Alcoholic beverage licensees: craft distillers, winegrowers, and beer manufacturers.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for the issuance of various categories of alcoholic beverage licenses, including the imposition of fees, conditions, and restrictions in connection with the issuance of those licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law prohibits a licensee from having upon the licensed premises any alcoholic beverages other than the alcoholic beverage for which the licensee is authorized to sell at the premises under his or her license, and makes a violation of this prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor. Existing law authorizes an exception to this prohibition for a licensed winegrower and licensed beer manufacturer that holds a small beer manufacturer's license, whose licensed premises of production are immediately adjacent to each other and which are not branch offices, to share, with the approval of the department, a common licensed area in which the consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted under specified circumstances. This bill would revise this exception to the above-described prohibition to allow a licensed craft distiller, licensed winegrower, and licensed beer manufacturer, in any combination, to, with the approval of the department, share a common licensed area in which the consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted if the licensed premises of production are immediately adjacent to each other, are not branch offices, and only under specified circumstances.