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Originally Posted by dj_van_gilder  I hear that about the Texas laws. I got currious one day about what the laws where regarding microbreweries and I downloaded a copy of them. I gave up about half way through reading the huge thing. |
Hey a fellow Texan.
So you downloaded the jibberish offered on the TABC web site, did that too and actually read the whole thing. Took several days to do because I kept falling asleep. If you really want some fun download the application. To half way understand the application you have to download an instructional PDF that is yet another wonderful novel on how to fill the stupid thing out.
In reading all the laws I do feel that I have a better understanding but yet somehow can not say I really know the laws very well since in some areas they seem to contridict each other and be loaded down with generalizations. Here is a good one that obviously is not inforced... If you bring more than 24-12 oz bottles into an area where alcohol sale is prohibited (dry area) then you can be considered transporting alcohol with the intent to sale. I live in a dry area so guess I can't go buy a 30 pack and bring it home.
If you really want to really get confused read the section on alcohol sales on a sunday. Can't buy anything considered distilled spirits at all but can buy beer and wine after noon unless at a resturant in an area that allows the sale before noon but returant must sale me a meal before I can get a brew and this can not take place before 10:30.
To break it down here is how Texas Alcohol laws work. Federal Goverment laws come first, then the state has made laws to restrict some of what the US has said. Now the counties can modify or rather add on thier own laws to restrict alcohol even farther. Then there are cities and towns that have the right to even add on more restrictions and laws. So while the the US says Alcohol is OK to make and sale, the state of Texas says there is a "three tier system" that restricts sale and don't forget the odd times for sale too. Counties can step in and restrict certain types of alcohol or cancel the ability to sale alcohol all together. But if a county will allow the sale of alcohol the city/town can over ride that and say they do not want certain types of alchohol or any alcohol being sold in thier area. This is why I can go into a store around the Dallas area and can't buy beer at all but drive 2 blocks to another town/subdivision and buy a bottle of Jack Daniels. Go figure that out.