SAN ANTONIO — Beer drinkers rejoice!
It looks like the state of Texas is finally arriving to the party.
"Texas is the 50th state to adopt this type of legislation," Busted Sandal founder Mike DiCicco said. "So long time coming."
"I think a customer should be able to go to a brewery or a brew pub and if they would like to take some beer home with them it shouldn't just be down to some permit type that dictates. This does level the playing field."
Busted Sandal is a San Antonio Brewing Company that is able to sell beer to-go but six years ago, that wasn't the case.
"New legislation come out nearly a month after we opened the doors that allowed to sell beer on premise which breweries couldn't do back then so if you think how huge that was," DiCicco told KENS 5 on Sunday.
"People would come to visit your brewery and you couldn't sell them a pint of beer. Now think about how that levels the playing field with breweries and brewpubs and now beer to-go is out there."
Current state law limits which breweries are allowed to sell cans to customers but a bill waiting on final approval by the Texas house will allow any brewery the ability to sell a case of beer to a customer per day.
"That helps the beer industry all across all tiers," DiCicco added.
And it helps entrepreneurs like Ryan Faircloth the owner of Boozers, a professional designated driver, mobile bar, and alcohol delivery business owner.
"I'm not going to say the entire state is setting us up for failure but how they have the rules and the laws right now they kind of contradict themselves a little bit," Faircloth said on Sunday.
Faircloth hopes Texas relaxing some of its beer laws will eventually lead to easing some of the time restrictions for liquor sales. In the meantime, he and his partner hope to see a boost in the designated driving sector, once this law is approved.
"They're going to have to consume that beer eventually and let's just hope they're not driving and, if they are, they call Boozers," he said with a smile.