Star Tribune: Linden Hills' Todd Haug Mixes Coffee and Beer at Surly

Surly head brewer Todd Haug, a Linden Hills resident, turned to local roaster Coffee & Tea Ltd. to concoct the coffee-infused beer Coffee Bender, according to a recent article in the Star Tribune:

“We didn’t want something that would completely destroy the beer character,” Haug said. “In the right ratio, it actually adds very similar flavors that are in the beer, so you have this nice marriage of coffee and roasted character from the chocolate malt.”

Haug lives in the Linden Hills neighborhood, where Cone has run his specialty coffee shop since 1979 (in addition to a Mall of America location) and has known the bean baron for 17 years. Haug and his wife, Linda, served Cone’s coffee at their now-defunct Cafe Twenty Eight, which had a 10-year-run a few doors down from Coffee & Tea Ltd. “Definitely that friendship has been huge and it helps that the money stays local,” Haug said. “And it’s convenient for me to pick it up [laughs], to be honest.”

Read the full article at startribune.com.

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• Local Beer Businesses Competing for Award That's "Kind of a Big Deal"
• Chef’s Corner: Q&A with Linda Haug of Cafe Twenty Eight
• Saying Goodbye To Cafe Twenty-Eight

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