![]() That category would fit the agriculture-themed event venue business, more specifically wedding barns. It isn’t for selling, it’s for hosting events where alcohol is consumed.” “It’s not a sales license, it’s a consumption license,” committee member Roger Johnson, who worked as the state’s top liquor law regulator for more than 30 years until his retirement in 2014, said during the nearly five-hour meeting. “If you require a business to purchase a permit to remain operating and simultaneously support a quota system leaving zero permits available at any price, you are knowingly banning that business,” Bott said. The 15-member committee on Wednesday agreed to pursue the creation of a new “consumption license or permit” for operators of wedding barns and similar businesses that have grown in popularity across the state. ![]() MADISON – While legislation remains to be ironed out, it’s clear that a majority of the Legislature’s Alcohol Beverages Enforcement Study Committee wants the state to regulate emerging players in the hospitality marketplace.
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