Who needs a manufacturer’s license, with a first class or fourth class license for the taproom in Vermont?

Issued by Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery, at step 5 of 6 in the opening sequence: alcohol permits.

1 of the 20 kinds of business in Vermont

A brewery holds the manufacturer’s license to brew and to sell to wholesalers and retailers. To pour at the brewery it holds either a first class license, which makes it a brewpub and needs the town’s approval and the food service license, or a fourth class license, which allows tastings and sales of its own beer by the glass and to go at up to the number of locations the statute sets. The federal TTB brewer’s notice comes first.

Draft. This row was drafted from the agency’s own page and has not yet been confirmed against it. Confirm it with the agency before you pay anything.

Step 5 of 6: Alcohol permits

  1. Set up the business
  2. Register for tax
  3. Approve the space
  4. Get the permits for your kind of business
  5. Alcohol permits
  6. Before the first hire

Issued by Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery.

Sources and dates

7 V.S.A. 204; Department of Liquor and Lottery manufacturer’s license page and licensing fee page. Checked against the agency’s page on the date shown; cities add their own fees.

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