Soon St. Paul will be home to yet another brewery. Bad Weather is planning a move from Minnetonka to a former tire shop at 414 7th Street West near Excel Energy Center in St. Paul. “That’s what we love about the space. We’re so visible from West 7th” said co-owner Joe Giambruno. Most new breweries are taking up residence north of 94 along the Green Line but Bad Weather will be just outside of downtown and close to the action. Joe along with co-owner Zac Carpenter are excited about the move and they anticipate that by June 1st they will be selling pints from their new taproom. Work on the space will begin soon with the roof being taken down this week.

The new space will be both a taproom and a brewery where the draft and taproom varieties will be made but their bottled varieties will still be made at the Minnetonka location for a while. “We’re happy with what’s coming out of the Lucid facility” said Carpenter. They got their start sharing space with Lucid and Badger Hill (now in Shakopee) and they like the relationship they have with those breweries. Canning is a possibility as both Joe and Zac are fans of canned beer but that would most likely be handled at Badger Hill’s new facility south of the river.

The taproom will sell 750 mL bottles along with growlers and the Cellar Series is very much alive so expect more of those in the future. The plan is to have 7-10 beers on tap at any given time and possibly add another year round beer to their bottle lineup. They expect to have food trucks on site and hope to be able to work with local restaurants (food delivery etc) as well.

What’s really exciting is that they plan to have a private event space to attract local business luncheons, homebrew clubs (both are homebrewers), groom’s dinners, and gamers alike. Both Zac and Joe stated that they would like to have a few arcade games set up in the space and possibly host some board game nights where people could congregate over games and brews. “If I wasn’t doing this now, this is what I would to see someone else doing” said Carpenter.

But more than anything else they are excited to be a good neighborhood establishment. “We’re in the heart of St. Paul but still in a neighborhood. We’ll be a neighborhood brewery” according to Carpenter.

Joe’s eyes gleaned with excitement talking about the location, “I don’t think you could ask for a better space.”

Cheers!