‘Tis the season to celebrate German beers, so LOS GEHT’S, let’s have us an ECHT RICHTIGE party!

Celebrating the beer culture of Köln, München, and Düsseldorf, we’re switching over to an all-German tap list for 2 nights only!

SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 7:00 to Midnight @ Devil May Care Brewing

🇩🇪 Traditional Kölsch service! 🇩🇪 The return of Perfektenschlag! 🇩🇪 Surprise German style beers! 🇩🇪 German food!

A $30 ticket gets you:

🍺 Entry to the event 🍺 A commemorative beer stein 🍺 A pour of beer 🍺 Something to eat

Tickets are limited to 100 per night, so act quickly. If you haven’t experienced a Kölsch service, you are in for a treat. If you have, well then IYKYK and we’ll see you soon 😉

Tickets available at https://share.3common.com/event?id=64fa594c2e817718d459ecd0

If anyone is looking for a great Father’s Day Brunch, Loaf & Honey is doing an 11:00 seating at Devil May Care on the 18th.

The menu looks amazing - 3 courses paired with 10oz of beer each, with a shandy to kick things off. Tickets are just $65 plus taxes.

Space is limited so get tickets while you can!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/646636797067

Just wanted to pass along the info that the Ballpark Beerfest will be happening again on July 22nd at Shaw Park 1-6pm.

25 local brewers signed up, brick and mortar breweries only.

Breweries are required to bring their A game again and bring a cask of something special, too.

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Props & Hops runs April 22nd. Tix on Eventbrite.

Flatlander's Beer Festival will run again without the support from many local breweries.

Devil May Care Brewery, which has been making its Starstuff American Pale Ale and about a dozen other beers since 2018, has opened its own tap room at Fort Street and York Avenue with a gritty, blue-collar vibe its owners Steve Gauthier and Colin Koop prefer.

Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022

— Devil May Care is all about the community feel.

After successfully producing a few beers that are considered among the best in Winnipeg, the two partners — who only quit their day jobs three years ago — will continue to use the brewing, packaging and delivery services at Torque Brewing for their main commercial titles and have installed about a half dozen small-batch tanks in the back of the tap room for their downtown patrons.

Gauthier said with a laugh that opening the operation was “what we like to think of as a carefully considered risk.”

But with a nice big crowd on opening night, the Friday night before Christmas, the partners were humbled at the sizable following it was not even aware was out there.

“The idea here is to do much smaller batches, 500 to 1,000 litres at a time,” Gauthier said. “It allows us to be a little more creative and do some more crazy stuff. We’re a couple of old-school home brewers who like to play around.”

The location is coincidentally next door to the one it looked at five years earlier.

The 3,000-square-foot room with windows covering one side has the feel of an old time beer hall.

“We’re not fancy people,” he said.

But they are conscientious and thoughtful about the fate of downtown Winnipeg and wanted to play a role in shifting the dynamic.

“Overall, we’re hoping to help start the revitalization of the area to some degree,” Gauthier said. “We realize downtown is not without its issues. Sitting at home complaining about it doesn’t really solve anything for anyone.”

Located down the street from the Pyramid and around the corner from Times Changed, the taproom features a large tattoo artist’s mural on one wall and the original concrete floor, cracks and all.

“We think it’s a good neighbourhood, exactly what our brand is about,” said Koop. “It’s got a gritty, downtown feel. The graffiti wall reminds people of that. We love dive bars and all those awesome places that people go to listen to music and drink good beer.”

And what city that calls itself a city doesn’t need to have a few of those kinds of hangouts?

Devil May Care started by partnering with Stone Angel Brewing Co., then switched to Torque at the start of the pandemic for volume and economic reasons.

Gauthier said the craft brewing community in Winnipeg — whose numbers are still fewer per capita than in most other cities — is supportive and friendly and they were able to get advice and guidance from them through their one-year-plus renovation experience.

