If I owned a liquor store, would I need a separate license to sell my home brewed beer?

I am interested in purchasing a liquor store, which I would then use to help start another project of opening my own brewery. I do know that I require a liquor license to sell alcohol; however, would I need a separate license to brew beer for commercial sales?|||You would need a whole slew of licenses and certifications to even fathom selling homebrew unfortunately. It varies state to state though. In many cases in order to start selling any homemade product for consumption a sterile and designated area needs to be set aside specifically for that purpose and it must undergo inspection.





It'd definitely doable, it's just going to take a lof of time and hard work.|||Most states you would need a brewery license and that varies a lot state to state. Go find your states Liquor Control Board's website and look. But retail and breweries are vastly different things and aren't going to have even close to the same type of licensing.





A brew pub would be much closer.|||The brewery part of this place, whether it's a designated room out back or a seperate or semi-connected building itself, would require inspection much like a restaurant or any other commercial brewery.





Once you get that done, it's just a matter of ensuring that your brew is legal for retail sale. At that point, just move it out front and put a price on it. You become your distributor and wholesaler for that product, obviously. It would also be legal to sell it to other liquor stores, but if you don't then you get more customers in your store.





The exact process is complicated, especially if you're in an ABC state. The mere process of owning a liquor store in those states becomes much more difficult than in non-ABC states.