Just got official text message confirmation. Governor Bentley has signed SB192 into law. Tap rooms are now legal. Brewpubs can sell their beer off-site and be located in an economically distressed area. Rejoice!
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Just got official text message confirmation. Governor Bentley has signed SB192 into law. Tap rooms are now legal. Brewpubs can sell their beer off-site and be located in an economically distressed area. Rejoice!
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Thanks for all your hard work Dan. Happy to see this finally go into law. Hope you can relax a little now
While better and you guys deserve the credit this bill is still something from the 1920s. First the brewery still has to be in a “historic” building or an “economically depressed area”, both add to the hoops business must go through and driving up cost and limiting availability. Then the unit still must be in a county that once brewed before prohibition but it is not up to the proprietor to prove that. What? So someone goes into an area after jumping through the hoops puts a ton of money in then someone proves there was no brewing before prohibition in the county leaving the business to move or close? You can tell few if any of our legislators have ever run anything except a campaign.
The location restriction and county restriction are only for brewpub licensees. Production breweries can locate in any wet county and in any location available by regular zoning requirements.
for brewpubs, historic building is *gone*.
And as I mentioned elsewhere, any district can make the claim to be “economically distressed”.
Couldn’t just about any place be considered “economically distressed” right now? Does the brew pub have to close down if the area becomes undistressed?
Can you imagine any city council or county commission saying they were *not* economically distressed?
So no brewpubs in Mountain Brook.
Why not? Does Mountain Brook have 100% occupancy of all strip malls? Are all business districts 100% occupied?
If they are not, Mountain Brook could potentially have them declared “economically distressed”.
That’s a good question though. Didn’t see an answer yet. Economically distressed areas are determined by income and unemployment rates. Madison County isn’t considered economically distressed. If you were to get an area classified as such, then one day it grew up, would you have to move your business?
Why would you have to move a business once it has been established? That makes no sense.
Neither do the majority of laws in this state but the law says it has to be located in an economically distressed location.
that would be a “pre-condition for founding”, not “pre-condition for existence”. The point of the designation is to allow areas to become *not* “economically distressed”.
Ok so I want to open a Brewpub in the new Redstone Gateway shopping center. Who do I talk to in Madison Co. about getting that classified as Economically Distressed?
you’d need to talk to the Madison County Commission.
Thanks guys for all your hard work and effort.
Thank You for all your hard work!!
I think this is great (I’m in your neighbor beer-deprived state MS) but why is it called the “Brewery Modernization Act”?..?
because it drags Alabama’s brewing laws, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. Hence, our brewery laws have been modernised
Don’t you mean 21st century?
nope!
Good luck with Raise Your Pints movement. I actually saw someone at Magic City Brewfest this past weekend sporting a RYP t-shirt.
Thank you to all of the FTH leaders and members for their hard work and dedication in bringing our state out of the dark ages.
A HUGE thank you to everyone at Free the Hops for all there hard work “modernizing” Alabama’s lackluster beer availability. Keep up the good work. We support you 1000%.