And if you look at the first one, the Liquor License, the Retail alcohol sales license. It looks like they might just do a background check and maybe an address check to make sure that you are zoned for retail or something. But the only license that asks for something like a “Blue-print of your location” is the Distilling License, it seems like the retail license is really easy to get. And why wouldn’t it be? They always say “If it were easy, everyone would do it” and basically everyone gets a liquor license (Restaurants, etc). And they don’t want to make it hard for everyone, which makes sense.
And, has anyone ever heard of anyone getting a liquor license and selling $1 cups of Beer at parties? And what kind of license would you need if you were going to sell bottles to people like a grocery store does, instead of like a bar does? Is there a difference in licensing, or would those 2 things be the same?
Also, where does Cider stand as far as legal Classification? Is it a Beer or Wine or what is it exactly when you are getting a license for it? And do you think that same license would cover Banana Beer or things like Sangria?
If anyone has any more information on this than I do, please share it here.
Oh, and some background on the plan. So I am in Colorado and I am organizing a bunch of people to create a loose Confederation of Marijuana Growers so that we can have a large Breeding Program, and share strains and everything, and I want to get a license for the events. We might eventually try to make it like a Moose Lodge or Rotary Club type thing.
A few thoughts: The licenses you point to are just federal licenses. You probably also need Colorado licenses. I’m also unclear if you want to make beer or distill. Those require different licenses. Additionally, I don’t know if Colorado allows distilleries to have “taprooms” for on-premises consumption or off-premises consumption.
If all you want to do is have some parties/meetings, why not just have a party/meeting without selling beer?
Lol. Marijuana is legal here. And there are already meet and greets where people pay $10 to get in and then they can smoke and buy alcohol there. So it’s already happening. Good point though, if it weren’t already worked out I might be worried about it.
I think what he’s trying to say is that Marijuana is not legal Federally. Ultimately, you may be hampered by Federal Law in getting licenses if you are a part of a federation of Marijuana Growers.
Selling schedule II drugs to the healthcare industry is really not relevant to this discussion. Almost all dispensaries are still running a cash business. A memorandum from 2011 is not binding, especially with a new attorney general who has different priorities.
If you are not buying or selling marijuana, there probably won’t be a problem. But the concern that the TTB would reject that application for it is real.
Aside from that, the people who said that local licensing and zoning are a bigger deal are correct.
Here are the lists of Companies that import Schedule I and Schedule II Substances into the country every year, as well as Manufacture Schedule I and Schedule II Substances. https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/FED_REGS/index.html
This case was one where the Federal Court said that the DEA needed to allow more companies to Manufacture Cocaine, so as not to enforce Monopolization of the Market.
Noramco DE Inc v. DEA, No. 02-1211 (D.C. Cir. 2004)
My point is not that people are selling things on the Medical Market, my point is that this has all pretty much been decided. And it’s not just the Attorney General, Congress wrote something too. If you really really want me to I can go find that too.
And that was not just to Medical Research Market. The University of Mississippi has been growing and giving Marijuana to Patients for years under these rules. And Stepan Company sells Coca extract, minus the Cocaine, to Coca-Cola. So this isn’t just about Medical applications.
Ok, good to know. So I’ll get a Wine License first if I get anything. I’m in Colorado, so there is not a lot of Alcohol restriction here. They call Coors, “Colorado Kool-Aid”.
Federal Law:
26 U.S. Code § 5042
(a)Tax-free production
(1)Cider
Subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary, the noneffervescent product of the normal alcoholic fermentation of apple juice only, which is produced at a place other than a bonded wine cellar and without the use of preservative methods or materials, and which is sold or offered for sale as cider and not as wine or as a substitute for wine, shall not be subject to tax as wine nor to the provisions of subchapter F.
I have done some organizing, getting hundreds or thousands of people to show up somewhere. And I’m wondering, what would be the rules for like a Pop-Up that sells bottles? Or a keg at a Field Rave? What kind of license would you need for those kinds of sales? A normal license just covers 1 premesis, or a number of premises right? Not random locations. So how would that work?
I’m sure few people if any have any clue to that question. You’d be better off contacting your local beverage control authority.
And as far as the legalese you posted, all I can tell you is that every brewery in Alabama that produces cider has to have a wine license. No exceptions.