Minnesota Legislature
HF 3626
as introduced - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 02/21/2022 02:50pm
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A bill for an act
relating to liquor; providing a definition of beer; amending the definition of malt
liquor; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 340A.101, subdivisions 3a,
16, by adding a subdivision.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 340A.101, subdivision 3a, is amended to read:
Subd. 3a.
deleted text begin Brew pubdeleted text end new text begin Beernew text end .
deleted text begin
"Brew pub" is a brewer who also holds one or more retail
on-sale licenses and who manufactures fewer than 3,500 barrels of malt liquor in a year, at
any one licensed premises, the entire production of which is solely for consumption on tap
on any licensed premises owned by the brewer, or for off-sale from those licensed premises
as permitted in section 340A.24, subdivision 2.
deleted text end
new text begin
"Beer" is any beverage that is a malt liquor.
new text end
Sec. 2.
Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 340A.101, is amended by adding a subdivision
to read:
new text begin Subd. 3b. new text end
new text begin Brew pub. new text end
new text begin
"Brew pub" is a brewer who also holds one or more retail on-sale
licenses and who manufactures fewer than 3,500 barrels of malt liquor in a year, at any one
licensed premises, the entire production of which is solely for consumption on tap on any
licensed premises owned by the brewer, or for off-sale from those licensed premises as
permitted in section 340A.24, subdivision 2.
new text end
Sec. 3.
Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 340A.101, subdivision 16, is amended to read:
Subd. 16.
Malt liquor.
"Malt liquor" is any beer, ale, or other beverage made from malt
by fermentationnew text begin , or by the fermentation of malt substitutes, including rice, grain of any kind,
glucose, sugar, or molasses, that has not undergone distillation,new text end and containing not less than
one-half of one percent alcohol by volume.