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<br />Item No: 1 <br />Meeting Date: August 1, 2016 <br />Type of Business: Work Session <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Desaree Crane, Assistant City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Breweries, Brewpubs, Distilleries, and Taprooms (Part 2) <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />Per the City Council’s direction, Staff has been working on amendments to the Zoning and <br />Liquor Code to allow brewpubs, breweries, microbreweries and taprooms in Mounds View. <br />As a refresher, below are the definitions: <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <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 /> <br />Microdistillery means a distillery producing premium, distilled spirits in total quantity not to <br />exceed 40,000 proof gallons in a calendar year as regulated by Minnesota Statutes. <br /> <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 /> <br />Currently Section 502.04, subd. 2(b) of the Mounds View City Code relating to Intoxicating <br />Liquor states: <br /> <br />Subd. 2. Places Ineligible for License: <br /> <br />b. No intoxicating liquor or wine license shall be granted for any premises that <br />has a property line within five hundred (500) feet of a property line of any <br />school or church located in Mounds View except that the five hundred (500) <br />feet restriction shall not apply and a license may be granted for any licensed <br />premises that receives at least sixty percent (60%) of its annual gross sales