1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to liquor; providing a definition of beer; amending the definition of malt 
1.3 	liquor;amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 340A.101, subdivisions 3a, 
1.4 	16, by adding a subdivision.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 340A.101, subdivision 3a, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 3a.Brew pub Beer. "Brew pub" is a brewer who also holds one or more retail 
1.8 	on-sale licenses and who manufactures fewer than 3,500 barrels of malt liquor in a year, at 
1.9 	any one licensed premises, the entire production of which is solely for consumption on tap 
1.10 	on any licensed premises owned by the brewer, or for off-sale from those licensed premises 
1.11 	as permitted in section 340A.24, subdivision 2. "Beer" is any beverage that is a malt liquor.

1.12 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 340A.101, is amended by adding a subdivision 
1.13 	to read:
1.14 		Subd. 3b.Brew pub. "Brew pub" is a brewer who also holds one or more retail on-sale 
1.15 	licenses and who manufactures fewer than 3,500 barrels of malt liquor in a year, at any one 
1.16 	licensed premises, the entire production of which is solely for consumption on tap on any 
1.17 	licensed premises owned by the brewer, or for off-sale from those licensed premises as 
1.18 	permitted in section 340A.24, subdivision 2.

1.19 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 340A.101, subdivision 16, is amended to read:
1.20 		Subd. 16.Malt liquor. "Malt liquor" is any beer, ale, or other beverage made from malt 
1.21 	by fermentation, or by the fermentation of malt substitutes, including rice, grain of any kind, 
2.1 	glucose, sugar, or molasses, that has not undergone distillation, and containing not less than 
2.2 	one-half of one percent alcohol by volume.