The 2020 winners list and press release from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation is available below. Click here for a downloadable PDF copy of the list. The most-recent results can always be found through the firm’s quotalottery.com resource.

Florida DBPR Releases Results of Annual Quota
Alcoholic Beverage License Drawing
62 selected entrants from the 2020 entry period now have 45 days to apply for a license in the county where selected 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s (DBPR) Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco conducted the public drawing for quota alcoholic beverage licenses available from the 2020 entry period. Results of the drawing are now published and accessible on the Division’s Quota Licenses and Drawings web page.

Quota alcoholic beverage licenses authorize the holder of the license to sell beer, wine and distilled spirits, either for package sales only or for consumption on the licensed premises, depending on the license series elected. The Florida Beverage Law limits the total number of quota alcoholic beverage licenses by county population estimates, authorizing the Division to issue no more than one license for every 7,500 residents within a county. Each year, the Division analyzes population data in Florida’s 67 counties, and based on the licenses available, opens the drawing process.

For the 2020 entry period, a total of 62 quota alcoholic beverage licenses were determined to be available for issuance across 30 counties, including: Brevard, Broward, Calhoun, Clay, Collier, Dade, DeSoto, Duval, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lake, Lee, Leon, Levy, Manatee, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Sarasota, Seminole, Sumter, Volusia and Walton. For the 2020 entry period, 23,655 entries were deemed qualified for entry in the drawing.

Entrants selected from today’s drawing will be awarded the priority right to apply and qualify to hold one of the available licenses in the county from which their entry was selected. The Florida Beverage Law requires that each selected entrant file an application to qualify to hold the license within 45 days from the date of the Division’s notice of selection.

The 2021 entry period for the annual drawing process will open on Monday, August 16, 2021. More information about the number and location of available licenses for the 2021 entry period will be published in advance of the entry period opening date. Interested parties are encouraged to monitor information on the Division’s web page related to Quota Licenses and Drawings for further announcements regarding the 2021 entry period.

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Original Article (6.29.21): The 2020 public drawing for quota liquor licenses results will be announced on June 29, 2021 in Tallahassee, Florida. As always, the firm will attend the ceremony virtually and share the official winners list as soon as it is released in the room. Hit the link below to receive a copy of the list within minutes of its release.

The full text of the announcement is below the break. The firm’s liquor license lottery resource is available at www.quotalottery.com.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC DRAWING FOR THE 2020 QUOTA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE ENTRY PERIOD

The Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco will conduct a public drawing by double random selection to determine the order in which entrants from the 2020 entry period will be considered for issuance of quota alcoholic beverage licenses in the following counties: Brevard, Broward, Calhoun, Clay, Collier, Dade, Desoto, Duval, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lake, Lee, Leon, Levy, Manatee, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Sarasota, Seminole, Sumter, Volusia and Walton.  All persons are invited to view the drawing through the use of communications media technology.  Following the drawing, the Division will provide notice of license eligibility by certified mail to the entrant(s) selected for each county.

DATE AND TIME: June 29, 2021, 9:00 a.m.

PLACE: The Division will hold the public drawing for the 2020 Quota Alcoholic Beverage License Entry Period through the use of communications media technology. Interested parties may register to view the meeting at the link provided on the Division’s website by following the following link: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/DBPR/alcoholic-beverages-and-tobacco/quota-license-information/. The link to register to view the public drawing will be located under the heading “Public Drawing Quota”. Due to technological constraints, the attendance will be limited to the first 3,000 registered attendees to join the meeting.

The physical location of the drawing will be the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Capital Commerce Center, 2601 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32399. This location will remain closed to the public.

PURPOSE: To conduct a public drawing by double random selection pursuant to section 561.19, Florida Statutes, for the purpose of determining the order in which applications will be considered for issuance of quota alcoholic beverage licenses in certain counties where licenses have become available.

A copy of the agenda may be obtained by writing to the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, Attn: Quota Beverage License Drawing, 2601 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, by e-mail at damon.larry@myfloridalicense.com, or by calling Bureau Chief Damon Larry at (850)488-8284.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 5 days before the meeting by contacting Damon Larry at (850)488-8284.  If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency by calling 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).