jimconnors
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A short simple bill was submitted in both the House of Representatives and Senate and was today handed off to committee. The bill text is below, but in essence, it allows small brewers (less than 1,000 barrels a year) to sell packaged beer on the brewery site as well as serve it to be consumed on premises as well. Previously, you could be a brewer OR a brewpub, but not both.
If you live in Texas, call, email & snail-mail your representative - tell them its time they give us brewers the rights that they gave winemakers years ago.
viva bier!
81(R) HB 1062 - Introduced version - Bill Text
If you live in Texas, call, email & snail-mail your representative - tell them its time they give us brewers the rights that they gave winemakers years ago.
viva bier!
81(R) HB 1062 - Introduced version - Bill Text
81R6019 AJA-D
By: Burnam H.B. No. 1062
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sale of ale and malt liquor by brewer's permit
holders.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.01, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The holder of a brewer's permit whose premises is
located in an area where the sale of ale and malt liquor is legal and
who produces at least 1,000 barrels of ale or malt liquor a year may
sell ale and malt liquor manufactured or bottled on the permitted
premises to ultimate consumers:
(1) in unbroken packages for off-premises consumption
in an amount that does not exceed 35,000 gallons annually; and
(2) for consumption on the brewery premises if the
brewery is located in an area where the sale of ale and malt liquor
for on-premises consumption is legal.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.