PLCB Opens Bidding on 25 Expired Pennsylvania Liquor Licenses

The Pennsylvania Liquor Management Board (PLCB) is giving companies throughout the state one other shot at securing coveted liquor licenses — sometimes called “zombie licenses.”

PLCB Opens Bidding on 25 Expired Pennsylvania Liquor Licenses

Yesterday, August seventh, bidding formally opened for the 14th public sale for the reason that passage of Act 39, the 2016 regulation that dramatically reshaped liquor gross sales in Pennsylvania. Amongst its many provisions, Act 39 created a approach for the state to reissue expired or unused restaurant liquor licenses, which beforehand would have merely disappeared from circulation.

The place Are the Out there Licenses?

This spherical contains 25 restaurant liquor licenses — one for every of the next counties:

• Adams

• Allegheny

• Armstrong

• Bedford

• Berks

• Bucks

• Cambria

• Carbon

• Clearfield

• Crawford

• Delaware

• Erie

• Greene

• Juniata

• Lawrence

• Lackawanna

• Lehigh

• Luzerne

• Northampton

• Northumberland

• Pike

• Schuylkill

• Somerset

• Sullivan

• Wyoming

Every license comes with a minimal bid of $25,000, and as in earlier auctions, the best bidder in every county will win the rights to use for the license.

How the Public sale Works

• Sealed bids have to be submitted by midday on October sixth.

• The PLCB will open bids on October ninth, saying winners shortly after.

• Profitable bidders then have six months to use for his or her license.

• Cost have to be obtained inside two weeks of the award, or the chance passes to the second-highest bidder.

Previous Bidding Heavyweights

In earlier auctions, main gamers corresponding to Large Meals Shops, Weis Markets, Sheetz, and Rutter’s Farm Shops have secured licenses — usually paying effectively above the minimal to realize entry into choose counties the place licenses are scarce.

Earlier than Act 39, the state had no system to re-sell licenses misplaced resulting from enforcement actions, monetary failures, or different circumstances — which means roughly 70 licenses “died” every year. Now, these auctions provide new alternatives for eating places, grocery shops, and different hospitality companies to broaden.

Easy methods to Bid

The Invitation for Bids and full particulars may be discovered on the PLCB’s official web site. As soon as there, scroll all the way down to “Associated Solicitation Information” to view the mandatory paperwork.

Potential bidders with questions should e-mail RA-LBLicenseAuction@pa.gov no later than midday on August twenty eighth.

This PLCB license public sale may very well be a game-changer for companies trying to broaden alcohol gross sales in high-demand Pennsylvania markets. With some counties traditionally seeing fierce competitors — and licenses going for effectively above the $25,000 minimal — the subsequent two months may show pivotal for bidders hoping to faucet into new markets.

In the event you like this text, please take a look at our different many articles, together with information, beer opinions, travelogues, maps, and far far more. We tremendously admire everybody visiting the positioning!

Cheers.

Thanks once more for studying everybody. Take a while to take a look at the positioning, we tremendously admire it. We’ve associates and sponsors with Pretzels.com and Beer Drop.com, which may prevent cash on their merchandise in case you are . Take a look at our articles on them. Make certain to take a look at our beer opinions, brewery opinions, Amy’s weekly column, e book opinions, hike opinions, and a lot extra.

As all the time, thanks everybody for studying! Go away your likes, feedback, strategies, questions, and so forth, within the feedback part. Or use the Suggestions – Contact Us – web page, and we’ll get proper again to you! You may also attain out to us at our direct e-mail deal with: thebeerthrillers@gmail.com

Thanks for visiting our weblog. Please be certain to observe, bookmark, subscribe, and ensure to remark and depart suggestions and just like the weblog posts you learn. It would assist us to higher tailor the weblog to you, the readers, likes and make this a greater weblog for everybody.

We’re engaged on an enormous challenge right here at The Beer Thrillers. We’re making a map of all the breweries throughout the USA. State by state we’re including maps of all the totally different states with each brewery in every state. (We’ll finally get to the US Territories, in addition to the Canadian Provinces, and probably extra international locations; in addition to performing some enjoyable maps like a map of all of the breweries we’ve been to, and different enjoyable maps.) Yow will discover the brewery maps right here:

We’re additionally engaged on a challenge of making printable and downloadable PDFs and assets to have the ability to verify and maintain monitor of all the breweries you’ve been to. So keep tuned for that challenge as soon as we’re completed with the Brewery Maps of the US States.

You possibly can take a look at our totally different directories right here: Beer Opinions, Hike Opinions, E book Opinions, Brewery Information, Brewery Openings, Brewer Interviews, and Travelogues.

Please make sure to observe us on our social media accounts – Fb, Fb Group, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Affect. In addition to our model new Tumblr web page. Please make sure to additionally observe, like, subscribe to the weblog right here itself to maintain up to date. We’re additionally now on BlueSky as effectively, so be certain to verify us on the market additionally. We love to listen to from you guys, so make sure to depart a remark and tell us what you assume!

Now you can discover us on our Discord Server right here: The Beer Thrillers (Discord Server).

We additionally now have a SLACK channel – which acts as a hybrid chat room, message board, Reddit type; workspace and posting space for us. You possibly can hang around with us there and chat about every kind of issues – not simply beer, however “off subject” issues like films, TV, books, podcasts, mountain climbing, sports activities, and extra! Be a part of us at: The Beer Thrillers on SLACK.

We’ve additionally joined LinkTree to maintain monitor of all of our social media pages, in addition to sizzling new articles we’ve written. The Beer Thrillers on LinkTree may be discovered right here: The Beer Thrillers LinkTree.

We’ve partnered with an affiliateship with Beer Drop.com. You possibly can take a look at that partnership and obtain nice reductions, coupons, and extra right here: Beer Drop. Going right here and logging in and ordering will show you how to obtain your reductions and coupons in addition to assist assist our web page. Thanks for serving to to assist The Beer Thrillers and to assist us keep the positioning and weblog and to maintain it working.

The Beer Thrillers are a weblog that prides itself on writing beer opinions, brewery opinions, travelogues, information (particularly native to the Central PA brewery scene), in addition to overlaying different subjects of our pursuits – corresponding to mountain climbing, literature and books, board video games, and video video games which we typically stream with our associates over at Knights of Nostalgia. We’re presently listed as #5 on FeedSpot’s “High 100 Beer Blogs” and #9 on FeedSpot’s “High 40 Pennsylvania Blogs”. (As of Might 2025.) Thanks for studying our website at this time, please subscribe, observe, and bookmark. Please attain out to us in case you are enthusiastic about working collectively. If you need to donate to the weblog you’ll be able to right here: Donate to The Beer Thrillers. Thanks!

You may also take a look at our partnership and affiliation with Pretzels.com, the place ordering pretzels and utilizing our affiliate code – AFFILIATE CODE IS THEBEERTHRILLERS20 – will show you how to get great pretzels and assist us keep and maintain this weblog working. Thanks!

If you need to achieve out to us for product opinions, beer opinions, press launch writing, and different media – please contact us at thebeerthrillers@gmail.com. Thanks.

(Thanks for studying. The opinions, ideas, and expressions of every article posted on The Beer Thrillers represents the creator of the content material and solely themselves. It doesn’t specific the opinions, beliefs, or concepts held by The Beer Thrillers or any firm through which the creator themselves work for. Every bit of written content material is written by the creator(s) listed within the authorial part on every article until in any other case famous. Their opinions, feedback, and phrases on display don’t characterize any firm through which they work for and / or are affiliated with or any non – income that they contribute to. Thanks.)

Associated