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Amended prior to passing the Senate, Senate Bill 620 establishes a regulatory process for specified distilled spirits manufacturers and producers and beer manufacturers to directly ship alcoholic beverages to a resident of California who is 21 years of age or …Read More
A.B. 1734 seeks to authorize the holder of a beer manufacturer’s license, winegrower’s license, brandy manufacturer’s license, distilled spirits manufacturer’s license, craft distiller’s license, any rectifier’s license, or any importer’s license, that holds more than one of those licenses for …Read More
Signed into law, House Bill 289 would allow liquor stores, farm wineries, brewery-pubs, microbreweries, craft distilleries, and wine auctions to provide curbside service for the sale of alcohol. Read More
Passing both legislative chambers, H.B. 290 seeks to make permanent the ability for food and drink establishments to sell alcoholic beverages in transactions for take-out, curbside, or drive-through service. Read More
Receiving consideration in several committees, H.B. 1451 addresses, among multiple provisions, issues related to contract brewing and alternating proprietorship brewing agreements. Read More
Passing initial committee consideration, House Bill 2080 creates a license endorsement allowing domestic licensed alcohol manufacturers to provide contract packaging services to other alcohol manufacturing licensees within this state. Read More
Dying in committee, House Bill 1250 sought to allow a winery, farm winery, or brewery located within or outside the Commonwealth that is authorized to engage in the retail sale of wine or beer, after obtaining a marketplace facilitator license …Read More
Senate Bill 959 eliminates the requirement that the sales territories for beer wholesalers be exclusive and also eliminates this requirement for self-distribution by brewers that manufacture 300,000 or fewer barrels of beer per year. The bill also clarifies that a …Read More
H.B. 7251 would increase the amount of malt beverages that a manufacturer can sell for offsite consumption from forty-eight (48) twelve-ounce (12 oz.) bottles and cans to fifty-five (55) bottles or cans. Read More
As reported from Senate committee, S.B. 5049 defines low-proof beverage to mean any beverage that is 16 ounces or less and contains more than 0.5 percent and less than 7 percent alcohol by volume, but does not include wine, malt …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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