Burning Brothers, the state’s first and only gluten-free brewery, is shutting down after 11 years in St. Paul.
Their last day will be May 10.
“The factors affecting this decision are numerous, complex, and varied, and we have fought hard to avoid reaching this point, but alas, the day we had hoped to avoid has arrived,” co-owners Dane Breimhorst and Thom Foss wrote in a social media announcement.
The pair have been friends since they were teenagers and had long planned to open a brewery together, but in the middle of planning it in the early 2010s, Breimhorst was diagnosed with Celiac disease, a strong autoimmune reaction to gluten. So they tweaked their plans, learned how to brew beer without gluten and set up shop in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood in 2014.
In their 20s, both Breimhorst and Foss performed as Renaissance Festival fire-breathers — hence the name of the brewery — and revived the trick to celebrate the brewery’s fifth and tenth anniversaries.
Out of some 9,900 breweries across the country, only around a dozen are currently dedicated to producing exclusively gluten-free beer. With the closures of Burning Brothers and another brewery in Michigan last year, the only gluten-free brewery remaining in the Midwest is ALT Brew in Madison.
Burning Brothers’s taproom will be open regular hours (4 to 10 p.m. Tues/Wed/Thurs, 4 to 11 p.m. Fri, 1 to 11 p.m. Sat, 1 to 7 p.m. Sun, closed Mon) through Saturday, May 10.
Burning Brothers Brewery: 1750 W. Thomas Ave; 651-444-8882; burnbrosbrew.com
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