The Brewery Adventure Ep. 3 Insight Brewing

In this episode we visit a Minneapolis brewery that had so many positive things to talk about, and one minor negative that got under Courtney's skin.  Come along and learn about this very fun tap room.

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Transcript

Tim (00:01.378)
Welcome to the Brewery Adventure where we explore the vibrant world of local breweries and the incredible atmosphere they create. I'm Tim.

Courtney (00:08.684)
And I'm Courtney. If you've ever wondered what makes a brewery more than just a place to grab a drink, you're in for a treat.

Tim (00:14.592)
In each episode, we'll cover the places making beer from the cozy corners of neighborhood taprooms to the bustling energy of larger brew houses.

Courtney (00:22.712)
We're not just talking about the beer. We're celebrating the ambiance, the culture, and the community that make each brewery a unique destination.

Tim (00:29.656)
So whether you're a regular, your local brewpub, or just curious about what's out there, join us as we uncover the magic behind the taps.

Courtney (00:37.73)
Let's embark on the brewery adventure together. Cheers!

Tim (00:40.184)
Cheers. All right. Welcome to the Brewery Adventure. I am Tim and that is Courtney. As you heard in that intro, if you want to contact the Brewery Adventure, you can contact either one of us. We have two places to do that. Either Tim at TheBeweryAdventure.com or Courtney at TheBeweryAdventure.com. We would love to have your comments about what we're doing here with this podcast and also your suggestions about what breweries to

Check out next. We would love to hear from you.

Courtney (01:13.474)
I wanna know where we should go next.

Tim (01:15.202)
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we have some ideas, obviously. There are lots of choices. Look at that. Look at that wall of coasters back there. If you're watching this, you can see it. If you're listening, you can't see it. But believe me, there is a wall of coasters behind me and there's a lot of breweries in town and that's just a small part of them. So we'll have lots and lots to talk about as we go through. Courtney, how are you today?

Courtney (01:37.016)
I am good, I'm really, really ready to crack open my beer.

Tim (01:40.492)
Yes, one of the things we're going to be doing with this podcast is drinking one of the beers from the brewery that we're talking about while we are talking about it. So this episode is all about Insight Brewing. Insight Brewing is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota on East Hennepin. You can look up the address yourself if you're interested in that. And we were there just the other day, plus another

Courtney (02:06.168)
just the other day.

Tim (02:07.032)
Plus we were there this last summer as well for a couple of times and I've been there before. So we're going to talk about insight brewing tonight. what the beer that I have and I think Courtney might have picked the same one.

Courtney (02:18.924)
We both went out to get Insight beer and we both ended up with the same beer.

Tim (02:20.598)
Yeah, we both went out to find one because we forgot to buy some while we were at the brewery, which we should have done. So we had to go to a store that carries their beer. And thankfully in Minnesota here, most of the liquor stores carry a pretty good selection of Minnesota craft beer. Insight makes a lot of IPA's, which is not my favorite style of beer, but yeah, I think we both picked. We both.

Courtney (02:48.28)
We both got the vibe hazy IPA.

Tim (02:49.368)
We call the vibe a hazy IPA. Their website describes the vibe as smooth, creamy, tropical, and juicy.

So let's crack them open. Yeah, you go ahead first and then I'll crack mine. listen to that. you got a much better sounding one than I did.

Courtney (03:01.656)
Are we ready? All right.

Courtney (03:10.702)
I put the microphone right on top of it.

Cheers! Cheers to insight!

Tim (03:16.366)
Cheers to insight. That is pretty good. It is juicy and I would say tropical.

Courtney (03:22.678)
yeah, I like that.

Tim (03:25.838)
Yeah, it does remind me a little bit of a tropical drink with a little bit of the bitterness because it is an IPA. Like I IPA is not my favorite style of beer. I don't drink a lot of them. I will have one once in a while. This one's pretty good. Maybe I'll have to try out more hazy IPAs.

Courtney (03:45.098)
think the hazy ones don't have like the, that IPA bite. Again, reminder, we're not beer experts.

