Minnesota Brewery Has to Leave Minnesota to Expand Get our free mobile app One of Minnesota's largest craft breweries is getting even bigger-- but has to cross the state line into Wisconsin in order to do it. I've been a big fan of all of Minnesota's incredible craft breweries ever since I moved here to the Land of 10,000 Lakes nearly a decade ago. And one of my favorites has been Liftbridge Brewing Company in Stillwater (a little over an hour and twenty minutes north of Rochester.) They're one of the most well-known names in Minnesota's craft beer scene, and started brewing their beer back in 2008. They opened their current taproom at their brewery in Stillwater in 2011.