Little Thistle Brewery takes root in Rochester

November 29, 2017

Steve Finnie points out a falcon diving across the Douglas State Trail. We’re standing on a loading dock, one of 22 such docks that ring this 5,200-square-foot building, surveying the dead end of 14th Street NW in a light industrial corridor of Rochester, Minnesota.

“A lot of people in Minnesota and around the country are doing the warehouse feel for a brewery,” he says. “Originally, we looked at this space and Dawn didn’t think it was anything special.”