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Liquor license renewal process potentially long

The interior of the Butler Brew Works on Main Street in Butler. Butler Eagle file photo

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board gets thousands of retail liquor license renewal applications at once each year, and each review process is different and can take different lengths of time.

Shawn Kelly, spokesman for the liquor control board, said the renewal process involves review of financial and operating reports and even talks with local law enforcement by the board. Because of the process, a restaurant may not get its license renewed by the time the old one expires.

“We have hundreds of wineries, breweries, distilleries — that is a process and every one of them is carefully reviewed,” Kelly said. “It is actually an issue with timing. We try to balance out the number of licenses that come through at any given time.”

Here in Butler County, Butler Brew Works was temporarily operating without a brewery liquor license, but the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board renewed the license on Feb. 23.

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