Welcome to The New Pavilion of Glewwe's Castle Brewery,  Prior Lake, Minnesota USA Home Made Root Beer since 1994

Since 2010, the brewery has been open for social activities to share the joy of drinking an assortment of beverages.  We had a rather large tent on the brewery patio with some furniture for guests to sit and enjoy an afternoon.  More guests started coming as word spread about us, causing us to get more furniture and pop-up tents to keep the afternoon sun off of us.  But after 2 years of retirement from his day job, Mark decided that moving tents and furniture to mow was too tiresome.  It was time to have a more permanent solution for entertainment.

So Mark & Laurel sat down and started to jot down some ideas.  We started with an enclosed building so we could entertain more and hide from bad weather.  Kind of costly.  What about a smaller enclosed area with a large covered patio.  Better.  Eventually we settled on a smaller enclosed area mostly to store some stuff and a large covered patio, kind of like one of those park pavilions.  We were very happy with the EPS solid core brewery building so we figured we would use the same manufactured structure.  After calling around, we discovered ProCon in Faribault, Minnesota.  After gagging over the cost, we decided to move forward.  The plan was to be done by the end of October 2025, but a few snags got in the way of that schedule.

The final plans were a 24'x8' enclosed building with an adjacent 24'x40' covered pavilion.  And it would go up near the existing brewery.  Electric but no plumbing.  Sounded simple enough.  Just needed to get a permit from the county.  Ha!  That took 3 months.  For some reason they thought we were running a business and wanted to treat the building as such.  Then they started looking at the existing brewery building.  Apparently they decided we needed a holding tank for drainage water because the water was plumbed up to the brewery from the house.  And then they wanted us to inspect the house septic tank and drain field.  OMG!!  All this scrutiny for a building that did not even plan to have water.  Anyway, in mid-November (yep, 2 weeks after the original plan to be finished) we got approval to build.  Now, if you know Minnesota, November is essentially part of winter.  Remember we got 30 inches of snow in the blizzard on Halloween 1991.  Pouring concrete in the winter is kind of tricky but luckily this year the weather stayed warm (above freezing) until 4 days after the concrete was poured.  Then it got cold and the snow started to fall.  The building materials are now under 4-6 inches of snow and the temperatures are staying below freezing.  Not exactly ideal for outside construction work. 

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More to come as progress continues. 

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The whole Glewwe family hopes you enjoy the results of this project.  Our products are still made by hand in keeping with a traditional old world charm.

We will now have room for more entertaining.  In fact, our 2nd Swiss slave is planning a wedding reception for the USA side of family & friends in September 2026.  If you would like a tour of the brewery & pavilion, please feel free to contact us.

The final draft plans

First we got to get the trees out of the way

There sure are a lot of pieces to this puzzle

Start with the excavation, then pour the concrete floor, and inspection

And we even have a sign welcoming our guests.