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MOUNDS VIEW <br />of Mounds View Staff <br />Item No: 6B <br />Meeting Date: April 15 2015 <br />Type of Business: Other Planning Activity <br />To: Planning Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Discuss a Code Amendment to Allow Brewpubs, Taprooms, <br />Microbreweries and Breweries <br />At the April 6, 2015 Council Worksession, the City Council discussed allowing businesses like <br />brewpubs or taprooms in the City since they are becoming very popular after the State of <br />Minnesota loosened up regulations relating to these types of businesses. The Council is <br />supportive of allowing any type of brewing businesses — brewpub, taproom, microbrewery and <br />brewery. The City Code for liquor licensing will also need to be amended to accommodate <br />these particular types of businesses, along with some additional definitions. <br />Staff has drafted a resolution with the proposed uses added to the B-2, B-3 and 1-1 zoning <br />districts. There are different definitions, rules and state licensing for each type of liquor <br />manufacturing business. Here are general definitions for each: <br />Brewpub is a restaurant that produces its own beer for onsite and growler sales, while also <br />selling spirits and the beer of others. Brewpubs can serve their own beer -- and the beer <br />and liquor of other companies -- to patrons, but they cannot can, bottle, or keg their beer to <br />sell to bars, restaurants, and stores. <br />- Brewery is a facility that produces beer for distribution to bars and restaurants and can <br />operate a taproom that sells only their own beer onsite. It takes a separate license to own a <br />brewpub or a brewery and an individual in Minnesota cannot get both. <br />- Microbrewery is a state licensed facility and may brew no more than 20,000 barrels of its <br />own brands of malt liquor annually. <br />- Taproom is a state licensed brewer permitting the on -sale consumption of malt liquor <br />produced by the brewer for consumption on the premises of a brewery or an abutting <br />property in common ownership of the brewer, which may include the sales of malt liquor <br />produced and packaged at the brewery for off premises consumption as allowed by <br />Minnesota Statutes. <br />Recommendation <br />Discuss the proposed City Code amendments relating to malt liquor brewing businesses. <br />Sincerely, <br />Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Attachments: <br />1. Resolution 1023-15 <br />