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Texas fee interest bonds, U.
$325 flat.
An out-of-state brewer that brews in Texas under a contract brewing arrangement or an alternating brewery proprietorship, and does not own a fee interest in the brewing facility, posts a $30,000 fee interest bond with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Ours is $325 flat.
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Three steps. One sitting.
TABC will not finish your license file without this bond. Here is the whole process — no broker phone tag:
Apply online
Entity details, the county your Texas operation sits in, your license or permit number if TABC has already issued one, and an effective date. The only extra step is a one-time consent that authorizes a soft credit pull.
Pay & e-sign
Fixed-amount license bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. The soft pull informs approval, never the price — $325 either way.
File with TABC
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to attach to your TABC filing. The Commission wants a wet-ink original on its own form, so we mail the original to the address you give us.
What it is and who needs it.
What the fee interest bond actually guarantees
Texas licenses out-of-state brewers through the Nonresident Brewer's License (BN) — the code the old Nonresident Brewer's Permit (U) and the Non-Resident Manufacturer's License (BS) folded into as part of a TABC license-and-permit consolidation. The license lets an out-of-state brewer sell malt beverages to Texas wholesalers and distributors.
The fee interest bond is not a general licensing bond, and most BN holders never file one. It is triggered by an arrangement: a brewer that is a party to an alternating brewery proprietorship (two or more parties take turns using one brewery's physical premises) or a contract brewing arrangement (one brewery brews on behalf of another because of limited capacity or other business necessity) must post the bond if it does not own a fee interest in a brewing facility. Own the bricks, and the bond requirement falls away.
On TABC's own form the obligation runs to the State of Texas, in the sum of thirty thousand dollars, payable at Austin, Travis County, conditioned that the principal shall faithfully conform with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code and Rules of the Commission. It is a guarantee to the state, not insurance for you — if the surety pays, you repay the surety. The bond takes effect the day TABC issues the license and stays in force until the license is cancelled or the license and its succeeding renewals expire, so it does not lapse when your two-year TABC term rolls over.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $30,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File with TABC. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to attach to your TABC filing. The Commission wants a wet-ink original on its own form, so we mail the original to the address you give us.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $325 at the $30,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields, including the one-time consent that authorizes a soft credit pull. Submit once and the executed bond is generated ready to file.
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