Tim (03:55.18)
We're not beer experts, but like we said, we'll tell you what we like and don't like in this one. For a non-IPA drinker like myself, this one is one that I can drink. Pretty good, actually.

Courtney (04:06.264)
That's good. That's an easy to drink beer.

Tim (04:08.108)
Yeah, I think of the beers, like I said, Insight makes a lot of IPAs and I think those are their most popular beers. I think their most popular beer is called Trollway. Would you agree? I think that's the one. It's an American IPA and I think it's the one they sell the most of. They have a couple other ones. They have a West Coast IPA called Drift. And they have this hazy IPA that I'm drinking.

Courtney (04:19.992)
I would, yeah.

Tim (04:35.17)
And then they have some other pale ales and they have other things going on too. So.

Courtney (04:40.92)
They really had a lot to pick from at the brewery.

Tim (04:43.628)
Yeah, yeah, the brewery, you're right. They did have a long list of beers that they have all the time and then they have.

Courtney (04:52.567)
now you're muted.

Tim (04:53.442)
had to turn that off for a second, I was burping from that beer. They did have a pretty good list of seasonals as well. So yeah, pretty cool. it's, so what do you think of this beer, Courtney? The vibe.

Courtney (04:56.686)
Hahaha

Courtney (05:09.154)
This one on the Courtney scale, this would get a five.

Tim (05:12.812)
Wow, all right. Courtney and I both are users of the app Untapped. And if you're interested in drinking beer and knowing about beer and tracking the beers that you drink, that's the place to do it. Look up Untapped in your app store and join us in tracking your beers and you can we can become friends on there and you can see what we're drinking as well. Yeah.

Courtney (05:36.758)
yeah. As soon as we order a beer, we sit down at the table, start taking a sip, and then the phones come out, pictures are being taken, logs are being made.

Tim (05:43.756)
Yeah, you gotta take a picture. That's absolutely, and that's really become part of the whole process of going to a tap room. It's funny how untapped is that much a part of it for us. A lot of times you get a flight, not because you really want all of the beers in the flight, but because you want to register all of them on untapped.

Courtney (05:54.435)
Yeah.

Courtney (06:08.43)
Okay, that's why you get a flight. I get a flight because I legitimately wanna try every beer they possibly have and that's not something you should do.

Tim (06:10.06)
Yeah.

Tim (06:14.862)
That's true.

Yeah, it's more likely that Courtney will get a flight and I will probably just order one pint of something that I know I'm going to like. It's just who I am. This last time when we were at Insight, I had my first beer there. I had two and my first one was Ski Trip, which is a brown ale. And I really loved that one. But that didn't surprise me because brown ale is one of the styles that I love.

Courtney (06:24.756)
Hahaha

Courtney (06:40.866)
That one was good. I, I tried to get a flight to get a collection of beers. I tried.

Tim (06:41.836)
Yeah, I really, yeah, they describe it as, yeah, right. You tried, what do you mean you tried? Taprooms have flights, Courtney, what are you talking about?

Courtney (06:56.15)
Insight does not have flights. What? I can't believe it. I couldn't believe it. Insight has like the small size tasters that you can buy. They have them priced out, but they will not put it like most places you get a flight and they put it in like a cute little carrier. So you can carry the four or five or one of the places we've been to had six. You can carry all the beers and it's easy.

Tim (06:58.198)
Whaaaa

Tim (07:06.647)
Yeah, they've

Right.

Tim (07:15.853)
Right, yeah.

Tim (07:22.55)
Right. And their logo, their logo, if you look up inside online, it's literally it's like a hot air balloon that looks like a beer barrel. And wouldn't that little design that would make a great holder for a flight, wouldn't it?

Courtney (07:24.46)
and they have them priced as a collection.

Courtney (07:32.408)
Yeah.

Courtney (07:38.092)
it would make a great holder for a flight. However, insight does not actually do flights.

Tim (07:39.788)
Yeah, I don't know why they're not doing it.

So what happened when you tried to order a flight up at the counter?

Courtney (07:50.19)
She said, we don't do flights. there wasn't like normally you can get like for $15 or something, you'll get four tasters of whatever you want. Or some places have like a preset, our flight would be these four beers. Okay, fine. They don't do any of that at Insight. There's no flight potential. She said, you can still individually order the taster sizes in however many that you want, but they're not gonna be in a carrier. You're gonna have to carry them yourself.

