SB192 Summary

• Permits licensed alcohol manufacturers actively engaged in production to conduct unrestricted tastings and samplings on one licensed premises, giving away or selling beverages for on-premises consumption only, with beverages dispensed from barrels, kegs, or original containers.

• Requires manufacturers conducting tastings to collect and remit privilege and excise taxes on dispensed beverages at the same rates and times as wholesalers, acting as state agents for tax collection.

• Authorizes brewpubs to sell beer in original, unopened keg or barrel containers to licensed wholesalers and to purchase draft or keg beer from other manufacturers in original containers for on-premises retail sales.

• Limits brewpubs to counties where beer brewing historically occurred before 1919 and restricts locations to historic buildings, registered historic districts, or economically distressed areas designated by municipal or county governments, with requirement to operate a restaurant.

• Caps brewpub annual beer production at 10,000 barrels per year and establishes $1,000 annual license fee while exempting brewpubs from certain wholesaler regulations for on-premises beer sales.