On Tuesday, Minneapolis-based Indeed Brewing Co. will begin selling its own beer in Castle Danger’s growlers. Tom Whisenand, Indeed’s CEO, says it’s a playful workaround designed to raise awareness about Minnesota’s cap on growler sales. Under Minnesota law, breweries are prohibited from selling growlers, crowlers, or other off-sale products in their taprooms once they begin producing more than 20,000 barrels a year.
Indeed hasn’t hit that mark quite yet, which means the brewery can continue selling any growlers it wants. But Whisenand is well aware that that the state’s cap on growlers will eventually impact his operations.
Free-the-growler legislation appears dead at Minnesota Capitol Minnesota s largest craft breweries have pushed to end a cap that prohibits them from selling 72-ounce jugs. April 28, 2021 6:52pm Text size Copy shortlink:
DULUTH – A proposal to allow Minnesota s largest breweries to sell 72-ounce growlers appears dead after the measure failed to gain significant support in the closing weeks of the legislative session.
Hurt by the pandemic, several of those breweries formed an alliance last year to lobby for a change in the law that says breweries that produce more than 20,000 barrels of beer in a year are prohibited from selling growlers or other to-go containers. Several of the breweries, including Surly, Fulton and Castle Danger, have said the cap penalizes them for their growth.
Minnesota Brewery Has to Leave Minnesota to Expand
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One of Minnesota s largest craft breweries is getting even bigger but has to cross the state line into Wisconsin in order to do it.
I ve been a big fan of all of Minnesota s incredible craft breweries ever since I moved here to the Land of 10,000 Lakes nearly a decade ago. And one of my favorites has been Liftbridge Brewing Company in Stillwater (a little over an hour and twenty minutes north of Rochester.) They re one of the most well-known names in Minnesota s craft beer scene, and started brewing their beer back in 2008. They opened their current taproom at their brewery in Stillwater in 2011.
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