Legislation issued by the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) that went into effect on July 1 has breweries and other legislators upset because it places new restrictions on the beverage companies.
Colorado voters could see up to four ballot measures this fall asking them to change the state's alcohol laws. Those initiatives would let grocery and convenience stores sell wine, allow for third-party deliveries of alcohol, increase the number of liquor licenses a single company can hold and give local jurisdictions control over alcohol licensing.
Dickinson County voters will have the opportunity to change a long-standing liquor law that would allow an establishment like a tap house or brewery to operate in the county.
Recently signed legislation in Alaska promises to upend the alcohol industry and rework the state's licensing structure.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) -- What's the legal drinking age in South Carolina? It's a question that's skyrocketed as the second-most rising question Googled about the state in the last year.
With the enactment of Senate Bill 9, manufacturers and wholesalers of beer, wine, and spirits will be subject to new layers of compliance, including the requirement to obtain a permit to ship to consumers in the Last Frontier.
But a law passed a few weeks ago that loosens some restrictions on what breweries and distilleries can sell from their cocktail rooms and taprooms is “a good start,” according to business owners.
An initiative petition seeking to change state liquor-licensing laws remains alive after the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday ruled that Attorney General Maura Healey correctly certified it to appear before voters on November's ballot.
Sweeping changes to rules and certification for alcohol servers and managers at establishments that sell alcohol are to be made mandatory in only few weeks, possibly creating another employment hole at bars and restaurants that sell alcohol.
That pesky "bona fide" meal requirement for to-go cocktails could be 86'ed under proposed revisions to California's carry-out cocktail rules, as the state senate just unanimously approved an expansion of legal to-go booze sales.