is on the State Senate floor, but since 2014, there haven’t been any new on-sale liquor licenses available to incoming restaurants and bars in the county.

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“There were almost none available," La Esquina owner Leonard Cohen explained of the liquor licenses in the county. "That's why they became scarce and that's why the price keeps going up.”

But there is another way that 15 establishments in the City of San Luis Obispo have been able to sell liquor, by making their own.

For Cohen, he produces about 25 to 30 gallons a month of agave spirit.

Instead of a liquor license, which for other establishments can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, th

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