Northeast brewery wins silver medal at national beer festival
The Brewers Association held their annual Great American Beer Festival October 9-11 in Denver, Colo. Pryes Brewing Company took home the silver medal in the Belgian Fruit Beer category with their Idyll Forest – Champs De Framboise, a raspberry wild sour ale.
The Brewers Association is a group of small independent craft brewers that represent more than 9,000 breweries in America. The annual event takes place in early October and 2025 featured 8,315 beers and ciders to be judged by more than 250 judges.
This was the first year Pryes Brewing Company entered into the competition. Three other Minnesota breweries also medalled, Lupulin Brewery in Big Lake, Northbound Smokehouse and Brewpub in Minneapolis and BlackStack Brewing in St. Paul.
“Largest salon in Midwest” opens
Sola Salon Studios has opened a new location at 2626 2nd St. NE. The company’s website says Sola leases “move-in-ready, one and two-chair salon studios to independent beauty professionals.” Tenants pay rent to Sola based on their studio’s number of exterior windows and square footage.
The new location, which is housed in a 29,000 square-foot building, features 101 stalls. A news release from the company described the location as “the largest salon in the Midwest.” The new site features over 75 service providers; at the time of reporting, it is 80% hair stylists and barbers and 20% other services.
Clothier company to move out of Northeast
King Brother Clothiers, a clothing shop located at 712 15th Ave. NE, is set to move.
The store, which started as a mobile shop in 2011, moved into a brick-and-mortar storefront in Northeast Minneapolis in 2015.
The business will move to 3926 Market Street in Edina, roughly tripling their available square footage in the process. No specific date is yet public, but they currently aim to be open for the holiday season.
“The timing is cosmic in a way, because there’s a lot of changes happening in the Edina retail shopping world,” Kenny King, one of the business’ owners, told Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.