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Wholesale alcohol rules in Minnesota

Whether a producer may sell direct to a retailer here, by beverage class. Each row says how well sourced it is: whether we read the statute ourselves, or are still working from our own notes or a secondary summary.

This is the producer-to-retailer lane. Sales through a licensed wholesaler are the ordinary route and are not what these rows describe. Nothing here is legal advice — it is a record of what we read, published so you can check it.

Beer

Open, but conditional

Condition: The beer must move through a SEPARATE wholesaler entity the brewer owns - the brewer itself cannot be licensed as a wholesaler unless it was already doing so on 1991-01-01.

Minn. Stat. 340A.301 subd. 1 and subd. 9(g) — verified 2026-10-25.

Wine

Open
  • Producer must make no more than 75,000 gal/yr to qualify

Minn. Stat. 340A.315 subd. 2 — verified 2026-10-25.

RTD / canned cocktails

Open, but conditional

Condition: An RTD follows its base, and the three bases do not agree here — beer: conditional, wine: allowed, spirits: prohibited. The order does not carry the base.

Derived from this state's beer, wine and spirits lanes (Minn. Stat. 340A.301 subd. 1 and subd. 9(g); Minn. Stat. 340A.315 subd. 2; Minn. Stat. 340A.315 subd. 2; 340A.22 subd. 3; 340A.301 subd. 1)

A class not listed above is one nobody has read yet — not even a secondary summary. It is not a finding that Minnesota forbids it. Every row above links the statute it rests on, so you can check the reading for yourself.