Arkansas Administrative Code
Agency 006 - Department of Finance and Administration
Division 02 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Division
Rule 006.02.16-008 - Amendment to Section 2.5.1

Section 2.5.1 "Microbrewery-Restaurant" means any establishment in which beer, malt, and hard cider are brewed and sold at retail in a restaurant setting under the same ownership in the same building or attached buildings. The operation of the microbrewery-restaurant shall be a limited exception to the three-tier system as defined in other parts of these Regulations. A microbrewery-restaurant establishment shall be allowed to brew hard cider and beer or other malt beverage products, as defined in ACA § 3-5-1202, and such products may be brewed in one or more varieties to be served in the restaurant operated at the same premises. The microbrewery-restaurant shall be limited to a production of 20,000 barrels of products per year, with each barrel having a volume of thirty-one (31) gallons. The beer, malt beverage, or hard cider brewed at the microbrewery operation may be sold at the restaurant maintained at the same premises for on premises consumption on any day of the week. The microbrewery-restaurant may sell on the premises beer, malt beverages, and hard cider manufactured by the microbrewery in brewery-sealed packages at retail directly to the consumer for off-premises consumption on any day of the week. The microbrewery-restaurant may sell beer, malt, or hard cider of its own manufacture to a wholesale dealer licensed by this state for the purpose of resale to other retail license holders as set forth by ACA § 3-4-605 and ACA § 3-5-101, dealing with the wholesale distribution of beer, malt, and hard cider. The restaurant may purchase beer from other manufacturers of beer as set forth in that Act for sale and dispensing at the restaurant operation.