I agree but these events were always prohibited and the special ruling 2019 allowed a limited amount of them. This is what people who have no idea what is going on with limited breweries in NJ are misreporting.
So breweries were always forbidden from selling food? And breweries always required a membership with a mandated tour? I don’t remember that when I lived there.
What possible public interest would there be in forbidding a brewery from selling food? If anything, I can imagine the opposite, that breweries be required to serve food.