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Contract Brewing and Production Limits Addressed in WV

Senate Bill 369 provides that: a licensed brewer or resident brewer may not produce more than 50,000 barrels per calendar year at a brewer or resident brewer’s principle place of business and manufacture; may have multiple locations; and may enter …Read More

Inducements Addressed in WV Legislation

S.B. 316 provides that it is unlawful for brewers or distributors to offer any prize, premium, gift, or other similar inducement, except advertising matter, including indoor electronic or mechanical signs, of nominal value up to $250.00 per stock keeping unit, …Read More

Agri-Tourism Resolution Adopted in WV House

Adopted in the House, HCR 79 seeks to create a plan of incentives to encourage small businesses based in agri-tourism, craft breweries, distilleries, vineyards, wineries, and other specialized agricultural tourism interests to locate or relocate to West Virginia. Read More

Festival Sales Proposal Earns WV Governor’s Nod

Signed into law, Senate Bill 534, among a host of provisions, would permit authorized brewers, resident brewers, wineries, farm wineries, distilleries, mini-distilleries, and micro-distilleries a limited off-site retail privilege at private fair and festivals for off-premises consumption sales; would allow …Read More

Festival Sales Proposed in WV Legislation

Senate Bill 534, among a host of provisions, would permit authorized brewers, resident brewers, wineries, farm wineries, distilleries, mini-distilleries, and micro-distilleries a limited off-site retail privilege at private fair and festivals for off-premises consumption sales, and would allow multiple places …Read More

WV Bill Addresses Contract and Retail Issues

H.B. 3136 and companion S.B. 513 clarify that licensed brewers and licensed resident brewers may have more than one location so long as the brewer or resident brewer does not produce more than 50,000 barrels of nonintoxicating beer or nonintoxicating …Read More

Beer Delivery Changes Floated in WV

S.B. 94 seeks to remove limitations on nonintoxicating craft beer delivery licenses. Read More

Temporary Import License Proposed in WV

House Bill 2349 seeks to authorize temporary 30-day licenses for out-of-state nonintoxicating beer brewers to import beer for test marketing and distribute to festivals and samplings. Read More

RTD Tax Disparity Study Proposed in WV

House Concurrent Resolution 100 directs the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to study the disparity of taxes on all ready to drink beverages, regardless of their base, and the feasibility of a more equitable taxation of these products and …Read More

Temporary Import License Considered in WV

House Bill 4397 seeks to authorize temporary 30-day licenses for out-of-state nonintoxicating beer brewers to import beer for test marketing and distribute to festivals and samplings. 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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