Administrative Rule

LATEST ON STANDARDS OF FILL FOR WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRITS On August 12, 2019, the Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (“TTB”) announced that it will provide 60 day extension for the public to comment on its proposal to eliminate all but a minimum “standard of fill”...

Governor Rick Scott has signed Senate Bill 186 and it will become effective July 1, 2015.  Labeled as “The Growler Bill,” Senate Bill 186 is broken down into eleven sections. The first section pertains to welfare recipients and Electronic Benefits Transfer cards....

On July 5, 2016, DABT published Notice of a Proposed Rule. The current Rule, 61A-4.0131, regulated keg deposits and records regarding them between distributors and retailers of malt beverages sold in reusable containers, usually ‘kegs’. Effective July 1, 2016, Fla....

Florida’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco has declared that Florida law does not prohibit Food and Beverage Innovations, an unlicensed, for-profit company, from selling or leasing the JEVO™ machine directly to licensed vendors. This is great news for the...

An End of The Tourism Exception: By July 1, 2015 Florida breweries will no longer have to depend on the “Tourism Exception” to sell beer directly to consumers. Senate Bill 186 amends Florida Statute § 561.221(2)(a). Under the former statute, the State’s Division of...

On May 5th, 2015, Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, issued a Notice denying Brew2U’s Petition for a Declaratory Statement. DABT’s Decision: Brew2U proposed a business that would deliver alcoholic...