Does the bruery allow outside bottles?

Not really condoned these days although you may get away with it if you know someone who works there. Bootleggers up the road still does some regular bottle shares on Fridays.

 

They told me no even though I purchased two flights.

 

Yeah, I was told to put non-bruery bottles away the last time I was bringing a bottle for an IP trade. So yeah, they don't like folks bringing bottles any more.

 

We a bottle share at Bootleggers every Thursday from @ 4:30 .

 

...and most Fridays starting around the same time. Other days, I dunno, tho I suspect they don't have a problem with it judging by, oh, the last four years or so.

 

How about Iron Press? If you do go there I can bring some bottles too.

 

most breweries licenses don't allow them to have someone elses beer be consumed on premise. even have it on premise, because that is intent to consume/serve and you can be charged 1500 bucks a bottle (according to my boyfriend this morning during an unrelated conversation to this thread!) so im curious since bootleggers probably has the same license as everyone else... how are they allowing this??

 

I'm pretty sure it depends on the breweries view on having sales taken away from bottles being brought in. If said brewery weren't selling bottles I would agree with you but Bruery, Bootleggers, BW, etc... all sell bottles to go and for on sight consumption.

 

yeah, with Bruery's limited space, I think the bigger issue, because they have allowed bottles in the past in a more low key type of thing, is that the tasting room is packed to the gills on off nights, they want to keep that table space for their own flights.

 

No, it is a license issue and the breweries can face BIG fines. Same with wineries.

Some places just don't care, there are plenty of breweries who raise a middle finger to all sorts of regulations, particularly ones that tell them what they can and can't do on their own property.

 

yeah but if its someone elses beer, thats where the license doesn't allow it... i think...

i brought it up to a coworker and he mentioned that a local brewery got cited after they opened because they had a guest tap, which is not legal with their license. then later on this same brewery got caught in an abc sting when they were hosting a local beer meeting and there were other people's beers being opened, so they got cited again (LOL)

 

Learned something new today, thanks!!!

 

im not 100% sure my boyfriend knows the law any more than i do, but he is the brewer at a local brewery and is worried about things like that so i believe him

there are different licenses though, and people can have different restrictions on them so maybe they have something others don't (doubtful)

 

Your boyfriend is correct here. There are multiple different licenses you can get in CA for a brewery/brewpub and they even affect your location. Serving food will help get you out of a industrial park and into a mainstream commercially zoned location.

Some licenses do not allow guest beers at all and some do not allow any onsite consumption, even the breweries own beer.

So every brewery you go to is not licensed the same and it can be costly to them to do something outside of their license.