Five facilities, four of them breweries, and four of them running THC beverages — a concentration you won't find in many other states. Three list batch sizes in barrels, but only Summit states a figure it actually asks customers to meet.
The published minimum first, then the rest. Three of these breweries list batch sizes in barrels; we checked each source and only Summit frames its figure as something the customer must meet. The others describe what their tanks can run.
| Facility | City | Minimum run | Formats | Alcohol | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surly Brewing Co.Minneapolis + Brooklyn Center | Minneapolis | Not published | Can 12/16 oz + sleek, keg | Beer, seltzer, THC, non-alc | Lists batch sizes from 60 BBL (about 800 cases) to 600 BBL under “Our Capabilities” — what it can run, not a floor you must clear, so it isn't recorded as a published minimum. Cross-flow filtration, QC lab, warehousing, turnkey or custom. Independent Craft Brewer since 2017; contact by form only. |
| Fulton Brewing Company | Minneapolis | Not published | Can 12/16 oz, glass, keg | Beer, hard seltzer | Lists “80 and 160 bbl batch sizes (approx 1,000 and 2,000 cases)” under Capabilities — sizes it runs, not a stated minimum. High-speed canning and bottling, 6,000 sq ft of cold storage, in-house lab and design services. Publishes a direct contract email, so the minimum is one question away. |
| Summit Brewing Co. | St. Paul | 100 barrelstheir wording: "beginning at" | Can 7.5 sleek/12/16/19.2 oz, glass, keg | Beer, seltzer, THC | The only facility here that names a threshold for customers: it “works best with larger customers looking for batch sizes beginning at 100 bbls with multiple runs per year.” Softer than a hard floor, but it is about who they take on, not what their tanks hold. Around twenty years of contract packing and the widest format list here. |
| Brau Brothers Brewing Co. | Marshall | Not published | Can 12 oz, sleek slim, 16 oz tallboy | Beer, hard seltzer, RTD, THC | Over 25 years in operation, with a recent canning line and in-line shrink sleeving. Recipe formulation, can sourcing, labelling and final packaging. Runs its own Bleezy THC range since 2023 and co-packs THC for third parties. |
| Carolina Beverage GroupCold Spring plant; HQ in Mooresville, NC | Cold Spring | Not published | Can 8–24 oz | Beer, wine, spirits, RTD | The only non-brewery on this list, and the only one that isn't Minnesota-based: this is the third plant of a multi-state operator also covered on our North Carolina and Texas pages. FSSC 22000, Kosher and Halal certified. |
Minnesota legalised low-dose hemp-derived THC drinks in 2022, and its contract brewing industry absorbed the category almost immediately. Four of these five facilities are breweries, and four of them run THC beverages — Surly, Summit and Brau Brothers all name it directly, with Brau Brothers running its own Bleezy line since 2023.
That matters practically: in most states, finding a co-packer willing to touch a THC drink is the hard part. In Minnesota it's close to the default. If that's your category, this is a shorter search than almost anywhere else.
The trade-off is scale. Everything here is quoted in barrels, and the smallest batch anyone mentions is 60 — roughly 800 cases. There's no pallet-sized entry point in this state the way there is in Florida or New Jersey.
Across the 217 facilities we track nationally, 32 publish a minimum — about one in seven. Minnesota publishes one of five, even though three of its breweries put barrel figures on their websites.
That gap is the whole point. Surly lists 60 to 600 BBL under “Our Capabilities”; Fulton lists “80 and 160 bbl batch sizes” under Capabilities. Both describe what the equipment can run. Summit is the only one that frames a number around the customer — batch sizes “beginning at 100 bbls” — so it is the only one we record.
We briefly recorded all three as published minimums, then checked each source page on 1 August 2026 and removed two. A number on a website isn't a minimum unless the facility asks you to meet it — and most of the time, it doesn't.
A barrel is 31 US gallons — roughly 13 cases of 24×12 oz, so Summit's 100 barrels is about 1,300 cases. We publish the brewery's own unit rather than converting, because a converted number is our arithmetic, not their commitment.
Surly and Fulton publish batch sizes, not minimums. Surly lists 60 to 600 barrels, Fulton 80 and 160 — both under “capabilities”. Neither says what the smallest order it will accept is, so that's the first question to ask. Fulton publishes a direct contract email; Surly takes enquiries by form only.
Tell us the product and the volume. We come back with the facilities that can actually run it — and if a 100-barrel batch is more than you need, we'll look at smaller options in neighbouring states.
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