[nickcarraway]

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.

[frogjerk]

There are actually different types of brewery licenses in NJ - A brewpub (restricted brewery) and brewery (limited brewery) which cannot sell food. Limited Breweries are technically wholesalers given the privilege of having a tasting room and up until 2012 could not charge for their beer in the tasting room.

One of the great things about the law change in 2012 was that they did away with the ridiculous post-Prohibition era 3-tier distribution model most likely because Bud was not around to lobby against craft beer in Trenton at the time.