Indeed Brewing Company
Indeed Brewing Company was founded in the fall of 2011 by three friends — Thomas Whisenand, Rachel Anderson, and Nathan Berndt — who set out to build a brewery rooted in adventure, curiosity, and an unmistakable love of craft. They brought in Josh Bischoff, formerly of Town Hall Brewery, as head brewer and pushed the first batch through the kettles in the summer of 2012. When Indeed opened its taproom that August in the Logan Park neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis, it became the first brewery in Minnesota to plan an on-site taproom from day one — riding the wave of a brand-new state law that finally let breweries pour pints directly to the public.
Walk into Indeed today and you’ll find one of the most welcoming rooms in the Twin Cities. The Main Taproom is built for hanging out: sixteen rotating taps, Cicerone-certified beertenders happy to walk you through the menu, and weathered industrial bones that nod to the building’s Northeast roots. Out back, the Beeryard sprawls into a sun-soaked, dog-friendly patio that doubles as a concert and event space — and after signing a fresh 20-year lease in 2026, it’s getting an even bigger expansion. A private event space called The Ox, a merch-stocked Gear Shop, regular brewery tours, and a steady calendar of live music and community events round it out.
“We are thirsty creatures, Indeed.”
Indeed’s lineup is gleefully eclectic. The flagship Day Tripper Pale Ale — a bitter, classically West-Coast pale — was the brewery’s first beer and is still pulling its weight more than a decade later. Then there’s Pistachio Cream Ale, an against-all-odds R&D experiment born at Indeed’s Milwaukee pilot brewery that became the company’s best-selling beer almost overnight. Mexican Honey Imperial Lager, brewed with Mexican orange blossom honey, has racked up hardware at the Great American Beer Festival, the World Beer Cup, and the European Beer Star. And the Wooden Soul series — a separate program devoted to wild, sour, and barrel-aged beer — shows just how far this team is willing to push. Layered on top of it all is Indeed We Can, the brewery’s employee-driven charitable giving program, which donates 100% of taproom profits one day every week to an employee-selected local nonprofit.
What makes Indeed worth the trip isn’t any one beer — it’s the sense that the people behind the bar genuinely care about the beer, the neighborhood, and you. Grab a Pistachio Cream Ale, find a seat in the Beeryard, watch a dog do laps around the picnic tables, and you’ll get it within five minutes. Few Midwest breweries have managed to scale into multi-state distribution while keeping their home taproom feeling this much like a neighborhood haunt. Indeed has, and that’s the whole pitch.