The Vermont Statutes Online

Title 7 : Alcoholic Beverages, Cannabis, and Tobacco

Chapter 009 : Licensing

Subchapter 002 : RETAIL LICENSES AND PERMITS

• § 224. Fourth-class licenses

  (a) The Board of Liquor and Lottery may grant up to a combined total of 20 fourth-class licenses to a manufacturer or rectifier that submits an application and the fee provided in section 204 of this title.

  (b) At each licensed location, a fourth-class licensee may sell by the unopened container or distribute by the glass, with or without charge, alcoholic beverages manufactured by the licensee.

  (1) A licensee may, for consumption at the licensed premises or location, distribute the following amounts of alcoholic beverages to a retail customer:

  (A) not more than two ounces of malt beverages, vinous beverages, or ready-to-drink spirits beverages with a total of eight ounces; and

  (B) no more than one-quarter ounce of spirits or fortified wine with a total of one ounce.

  (2) At a fourth-class license location at the licensee’s manufacturing premises, the licensee may distribute by the glass up to four mixed drinks containing a combined total of no more than one ounce of spirits or fortified wine to each retail customer for consumption only on the licensed premises.

  (3) At each licensed location, a fourth-class licensee may, pursuant to section 64 of this title, sell malt beverages or vinous beverages, or both, by the keg.

  (c)(1) At only one fourth-class license location, a licensed manufacturer or rectifier may sell by the unopened container or distribute by the glass, with or without charge, alcoholic beverages produced by no more than five additional manufacturers or rectifiers, provided these beverages are purchased on invoice from the manufacturer or rectifier.

  (2) A manufacturer or rectifier may sell its product to no more than five additional manufacturers or rectifiers.

  (d) A fourth-class license issued for a farmers’ market location shall be valid for all dates of operation for the specific farmers’ market location.

  (e) Rules applicable to second-class licenses and pertaining to financial responsibility, age of employees, the selling and furnishing to apparently intoxicated persons, and leases of businesses shall all apply to fourth-class licenses.

  (f) Signs and advertising of fourth-class licenses at tasting rooms and retail shops other than at the manufacturer’s or rectifier’s premises shall indicate that the premises are a “tasting room and retail shop” and shall be in lettering not less than 75 percent of the height and width of the lettering setting forth the name of the licensee or establishment. (Added 1993, No. 112 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. Feb. 18, 1994; amended 2017, No. 83, § 37; 2018, No. 1 (Sp. Sess.), § 40; 2021, No. 177 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. July 1, 2022; 2023, No. 67, § 3, eff. July 1, 2023.)