MN STATE FAIR: BREWED IN MINNESOTA

Always Something New on Tap at the Brewed in MN Exhibit!

The most varied – and always changing – lineup of craft beer at the Minnesota State Fair!
Stop by our space in the Agriculture/Horticulture building for a different flight every time you visit – there’s always something new on tap!

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Rotating Flights of MN Craft Beer – A Unique Experience Every Time You Visit!

Our exhibit features six rotating flights, each with 4 different beers from 4 different breweries. After a keg is emptied, it’s replaced by a new beer! On a busy Fair day, you could see 24 new beers available every hour!

    • NEW: MN Brewers Cup Award Winners – some of the best beers from our annual blind-taste-test competition – all in one flight!
    • Crisp & Clean – cream ales, pilsners, lagers, and other thirst quenchers
    • Hoppy & Bitter – IPAs, DDHIPAs, NEIPAs, Hazys- we’ve got them all
    • Fruity, Spicy, Tart, & Funky – everything fruited, sour, or strange
    • Malty, Sweet, Dark, & Roasty – for the dark-beer lovers – porters and stouts with all your favorite flavors
    • Minnesota Mix – looking for a variety? This fight features everything!
    • NA Craft Beverages – Non-alcoholic craft beer, cider, kombucha, soda, and more!

Craft Beer, MN’s Brewing History, and the Connections Between Craft Beer and MN Agriculture

Learn about ingredients, see the process of how beer is made, and get caught up on recent laws that shape craft brewing in our state. Our stage features presentations daily that explore the local businesses, ingredients, and people who make MN one of the top craft beer states in the nation! See the full presentation schedule below.

TRY THESE CRAFT BREWERIES AT OUR EXHIBIT

Featuring Craft Breweries & Brewpubs From Across Minnesota:

320 Dwellers Brewing Pine City
56 Brewing Minneapolis
Angry Inch Brewing Lakeville
Arbeiter Brewing Company Minneapolis
August Schells Brewing Company New Ulm
Bad Weather Brewing Company Saint Paul
Badger Hill Brewing Shakopee
Bauhaus Brew Labs Minneapolis
Bear Cave Brewing Hopkins
Bent Paddle Brewing Co. Duluth
Big Axe Brewing Company Llc Nisswa
Blacklist Brewing Company Duluth
BlackStack Brewing St. Paul
Boathouse Brothers Brewing Co PRIOR LAKE
Boom Island Brewing Company Minnetonka
Brau Brothers Brewing Co. Marshall
Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative Minneapolis
Bruhaven Minneapolis
Castle Danger Brewery Two Harbors
Chapel Brewing Dundas
Dual Citizen Saint Paul
Elm Creek Brewing Champlin
Fair State Brewing Cooperative Minneapolis
FINNEGANS Brew Co. Minneapolis
Forager Brewery Rochester
Fulton Brewing Company Minneapolis
Gambit Brewing Co Saint Paul
Giesenbräu Bier Co New Prague
Gluek Beer Stillwater
Goat Ridge Brewing New London
Gravity Storm Brewery Austin
HeadFlyer Brewing Minneapolis
Heavy Rotation Brewing Co. Brooklyn Park
Imminent Brewing Northfield
Inbound BrewCo Minneapolis
Indeed Brewing Company Minneapolis
Insight Brewing Company Minneapolis
Intuition Brewing Willmar
Iron Exchange Maple Plain
Jack Pine Brewery Baxter
Karst Brewing Fountain
Klockow Brewing Grand Rapids
Lake Monster Brewing St. Paul
Lake Superior Brewing Duluth
Lakeville Brewing & Inver Grove Brewing Companies Lakeville (2 locations) and Inver Grove Heights
Little Thistle Brewing Rochester
LocAle Brewing Company Mankato
Lupulin Brewing Big Lake
Mana Brewing Shakopee
MetroNOME Brewery St. Paul
Mineral Springs Brewery Owatonna
Minneapolis Cider Company Minneapolis
Modist Brewing Company Minneapolis
Montgomery Brewing Montgomery
North 20 Brewing Co Rosemount
Northbound Smokehouse and Brew Pub Minneapolis
Nouvelle Brewing Robbinsdale
OMNI Brewery & Taproom Maple Grove | Rosemount | Victoria
Padraigs Brewing Minneapolis
Pryes Brewing Company Minneapolis
Pryes Brewing Company Minneapolis
Rail Werks Brewing Depot Columbia Heights
Saint Paul Brewing Saint Paul
Shakopee Brewhall Shakopee
Sociable Cider Werks Minneapolis
Spiral Brewery Hastings
Summit Brewing Company SAINT PAUL
Surly Brewing minneapolis
Talking Waters Brewing Co Montevideo
Tanzenwald Brewing Company LLC Northfield
Town Hall Brewery Minneapolis
Trove Brewing Burnsville
Ullsperger Brewi h St. Louis Park
Uncommon Loon Brewing Company Chisago City
UNDER PRESSURE BREWING Golden Valley
Unmapped Brewing Minnetonka
Ursa Minor Duluth
Utepils Brewing Minneapolis
Venn Brewing Minneapolis
Voyageur Brewing Company Grand Marais
Wabasha Brewing Company Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery Saint Paul
Wandering Leaf Brewing St. Paul
Wild State Cider Duluth
Wooden Hill Brewing Company Edina
Wooden Ship Brewing Company Minneapolis
CRAFT BEER FLIGHTS

