New York Addresses Small Samples at Events
S.B. 1860 provides for permits for brewers, manufacturers, and importers to serve small samples (three ounces or less) of their beer or malt beverages at specified events. Read More
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S.B. 1860 provides for permits for brewers, manufacturers, and importers to serve small samples (three ounces or less) of their beer or malt beverages at specified events. Read More
Senate Bill 1757 seeks to prohibit the sale or offering for sale of any powdered or crystalline alcohol product. Read More
Passing the Senate, Senate File 106 makes it unlawful for a person to use, offer for use, purchase, offer to purchase, sell, offer to sell or possess powdered alcohol. Read More
House Bill 82 seeks to raise the barrelage cap for a “microbrewery” from not more than 15,000 barrels to not more than 50,000 barrels. Read More
Senate Bill 5292 seeks to ensure the use, purchase, sale, and possession of powdered alcohol is treated in the same manner as other liquors. Read More
House Bill 1768 and Senate Bill 5662 would allow a licensed domestic brewery or microbrewery to provide branded promotional items, which are of nominal value, to certain nonprofit charitable corporations and associations. Read More
House Bill 1124 allows licensees permitted to sell beer or wine for on-premises consumption to also serve samples of beer and wine up to a total of six ounces per day. Read More
Companions House Bill 2338 and Senate Bill 1412 would allow a winery, brewery, or distillery licensee to pay royalties to a historical preservation entity for the use of its trademarked authentic historical recipes in the manufacture of wine, beer, or …Read More
H.B. 1678 expands the privileges of a distiller’s license to include the giving of samples of spirits to any person to whom alcoholic beverages may be lawfully sold in designated areas at events held by the licensee for the purpose …Read More
Senate Bill 1273 requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations that prescribe the terms and conditions under which tour guides employed by a licensed brewery that manufactures no more than 10,000 barrels of beer during the license year may consume …Read More
Pete Johnson serves as the State & Regulatory Affairs Manager for the Brewers Association (BA). He joined the BA at its inception in 2005, having previously worked as Programs Director for the Brewers Association of America. Before coming to the small brewing industry in 2001, Pete worked for 14 years with both state and federal elected officials in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
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