PARRISH, FL. State inspectors found toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used at Good Liquid Brewing on US 301 during a July 16 visit that also turned up five other high-severity violations and three intermediate ones, records show. The brewery remained open.
The July inspection was not an outlier. It was the fourth time in five visits that inspectors documented six or more high-severity violations at the Parrish location.
What Inspectors Found
The most immediately dangerous finding was the toxic substances violation. When chemicals are improperly labeled, stored near food, or misused, the risk is not hypothetical, it is direct contamination of the food or surfaces customers come in contact with.
The brewery also had no written employee health policy, meaning there was no documented mechanism to keep sick workers out of food preparation. Norovirus, one of the most common foodborne illnesses in the United States, spreads rapidly when infected employees handle food without such a policy in place.
Inspectors also cited improper handwashing technique. That distinction matters: employees were making handwashing attempts, but doing it incorrectly, meaning pathogens remained on hands that then touched food and surfaces.
Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized, a violation that creates a direct transfer route for bacteria between surfaces and anything served to customers. Combined with the handwashing failure, the two violations compound each other.
The brewery was also cited for failing to properly use time as a public health control. When temperature monitoring is replaced by time tracking, food is permitted to remain in the bacterial growth range, between 41 and 135 degrees, for a defined window. Without proper documentation and adherence, that window becomes unlimited.
There was no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods, leaving customers with compromised immune systems, pregnant women, the elderly, and young children without the information needed to make an informed choice about what they ordered.
The three intermediate violations added to the picture. Improper sewage or wastewater disposal creates the possibility of fecal contamination spreading through the facility. Inadequate ventilation allows grease vapors and other airborne contaminants to accumulate. Inadequate or improperly maintained toilet facilities discourage proper handwashing by staff, feeding directly back into the handwashing violation already cited as high-severity.
What These Violations Mean
The toxic substances violation is the kind that health officials treat as requiring immediate correction. Chemicals stored near food preparation areas, or in unlabeled containers, can contaminate food directly without any visible sign. A customer would have no way of knowing.
The absence of an employee health policy is a structural failure, not a one-time lapse. Without a written policy, there is no enforceable standard for when a worker with symptoms must stay home. Norovirus spreads through as few as 18 viral particles, and an infected food handler can expose an entire dining room in a single shift.
The sewage disposal violation at Good Liquid Brewing is particularly serious in a facility that produces beverages on site. Raw sewage carries pathogens including E. coli, Hepatitis A, and Salmonella. Improper disposal means those pathogens have a pathway into the production environment.
Taken together, the July violations describe a facility where multiple independent safety systems, chemical storage, employee illness policy, handwashing, surface sanitation, time controls, and waste disposal, were all failing on the same day.
The Longer Record
Good Liquid Brewing has eight inspections on record, with 52 total violations documented across those visits. The facility has never been emergency-closed.
The pattern across those inspections is consistent. Inspectors found 5 high-severity violations in January 2025, 6 high-severity violations in May 2025, 2 high-severity violations in August 2025, and 7 high-severity violations in January 2026, before the 6 documented in July 2026. The two inspections that found zero high-severity violations, in August 2024 and February 2025, are the exceptions, not the rule.
Good Liquid Brewing: Inspection History
The brewery opened with a clean inspection in August 2024. By January 2025, five months later, inspectors were documenting five high-severity violations. The record since then shows a facility that has passed inspection twice and failed, significantly, five times.
The July 2026 inspection is not the worst visit on record. That distinction belongs to January 2026, when inspectors found seven high-severity violations. But July 2026 is the fourth time in five inspections that the high-severity count has reached six or above.
Good Liquid Brewing was not closed after the July 16 inspection.
