HB96 Alabama 2015 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Alcoholic beverages, entertainment district or brewpub, sale of alcoholic beverages, Sec. 28-3A-6.1 added; Secs. 28-3A-17.1, 28-4A-3 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a brewery is generally not allowed to operate a restaurant on its premises and dispense alcoholic beverages</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow a retail licensee to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on its premises</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow a patron of a craft brewery licensee, or brewpub licensee to exit with open containers of alcoholic beverages and consume alcoholic beverages anywhere within the confines of the entertainment district</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow a brewpub to sell alcoholic beverages for on- and off-premises consumption</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would create a license for limited production breweries that allows them to produce beer and operate a restaurant on their licensed premises and sell their beer at the brewery and restaurant</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 28-3A-17.1 and 28-4A-3 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in an entertainment district or brewpub; to allow a retail licensee to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on its premises and to allow a patron of a craft brewery licensee or brewpub licensee to exit with open containers of alcoholic beverages and consume alcoholic beverages anywhere within the confines of the entertainment district; and to create a new Section 28-3A-6.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to license a craft brewer to produce and package no more than 2,000,000 barrels of beer per year; to allow a craft brewer to operate a facility where food is provided on its licensed premises and sell beer on its licensed premises that it produces there. </p>

Subjects

Alcoholic Beverages