In the last few weeks, Michigan has passed a few laws to help its booze businesses.
The measures include expanding tasting rooms, lowering tax rates on “mixed spirit” drinks, adjusting license requirements and more. Distillers, winemakers and microbreweries are now able to make moves and expand their tasting rooms. A bill was recently signed by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, that allows small distillers, winemakers, and microbreweries to simultaneously have on-premises and off-premise tasting room permits. In lieu of Senate Bill 49 being passed, Michigan Liquor Control Code will be amended to allow a person to hold both an on premises tasting room permit, as well as an off premises tasting room license at the same location. This is one step closer to businesses being 100 percent back to normal with even more options for customers to enjoy.
With Michigan being home to some a huge amount of the best microbreweries and craft distillers in the country, this bill makes it much easier for these businesses to create and operate tasting rooms. Along with this reasoning, tourism is rebounding making this the perfect time to establish this new law. This will also help create more jobs and enable these small businesses to grow faster.
Whitmer signed this bill on May 24. This signed legislation allows distillers and retailers to distribute and sell a larger range of mixed alcoholic drinks, including drinks with higher alcohol levels. You may have noticed the increase of canned cocktials seen, this is also a growing share of Michigan's booming alcohol industry.
Although, the distilleries never stopped working despite the pandemic due to this industry transitioned to hand-sanitizer production, it will be nice to get back to what they are passionate about.
This new bill signed will now allow those small distilleries and microbreweries to expand their services to more people.
