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Wholesale alcohol rules in Indiana

Whether a producer may sell direct to a retailer here, by beverage class. Each row says how well sourced it is: whether we read the statute ourselves, or are still working from our own notes or a secondary summary.

This is the producer-to-retailer lane. Sales through a licensed wholesaler are the ordinary route and are not what these rows describe. Nothing here is legal advice — it is a record of what we read, published so you can check it.

Acting as a broker is a separate question. Whether you personally need a licence, permit or registration to solicit orders in Indiana — and whether an independent commission broker can be licensed there at all — is answered state by state here.

Beer

Open

Open to in-state and out-of-state producers.

IC 7.1-3-2-7(5)(A) — we have not recorded where to read this, or when it was last checked.

Wine

Open, but conditional

Condition: Available only to a farm winery that does NOT distribute through an Indiana wine wholesaler - a fact about the winery other arrangements, which an order cannot carry.

  • Producer must make no more than 15,000 gal/yr to qualify
  • No more than 3,000 gal/yr may move through this lane

IC 7.1-3-12-5(a)(13) — we have not recorded where to read this, or when it was last checked.

Spirits

Open, but conditional

Condition: Available only to an artisan distiller that does NOT distribute through an Indiana liquor wholesaler.

  • Producer must make no more than 10,000 gal/yr to qualify
  • No more than 2,000 gal/yr may move through this lane

IC 7.1-3-27-8(a)(11) — we have not recorded where to read this, or when it was last checked.

RTD / canned cocktails

Open, but conditional

Condition: An RTD follows its base, and the three bases do not agree here — beer: allowed, wine: conditional, spirits: conditional. The order does not carry the base.

Derived from this state's beer, wine and spirits lanes (IC 7.1-3-2-7(5)(A); IC 7.1-3-12-5(a)(13); IC 7.1-3-27-8(a)(11))

A class not listed above is one nobody has read yet — not even a secondary summary. It is not a finding that Indiana forbids it. Every row above links the statute it rests on, so you can check the reading for yourself.