Abstract: Provides with respect to microbreweries.
Present law authorizes any person who has properly obtained a microbrewer's permit as provided for
in present law, to engage in the brewing of beer and other malt beverages in a quantity not to exceed
12,500 barrels during the licensed year.
Present law authorizes the holder of the microbrewer's permit to sell the manufactured beverages at
retail for consumption on or off the licensed premises, if the holder also has been issued a Retailer,
Class A permit.
Present law authorizes a licensed wholesaler to transfer from a permitted microbrewery to another
permitted microbrewery up to 50% of the total manufactured beverages sold at the receiving
microbrewery provided all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The microbrewery receiving the transferred manufactured beverages be wholly owned by the
permitted microbrewery that brews the manufactured beverages authorized for transfer.
(2) The receiving microbrewery have, at a minimum, a 10-barrel brewing system.
(3) The microbrewery transferring the manufactured beverages shall be responsible for paying
all applicable federal, state, and local excise taxes on the transferred manufactured beverages.
(4) Only one permitted microbrewery within the same municipality be allowed to receive the
transfer of manufactured beverages.
Proposed law retains present law but changes the minimum requirement of a receiving microbrewery
from a 10-barrel brewing system to a five-barrel brewing system.
(Amends R.S. 26:271.1(A)(2)(b))


Statutes affected:
HB882 Original: 26:1(A)(2)
HB882 Engrossed: 26:1(A)(2)
HB882 Enrolled: 26:1(A)(2)
HB882 Act : 26:1(A)(2)