Junkyard Brewing Company is a new “nanobrewery” and craft beer taproom in Moorhead, Minnesota. We incorporated in 2012 and finally got our beer manufacturer’s license from MN in the spring of 2013. Our Taproom is now open Monday through Saturday night. Eventually we’ll get back to selling “growlers” to-go, but we don’t have enough beer presently.

A nanobrewery is like a microbrewery, but smaller. Many people in the industry call any brewery with a brewkettle around 3 barrels (93 gallons), or smaller, a nanobrewery. Our stainless steel brewkettle holds about 50 gallons and was custom made. By us.

Junkyard Brewing Company was conceived while I brewed my own beer in college. I still remember the first batch; it was a five-gallon recipe with eight pounds of dark malt extract powder and eight ounces of chinook hops for the boil with a packet of dry yeast to ferment it. I “bottled” this first batch in pint-sized canning jars and judged when the natural carbonation had taken place by the “plink, plink” noises of the lids buckling upward under pressure. Friends suggested names for my first brew, and a couple stand out in my mind: “Junk’s Trunk” and “Junkyard” beer. It was nicknames like these that helped guide me toward choosing the name “Junkyard” for our brewing company when the time came to attach a name to my idea.

Junkyard is the perfect name for our company because it expresses, in a word, who we are; we’re unique, we’re local, and we’ve got character.

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