Hops Eden Prairie & Growlers

I've had several conversations with the staff at City Hall including the Police Dept. The problem with sales of growlers at Hops Eden Prairie is due to a city ordinance. There are two reasons: 1 - The police are concerned about public safety, i.e. people take a growler, drink it and do dumb things. 2 - The city controls off-premise liquor sales and actually owns the only stores in the city. They don't want competition. The Liquor Director was actually interested in selling the growlers at the stores, but that wouldn't be very good. To get this changed: 1 - we'd need to contact the City Manager and ask that the ordinance be repealed/changed/whatever. 2 - we'd need to give a presentation to the City Council and then they would have to approve it. Not sure what the club could really do, I don't know how many of us live and/or work in Eden Prairie. Maybe some petitions at the restaurant and other restaurants, maybe some emails, maybe boycott their stores (like both of us who live in Eden Prairie) email addresses of interest: sneal(a)edenprairie.org - City Manager - Scott Neal allcouncil(a)edenprairie.org - entire city council duram(a)edenprairie.org - he's the Liquor Director - Don Uram police@......... dcarlson@........ police Chief Dan Carlson //Mike Behrendt email - MBehrendt(a)mn.rr.com