CANarchy brought two challenges to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code’s 225,000 barrel cap on brewery “beer-to-go” sales. The relevant portions of the statute authorize breweries in Texas to sell beer-to-go, provided they have a production rate below 225,000 barrels annually. This right was only recently added in 2019. The language of the statute empowering these “beer-to-go” sales reads: [T]he holder of a brewer’s permit whose annual production of ale, together with the annual production of beer by the holder of a manufacturer’s license at all premises wholly or partly owned, directly or indirectly, by the permit holder or an affiliate… Continue Reading CANarchy wins challenge to Texas ABC statute over limits on brewery production sizes for direct from taproom “beer-to-go” sales based on a statutory construction resulting from poor legislative drafting.