Tim (07:56.78)
Yeah, right.

Tim (08:17.902)
So how many did you order?

Courtney (08:19.724)
with my little hands. I ordered four, because that's what I normally do, but she gave me four little glasses that I was trying to like squish together and carry over to the high top. I made it, but I came very close to spilling all of them.

Tim (08:25.549)
Mm-hmm.

Tim (08:30.926)
you

Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. And what? Yeah. And usually also when you get a flight at a taproom too, they not only put it in whatever kind of carrier they're using, and we've seen lots of different styles of these things. Sometimes they're made out of metal. Sometimes they're made out of wood. There's just all kinds of different things that different shapes. Yeah. Yeah. Quite often they do do a really good job of fitting the carrier of the flight into the theming of the brewery itself.

Courtney (08:57.23)
They're art pieces that represent the brewery.

Tim (09:06.838)
Obviously, Insight has decided not to do that for whatever reason. I think they're missing out by not doing that. Because two things. someone that might come in and order one taster or two tasters if they had a flight might order four because they can, it already comes in a little group, you know? And also the other thing that the carriers give you is a place to notate what beers you ordered, right?

Courtney (09:11.852)
It made me really sad.

Courtney (09:36.312)
Yeah, I mean some places have like there's something on the carrier where they can write in what each beer is and some places will give you like a little piece of paper. Some will have like something more formal like has their logo and everything on it. But you at least know once you sit down like, here are my beers in order. I know what these are now.

Tim (09:47.576)
Mm-hmm.

Tim (09:52.78)
Yeah, absolutely. It is, I think, one of the few failures of Insight that we noticed while we were there. think this is probably one of them. I'm glad we started with this one, talking about this, because then we can move on to more positive aspects of Insight brewing. I think they're missing out by not having an organized way to buy a flight of beers.

Courtney (10:08.066)
Yes.

Courtney (10:14.999)
is my one gripe.

Tim (10:16.386)
Yeah, it is a gripe and it's a legitimate, legitimate gripe. I cannot, literally I cannot remember another brewery or taproom that I've been to that does not offer it. Now maybe we'll discover another one, but so far I have not.

Courtney (10:19.596)
Hahaha

Courtney (10:31.064)
So far, I can't think of a different one either. And again, I can think of some that have a preset. Like if you get a flight, it has to be these beers. You don't have options to pick your own. And there's been some where they have like a flight of six, which I can tell you ends up being quite a lot of beer for me.

Tim (10:39.67)
Right, right.

Tim (10:48.59)
Yeah, the taste because the tasters are usually like four ounces, right?

Courtney (10:56.684)
Yeah, think someone, yeah, because I think someone once said if you get a flight, it's similar to drinking just a pint of beer.

Tim (11:03.81)
Yeah. All righty. Well, so we started off with a negative aspect of Insight Brewing. Sorry, Insight Brewing, you failed on that. From our perspective, you failed on that note. But let's talk about some of the other things that we noticed about Insight Brewing. Like I said, we were there twice recently. Once this summer, we were there on a Saturday morning right when they opened.

Courtney (11:10.11)
sorry, I'm sorry in sight.

Courtney (11:28.91)
We had a group of people there right when it opened, which felt a little bit weird because we were like waiting outside at the picnic tables for them to open their doors.

Tim (11:38.882)
Yeah, it was kind of weird. We were there for another event, another game, yeah, a geocaching event, another game that Courtney and I played besides the game of Munzee, which we are really, really into, munzee.com. If you haven't checked it out, you should check out munzee.com. And we also are geocachers, and this one happened to be a geocaching event. So we were there early, people were...

Courtney (11:49.944)
A geocaching event that time.

Tim (12:08.428)
lined up waiting for the doors to open. And then we got in. And of course, it was quiet because we were the only ones in the building at the time. So we got to kind of experience inside brewing in its quiet phase. And it was nice. It was nice inside. There wasn't a vent setting up. It was going to happen kind of later after we would already be gone. think they were doing some kind of a create your own jewelry thing, as I could tell. So it's a.

