So much fruit, so little beer-flavored beer. The Minnesota State Fair’s 2025 new beverages, reviewed

Day two of the Minnesota State Fair is in the books for me.

As usual, a band of merry tasters (this time including my newly minted 21-year-old and her boyfriend) sipped our way through most of the 70 new beverages offered by vendors.

This year’s flavor themes were pineapple, cherry and passion fruit, with plenty of other fruits in the mix. As usual, I’m begging beverage makers to get us some more beer-flavored beer. I think it really says something that one of the few local beers that wasn’t infused with something — a crisp lager from Falling Knife Brewing at Ballpark Cafe — was sold out when we tried to get one at the end of the night.

Here are our reviews, helpfully sorted by location, and in the order we tasted them. That’s important because we tend to get more punchy as the day goes