By Jeff Zeitler on Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
We will be OPEN on Thursday Sept 1 from 4-8 PM and on our normal hours Friday Sept 2, 4-8 PM. We will be CLOSED on Saturday the 3rd, as we expect most of you, as reasonable Minnesotans, will have left town at that point, and we plan to do so as well. We do […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Friday, July 22nd, 2016
Our new Urban Forage t-shirts just arrived from the printer, and we can’t wait to get them out to you. They will be available for the first time at East Lake Open Streets, this Sunday, at our tent starting at 11 AM. They’re cool, comfortable and stylish shirts by American Apparel. You’re almost guaranteed […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Sketch of Jeff by Anita White. By the way- if you are wondering- YES- we are open our normal hours this weekend. Friday 4-8 PM and Saturday 12-4 PM. Pick up an all-American (and all-Minnesotan and mostly-Minneapolitan) bottle of dry cider (crisp!) semisweet cider (sparkly!) or pear cider (unique!) for your 4th of July festivities. […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Friday, June 24th, 2016
Thanks to all of the 41 good people who came to our wine, cider and cheese pairing event last night! We had a lot of fun, and it sounds like you did too. Thank you to Matthew Hardy for providing the music and to Anita White for the art installation. We’re looking forward to having […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Friday, June 17th, 2016
You asked for them- we’ve provided. While we’re trying not to change our hours too much, in five months of running the bottle shop in front of the building, we’ve noticed some trends. There tends to be a rush of business in the late afternoon and early evening on Fridays, and early afternoon on Saturdays. […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Thursday, June 16th, 2016
We’ll be sampling our ciders and some soon-to-be-released wines paired with delicious cheeses on June 23rd from 6-9 at Urban Forage Winery and Cider House. $15 for the evening. This is our first ticketed event, so please find the details on our Facebook page or purchase tickets at Eventbrite if you are interested. We’re looking […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
Well I’m glad you asked! Now that Bernick’s is distributing our semisweet hard cider, you can buy it from someone other than -me- and somewhere other than the front of our building. So far it’s only available in South and Northeast Minneapolis, western St. Paul and White Bear Lake, but we expect that more locations […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
Pick up a bottle of cherry-apple or pear cider for Mom- she’ll probably like it more than flowers. We’ll be open Friday and Saturday from 2-6 PM, and we’ll even give you a discount if you buy three bottles. Now you really have no excuse.
By Jeff Zeitler on Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
If you’re a fan of shiny brewing equipment, you’ll be excited to hear that we had a brite tank shipped from Portland and delivered to our building this week! We received a 500 liter tank from Stout Tanks and Kettles and members of the Longfellow Homebrew Club helped get it into the building. We’ll be […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
No it’s not literally green, as in a product with FD&C food coloring added. It’s green in the sense that we made it sustainably, without chemicals, or with just the bare minimum to keep it fresh when we bottle it. And now- we are selling it on Saint Patrick’s Day! As you may know- cider, […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Hi to everyone, especially to those who backed us at the CSA level during our kickstarter campaign. There are almost 100 of you, so it took us a bit of time to have the inventory and the level of organization to be able to fulfill the terms of the CSA- which include a bottle of […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Sunday, January 31st, 2016
We’ve been heartened and slightly surprised by the demand for our semisweet cider and cherry apple cider in the last couple of days. We’re glad the neighborhood has embraced us to the degree that it has, and hope to be good neighbors in return! We had a great night out at a new(ish) Seward restaurant […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
In case you haven’t seen it on social media- we are now open on Friday from 2-6 PM, and on Saturdays from 2-6 PM. We currently have 750 ml bottles of dry cider and semisweet cider on sale for $12.99 plus tax. Stop in to chat and take home a bottle or a few. Pick […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Celebrate the NFL playoffs with something better than light beer! Urban Forage dry apple wine (also known as still cider) will be for sale at 3016 East Lake (side door) again this Saturday from 2-6 PM. We’ll be open on a regular basis from now on each Saturday from 2-6, and will add weekday hours […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Sunday, December 27th, 2015
Come and see us at the SIDE DOOR of 3016 East Lake Street and buy one of the first bottles of cider we are making available to the general public! Knock three times speakeasy style, and we’ll let you in. We may not be able to give tours, as we may be busy these first […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Thursday, December 17th, 2015
If you have Urban Forage branded swag that you picked up after the Kickstarter campaign- please send us a selfie at urbanforagewinery@gmail.com showing you using it. We’ll post your photo here and on our FB page. And if you haven’t heard already- we plan to start selling cider on December 30 at our building. Hours […]
By Jeff Zeitler on Sunday, December 13th, 2015
We are good to go! Production starts December 17th, and we expect to have a product to sell within a few weeks! I’ll post more details here when we have them. For now- I’ll just say that we’re clear to make wine, cider and mead and sell it on site!
By Jeff Zeitler on Sunday, November 29th, 2015
We seem to keep getting great news coverage. This week there’s an article in the Messenger, not about Urban Forage, but about the ReciproCITY Food Forest proposed for the flooded Hiawatha golf course site. We’ve pledged 100 fruit trees to the project to help it get off the ground and this information made it into […]
By Jeff on Friday, November 27th, 2015
The basement of our building is finally starting to look like a winery! We’ve been actively working on it since July, and are finally in a place where we are happy to post pictures. The two above were taken on Tuesday just before our inspection by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. The inspection went […]
By Jeff on Thursday, October 8th, 2015
Jeff will be a panelist following the showing of “Just Eat It” a documentary about food waste in the US. See the details and a preview of the movie (much more interesting than it sounds) below. I’ll be talking about food waste after the film, and about how we’re capturing apples before they fall on […]
