Alcoholic beverage sales: beer manufacturers: licensed premises.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, prohibits a beer manufacturer, regardless of the number of beer manufacturer licenses that are held by the beer manufacturer, as specified, from exercising any combination of specified retail privileges that would result in that beer manufacturer exercising retail privileges at more than 6 locations. Existing law prohibits an on-sale retailer that is a beer manufacturer, as specified, from purchasing alcoholic beverages for sale in this state other than from specified persons, but excepts from this prohibition the purchase of any alcoholic beverages manufactured by the beer manufacturer at a single location contiguous or adjacent to the premises of the on-sale retailer. This bill would revise the exception to the prohibition described above that requires the single location to be contiguous or adjacent to the premises of the on-sale retailer to authorize, instead, the purchase of any alcoholic beverages from a licensed beer manufacturer whose premises of production are located no more than 5 miles from the licensed on-sale premises. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 25503.28 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 2307 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2307 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.