Florida Beverage Legislation: 2020 Pre-Session Review of Beverage Bills
The 2020 Session of the Florida Legislature will include consideration of a number of bills affecting breweries, wineries, distilleries, and consumers.
Continue ReadingFlorida Distilleries Cannot Sell All of Their Products in the Gift Shop (Yet)
The laws concerning craft distilleries was updated in 2021. As a result, this blog post no longer reflects current Florida law. For the latest, see: 2021 FLORIDA CRAFT DISTILLERIES LAW: GENERAL OVERVIEW. Florida craft distilleries are allowed to sell their own distilled products in their gift shops. However, this does not include the products a craft distillery makes by...
Continue ReadingHemp Beverages Now Legal in Florida, But Rules Apply
Florida’s new Hemp Law became effective July 1, 2019, and with it “hemp” beer (and other products) is now legal in Florida. However, federal and state regulations still limit use of hemp in alcoholic beverages.
Continue ReadingFlorida Beverage Legislation: 2019 Post-Session Review of Beverage Bills
Zero out of 9. All 2019 Florida beverage bills fell flat. Nine beverage-focused bills were introduced at the start of the 2019 Florida legislative session. All nine died in committee (or didn’t even get that far). Despite the possibility of some sweeping changes, especially for Florida breweries and distilleries, the Florida Beverage Laws will remain unchanged this year. For...
Continue ReadingFlorida Beverage Legislation: 2019 Pre-Session Review of Beverage Bills
The 2019 Session of the Florida Legislature will include consideration of a number of bills affecting breweries, wineries, distilleries, distributors, and consumers.
Continue ReadingFlorida Governor Signs Into Law 3 2018 Beverage Bills
Hop on a train to nowhere, order your full-sized bottles for delivery, and break out the branded glassware. There are a few changes to the Florida Beverage Laws.
Continue ReadingFlorida Beverage Legislation: 2017 End-of-Session Review of Beverage Bills
Of the 16 beverage bills proposed for the 2017 Florida Legislative session, only 3 made it through to final passage, and one of those gets a big asterisk.
Continue ReadingFlorida Beverage Legislation: 2017 Pre-Session Review of Beverage Bills
The 2017 Session of the Florida Legislature will include consideration of 16 beverage-related bills.
Continue ReadingFlorida Beverage Legislation: Self-Distribution is On the Menu
Senate Bill 554 hopes to bring limited self-distribution to Florida’s breweries, but the legislation may only apply to new and small breweries.
Continue ReadingHow to Take Advantage of Florida’s 2015 Beverage Law
When Governor Rick Scott signed into law CS/SB 186, he largely ended Florida’s state of growler confusion. However, the 2015 beverage law–which is now known as Florida Law 2015-12–will do much more to improve the status of craft beverages in Florida when it becomes effective July 1, 2015. This article describes how Florida’s breweries, distilleries, distributors, and vendors can...
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