Can someone please explain the law regarding ordering beer online in the country of Texas? I did a bit of research when I first transitioned from wine to beer but now that I have started to try to dig into the rules,I have found them to be hard to understand.. With wine I bought alot online.. With beer,it seems the laws are quite different,which makes zero sense to me.. When I first looked into it I interrupted it as 'I can buy beer online and have it shipped to my home in Texas so long as the company is located in Texas.' But the more I look into it,perhaps that is not the case.. However there is apparently no issues ordering beer and having it brought to my front door via Drisley or uber eats type service.. I recieved an ad this morning from BA,advertising '8 imperial stouts,socks and glassware' for $100.. The beers look quite interesting,not sure if their price is good however it got me to thinking,'can I even recieve this in Texas'?
Don't know about laws specific to Texas, but you can check on halftimebeverage.com if they'll ship to your zip code (including the Big Beer box)
You can't order beer from breweries and have it shipped to TX. As you noted, this differs (for some reason?) from wine (not sure about liquor). This is -- obviously -- stupid and probably attributable to lobbyists lining politicians pockets to artificially protect their industries. This also differs (somehow?) from an uber eats or or whatever. I have no idea how Tavour and places like halftime get around this law. I know Tavour uses "last mile" shipping companies to have the product delivered. Again....not sure how that changes things legally. But, bottom line, you cannot order beer from a brewery and have them ship it to you.
Thanks.. After the post I did some more research and yeah,that is an incredibly dumb law.. I get making it illegal but why is wine ok and beer not? I would like the person who crafted that law to explain how that makes any sense..
My guess is this is rooted in protecting local breweries. Probably not a lot of Texas vineyards around to protect from out of state wine but plenty of Texas brewpubs that don't want out of state competition mailed in. And there is probably a layer of bullshit related to the three tier system and local distributors.
This very well might be the case, but like many other states, Texas alcohol laws have been so archaic for so many years, its hard to say really. My thought is that many breweries like Brock from Saint Arnold, and the guys from Jester King lobbied hard for certain things to change. Many, but not all of it did, for the better. This might have been something they didn't thing was worth getting into, and or didn't even realize was something people wanted. So things in this regard just stayed the same and all muddied up. But, I don't know, just thinking out loud ha.
I would also guess that the almighty beer distributors like Silver Eagle, etc play a big role in preventing beer shipments into Texas.
IIRC, beer laws in Texas really had and have some head scratchers. At one time, brewery's had to sell there beer to distributors and the distributor had to sell it back to the public. Brewers were fighting so hard for more control in selling they're beer, that they probably did not want to tackle the expensive of getting in to the battle your speaking about.
If anything good came out of covid was the loosening of the laws regarding what breweries could do in regards to selling their beer and delivering beer/liquor to your doorstep. I know that saved a lot of hustlers out there like Holler and a handful more.
I lived in Texas for 20 years and every county, and there are a lot of them, had their own liquor laws and they changed over to:e
