Newly issued Kentucky liquor licenses, updated every weekday.

The Kentucky record this page reads lists licenses once they're issued, not applications while they're pending; Kentucky publishes it at abcportal.ky.gov. A newly issued license is the public sign of a place about to open. This page reads that record as often as Kentucky updates it and lists the new licenses by county, city and license type, each linked back to the record.

Yes. The free Watch email sends each week's Kentucky list on Monday: city, license type, status and date, without business names. A Kentucky subscription, $79 a month, sends every new filing the morning after it appears, with the business name and address, and for new bars and restaurants a phone number or website looked up online where the state prints none. A CSV, an API and webhooks come with every plan.

The Kentucky source refreshes every weekday, and this page is rebuilt from it each morning.

Every row is read from abcportal.ky.gov, the public record Kentucky itself publishes, and links back to it. Nothing here comes from a reseller or a news report.

Every Kentucky filing from one full week a few weeks back, in the layout a subscriber gets: business, address, license type, status, the date filed, and a phone or website where we found one. The link to each state record is left blank; subscribers get it. It downloads ready for HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, AgencyZoom or Repsly.

The types you will see most on the Kentucky page. Restaurant or hotel bar, full pour (NQ2): The full-bar license most new restaurants and hotels file for; no county quota, so it is the usual path to a new opening. Bar, wine and spirits by the drink (Quota Drink): A bar or restaurant pouring spirits under the county quota; usually paired with an NQ4 for beer. Package store, wine and spirits to go (Quota Package): A liquor store. The county caps how many exist, so a new one is a real opening or a transfer. Beer to go (NQ Malt Package): Gas stations, groceries and corner stores; the most common filing in the feed. Beer by the drink (NQ4): Draft and bottled beer at the bar; on its own it is a beer-only spot, with a quota or NQ2 license it is the beer half of a full bar. Every row shows the type by its plain name; the i beside it opens the state's own wording.

One-day and temporary permits (weddings, festival booths, charity auctions, tastings), and licenses nobody sells to: wholesalers, suppliers, importers, shippers, carriers, and employee or manager permits. Breweries, wineries and distilleries stay in. The first time we read a state we also treat everything it already listed as the starting point, not as new filings.