Dr. Greg Brick
My own introduction to subterranean Nicollet Island involved more travail than treasure, as a member of a roving exploratory herd on a cold, snowy night in the winter of 1989. One guy removed the lid, which was partly in someone’s backyard, and a big cloud of steam billowed out. We scrambled down the shaft into […]
The West Seventh Street neighborhood of St. Paul was also known for its breweries. In 1871, Frederick Banholzer acquired the North Mississippi Brewery, which had been established in 1853. In 1886, Banholzer Park, an outdoor beer garden, opened, buoyed up with balloon rides to Lilydale, across the river. After Frederick’s son William died, the brewery […]
Beginning as the Minneapolis Brewery in 1866, the Heinrich Brewery, as it came to be known, existed until 1903. The area was dubbed “Brewery Flats” because the Noerenberg Brewery (whose lagering caves are utterly inaccessible today) was also located nearby. These breweries, along with others, merged to form Grain Belt Beer in the 1890s, which […]