11th hour deal could lead to legislative beer reform in Texas
Metzger said it scales back Senate Bill 639, a late addition to the legislative mix that was supported by the Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas, and makes only minor tweaks to Senate Bills 515-518, the package favored by the small brewers. The latter bills would, among other things, allow small brewers to sell a limited amount of beer directly to consumers for on-premise consumption and would allow brewpubs like Freetail to package some of their beer for sale in outside retail accounts.
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