List of breweries in Minnesota

Breweries in Minnesota produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, and nationally in the United States. 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.[1] As of 2017, the number of craft breweries had grown to 112, and the craft brewing overall economic impact of $1.3 billion ranked 14th among U.S. states.[2]

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.[1] Consumer purchases of Minnesota's brewery products generated more than $177 million extra in tax revenue.[1] In 2014, Minnesota ranked 14th among U.S. states in the number of craft breweries per capita, with 2.7 breweries per 100,000 adults.[3]

Breweries
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To be included in this list, a brewery must be located in the U.S. state of Minnesota; it may produce their own beer, produce contract beers, or 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.

Brewery Location Opened Notes
10K Brewing Anoka 2015[4]
56 Brewing Minneapolis 2015[5]
612Brew Minneapolis 2013[6]
Aegir Brewing Company Elk River 2018[7]
Angry Hog Brewery Austin 2018[8]
Angry Inch Brewing Lakeville 2016[9]
August Schell Brewing Company New Ulm 1860 The second-oldest family-owned brewery in the U.S.[10]
Back Channel Brewing Collective Spring Park 2017[11]
Bad Habit Brewing Company St. Joseph 2015[12] Expanded into the former St. Joseph city hall, 2019[13]
Bad Weather Brewing Saint Paul 2013[14]
Badger Hill Brewery Shakopee 2014[15]
Bald Man Brewing Eagan 2016[16]
Bank Brewing Company Hendricks 2014[17]
Barrel Theory Beer Company Saint Paul 2017[18]
Bauhaus Brew Labs Minneapolis 2014[19]
Beaver Island Brewing Company St. Cloud 2015[20]
Bemidji Brewing Bemidji 2013[21]
Bent Paddle Brewing Company Duluth 2013[22]
Big Wood Brewery White Bear Lake 2009[23] Established in Vadnais Heights, MN in 2009,[24] Taproom opened and Brewery relocated to Downtown White Bear Lake, MN in February 2014.[25]
Birch's on the Lake Brewhouse Long Lake 2015[26]
Black Stack Brewing Saint Paul 2017[27]
Blacklist Artisan Ales Duluth 2016[28]
Boom Island Brewing Company Minnetonka[29] 2011
Brau Bros. Brewing Company Marshall[30] 2006
Broken Clock Brewing Minneapolis 2017[31]
Castle Danger Brewery Two Harbors 2014[32]
Canal Park Brewing Duluth 2011[33]
Chapel Brewing Dundas 2017[34]
Clutch Brewing Company Saint Paul 2018 Located in the Schmidt Brewery complex[35]
Copper Trail Brewing Company Alexandria 2016[36]
Dangerous Man Brewing Company Minneapolis 2013
Dual Citizen Brewing Company Saint Paul 2018
Fair State Brewing Cooperative Minneapolis 2014[38]
Eastlake Craft Brewery Minneapolis 2014[39]
ENKI Brewing Company Victoria 2013[40]
Fair State Brewing Cooperative Minneapolis 2014[41]
Finnegans Brew Company Minneapolis 2018[42]
Fitger's Brewing Company Duluth 1997[22]
Flat Earth Brewing Company Saint Paul 2015 Located in the old Hamm's Brewery[43]
Forager Brewing Company Rochester[44] 2015
Forbidden Barrel Brewing Company Worthington 2019[45]
Foxhole Brewhouse Willmar 2015[46]
The Freehouse North Loop, Minneapolis 2014[47]
Fulton Beer Minneapolis 2009
Giesenbrau Bier Company New Prague 2017[48]
Grand Rounds Brewing Company Rochester[49] 2015[50]
Gravity Storm Brewery Cooperative Austin 2018[51]
Gull Dam Brewing Nisswa 2014[52] Closed 2018[53]
HammerHeart Brewing Company Lino Lakes 2013[54]
Hayes Public House Buffalo 2013[55]
Hoops Brewing Duluth[56] 2017[57]
Invictus Brewing Company Blaine 2018[58]
Imminent Brewing Northfield 2017[59]
Inbound BrewCo North Loop, Minneapolis 2016[60] Owned by North Loop BrewCo[61]
Indeed Brewing Company Minneapolis 2012
Insight Brewing Minneapolis 2014[62]
Jack Pine Brewery Baxter 2012[63]
Kinney Creek Brewery Rochester 2012[64]
Lake Superior Brewing Company Duluth[65] 1994[22]
Lakeville Brewing Company Lakeville 2016[66]
Lift Bridge Brewing Company Stillwater 2008[67]
LocAle Brewing Company Mankato 2018[68]
Loony's Brew Ranier 2017[69]
Lost Sanity Brewing Madelia 2018[70]
LTS Brewing Company Rochester 2015[71]
Lupulin Brewing Big Lake 2015[72][73]
LynLake Brewery Uptown, Minneapolis 2014 Housed in the former Lyndale Theater[74]
Mankato Brewery Mankato 2012[75]
Modist Brewing Company Minneapolis[76] 2016[77]
Montgomery Brewing Company Montgomery 2014[78]
The Nordic Brewing Company Monticello 2018[79]
OMNI Brewing Company Maple Grove 2015[80]
Pantown Brewing Company St. Cloud 2018[81]
Pig's Eye Brewing Company Saint Paul 2002
Pryes Brewing Company Minneapolis 2017[82]
Reads Landing Brewery Reads Landing 2011[83]
Revelation Ale Works Hallock 2017[84]
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery Minneapolis
Roundhouse Brewery Brainerd 2016[85]
Rustech Brewing Company Monticello 2018[86]
Sisyphus Brewing Company Minneapolis 2014[87]
Sleepy Eye Brewing Company Sleepy Eye 2019[88]
Spilled Grain Brewhouse Annandale 2015[89]
Spiral Brewery Hastings 2018[90]
Summit Brewing Company Saint Paul 1986
Surly Brewing Company Minneapolis 2005
Take 16 Brewing Company Luverne 2014[91]
Talking Waters Brewing Company Montevideo 2016[92]
Tanzenwald Brewing Company Northfield 2017[93]
Third Street Brewhouse Cold Spring 2011 Located in the Cold Spring Brewery building[94]
Three Twenty Brewing Company Pine City 2017[95]
Tilion Brewing Company Cannon Falls 2018 [96]
Town Hall Brewing Minneapolis 1997[97]
Uncommon Loon Brewing Company Chisago City 2018 Located in the former Chisago City Fire Hall and Community Center[98]
Under Pressure Brewing Golden Valley 2019[99]
Utepils Brewing Minneapolis 2017[100]
Venn Brewing Company Minneapolis 2017[101]
Wabasha Brewing Company Saint Paul 2016 Located in the old Yoerg brewery[102]
Waconia Brewing Company Waconia 2014[103]
Wicked Wort Brewing Company Robbinsdale 2016[104]

See also

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