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Businesses, organisations and people who want to sell or serve liquor in Alberta must have an AGLC-issued liquor licence. In Alberta, several different types of liquor licences are available. - ---Answers----Some liquor licences allow minors to be present, either alone or with adults. Minors are not allowed to buy, sell, drink or have liquor at any licensed business or special event.
Class A - Minors Allowed - ---Answers----This liquor licence allows for the sale of liquor to adults in places where food service is the main source of business. This licence is issued to restaurants, dining lounges, hotels and other places where minors are allowed to be.
Class A - Minors Prohibited - ---Answers----This liquor licence is issued to places where liquor is the main source of business. It's issued to bars, nightclubs, casinos, Racing Entertainment Centres, taverns and some lounges. Minors, including employees, are not allowed to be on premises.
Class B - ---Answers----Licences issued to Class B venues allow people who pay an entrance or user fee to buy or consume liquor on the premises. Recreational and tourist facilities, race tracks, movie and performance theatres, stadiums and arenas, and certain types of transportation are generally issued a Class B licence. This type of licence is also issued to spas, salons and barbershops that want to offer liquor service to their clients. 1 / 4
Class C - ---Answers----Class C liquor licences are issued to venues that serve liquor to its members, but are not open to
the general public: private clubs, canteens, some post-
secondary institutions and travellers' lounges are examples of Class C venues.
Class D - ---Answers----Businesses that sell liquor for off-
site consumption are issued a Class D liquor licence: retail
liquor stores, general merchandise liquor stores, manufacturing off-sales, hotel off-sales, duty-free shops, delivery service providers, caterers, and sellers of sacramental wine are examples of Class D licensees.
Class E - ---Answers----Distillers, vintners, brew pubs and brewers make liquor products and/or blend and package spirits, wine, cider or beer for commercial use at a permanent facility. These businesses operate under a Class E liquor licence.
Class F - ---Answers----Places that provide customers with the ingredients, equipment and advice needed to make their own beer, wine and/or cider on site are issued a Class F licence. Ferment-on-Premises facilities, also known as U- Brews or U-Vins, only produce liquor for a customer's personal use. Commercial production is not permitted.
A liquor licence controls whether a business is allowed to store and hold liquor, how the liquor can be sold, if customers and guests can drink the liquor at the place that sells it or if 2 / 4
they must drink it somewhere else. - ---Answers----When a liquor licence is issued, employers and special event hosts agree to obey all AGLC policies that apply to their licence(s), as well as all federal, provincial and municipal laws.
Licensees are required to train their staff to follow the laws for the work they do. Volunteers, workers, supervisors, managers and business owners must know what the laws are and how to follow them. - ---Answers----The hours of sale and consumption, or times of day that liquor can be sold and served to customers, is on the liquor licence. Different classes of liquor licences have different hours for liquor sales or service.
A, B, C: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m - ---Answers----Issued for the sale and consumption of liquor in premises open to the public.
Class C licences allow members and invited guests only.
Specific types of businesses or clubs may have different hours of sale. Businesses with Class A, B or C licence may allow
liquor to be consumed up to one hour after last call, up to 3:00
a.m.
D 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m: Retail/general merchandise 3 / 4
10:00 a.m. - 2:50 a.m: General Off-Sales - ---Answers---- Delivery permits (also included in Class D) allow 30 extra minutes after purchase to complete the delivery.
F: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. - ---Answers----Ferment-on- premises
Consumption not allowed on site.
Places with a Class A, B or C liquor licence can allow customers to drink for up to one hour after last call.
Customers and guests must drink the liquor where they buy it
unless the liquor was: - ---Answers----Purchased at a retail
liquor store, duty-free store, general- or hotel off-sales, general merchandise store, manufacturer off-sales, ferment- on-premises facility;
Delivered from a liquor store to another place; A partially consumed bottle(s) of wine that has been sealed by licensee staff and put into a bag for guests to take home; or
Served at a hotel bar and brought back to a hotel room or other common areas within the hotel.
Liquor cannot be sold or served to customers or guests in a storage room, vestibule (foyer, entrance), kitchen, hallway or
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