Breweries in Minnesota produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, and nationally. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries and microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries.
In 2014 Minnesota's 109 brewing establishments (including breweries, brewpubs, importers, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers) employed 667 people directly, and more than 24,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. As of 2017, the number of craft breweries has grown to 112, and the craft brewing overall economic impact of $1,324,000,000 ranks 14th among US states. Altogether 57 people in Minnesota had active brewer permits in 2012.
Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Minnesota's breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Minnesota's breweries and related industries was more than $480 million. Consumer purchases of Minnesota's brewery products generated more than $177 million extra in tax revenue. In 2014, according to the Brewers Association, Minnesota ranked 14th in the number of craft breweries per capita, with 2.7 breweries per 100,000 adults.
For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs, 1,412 microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries. In that same year, according to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.
Breweries
Breweries in Minnesota may produce their own beer, produce only contract beers, or do both. Breweries which are known to produce contract beer are noted, but this specification does not exclude non-contract brewing, nor does a lack of this specification exclude contract brewing.
Minnesota breweries include:
- 10K Brewing - Anoka
- August Schell Brewing Company - New Ulm
- Back Channel Brewing Collective - Spring Park
- Bald Man Brewing - Eagan
- Bent Paddle Brewing Company - Duluth
- Castle Danger Brewery - Two Harbors
- Clutch Brewing Company - Saint Paul
- Dangerous Man Brewing Company - Minneapolis
- Day Block Building (Day Block Brewing Company) - Minneapolis
- Flat Earth Brewing Company - Saint Paul - located in the old Hamm's Brewery
- Fitger's Brewing Company - Duluth
- Forager Brewing Company - Rochester
- Fulton Beer - Minneapolis
- Grand Rounds Brewing Company - Rochester
- Gull Dam Brewing - Nisswa
- Imminent Brewing - Northfield, taproom, opened in 2017.
- Indeed Brewing Company - Minneapolis
- Kinney Creek Brewery - Rochester
- Lift Bridge Brewing Company - Stillwater - bottles, taproom, opened in 2009
- LTS Brewing Company - Rochester
- Mankato Brewery - Mankato
- OMNI Brewing Company - Maple Grove - taproom, opened in Sept 2015
- Pig's Eye Brewing Company - St. Paul (contract)
- Pryes Brewing Company - Minneapolis
- Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery - Minneapolis
- Summit Brewing Company - St. Paul
- Surly Brewing Company - Minneapolis
- Take 16 Brewing Company - Luverne
- Tanzenwald Brewing Company - Northfield, brewpub, opened in 2017.
- Third Street Brewhouse - Cold Spring
- Wabasha Brewing Company - Saint Paul - taproom, opened in 2015 in the old Yoerg brewery.
See also
- Beer in the United States
- List of breweries in the United States
- List of microbreweries
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