Perspective
May 10, 2016
Loosening the rules for California distillers
A new law includes several important changes for California's craft distillers that chip away at, for the first time since the repeal of Prohibition, the three-tier system as it applies to the production and sale of distilled spirits by craft producers. By Molly Jones
Molly A. Jones
Counsel
Crowell & Moring LLP
Phone: (415) 986-2800
Email: mojones@crowell.com
UC Hastings COL; San Francisco CA
Molly is counsel in the Intellectual Property and Litigation groups in the firm's San Francisco office.
"The growth in California, I think, is due to the fact that we grow so much here. Between the beer industry and the wine industry, that creative momentum just grew into distilling." - Cris Stellar, California Artisanal Distillers Guild
On Oct. 8, 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the California Craft Distillers Act of 2015, Assembly Bill 1295. Effective Jan. 1, 2016, AB 1295 is intended to provide equity between craft dis...
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