Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2606, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize brewpubs to sell beer for consumption off-premises.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Caldera Brewing Company and ten individuals. Comments were also submitted by the Retail Liquor Dealers Association of Hawaii and Liquor Dispensers of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that currently brewpubs are restricted from selling their beer for consumption off-premises. In order to distribute their beer, the brewpubs have to go through a distributor. However, because these small brewpubs do not distribute large quantities of their beer, it is very difficult to get and keep distributors that will supply their beer. Your Committee believes that this measure addresses these current restrictions and will allow brewpubs to sell their own beer to consumers without having to go through a distributor.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2606, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.