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Low ABV RTD Retail Legislation Intro’d in CA

S.B. 277 seeks to authorize a retail package off-sale beer and wine licensee to also sell low alcohol-by-volume spirits beverages not exceeding 10 percent ABV in containers no larger than 16 ounces. Read More

CA Tied House Provisions Proposal Intro’d

Assembly Bill 546 would revise tied-house restrictions related to paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer or retailers for advertising, display, or distribution service in connection with the advertising and sale of all alcoholic beverages, rather than only distilled spirits. Read More

RTD Manufacture Bill Amended in Arkansas

Amended multiple times, H.B. 1162 would authorize microbrewery-restaurants to manufacture and sell ready-to-drink products, which are defined as containing spirituous liquor with a final finished product of no greater than fifteen percent (15%) alcohol by weight. Read More

CA Tied House Provisions Proposal Intro’d

Assembly Bill 546 would revise tied-house restrictions related to paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer or retailers for advertising, display, or distribution service in connection with the advertising and sale of all alcoholic beverages, rather than only distilled spirits. Read More

AR Tasting Bill Proposed

House Bill 1380 would allow wholesaler or manufacturing representatives to conduct tasting events, reduces the relevant permit fees and increases the number and sizes of samples. Read More

RTD Tax Bill Floated in CT

Senate Bill 905 provides, among a number of provisions, that liquor, certain alcohol, and liquor coolers of not more than 7% ABV are taxed at the same rate as beer. Read More

CT Alt Prop and Tastings Bill Into’d

Among a host of provisions, H.B. 6548 addresses alternating proprietorship and contract manufacturing agreements, subjects beer manufacturers to beer keg identification, receipt and refund requirements, and allows a permitted manufacturer of spirits or beer that also holds a farmers’ market …Read More

Manufacturer Retail Expansion Proposed in CA

Senate Bill 269 seeks to authorize the holder of a beer manufacturer’s license, a winegrower’s license, or craft distilled spirits manufacturer’s license that holds any combination of those licenses for a single premises to have alcoholic beverages that are authorized …Read More

Beer Definition Legislation Proposed in HI

House Bill 374 and companion S.B. 480 would alter the definition of “beer” to expressly exclude sake, cooler beverages, or any products of distillation, by whatever name known, that contain distilled spirits, alcoholic spirits, or spirits. Read More

RTD Tax Bill Intro’d in AZ

H.B. 2769 would define “ready-to-drink spirits products” to mean distilled spirits mixed with other beverages that may contain flavoring or coloring materials and other ingredients, that do not exceed twelve percent alcohol by volume, that are sealed in an original …Read More

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Pete Johnson

State & Regulatory Affairs Manager

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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