By Jeff on Monday, October 6th, 2014
Kickoff will be at 6 PM October 17th! Not the Super Bowl– no– this is much, much better. The beginning of cider, mead and wine production on East Lake Street. Will we be filling the vats that day? No. We’ll be working on getting the vats that we’ll eventually fill. We need to fund the […]
By Jeff on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014
We had our first wine and food pairing party this last weekend and I have to say it was truly fantastic. We put the invite out to everyone on our facebook and twitter feeds, and had a little over 30 people show up at our house for five Urban Forage wines, each paired with an […]
By Jeff on Friday, August 22nd, 2014
See it at: Urban Forage Microwinery sets sights on Minneapolis
By Jeff on Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
A new article by The Line- an online newspaper covering developments in Minneapolis and St. Paul came out this morning. We won’t be the first urban winery in the Midwest – I believe that honor goes to Amigoni winery of Kansas City. But we will be the first in the Upper Midwest as far as […]
By Jeff on Monday, August 4th, 2014
So this is our latest experiment in flower-based wines- lilac and dandelion wine! This one captured the essence of a Minnesota spring. Dandelions from the hills of Highland Park and bright purple lilacs from our St. Paul yard. I added some grape juice for tartaric acid and sugar content. Grapes came from my dad’s garden […]
By Jeff on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
In case you missed our first painting weekend, we are giving you a chance to help us paint and do some general spiffing-up of the winery premises. Jobs to do include: – A lot of painting of the basement, and of the upstairs office -Some patching of cement on the walls -Removing carpet glue from […]
By Jeff on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
So I’m a novice to Twitter, I admit. I set up an account years ago and didn’t really use it much. But- it’s a great way to let everyone know what we’re up to, and we’re getting up to a lot these days. So please sign up to follow Urban Forage Winery if you’re of […]
By Jeff on Monday, July 7th, 2014
When you say you’re going into the wine business, and particularly when you’re going into the urban wine business, you get a lot of funny looks. And a lot of questions. Such as: Are you gonna grow your own grapes? No, we’re not. As a matter of fact we’re hardly even going to use any […]
By Jeff on Friday, June 27th, 2014
Take a look at the article in the Longfellow Nokomis Messenger- the community newspaper for the neighborhood in which we’re opening the winery. Tesha Christensen wrote a wonderful article about us and what we’re doing with the formerly foreclosed building we’re turning into a winery. Read it here at: Longfellow Nokomis Messenger article
By Jeff on Sunday, June 15th, 2014
It’s exciting to be able to announce the arrival of our first piece of professional-grade equipment- a 300 liter Italian-made stainless steel fermenter! I have 14 gallons of dandelion and lilac wine fermenting in it right now, giving it a test run. We don’t have the building finished yet, or the licenses to […]
By Jeff on Thursday, May 29th, 2014
When Urban Forage Winery and Cider House opens we will: Source our fruit locally and sustainably: We plan to gather fruit from urban apple trees and raspberry bushes. We hope to intercept useable but not saleable fruit from food co-ops and natural food stores that would otherwise go to waste and ferment it into something […]
