Powdered Alcohol Prohibition Advances
Receiving favorable committee consideration, House Bill 594 seeks to prohibit the sale or offering for sale for human consumption of powdered or crystalline alcohol. Read More
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National Organization Challenges Florida Growler Ban
The Pacific Legal Foundation, self-described as a national free-enterprise legal organization, has filed suit on behalf of a restaurant challenging the state’s ban on 64-ounce “growler” containers. Read More
Committee Passes Beer Week Recognition
Passing committee, Assembly Joint Resolution 80 designates second full week in May of each year as “New Jersey Beer, Wine and Spirits Week” and Wednesday of that week as “New Jersey Restaurant Day.” Read More
Restaurant Privilege Sought for New Jersey Breweries
Companions S.B. 2548 and A.B. 3925 seek to authorize the holder of a limited brewery license (not more than 300,000 barrels annual production) to also operate a restaurant on the licensed premises if the premises is located in a Garden …Read More
Pay-to-Play Trade Practice Investigation Launched
The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) has launched an investigation into alleged anti-competitive actions on the part of certain brewers, retailers and wholesalers that violate state law. So-called “pay-to-play” practices involve compensation for, or asking compensation for, access to …Read More
Michigan Brewpub Production Allowance Increased
Signed into law by the Governor, H.B.5798 increase from 5,000 to 18,000 the number of barrels of beer that a brewpub may produce per year. Read More
Favorable Ruling for ABI in Kentucky Branch Acquisition
A Franklin County circuit court judge has ruled that the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) must issue Anheuser-Busch Inbev (ABI) a distributor’s license for the Budweiser of Owensboro distributorship. ABI’s application was previously approved by the local authorities …Read More
Brewery Promotion Signed into Law
Signed by the Governor, A.B. 8679 provides that the state policy with regard to the alcoholic beverage control law shall be to promote economic development and job opportunities in the beer, wine and liquor industries of the state. Read More
State to Promote Breweries in New Jersey
Assembly Bill 3871 requires Division of Travel and Tourism to advertise and promote tours of breweries in the state. Read More
Canadian Government to Modernize Beer Standards
The Government of Canada has proposed new standards of identity for beer. Canada’s compositional standard for beer outlines the specific requirements that must be met for a product to be labelled, packaged, sold or advertised as beer. Brewers have expressed …Read More
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