Minneapolis-based Surly Brewing’s hospitality employees will not be unionizing after their election to join Unite Here Local 17 failed this week. “We began this journey hoping for a different outcome,” the organizing employees wrote on their Unite Surly Workers Instagram account.

Surly Brewing management and workers attempting to organize a union at the Minneapolis-based craft brewery have reached an agreement on a union election after several weeks of negotiations, Unite Here Local 17 announced Thursday.

Employees at two different Minneapolis craft breweries have attempted to unionize in recent weeks, with varying degrees of success. Employees of Fair State Brewing Cooperative on Wednesday announced their decision to join Unite Here Local 17, a Twin Cities hospitality workers union, the same union that workers at Surly Brewing Company announced their intention to join last week.

Two days after a majority of its hospitality employees announced their intention to unionize, Minneapolis-based Surly Brewing Company announced it will close its beer hall indefinitely beginning November 2.

Employees of another craft brewery are attempting to unionize. The kitchen and hospitality staff of Surly Brewing Company’s Beer Hall and Pizza Upstairs restaurant in Minneapolis notified management Monday that they plan to unionize, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

Brew Pipeline, a direct-access platform between craft brewers and new markets, announced today it’s launching an Oktoberfest collection with Framingham’s Jack’s Abby Brewing and Minneapolis’ Surly Brewing Company.

COVID-19 is forcing brewery owners across the country to make hard decisions. Surly Brewing founder Omar Ansari has made his share of those decisions over the last month after shuttering his beer hall, pizza place and event space in mid-March. Couple those closures with the shutdown of on-premise sales, and around 60% of Surly’s revenue evaporated overnight.

In partnership with Hensley Beverage Company, Surly will be available across the state of Arizona. Arizonans, snowbirds, and craft beer drinkers will see a full portfolio of Surly’s flagship, seasonal and limited releases at various retailers, bars and restaurants.

Nearly seven months after its launch, Brew Pipeline’s Guest Brewer program has expanded into 34 states, exceeding its initial goal of attaining distribution of reaching half the country before the year’s end. Guest Brewer, one of six offerings from “direct-access platform” Brew Pipeline, pairs select craft brewers’ products with wholesalers in markets where they currently… Read more »

Starting in June, nine U.S. states will begin receiving limited shipments of popular but hard to obtain craft beers via a new program called “Guest Brewer.” Brew Pipeline, a so-called “direct-access platform” started by Steven Kwapil and Trip Kloser, is playing matchmaker for craft breweries and wholesalers through the Guest Brewer program. Kwapil and Kloser have tapped industry veteran Marty Ochs — who served as Ninkasi’s director of sales between 2009 and 2013 before launching his own craft beer consultancy — with curating the program’s portfolio of breweries and building its network of wholesalers.

Throughout October, Surly released several beers, each one darker than the last, in anticipation of our beloved Russian imperial stout.

Zest Crazed is the kind of beer your parents warned you about. Wild-eyed, lurid tales of hop aromatics and citrus flavor follow this American pale ale around.