RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 550 (SB 450) 2022 Regular Session Stine
Existing law authorizes any person who has properly obtained a microbrewer's permit as
provided for in existing 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.
Existing 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.
New law retains existing law.
New 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.
New law exempts the licensed wholesaler transferring the manufactured beverages from
existing law that, subject to certain exceptions, prohibits alcoholic beverages produced or
manufactured inside or outside of this state be sold or offered for sale in Louisiana, or
shipped or transported into or within the state, except to the holder of a wholesaler's permit.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 26:271.1(A))