
bring more diverse beverages to the market, so tion its multiple awards, innovation-on-tap has
we were not always drinking the same old pale been a big hit with consumers. Clearly, this is the
ales, IPAs and sours,” Blume told Beverage Master place to go when you want to try something dis-
Magazine. “We wanted to get away from mass con- tinctive.
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