Courtney (12:22.723)
Yes.

Tim (12:38.178)
That was going to be going on after we left though. And so we ordered our beers and we went back outside to their patio.

Courtney (12:44.386)
And I didn't have a flight that time. I don't know why, because I don't remember asking for a flight and being turned down for one because I would have been upset about it a lot sooner.

Tim (12:51.126)
Right. Correct, correct. Yeah, I and that was a nice that was a nice day to sit outside. They do have a patio that's kind of, you know, a segment like a lot of breweries, a segmented off portion of their parking lot. So it's not like you're out sitting in grass or anything. It's it's just a paved portion of the parking lot with some wood.

Courtney (13:01.39)
It was gorgeous.

Tim (13:16.366)
They had, as I remember, some wood and some plants and flowers and stuff kind of as a barrier around it. And then it did have kind of a, you know, like one of those, I don't know, what do they call them? Like over a patio where you just have like the slats of wood that kind of creates some shade, but it's not total shade. I don't know what that's called.

Courtney (13:21.539)
Yeah.

Courtney (13:37.782)
It had perugula.

Tim (13:39.374)
I don't know. It sounded like you said arugula and that's like in a salad. No. But anyway, the patio itself, very comfortable place to It's really mostly composed of picnic tables. They do have an outdoor bar that when we were there on that Saturday, it was very early and they weren't using it. But I think when it's busy on a nice day, they're probably using that outdoor bar probably, hopefully to serve beer, correct?

Courtney (13:42.402)
It has a name.

It's not a rougelot.

Courtney (14:06.412)
I would assume they're serving beer at the bar.

Tim (14:07.884)
That would be my guess. So that was our first experience. And it was a nice day. We sat with some friends, and we had a beer or two. And it was really nice to sit outside there.

Courtney (14:20.526)
It was great. And then contrast.

Tim (14:21.58)
Yeah. Contrast to that, the last time we were there was just about a week or so ago, and it was an evening. It was a weeknight.

Courtney (14:33.324)
A weekend evening. Well, Friday. It was Friday night, right? Yeah.

Tim (14:34.766)
It was a Friday night, so it's a weekend. Friday's the weekend. So it was a weekend evening. And there were a couple of different events going on. One event was a small chess tournament of some kind. There were a bunch of people playing chess and also drinking beer. I kind of joked. said, I hope it's a requirement that if you're going to come play in the chess tournament, you have to drink a beer while doing it, correct? I mean, that's the way I would want to do it.

Courtney (14:39.267)
Yeah.

Courtney (15:01.678)
I would hope so.

Yeah.

Tim (15:05.498)
And then there was a party on the other end of the room. They kind of have a little another area that's kind of there's a half wall that goes across and kind of separates that area from the rest of the room and there was a I don't remember if it was a an engagement party or a birthday party or what it was but

Courtney (15:22.403)
Whatever it was, involved cupcakes and I did not get one. Yeah.

Tim (15:25.442)
They had some gorgeous looking cupcakes and that has nothing to do with the brewery, so we will not mention it anymore. But I only say those things were two things were going on is just to say there were two events going on in there in the place, even though there were other people also just having beer sitting maybe up at the counter where you can order your beer. There's some stools up there where you can sit at the bar and then they have a few booths along the edge and then a bunch of tables otherwise and we sat.

at one of the very long tables that's more of a community space. So it'd be members of different groups sitting at the same table. And that's where we sat. so it was a Friday night, a lot busier. And of course, this time of year, it's more wintry outside. It's cold. The patio's not open. Nobody wants to sit outside in the winter in Minnesota, for the most part.

Courtney (16:11.032)
You

No option.

Tim (16:20.716)
So we sat down at one of the long tables and that was a pretty comfortable place to sit.

Courtney (16:24.844)
It was great. And I would say it, it seemed it was busy. There were quite a few people in there, but for as busy as it was, it still felt like we just had our little group.

