SB211 Alabama 2016 Session

Under existing law, a licensed manufacturer of beer or a brewpub may not sell its beer directly to a consumer for off-premises consumption.

This bill would allow a licensed brewery manufacturing less than 60,000 barrels per year to sell at retail up to 288 ounces of its beer per day to a customer for off-premises consumption.

This bill would allow a licensed brewpub to sell at retail up to 288 ounces of its beer per day to a customer for off-premises consumption.

This bill would specify that beer sold for off-site consumption must be sealed, packaged, and labeled in accordance with current rules.

This bill would allow a licensed brewery or brewpub to deliver up to two donated kegs of its beer to a licensed charitable event.

This bill would also delete the restriction on brewpubs from locating only in historic buildings, historic districts, economically distressed areas, or those wet counties in the state in which beer was brewed for public consumption prior to Prohibition.

Relating to alcoholic beverages; to amend Sections 28-3-1, 28-3A-6, and 28-4A-3 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to allow a licensed brewery manufacturing less than 60,000 barrels per year to sell at retail up to 288 ounces of its beer per day to a customer for off-premises consumption; to allow a licensed brewpub to sell at retail up to 288 ounces of its beer per day to a customer for off-premises consumption; to specify that beer sold by a brewery or brewpub for off-site consumption must be sealed, packaged, labeled, and taxed in accordance with current rules; to allow a licensed brewery or brewpub to deliver up to two donated kegs of its beer to a licensed charitable event; and to delete the restriction on brewpubs from locating only in historic buildings, historic districts, economically distressed areas, or those wet counties in the state in which beer was brewed for public consumption prior to Prohibition.