Growler bars would be able to sell more beer but less wine to sit-down customers if the Gainesville City Council approves a package of reforms on Tuesday. Amid the changes to local alcohol regulations are new regulations that allow growler bars — Downtown Drafts on the square and Tap It on Thompson Bridge Road — to bump up beer samples to 32 ounces per day per person while cutting wine sales back to 16 ounces. It’s part of a package of changes to local alcohol laws that includes some major policy changes for downtown and for local breweries. At the moment, breweries follow somewhat similar rules to growler bars; both are forced by the state to sell “samples” of beer at limited quantities. Breweries are due to see a significant unshackling in September, when state law will pare back regulations to allow direct sales at breweries.
Growler bars could sell more beer, less wine under Gainesville proposal