Florida · Alcoholic beverage licensing
Florida liquor license lookup on the DBPR portal.
Florida’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco (AB&T) sits inside the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and its licences are searched on the same DBPR Licensing Portal as every other DBPR profession. This page explains how to run that search and what comes back.
Short answer: open the DBPR Licensing Portal, choose a search mode and set License Category to Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco. Results list License Type, Name, Name Type, License Number/Rank and Status/Expires, and clicking the name shows complaints or discipline. The portal also links an AB&T Delinquent Invoice & Activity List Search. This page does not look anyone up.
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One portal, one category
Florida does not run a stand-alone liquor licence search. The DBPR Licensing Portal’s License Search page offers four modes, Search by Name, Search by License Number, Search by City or County and Search by License Type, and its License Category list, read on November 11, 2026, begins with Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco. Choosing that category restricts a search to the Division’s licences, whether the licensee is a bar, a package store, a restaurant, a distributor or a manufacturer. The portal describes its scope as professions and businesses regulated by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
Filters and results
The name search groups its filters as License Category, License Type, City, County, State, an Include Historic Licenses checkbox and Licenses Per Page (10 to 50); County lists all 67 counties plus Out of State and Unknown. The results table has five columns, License Type, Name, Name Type, License Number/Rank and Status/Expires, and the portal says to see its glossary of terms for the meaning of the status shown and to click on the name for additional information, including any complaints or discipline. For a beverage licence the License Type column is where the licence series appears, so it is worth reading alongside the status.
The delinquent invoice and activity list
Beside the ordinary search, the portal links a service named AB&T Delinquent Invoice & Activity List Search. It is specific to the Division and separate from the licence search; a vendor checking whether a retailer is on the list, or a retailer checking its own standing, uses that link rather than the licensee lookup.
What was not readable
The Division’s own section of the DBPR site, which describes licence series and quotas, returned an error when fetched for this build, so this page does not list licence types or explain the codes that appear in the License Type column. The search mechanics above come from the portal pages that were read.
Worked example
A landlord in Jacksonville is leasing a unit to a restaurant that says it holds a beverage licence. He opens the portal, chooses Search by Name, sets License Category to Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco and County to Duval, and searches the restaurant’s name. The result shows the licence type, number and Status/Expires; he opens the name to see any complaints or discipline and keeps the page with the date. A distributor checking the same restaurant before extending credit would also open the AB&T Delinquent Invoice & Activity List Search.
Contact
DBPR’s Customer Contact Center is 850.487.1395 and its address is 2601 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee. The portal notes that under Florida law email addresses are public records.
Figures read from the sources below on November 11, 2026. Last updated November 11, 2026.
Sources
- Florida DBPR Licensing Portal: License Search (search modes, AB&T delinquent invoice list link) (retrieved November 11, 2026)
- Florida DBPR Licensing Portal: Search License by Name (License Category list including Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco) (retrieved November 11, 2026)
Common mix-ups
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Often assumedFlorida beverage licences are checked on a separate ABT website rather than the DBPR portal.
What the source saysThe Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco is part of DBPR, and the DBPR name-search form lists Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco as a License Category alongside the other regulated professions. [2]
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Often assumedA status of Active in the Florida beverage licence search means the licensee is in good standing with the Division.
What the source saysThe portal keeps a separate AB&T Delinquent Invoice & Activity List Search beside the licence search, and says complaints and discipline appear only when you click the licensee’s name. [1]
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Often assumedYou need the licence number to search a Florida beverage licence.
What the source saysThe portal’s Licensee Search Options are Search by Name, Search by License Number, Search by City or County and Search by License Type; a number is one route of four. [1]
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Frequently asked questions
How do I look up a Florida liquor license?
Use the DBPR Licensing Portal with License Category set to Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco. Search by name, licence number, city or county, or licence type.
Is there a separate Florida ABT license search?
No. The Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco is part of DBPR and its licences are searched on the same portal as cosmetology, construction and the other DBPR categories.
What does a result show?
License Type, Name, Name Type, License Number/Rank and Status/Expires. Click the name for complaints or discipline, and see DBPR’s glossary for the status meaning.
What is the AB&T Delinquent Invoice and Activity List?
A separate search the portal links beside the licence search, specific to the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco.
Can I find a lapsed beverage license?
Tick Include Historic Licenses on the name search to include records that have expired.
Why are licence series not explained here?
The Division’s own pages returned an error when fetched on November 11, 2026, so this page describes only the search mechanics it could read.
Does this page verify a license?
No. It explains the official search and links to it. Nothing typed or ticked here is sent anywhere.
Guide only — not a verification tool
This page describes an official register and links to it. It does not check anyone’s licence status, does not copy or proxy the register, and nothing you type or tick here is transmitted anywhere. Registers change and licensing rules differ by state; use the official source linked above and contact DBPR to confirm anything that matters. This is general information, not legal advice.