Taste & Tour of Golden Valley Celebrates Brewery’s Best Of Awards
The Golden Valley community came out on Thursday for a celebration of food and friends.
“It’s always fun it’s like a family-oriented event as you can tell,” said a shuttle bus driver at the Taste & Tour of Golden Valley. “We’ve got youngest kids to grandparents. You can tell they’re having a lot of fun.”
The bus ran participants from business to business, offering samples and prizes.
Sponsors ranged from Doolittles Woodfire Grill to Triple D Espresso.
“It gives a chance to go and sample things and know where these locations are. And they’re all so close. It’s wonderful,” said attendee Pat Johnson.
On this hot summer night, businesses got a chance to shine.
“A lot of people came in tonight that live in Golden Valley that still say they didn’t even know we were here,” said Lori Ertl, co-owner of Under Pressure Brewing.
The event was a perfect opportunity to reintroduce themselves to the community.
Under Pressure Brewing was one of the participating businesses in the Taste of Golden Valley festival.
“We’ve been a part of it for a couple years now, just trying to get our name out there more, getting people aware that we’re in the city,” Ertl said.
Rising costs and changing consumer habits are putting a strain on local breweries. Ertl wanted to offset that strain by bringing in some new faces.
“We’re losing breweries it seems like every week and we just, we want to stay,” she said. “We have such a good selection of beer and just such good things for people to try.”
The festival came as Under Pressure got some exciting news.
“We’re so, so appreciative and just want to say thank you to everybody who voted for us. We were up for five awards for the Minnesota’s Best 2025 this year and we won three,” Ertl said.
The brewery won “Best Taproom” and “Best Bloody Mary.” It also came in third place for “Best Brewery.”
It was an unexpected bit of good cheer for a brewery hoping to survive for years to come.
“That is a big honor, it’s just really really really exciting,” Ertl said.
