Getting Beer and Wine 'to go'

Management hope that lawmakers consider allowing beer and wine with take out even after the Pandemic is over.

Say they could discuss new on daybreak new on daybreak?

Beer and wine "to go" is giving some minnesota restaurants a chance to make some extra money during the pandemic.

State lawmakers voted to allow this late last week.

Kimt news 3's madelyne watkins joins us live to explain how this is impacting restaurants already.

Madelyne.

Brooke and tyler.

Those at forager brewery here in rochester know the challenges and opportunities that lie within their industry.

But the coronavirus pandemic is changing the business climate drastically.

Forager is a restauran?

Plu?brewery or a "brew pub".

Beer and wine are part of their structure.... and management here believe the change that allows others to sell "to go" beer and wine will possibly save their livelihood.

The head brewer here, austin jevne, tells me he's grateful this passed because it'll keep a lot of the other local restaurants moving forward and allow them to bring back more employees.

He tells me the restaurant is known for its beer, so they didn't want to put a halt on that.

So on friday, forager released 7 new beers.

Jevne says that alone increased the number of "i think that all restaurants can expect a slight uptick.

As much as i love our liquor store friends around town, they've really been able to kinda rake in the business recently on that.

It's a good time for everyone to split that pie up and everyone share in the sales of alcohol in the state."

Moving forward, forager brewery will be relasing new beer every monday and friday.

Live in rochester.

Madelyne watkins kimt thank you madelyne.

And jevne says he hopes minnesota officals will see the benefits from this service