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Wholesale alcohol rules in Texas

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.

Beer

Open, but conditional

Condition: 62A.02(d): the malt beverages "may be shipped only from a manufacturing facility in this state". A NONRESIDENT brewer may hold the licence under 62A.01 and still cannot use the lane without a Texas plant, and an order does not carry where it shipped from. 62A.04 also requires a monthly sales-to-retailers report to the commission by the 15th.

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

Tex. Alco. Bev. Code 62A.01, 62A.02(a)-(d) — verified 2026-10-25.

Spirits

Closed

Tex. Alco. Bev. Code 14.01(a)(5) — verified 2026-10-25.

RTD / canned cocktails

Open, but conditional

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

Derived from this state's beer, wine and spirits lanes (Tex. Alco. Bev. Code 62A.01, 62A.02(a)-(d); Tex. Alco. Bev. Code 16.01(a)(4), with 16.011 (dry-area limit); Tex. Alco. Bev. Code 14.01(a)(5))

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