“Initially we thought we would be open in the spring of this year, but we could not have been more wrong,” said Koop. “I think the city really struggles with the concept of breweries and what exactly the regulations are.”

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1. Fort Garry
2. Half Pints
3. Farmery (Neepawa, retail on Donald St. & retail at Riding Mountain)
4. Barn Hammer
5. Low Life
6. Black Wheat (Brandon)
7. Torque
8. Grain To Glass (Torque)
9. Devil May Care
10. La Shoppe (Oxus)
11. Brazen Hall
12. One Great City
13. Trans Canada Brewing
14. NonSuch
15. Vessel Beer (Nonsuch)
16. TransCanada Brewing (In planning for Brandon)
17. Little Brown Jug
18. Oxus
19. Good Neighbour (Oxus & Sherbrooke St.)
20. Bookstore (currently at Oxus)
21. Whiteshell Brewpub (Falcon Lake - Not Currently Brewing their own?)
22. The Local (nano brewery at the Elmhurst Golf & CC)
23. Sookram's
24. Kilter
25. Rendezvous Brewing (Morden & Oxus)
26. Canadian Malting Barley Research Institute
27. Obsolete Brewing (Dauphin)
28. Public Brewhouse & Gallery (Steinbach)
29. planned: Dastardly Villain (Torque)
30. Interlake Brewing (Gimli & at Oxus)
31. Lake of the Woods (in True North Center)
32. Full Geek Brew Lab (Oxus)
33. Namesake (Torque)
34. Section 6 Brewing (Brandon)
35. Handsome Lad (Torque)
36. The Beer Can (contracting at Torque)
37. planned: Blumstein Brewing (Pembina Valley area)

Then include:

1. Shrugging Doctor (wine/cider)
2. Capital K (distillery)
3. Bee Boyz (meadery)
4. Patent 5 (distillery)
5. Rigby Orchards (Fruit wines/mead in Killarney)
6. Dead Horse Cider (Winkler)
7. Diageo (Crown Royal)
8. Nifty (Nonsuch/Patent 5 Hard Seltzer)
9. Super Fun Seltzer (Barn Hammer)
10. Next Friend Cider (Low Life)
11. Wooden Gate (Cider/Wine in Pilot Mound)
12. Grand Vieux Liquor Co. (Distillery in Grand View)
13. Baltic Brothers (at Capital K)
14. Brat Cat Mead (at Devil May Care)

Closed: Agassiz Brewing, Two Rivers Brewing (merged with Fort Garry), River City Brewpub, Winnipeg Brewworks, Blank Canvas, Peg Beer Co., Bernhardt Weiland Brewing (was at the German Club), Stone Angel Brewing

Just a heads up for everyone with some info.

July 23rd, 1pm-6pm. VIP early access from 1-2pm.

The local breweries participating have each been asked to create a special cask of something fun exclusive to VIP ticket holders, a single one off beer for the main event, and to bring a max 3 regular beers on top of that.

2 oz samples with the ability to get an 8oz pour with purchased tokens if desired.

There are 19 local brick and mortar breweries participating.

Hello Manitobeer, maybe this post can serve as a starter for a wiki/FAQ/Manitoba basics thread. I just came back from a Maritimes trip, and knocked three provinces off the list at one time. Researching for that took a lot of scraping different resources together.

I keep thinking about coming through MB and SK, but my beer knowledge from the two provinces is very limited. For Manitoba, I've only got Nonsuch and Barn Hammer on the list.

What are the must-visit breweries? When I come through, I'll likely just be stopping in Winnipeg, so who has the best tap lists (most representative of Manitoba beers) in the city? Which taps from breweries should I be keeping an eye for from outside of Winnipeg?

Judging that the last posts in the previous sub are all over a year old, who are the new up-and-coming breweries that are impressing you?

Ok everybody.

I did my part, now post about Manitoba brewed beers, cause I seriously doubt the way the industry has grown that you're able to keep up with everything being brewed.

We wanna see it all here, test batches, wide releases, events, new openings etc etc.