There are no statewide bring-your-own-beverage (BYOB) laws in Texas. Check with your city or county for relevant local ordinances. State law does say it's illegal to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises of the holder of a Mixed Beverage Permit (MB) or Private Club Registration Permit (N). Otherwise, nothing in state law prohibits a guest from bringing their own alcoholic beverages onto the premises of a bar or restaurant or other establishment that is licensed to sell wine or beer, or into an establishment that is not licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.
You may allow customers to bring their own alcoholic beverages onto your premises while you are applying for a TABC permit. If you are obtaining a Wine and Beer Retailer's Permit (BG), you can continue to allow customers to bring their own alcoholic beverages, even after you obtain a TABC permit. Some establishments that sell only wine and beer allow customers to bring in distilled spirits and sell "set-ups." This would not be legal with a Private Club Registration Permit (N) or Mixed Beverage Permit (MB).
Grocery and convenience stores start selling beer at 7 am Monday through Saturday, and Sunday sales begin at 10 am. They stop selling at midnight Sunday through Friday, but you have until 1 am on Saturday.
For grocery and convenience stores, Texas's alcohol sales times for wine are the same as beer: Monday through Friday, 7 am to midnight, Saturday, 7 am to 1 am; and Sundays now, from 10 am to midnight.
Aside from grocery or convenience stores, package stores sell beer and wine, not liquor. If a package store only sells wine, they have the same operating hours as a liquor store. If they sell beer and wine but nothing else, then special restrictions apply to the sales of wine with an alcohol content over 17%.
Alcohol sales hours are different if you're being served for consumption on-premises, as you would at a bar or restaurant. For on-premises consumption, the rules are the same whether you're buying beer, wine, liquor, or mixed drinks.
This expansion applies to grocery stores and convenience stores, where beer and wine can now be sold from 7 a.m. to midnight Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to midnight Sunday.
The current alcohol laws in Texas limit selling beer, wine, or liquor before 10 am on a Sunday morning. Here's a trick, buy everything you need for Sunday on Saturday night. Anyway, this limit is in place from midnight until noon and is applicable at all locations where alcohol is sold. Liquor stores are closed all day on Sunday.
Each license is for a different reason, but the most common permit (used for liquor stores) is the package store permit. This permit includes hard liquors (most permits only allow wine, beer, or a combination of the two) and allows transportation to and from other liquor stores.
A wine-only package (liquor) store that holds a beer license can not sell wine containing more than 17% alcohol by volume on Sunday. If the wine-only package store doe not hold a beer license, it must operate the same hours as a liquor store, which means it is closed on Sunday.
Under the bill, establishments holding mixed beverage and private club permits can sell alcohol such as mixed drinks, wine, beer and malt beverages with food orders. This includes alcoholic beverages with food orders for either pick up or delivery, according to TABC. And like beer and wine sales, the orders cannot be made before 10 a.m. on Sunday.
Before, Sunday alcohol sales were completely prohibited based on the old Texas alcohol laws. But with the new Texas beer laws, you can buy liquor from 10 AM to 12 AM, as long as it is served with food.
There was some conflict when the customer believed that they could purchase beer and wine before Sunday at noon," Huddleston said. "And it takes time, even though the cashier will be cordial explaining the law."
Voter approval is required (either at the county, county precinct, or city level) to approve sales. Separate votes are required for 1) "on premise" (sales at a restaurant or bar for consumption at that location) beer and wine sales, 2) "off premise" (sales for consumption elsewhere, such as home) beer and wine sales, 3) on premise liquor sales, and 4) off premise liquor sales.
The beer sales at UT sporting events this spring, which would include the Texas spring football game on April 19 and the Texas Relays March 26-29, will serve as a \"testing of the waters\" for football. If all goes well, beer would be sold at Texas football games starting this fall, the source said.
The beer sales at UT sporting events this spring, which would include the Texas spring football game on April 19 and the Texas Relays March 26-29, will serve as a "testing of the waters" for football. If all goes well, beer would be sold at Texas football games starting this fall, the source said.
Under federal law, Americans buying handguns from licensed dealers must be at least 21, which would have precluded Salvador Ramos from buying that type of weapon. That trumps Texas law, which only requires buyers of any type of firearm to be 18 or older.
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House Bill 1545 allows a customer to buy one case of beer (24 12 oz. cans or 288 oz. total) per day from the brewery. Texas was the last state in the U.S. to not allow direct take-home purchases from a brewery until Gov. Greg Abbott signed the legislation over the summer.
The legislation was one of the most difficult to get through the Texas Legislature this year, but was able to be passed after a compromise was struck between the growing number of craft brewers pushing for the change and the powerful wholesale beer distributors in the state.
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But part of that will change September 1 thanks to the passing of House Bill 1518 in the Texas legislature, which would allow the purchase time of beer and wine to start at 10 a.m. rather than the existing 12 p.m.
The two-hour jump allows bars and restaurants to sell alcoholic drinks with food service and stores to sell beer and wine earlier, but it will not eliminate the in-store ban on liquor sales on Sundays.
Some critics of the Texas blue law think it should be scrapped completely, especially after Gov. Abbott's recently green-lighted a to-go alcohol bill allowing restaurants and bars to sell beer, wine and mixed drinks via takeout or delivery.
"The state still permits beer and wine sales on Sundays, and restaurants and bars can still serve their drinks seven days a week. Now restaurants will be able to sell alcohol for off-premises consumption on Sundays, too. And needless to say, there is no rule against drinking alcohol on Sundays, which makes the entire premise of a Sunday sales restriction inherently silly."
Whether you plan to get beer at an on-premise location such as a bar or restaurant, or at an off-premise location like a grocery or convenience store, the general statewide laws for alcohol sales on weekdays are the same. Beer is available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to midnight.
This is where it gets tricky. Sale of beer at both on-premise and off-premise locations is permitted on Saturday from 7 a.m. until 1 a.m. the following morning, except at bars and restaurants with the aforementioned late hours permit that allows them to continue serving alcohol until 2 a.m.
On Sunday, grocery and convenience stores may only sell beer from noon until midnight. Bars and restaurants follow the same schedule, but they may also sell alcohol starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday only if it is sold in conjunction with food. Beer can also be sold starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday at fairs, festivals, concerts and sports venues.
Liquor stores in Texas only sell liquor, not beer or wine, at the time of this writing, and they follow different hours than establishments that sell beer. Liquor stores are allowed to sell alcohol Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. They are closed on Sunday, as well as Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
The legal drinking age in Texas is 21. Laws that pertain to when and where beer and other alcohol may be purchased are generally observed statewide, but many counties, cities and towns have additional restrictions. Always check local laws in the area where you plan to buy beer. A handful of counties in Texas are entirely dry, and several other counties permit the sale of beer and wine, but not liquor. Many more counties include some communities where the sale of alcohol is permitted, along with other communities where it is not.
In the state of Texas, liquor stores must remain closed on Sundays and some holidays, including New Year's Day and Christmas Day. When it comes to beer and wine, you can still purchase it on Sundays, just not before noon.
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