The Tiny Tap is a local beer truck. Mihm, Pearson and Nutting plan to build two additional trucks to support events in the Twin Cities. (Photo by Samantha Nutting)

The Tiny Tap has started making its way around the Twin Cities. The tap house on wheels was co-founded in October 2017 by St. Thomas alumni Colin Mihm and Trevor Pearson.

“We’re 100 percent mobile,” Mihm said. “We can really show up anywhere. We can show up to somebody’s house, somebody’s business. We can go inside corporate offices or inside wedding venues or event spaces, anything that has a double door.”

They currently have two taps and can serve anything in a keg, but the two are focusing on prosecco, Tiny Tap’s marketing and event coordinator Samantha Nutting said.

“The concept of the Tiny Tap is a food truck that we have transformed into a tap house,” Nutting said.

They have worked at corporate events, weddings, birthday parties and family get-togethers, Mihm said.

The Tiny Tap primarily works in the Twin Cities area, Nutting said.

“Response has been really positive. There’s really nothing like it in the Minneapolis area, which is really cool,” Nutting said.

They have had mostly positive reviews so far, and people are booking services into 2020, Mihm said.

Mihm and Pearson met through Matt Ames, another St. Thomas alumnus.

“It started as a friendship,” Mihm said. “Matt and I used to work together on some other entrepreneurial projects a few years ago and Trevor has been an entrepreneur for 12 to 15 years…We were all out one day probably like seven or eight years ago and he just made the introduction and we kind of became friends.”

Mihm and Pearson were in traveling in Europe when they thought of the idea for the Tiny Tap.

“We saw this abroad and we said, ‘Hey, this is such a cool idea. We need to bring this back to the states,’” Mihm said. “We’ve been working on it for a little over a year and launched it late this summer.”

They did a lot of research on trucks in Europe and then found a similar one in Iowa, Mihm said.

“It was a seven month-long process to basically build it from scratch and fabricate it into something that we thought was super marketable and instagramable,” Mihm said.

Currently, Mihm, Pearson and Nutting are the only employees. However, they have plans to expand. They are in the process of building two more trucks for a total of three trucks so that they can cater to three events at the same time, Mihm said.

“We’re building more trucks, and in turn we will need more employees,” Mihm said. “We’re going to be growing and scaling dramatically over the next six months.”

Rachel Torralba can be reached at torr3544@stthomas.edu.