Is that unkind? Have a look:
...Mr. VanGlad’s Tundra Brewery will be the first to sell beer at the Greenmarket, under a law passed in 2009 that allows small-scale breweries in New York to sell at markets. The hops in the ale are among the first to be grown in New York — which once produced most of the nation’s supply — since the crop was wiped out by disease, pests and then Prohibition. For Mr. VanGlad, 25, who brews the beer from grain he grows in Stamford, N.Y., the venture will be the first time he steps out from his family’s 25-year-old maple syrup stand at the Greenmarket to sell his own product.
Small scale brewery law? Selling beer at farmer's markets? Making a beer out of stuff you grow yourself? Canada just fainted. We can't handle the truth.
Comments
DanSmallbeer - May 5, 2011 8:20 PM
On this subject Alan, I'd be really interested to know — if you know — if there are any groups actively lobbying or campaigning for changes in the governance of beer and alcohol at a provincial or federal level?
The provincial liquor distribution rules are obviously insane, we never stop complaining about it. BC liquor sales rules are often directly self-contradictory.
But where is the front line of the fight? I wouldn't mind transcending my whining blogger mandate and get involved somehow in promoting some sensible changes.
Craig - May 6, 2011 12:56 PM
STOP IT!! MY MIND IS WHIRLLING OVER THE POSSIBILITIES!!!
Bruce Ticknor - May 6, 2011 6:12 PM
Perhaps Alan knows more about this but the closest I have ever been able to find to a group "actively lobbying or campaigning for changes in the governance of beer and alcohol at a provincial or federal level" would be a spinoff from http://www.bartowel.com/ which you can find at http://freeourbeer.org/ It's an Ontario group.
I think a lot of the problem is Provincial, but the basic law is Federal. After prohibition Provinces didn't like having liquor shipped in from other Provinces. Limited the taxes you know?