Sampling at Our Brewed in Minnesota Exhibit

About the Flights

Our exhibit features ~200 unique beers and other craft beverages from 85+ MN breweries, brewpubs, and other beverage producers. It’s the most diverse lineup at the fair and highlights brewers from all across Minnesota! At any one time, you’ll find 24 different products on tap; come back after a few hours for a whole new set of options! In addition to our alcoholic craft beverage flights, we also feature an entire flight for NA craft beverages (beer, cider, seltzer, and more) for folks who want to explore locally made craft without the alcohol! We’re excited to bring more and more craft brew options to the Fair ach year, and highlight that locally-made craft brews are for everyone!

NOTE: Featuring so many brews in one place is no small feat! Because we cannot predict when a beer will sell out and a new keg will replace it, we can’t offer a beer schedule or tell you which beers you tried after the event. Be sure to take a picture of the flight screen you order to remember what you tried!

FREE PRESENTATIONS

Presentation Schedule Coming Summer 2025

BREWERY MAPS, CRAFT BEER GIFTS, & SPECIAL DEALS

Free Brewery Maps

While at the exhibit, check out the giant brewery map hanging on the wall to explore MN’s amazing network of craft breweries and brewpubs. Then, grab a free brewery map to-go as you head off to explore MN craft beer throughout the rest of the year! (Free maps while supplies last!)

Craft Beer Gifts

Grab some new swag for yourself or for a fellow craft beer lover! Our exhibit sells t-shirts, hats, pint glasses, and more. All proceeds of the exhibit support the MNCBG non-profit mission to promote, protect, and grow a robust Minnesota craft brewing industry.

Specials & Deals

Opening Day: Buy one premium T-shirt or tote bag, get a free beer bandana!
Senior’s Day: Buy one premium T-shirt or tote bag, get a free pint glass or beer bandana!
Military Appreciation Day: Buy one premium T-shirt or tote bag, get a free pint glass or beer bandana!

THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS

Supporting Partners

We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the MN State Fair for elevating MN craft beer throughout the Fair for more than a decade! In addition to visiting our exhibit, be sure to check out the Fair’s Specialty Sips program to find dozens of new MN-made craft beverages at venues all across the Fair.

We also want to thank our exhibit employees and presenters, and these important exhibit partners:

  • Lancer Hospitality Group
  • Metro Cold Stor
  • Beertory
FOR THE PRESS

Brewed in Minnesota FAQs

What Makes This Exhibit Unique?
The MNCBG “Brewed in Minnesota” exhibit offers the largest number and variety of Minnesota-made beers at the Fair, but why we’re able to do so is the really special thing about this exhibit!

For more than a decade, the MN State Fair has been incredibly supportive of the MN craft brewing industry. In 2012, with the support of the Fair, we opened our “Land of 10,000 Beers” exhibit in the Ag/Hort building, which allowed the Fair to more-than-double the amount of MN-made craft beer on offer to fairgoers. Back then, the majority of MN craft brewery business were brewpubs, and brewpubs are not normally allowed to distribute their beer. So we and the Fair secured a specific legal exception to allow brewpub members of the MN Craft Brewers Guild to supply their beer to us, just for this exhibit! Our exhibit at the Fair continues to be one of the only places you can sample brewpubs’ beer outside of the brewpub itself!

Since the early days of the exhibit, we have continued to feature an ever-growing array of MN beer from all across the state. While most venues at the Fair require breweries to supply a large number of kegs to ensure consistent products for the Fair’s duration, our exhibit does not! Any member of our organization is able to submit as few as a single keg for purchase, and all of our members are guaranteed at least one keg at the exhibit. Through the Brewed in Minnesota exhibit, the MN State Fair and MN Craft Brewers Guild are able to minimize the barriers to participation, and provide promotion and support opportunities to nearly every craft brewery and brewpub in the state, no matter their size or production capacity. That means fairgoers get a real representation of the quality and variety of craft beer that can be found across MN!

How much beer flows through the exhibit? 
Over the course of the Fair, we pour roughly 500 kegs of beer for Fairgoers! Our exhibit features 6 constantly-rotating flights (4 beers from 4 different breweries); flights are themed based on flavor to help Fairgoers discover new styles and flavor profiles they might like. If you know you like pilsners but aren’t sure where to go from there, you can buy a “Crisp & Clean” flight to sample a pilsner, lager, kolsch, and cream ale!

Who is giving presentations?
Presenters are MN craft brewery and brewpub staff or other experts from within the industry. Presentations cover a range of topics – from the earliest ingredient, to the process of brewing, to the business of getting beer to the people, and the culture in which this all happens.

Learn more about the MN Craft Brewers Guild, our mission, and our members on our About page.