Posts Tagged: Beer and Law
Your Friday Night Beer Blog Reading Highlights
Posted by on Friday, May 10, 2013 in - leave a comment
It's a distracted time. The game between Toronto and Boston is interfering with the game between Toronto and Boston. The first thunderstorm of the spring is moving through giving parched seedlings out in the garden as heavier duties of life nibble at the back of the mind. Yet, it is a warm Friday …
Four Law Firms And Nasty Beer Marketing Tricks
Posted by on Monday, May 6, 2013 in - leave a comment
Even with a couple of law degrees, I was having a hard time understanding this article from Tanzania over a legal dispute between breweries that has advanced from a tribunal, the Fair Competition Commission, up to the Court of Appeal until I narrowed the text down to this: • ...SBL …
Another Good Reason To Support The Little Guy
Posted by on Saturday, April 13, 2013 in - 11 comments
Keeping in mind that by "little guy" I actually mean small brewers and not larger brewers who need their smallness to be defined by a trade organization... but this news out of Newfoundland is just weird: • ...the bosses at Labatt Breweries in St. John’s apparently thought it was a good idea to …
Big US Craft Apparently Has Bifurcated Lobbyitus
Posted by on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 in - 4 comments
Interesting piece on the impending decisions to be made in relation to Federal excise taxation for beer in the US over at MSN Money today: • ...The Brewer’s Employment and Excise Relief (BEER) Act, which is promoted by Washington-based beer industry group The Beer Institute, is expected to be …
Just What We Need: A State Controlled Beer Festival!
Posted by on Sunday, March 24, 2013 in - leave a comment
This has to be one of the saddest examples of government control in the beer world that I have seen recently: • The P.E.I. Liquor Control Commission is looking for a partner to start a new beer festival to be held in Charlottetown this fall. Jamie MacLeod, a spokesman for the commission, said it …
Wherein I Prove I May Actually Be A Miserable Jerk
Posted by on Friday, March 22, 2013 in - 9 comments
The email from a, shall we say, noted brewer with this news was accompanied with an introductory statement which read "Say what you will about Sam- this will be hitting the papers tomorrow I'm sure!" And it is a news worthy press release from Jim Koch of Sam Adams about its new beer can which … read more »
How Law Can Define Craft Brewing By Hectolitres
Posted by on Sunday, March 3, 2013 in - 2 comments
An interesting post today by Jordan about the best part of a week spent exploring good beer in the western Canadian province of Alberta. I was particularly interested in his description of the minimum requirements set out in law by the government which I am going to repeat here in a bit more … read more »
Beer Gardens As Community Centres In Zimbabwe
Posted by on Saturday, March 2, 2013 in - leave a comment
News of the reopening of a number of municipally owned beer gardens in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe may be news to locals but the description of what they are used for is pretty interesting, as we are told by a brewery spokesman: • ...those leasing the premises had undertaken to maintain certain social …
The State Of English Fuel And Malt In 1593-ish
Posted by on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 in - 8 comments
Ah, the 1500s. Remember them? They were great. Jeff's comments yesterday got me thinking about causes for changes like the introduction of coke in the early 1600s and its application in malting at mid-century. See, there is this idea that goes well beyond brewing history that somehow folk in the …
The Legal Status Of Horses And Beer In Canada
Posted by on Friday, February 15, 2013 in - 2 comments
An interesting legal ruling out of the Canadian Federal Trial Division yesterday. Well, interesting if you like beer, horses or trademark law... and fascinating if you like all three. Let's just skip to the pithy nub of the case found at paragraph 39: • The Board did not consider that what it … read more »
