Buying Beer Is Both Legal and Illegal on Sunday Nights in Minnesota
I'd been catching up with some old friends at Utepils Brewing in Minneapolis and, as we headed for the door, I grabbed a few cans of the brewery's signature pilsner, intending to bring them home. In fact, she would have been happy to pour another round of drinks for all of us. The beer was perfectly legal to be sold, and the cans in the cooler marked "to go" were available for purchase—just not at this very moment.
- ▪I'd been catching up with some old friends at Utepils Brewing in Minneapolis and, as we headed for the door, I grabbed a few cans of the brewery's signature pilsner, intending to bring them home.
- ▪In fact, she would have been happy to pour another round of drinks for all of us.
- ▪The beer was perfectly legal to be sold, and the cans in the cooler marked "to go" were available for purchase—just not at this very moment.
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Beer Buying Beer Is Both Legal and Illegal on Sunday Nights in Minnesota An unplanned encounter with a silly, arbitrary (and improving) liquor law Eric Boehm | 6.23.2026 11:15 AM Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Add Reason to Google Media Contact & Reprint Requests <img src="https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/c800x450-w800-q80/uploads/2026/06/Beer-6-22-B-800x450.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto" width="1200" height="675" title="A six pack of beer next to the Minnesota state flag" alt="A six pack of beer next to the Minnesota state flag | Billy Blume/Envato/Dreamstime/Bradinator33/Adani Samat" /> (Billy Blume/Envato/Dreamstime/Bradinator33/Adani Samat) It was a little after 6 p.m.
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