SARATOGA SPRINGS — Olde Saratoga Brewing Co. is looking into whether it can get a license to serve its beer on the premises after the state said it could no longer give out pint-sized samples with the sale of a $4 souvenir glass.

“We have an attorney looking into it for us,” said general manager Robert Craven. “We don’t want to be a restaurant. That’s part of the complication.”

For nine years, the brew pub’s Tasting Room has given out samples and done takeout sales of its beer by the case or the bottle.

But after a complaint was made to the state Liquor Authority about the too-large samples, the brewery was told in July that it had to cut the samples down to three ounces. Samplers can get two three-ounce samples of each flavor for free and now have to buy the souvenir glasses separately if they want them.

The brewery has a license to sell beer to go, but customers aren’t allowed to drink that beer on the premises, Craven said.

The switch hasn’t affected business too much at the brewery on Excelsior Avenue, which didn’t make most of its revenue from the Tasting Room anyway.

“It has a small impact so far. If you like the beer, you like the place to go, you still come here,” he said. “We’ve had a small dip in sales.”

The brewery is getting ready to start a 5,000-square-foot expansion of its storage space in October, Craven said.