Bill > AB2913

This bill makes several changes to California's alcoholic beverage laws, primarily focusing on craft distillers and advertising restrictions. It clarifies the definition of "manufacture" for craft distillers, ensuring a specified percentage of their production is actually distilled by them, while still allowing them to produce up to 100,000 gallons of distilled spirits annually. The bill also modifies rules regarding how non-retail licensees can participate in events sponsored by nonprofit organizations, specifically by removing the ability for non-retail licensees to "initiate" social media posts and instead prohibiting them from receiving advertising, sales, or promotional benefits from permanent retail licensees. Additionally, it expands the ability for rectifiers (companies that process and bottle spirits) to purchase advertising space and time from certain large on-sale retail licensees (like stadiums and arenas), and clarifies that rectifiers are subject to criminal penalties if they coerce wholesalers in these advertising arrangements. Finally, it allows licensed craft distillers to hold a license to import distilled spirits, but only for the purpose of using those imported spirits in their own manufacturing process.