There may several advantages to having a farm winery license instead of a farm cidery license: Since a farm winery …
Category: Retail Liquor License
5 Things you may not know about NY branch offices of farm breweries, cideries, wineries and distilleries
New York ABC law allows farm alcoholic beverage producers to have branch offices. The branch office does require an application …
Hard Cider
For still wines and hard cider, is ANY carbonation allowed whatsoever? An effervescent wine is a wine that contains more …
Looking to change the law for liquor stores
Our office has proposed some changes to the state laws regulating what liquor stores can sell. Since NY only allows …
What corrections officers are disqualified from holding liquor licenses or being a principal in an entity holding a license in the State of New York?
The Alcohol Beverage Control Law statutorily disqualifies police officers with arresting powers from have a direct or indirect interest in …
Time to Try Russian Grape Varietals and Blends
Jason Feulner’s article “East or West Home is Best” in the June Life In the Finger Lakes introduces McGregor Vineyards …
Finger Lakes “Agriconomy”
Tom Russ’ Finger Lakes Wine and the Legacy of Dr. Konstantin Frank tells a local story of the “Great American …
Case Study (and YES, it’s a true story)
When it lost its lease and was forced to move to a new location, a local bar prepared and filed …
Tasting of Spirits
When offering tastings of spirits, each patron is limited to three 0.25 oz tastings in a calendar day and each …
Handwritten craft beverage labels
A new craft beverage producer produced two varieties of hard cider. It wondered if the State Liquor Authority would accept …