Summit Brewing Company
St. Paul's pioneering craft brewery, founded in 1986 by Mark Stutrud — one of the earliest craft breweries in the Upper Midwest. Summit's Extra Pale Ale defined Minnesota craft before craft was a category. Still independently owned and deeply embedded in Twin Cities culture.
Beers by Summit Brewing Company
20 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Summit Brewing Company brew a broad range across 7 style families.
Across these 20 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Summit Great Northern Porter
Their beers place in the Top 35% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Summit Brewing Company
St. Paul's pioneering craft brewery, founded in 1986 by Mark Stutrud — one of the earliest craft breweries in the Upper Midwest. Summit's Extra Pale Ale defined Minnesota craft before craft was a category. Still independently owned and deeply embedded in Twin Cities culture.
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