Tim (16:35.202)
Yeah, yeah, well, we were at the end of the table, so maybe that helped. Maybe that helped. But we were kind of in the middle of the room, too, which was kind of cool, because we kind of had just everything going on around us on both sides. So that was just a great place to sit and be able to people watch and check out how people seem to be enjoying the brewery. And it seemed like everybody was having a good time.

Courtney (16:39.138)
Maybe that helped.

Courtney (16:56.558)
There were people behind me playing Settlers of Catan.

Tim (16:59.224)
Wow, that's right. I remember that.

Courtney (17:00.95)
Yeah, because I wanted to like lean over and be like, can you guys teach me how to play? Can I join you?

Tim (17:06.51)
I have played that game I think twice and never want to play it again.

Courtney (17:12.078)
So we're not going to go sit at a brewery and play that game is what I'm hearing.

Tim (17:15.148)
You're gonna have to find somebody else. Now, I don't know, let's see, wait a minute, could I be enticed to play Settlers of Catan if it was at a brewery? Maybe.

Courtney (17:25.07)
Yeah.

Tim (17:27.438)
Right? Beer makes everything better. That's one of the models of this podcast. Beer makes everything better. Yes. I did use the bathroom at this particular brewery. I'm going to give it a score of a 1 to 10 of a 8.

Courtney (17:27.766)
It could be a different experience. Yeah.

Absolutely.

Courtney (17:46.286)
You're giving me another rating scale. Okay, I used the bathroom there. I used the bathroom there twice and I would give their bathroom a 10 because it was it was great. Yeah.

Tim (17:50.774)
Yeah.

Tim (17:56.858)
great, wonderful. Yeah, I think it was pretty good. And I don't know, we're talking about bathrooms because they are an important part of breweries because you're there drinking a lot of liquid, right? You're going to, right? You don't buy a beer, you only rent it. And so, I did not come up with that. I'm not sure where I heard it, but it's an old one.

Courtney (18:10.188)
You're gonna pee. Yeah.

Yeah

Courtney (18:25.954)
We have a new slogan for the podcast.

Tim (18:26.318)
Yeah, slogan number two. You don't buy a beer, you only rent it. One of the things I did like, and I appreciate this about bathrooms at public places, is they had the little shoe kick thing on the door so you don't have to touch the door on the way out. That super annoys me when you have to touch the door.

Courtney (18:43.448)
Yeah.

Courtney (18:49.358)
I normally just keep like a wad of paper towel in my hand and use that and then like lean and bend and funny directions to throw it out.

Tim (18:55.692)
And that works if they put the garbage can right next to the door. But if it's not right next to the door, you want that little toe kick thing. Yeah, or no door at all, depending on how the place is designed. Yeah, touching things is bad. So overall, I would say Insight was a very comfortable brewery to be in. I didn't have any beers that I didn't like. I didn't try as many as you did. I know you had a couple that you...

Courtney (18:58.819)
Yeah.

Courtney (19:02.316)
Yeah, toe kicks are good.

Courtney (19:06.828)
I'm fine with that too. Touching things is bad.

Hahaha

Tim (19:23.134)
really didn't like very much, but that might have just been a style thing. What do you think?

Courtney (19:28.834)
I, well, style wise, there's really not, like if you asked me if there's a style of beer I don't like, I don't know what that would be. I generally like beer and it doesn't matter if it's a dark beer, if it's a sour, if it's an IPA, I'm not that fussy about it, which is probably also why my rating system for beers looks a lot like five, I would drink this again and zero.

Tim (19:37.388)
Okay.

Courtney (19:58.274)
This offends me.

And normally most beers I drink, I would drink again.

Tim (20:06.072)
Did you have any insight that you would for sure not want to drink again?

Courtney (20:10.798)
There were two.

Tim (20:13.358)
Okay, well let's hear it. Which ones?

Courtney (20:16.012)
Well, so I got my flight that wasn't a flight.

Tim (20:19.532)
Right? Here's like, light that didn't fly. Got it.

Courtney (20:23.424)
And let me just start with the good ones. I had two super delicious ones that I would absolutely order there again. Ski Trip, which was the brown, a multi-brown.

Tim (20:34.252)
Yep, yep, that's the one I talked about. I had that one, it wonderful.

