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!
Rotating Flights of MN Craft Beer – A Unique Experience Every Time You Visit!
- 200+ Rotating Craft Beverages from 70 Minnesota Craft Breweries and Brewpubs
- NEW: CRAFTED HARD SELTZERS – ONLY AT THE FAIR!
- Award Winners Flight – MN’s Best Beers
- Beer & Cider Flights by Flavor Profile
- Daily Presentations
- Craft Beer Gifts
NEW: Crafted Hard Seltzers
Enjoy Crafted Hard Seltzers, mixed for you right at the Fair. These drinks are exclusive to the MN State Fair, and just like our beer flights, rotate constantly. Details coming soon!
Rotating Craft Beer Flights
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!
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- MN Brewers Cup Award Winners Flight – winners of our annual blind-taste-test competition!
- Crisp & Clean Flight – cream ales, pilsners, lagers, and other thirst quenchers
- Hoppy & Bitter Flight – IPAs, DDHIPAs, NEIPAs, Hazys- we’ve got them all
- Fruity, Spicy, Tart, & Funky Flight – everything fruited, sour, or strange
- Malty, Sweet, Dark, & Roasty Flight – for the dark-beer lovers – porters and stouts with all your favorite flavors
- Minnesota Mix Flight – looking for a variety? This fight features everything!
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.
Featuring Craft Breweries & Brewpubs From Across Minnesota:
| Arbeiter Brewing Company | Minneapolis |
| August Schells Brewing Company | New Ulm |
| Back Channel Brewing | Spring Park |
| Badger Hill Brewing | Shakopee |
| Bald Man Brewing | Eagan, MN |
| Bear Cave Brewing | Hopkins |
| Bent Paddle Brewing Co. | Duluth |
| Big Axe Brewing Company Llc | Nisswa |
| Blacklist Brewing Company | Duluth |
| BlackStack Brewing | St. Paul |
| Block North Brew Pub | Aitkin |
| Brau Brothers Brewery | Marshall, MN |
| Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative | Mineapolis |
| Bruhaven | Minneapolis |
| Bucks Mill Brewing | Detroit Lakes |
| Castle Danger Brewery | Two Harbors |
| Chapel Brewing | Dundas |
| Dangerous Man Brewing | Minneapolis |
| Elm Creek Brewing | Champlin |
| Excelsior Brewing Co | Excelsior |
| Fair State Brewing | Saint Paul |
| Forgotten Star Brewing Co. | Fridley |
| Fulton Brewing Company | Minneapolis |
| Giesenbräu Bier Co | New Prague |
| Gluek Beer | Stillwater |
| Goat Ridge Brewing | New London |
| Gravity Storm Brewery | Austin |
| Inbound BrewCo | Minneapolis |
| Indeed Brewing Company | Minneapolis |
| Iron Exchange | Maple Plain |
| Klockow Brewing | Grand Rapids |
| Lakeville / Inver Grove Brewing | Lakeville |
| Little Thistle Brewing Company | Rochester |
| LocAle Brewing Co. | Mankato |
| Lupulin Brewing | Big Lake |
| Mana Brewing | Shakopee |
| Mineral Springs Brewery | Owatonna |
| Minneapolis Cider Company | Minneapolis |
| Modist Brewing Company | Minneapolis |
| Montgomery Brewing | Montgomery |
| Nine Mile Brewing Co. | Bloomington |
| North 20 Brewing Co | Rosemount |
| Nouvelle Brewing | Robbinsdale |
| OMNI Brewery & Taproom | Maple Grove | Rosemount | Victoria |
| Padraigs Brewing | Minneapolis |
| Pryes Brewing Company | Minneapolis |
| Rail Werks Brewing Depot | Columbia Heights |
| Saint Paul Brewing | Saint Paul |
| SHAKOPEE BREW HALL | SHAKOPEE |
| Spiral Brewery | Hastings |
| Tanzenwald Brewing Company | Northfield |
| The Freehouse | Minneapolis |
| Trove Brewing | Burnsville |
| Uncommon Loon Brewing Company | Chisago City |
| UNDER PRESSURE BREWING | Golden Valley |
| Unmapped Brewing Co. | Minnetonka |
| Ursa Minor | Duluth |
| Utepils Brewing Company | Minneapolis |
| Venn Brewing Companhy | Minneapolis |
| Voyageur Brewing Company | Grand Marais |
| Waldmann Brewery | Saint Paul, MN |
| Wandering Leaf Brewing Company | St. Paul |
| Wild State Cider | Duluth |
| Wooden Hill Brewing Company | Edina |
| Wooden Hill Brewing Company | Edina |
Sampling at Our Brewed in Minnesota Exhibit
About the Flights
Our exhibit features ~200 unique beers and other craft beverages from 70 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 26 different products on tap; come back after a few hours for a whole new set of options! 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 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
Blue Ribbon Bargain Book: 25% discounts on our totes (Learn more about the Blue Ribbon Bargain Book)
Opening Day, Senior’s Day, and Military Appreciation Day: Buy one premium T-shirt or Tote bag, get a free pint glass or re-useable, compostable cup!
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
2025 Press Release
Brewed in Minnesota FAQs
NEW This Year: Crafted Hard Seltzers
Enjoy Crafted Hard Seltzers, mixed for you right at the Fair. These drinks are exclusive to the MN State Fair, and just like our beer flights, rotate constantly. Crafted Hard Seltzers are a collaboration between our exhibit and Minnesota craft brewers; brewers provide the hard seltzer base, and we mix this up into specialty drinks right at the exhibit!
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.