Colorado alcohol laws

What it would do: Modifies entertainment district requirements by removing the one hundred acre limit from the definition, reducing minimum licensed premises from twenty thousand to five thousand square feet for at least two licensees, and allowing local authorities to set alcohol sales hours and days for common consumption areas and attached premises.

What it would do: Allows spirituous liquor manufacturers to conduct tastings and sell their own products at up to two approved sales room locations instead of one, and permits them to apply for a permit to serve and sell wholesaler-acquired beverages if they provide sandwiches and light snacks and limit such sales to fifty percent of total alcohol proceeds.

What it would do: Allows licensed alcohol manufacturers, brewpubs, vintner's restaurants, and distillery pubs to manufacture beverages on adjacent alternating premises licensed premises owned by another licensee, with retail sales prohibited from those alternating premises.

What it would do: Permits registered hemp manufacturers to produce and sell nonalcoholic beverages infused with no more than ten milligrams of THC per serving to licensed wholesalers, and allows licensed alcohol retailers, marijuana retailers, and transporters to sell these beverages to consumers subject to state licensing authority rules adopted by January 1, 2028.

What it would do: Defines craft producers and craft products, allows manufacturers and limited wineries to obtain expanded sales room permits to operate restaurants or sell craft products by the drink, allows wholesalers manufacturing malt liquors similar permissions, increases distillery pub spirituous liquor wholesale limits to 8,100 liters per product annually, and establishes fees for expanded sales room permit applications.

What it would do: Creates three government-owned enterprises within the Behavioral Health Administration that collect fees from alcohol manufacturers and distributors to fund alcohol use disorder treatment, prevention, and recovery services. Fees are $0.05 per gallon for beer/cider/apple wine, $0.35 per liter for spirits, and $0.07 per liter for wine, effective July 1, 2027.

What it would do: Allows alcohol retailers to sell malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors until 2:30 a.m. and permit consumption until 3 a.m. on premises, provided the local governing body adopts an ordinance opting into this provision.