Courtney (20:38.39)
It was great. And the other one, that was a limited release. And then another limited release was a sour ale called Morning Bells. That was Care Care Orange, Blood Orange and Raspberry. That one was fantastic. Loved it. But then there was a motivational cat poster. That's a hazy pale. And there was a level up. And I don't remember what the level up was.

Tim (21:01.272)
Yeah.

Courtney (21:07.8)
But both of those I really didn't care for and they didn't, they might be like the third and fourth beer ever on my untapped that did not receive fives.

Tim (21:16.982)
Level up as a house pale ale is what they call it. It's supposed to be golden, bitter, and dry.

Courtney (21:21.538)
Yeah.

Tim (21:26.135)
It was golden.

Courtney (21:27.488)
It was golden and if you told me that description, I would say that's a beer I would drink.

Tim (21:31.522)
Yeah, yeah, but that one just didn't hit it for you. OK, well, it may be somebody else. There probably are people that love both of those beers. It's one of the things that we have learned going to many, breweries is that and we try each other's beers too. If we order different things, we'll we'll try each other's and one of us will say, well, I really like that. And other person will say, I don't like that at all. It's just one of and that, you know, that's just true, right? It's just true of of.

Courtney (21:34.933)
No.

Courtney (21:55.817)
Hahaha

Tim (22:01.326)
of beers in general. Everybody has a style that they tend toward, and they might like a little bit of the other styles as well. But there are sometimes just beers that don't hit right. And sometimes it can even be in a style of beer that you normally like.

Courtney (22:17.634)
would normally like both of those styles of beer, but those particular beers I would not get again. don't even, one of them, I don't even remember which one it was. One of them I didn't finish, and I think the other one I finished just because we were sitting there and I didn't want to go up and get a new beer. So I just finished that one.

Tim (22:19.916)
Right, right.

Tim (22:35.576)
Right. Right.

Right, well, as you said at the beginning, we're both drinking tonight the Vibe, the hazy IPA. And I do like, like said, not an IPA drinker, not a style that I generally choose, but this one I could drink. It reminds me quite a bit actually of Surly Furious, if you're familiar with that beer. Surly is one of the bigger breweries, craft breweries here in Minnesota.

Courtney (22:45.218)
And it's great.

Courtney (23:01.656)
Maybe that's why I like it so much.

Tim (23:07.934)
and they're probably their most famous beer is Furious.

Courtney (23:11.822)
That's my go-to beer.

Tim (23:13.068)
Yeah, and I will have a Furious when I go to Surly, but I never buy it to take home. But this one, I could drink this. I'm probably, again, not gonna be my favorite style. I do tend towards the darker beers, the browns, porters, stouts, those kinds of things. Unless it's super hot in the summer and I wanna go to something really much lighter, you know, but anyway. Well, I think we both found things that we really like about

Insight Brewing. Overall, the space is pretty cool. It's an older industrial building, a lot of brick, a lot of wood. You can see the brewery through the glass wall on the one side where the beer is being made. I always appreciate when they do that. I don't like the breweries that hide them away. It's like, why go to the brewery if I can't see something about what's happening? Yeah, it's pretty cool. So they have that going on. The service was, I thought, super good there. It was a busy night.

Courtney (24:03.362)
I like seeing all the equipment. Yeah.

Tim (24:12.46)
but there was a couple of people working and they were keeping the line moving really quickly. a lot of positive things to say about insight. One of the negatives, think, one of the negatives was the lack of, that they don't have flights. We talked about that. I think a second negative could be their parking situation. They don't have a very large parking lot and they take up some of that parking lot with their patio.

Courtney (24:34.743)
It is kind of small.

Tim (24:41.118)
And this is on a very busy road. It's on East Hennepin and Minneapolis, and it's a very busy kind of east-west road across the Twin Cities, and you can't park on it. So it's not like you can go out on the street and park there. So they do have a little bit of a limited parking situation. You can go like a block down and go across and park in the neighborhood. You could do that as well. But I think that's just a slight, a slight negative. Now it would have to be, it has to be really, really busy, though, for the parking situation to really be a problem. Otherwise, it's not going to be an issue.

