HB 1663 Indiana House · 2025 Regular Session

Collaborative distilling.

Summary
Allows the holder of an artisan distiller's permit (artisan distiller) to: (1) manufacture liquor, including blending liquor sourced from another licensed manufacturer with liquor the artisan distiller manufactures; and (2) redistill, age, or bottle liquor, including liquor sourced from another licensed manufacturer; in accordance with certain provisions. Allows an artisan distiller to manufacture liquor for another artisan distiller if certain conditions are met. Allows an artisan distiller to blend or sell liquor from another licensed manufacturer as liquor that the artisan distiller manufactures if the artisan distiller's aggregate annual sales, in gallons, is made up of not less than 70% of liquor that was fermented and distilled from raw materials by the artisan distiller at the licensed premises of the artisan distiller. Specifies that brandy or liquor transferred in bond counts, for the calendar year in which the transfer occurs, toward the gallonage limit for the permit holder that receives the liquor or brandy transferred in bond. Provides that a transfer in bond of liquor or brandy that occurred before July 1, 2025, between the holder of an artisan distiller's permit, a farm winery brandy distiller's permit, or a distiller's permit: (1) is not subject to a provision that restricts the amount of sourced liquor that an artisan distiller may sell; and (2) does not, for purposes of that provision, count toward the amount of sourced liquor that an artisan distiller may sell.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Mar 3, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced House Bill (H) House Bill (S) · 5 edits
MODERATE
This bill amends Indiana's alcoholic beverage laws to clarify and expand the powers of artisan distillers. It updates the digest to reflect recent amendments and modifies the legal text to allow artisan distillers to blend sourced liquor with their own production, while maintaining the 70% self-production sales requirement. The changes also address how liquor transferred in bond counts toward gallonage limits and clarify rules for farm winery brandy sales.
Scope change
The bill's scope remains focused on artisan distilling operations, but the specific activities permitted have been clarified and expanded to include explicit blending authority.
REQUIREMENT

Updated the artisan distiller's permitted activities to explicitly include blending sourced liquor with self-manufactured liquor, replacing the previous list of separate manufacturing and blending actions.

DEFINITION

Added provisions clarifying that brandy or liquor transferred in bond counts toward the permit holder's annual gallonage limit in the calendar year of transfer.

EXEMPTIONS

Established that liquor or brandy transfers in bond occurring before July 1, 2025, are exempt from restrictions on the amount of sourced liquor an artisan distiller may sell.

TECHNICAL

Updated the bill citation from IC 7.1-3-27 to IC 7.1-3 and changed the section reference from 7.1-3-27-8 to 7.1-3-7.5-5 for brandy production rules.

TIMELINE

Added a specific exemption date of July 1, 2025, for pre-existing in-bond transfers to grandfather them from new sourcing restrictions.

Floor votes · House Feb 10, 2025

How they voted

884
Passed · 8 other
Total votes 100
Feb 10, 2025
D Democratic29
26 Yea 3
89% Yea
I Independent1
1 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican70
61 Yea 4 Nay 5
87% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
9
Key actions
2
Committee
1
Feb 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 118: yeas 88, nays 4
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
lower
2 primary · 1 co-sponsor

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