S.F. No. 4598 Summary

• Allows qualifying restaurants with on-sale liquor licenses to sell malt liquor, hard seltzer, cider, and wine off-premises with prepared food take-out orders without additional licensing, limited to 72 ounces of malt liquor/hard seltzer/cider and 750 milliliters of wine per order.

• Requires alcoholic beverages be sold in original unopened packaging, purchaser must be at least 21 years old, and licensee must notify insurance provider of off-sales; no delivery authorized.

• Allows municipalities to prohibit these off-sales through governing body action.

• Authorizes taprooms licensed under Minnesota law to sell up to four 16-ounce or six 12-ounce containers of additional off-sale product brewed on premises per customer.

• Permits microdistilleries to sell up to 750 milliliters per person per day of on-site manufactured product; all temporary sales authority expires 60 days after the peacetime emergency declaration ends.