Courtney (25:11.904)
Even with the parking situation and my personal flight situation, the rest of the brewery is so great. It just, feels good when you walk in the door. There's stuff going on, there's people hanging out, there were activities going on. They have a calendar with all of their food trucks on it, with all the events, and they've got a lot of events happening. There's a lot happening over there.

Tim (25:15.918)
Yeah.

Tim (25:33.42)
They do. Yeah, and that's one of the cool things about breweries as well as they do host a lot of events in the geolocation gaming world that Courtney and I are in, either with geocaching or with Munzee. There's a lot of things that are hosted at breweries because it's an easy place for people to get together where you don't have like if you go to restaurant, a lot of times you have servers and you're trying to get people seated. And with these kinds of events, you never know who's going to show up. So you don't know exactly how many people there are going to be.

And breweries make it really easy to have an event like that because if 10 people show up, great. If 20 people show up, great. It doesn't really matter. Whereas if you tried to do that at a restaurant, it would be problematic. Yeah. Well, it's one of the great things about breweries and taprooms is they really make it easy to do group things like that.

Courtney (26:14.668)
it would be problematic.

Courtney (26:24.29)
Well, and it's a welcoming place to just sit and hang out for a lengthy period of time as well. Like a restaurant's gonna want you to like eat and get out, let's turn over the table.

Tim (26:28.674)
Yeah, it was very

Tim (26:33.132)
Right, right, right. Exactly right. Exactly right. Yeah, most of the time, breweries are very, very calm and you can sit as long as you need to sit. I would suggest one thing I noticed when I was there is a couple of times that I've been there, I've parked in the parking lot and come in the side door because the side door comes from the parking lot. You kind of walk past where they, their patio and where they, where they park their food trucks. They have a front door that comes in off of Hennepin. And if you come in off of that door,

Courtney (26:41.143)
Exactly.

Courtney (26:53.144)
There's a different door?

Tim (27:00.748)
you come in this door and then there's a stairway that goes up into the tap room. And so it's a much cooler entrance. So if you're going to Insight I would suggest parking your car and then walk down to the sidewalk and go in the front door and you'll feel like you're having much more of a grand entrance.

Courtney (27:17.112)
How did I miss out on this? Why did you not tell me about this sooner?

Tim (27:18.894)
It's better. It's better to come in the front door. just that's my advice, go in the front door.

Courtney (27:29.09)
We have to go back.

Tim (27:30.7)
Well, I don't see any reason why we won't, other than the fact that there are about 18 million other breweries we need to get to.

Courtney (27:37.602)
Well, but I need to experience this front door situation.

Tim (27:42.478)
All right, are there any final thoughts that you want to say about Insight Brewing?

Courtney (27:47.83)
Insight Brewing, please put together a flight holder for me.

Tim (27:52.002)
Yep, if you're listening Insight brewing, it's unanimous from the two of us anyway. You need to have a flight situation going on. You've already got the little glasses. So yeah, you're just about there. You just need something to hold them in and a spot on the board to put, hey, we have flights. Yeah, cool.

Courtney (27:58.434)
Yes.

Courtney (28:01.89)
I would love you forever. Yeah, you're halfway there.

Tim (28:15.212)
All right, well, thank you so much for joining us for this episode of the Brewery Adventure. Like I said at the beginning, if you want to contact us about any suggestions you have about beers we should drink, breweries we should go to, events we should attend that have to do with beer, let us know, let us know anything. We'd love to hear from you. You can contact us at Tim at TheBewerYAdventure.com or Courtney at TheBewerYAdventure.com.

Courtney (28:32.392)
yeah.

Tim (28:43.156)
and we will respond to your message. All right. Thanks Courtney for getting together tonight to record this episode.

Courtney (28:46.478)
Absolutely.

Courtney (28:52.664)
Thank you and hey, it's a good reason to drink some beer.

Tim (28:55.832)
Yeah, we both chose the same one. Amazing. Amazing. Well, we will catch you next time on the Brewery Adventure. Cheers.

Courtney (29:03.864)
Cheers!

Tim (29:07.15)
That's about it.