Relating to the sale and distribution of beer, including by providing for the direct shipment of beer, levying a barrel tax, providing fees, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions

This bill allows for the direct shipment of beer.147 provides for the direct shipment of beer to any person within this state, or from this state to any person outside the state if also authorized pursuant to the laws of that jurisdiction, and provides for a beer direct shipper permit. Provisions governing the direct shipment of wine and the wine direct shipper permit are generally made applicable to the direct shipment of beer. _____ not authorize the permittee to ship wine to persons out of state. The bill provides for application requirements and establishes a $25 annual fee for the permit. The bill also provides that a permittee under the bill shall pay the barrel tax on beer subject to direct shipment at the rate specified for beer sold in the state.136, concerning reporting of barrel sales, are made applicable to beer subject to direct shipment. The bill includes beer sold pursuant to a beer direct shipper permit by a native brewery in the limit under current law placed on wholesale sales of beer to licensees authorized to sell beer at retail for off-premises consumption to no more than 30,000 barrels on an annual basis. The bill adds a similar limit for a brewpub by limiting the beer the brewpub sells at retail to individuals at the manufacturing premises for consumption off the premises and to individuals in accordance with a beer direct shipper permit to no more than 30,000 barrels on an annual basis.188, providing for a wine carrier permit, is amended to provide for the direct shipment of beer as provided by the bill. The bill takes effect January 1, 2027.