Posts Tagged: Beer and Law
A Fantastic Beer Law Canadians Too Backward To Want
Posted by on Thursday, May 5, 2011 in - 5 comments
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 … read more »
NY State's Wholesale Monopolies By Legal Fiat
Posted by on Sunday, May 1, 2011 in - 5 comments
Ah, so that is how it is done in NY state: • When the brewery tried to terminate its contract, the wholesaler sued under New York's alcoholic beverage control law—which binds brewers to one distributor within a marketing region once an agreement is in place—Brooklyn Brewery shelled out more than …
Time For Taxes And Those Fond Beery Memories
Posted by on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 in - 1 comment
I am a good boy. I claim my beer writing income as a business. Every April, as the Canadian deadline closes in, I go through the receipts of the year to figure out the credits and debits. The balanced owed. It's not a huge job in the sense that it's not my real job but I put it off. It's …
Swiss To Maintain "Spontaneous" Rounds To Regulars
Posted by on Monday, April 11, 2011 in - 1 comment
The more I read about the cultural differences between the nations when it comes to bars and booze the more I know how little I know. Who knew, for example, that the Swiss needed to bring in a ban on free beer? • ...the Cabinet has drafted a plan to ban restaurateurs from offering any free … read more »
Great News Out Of A Michigan Court House
Posted by on Monday, March 28, 2011 in - 6 comments
Good to see. For too long we have had to pretend that craft brewers are some weedy set of rotten businessmen who aren't really making a buck at their chosen profession obsession. As Andy notes, big craft beer selling out is great news. And so is this: • Flying Dog Brewery has filed a federal …
Beer Lines So Dirty It Was Surprising Beer Could Flow
Posted by on Monday, February 28, 2011 in - 10 comments
Gak. Yik. Gross. Gross Me Blue: • Industry insiders say there's a dirty, little secret that needs to be exposed. The problem they say is dirty beer lines, the lines connect the keg to the tap. "It's one of the big, big problems in the industry," Luke Purcell, of Great Lakes Brewing said. Purcell …
Book Review: Punched Drunk by Thompson and Genosko
Posted by on Saturday, February 26, 2011 in - 4 comments
Again, with the exhibits for your consideration: • Russia: "Normalising the beer production market and classifying it as alcohol is totally the right thing to do and will boost the health of our population," Yevgeny Bryun, the ministry of health's chief specialist on alcohol and drug abuse, said …
What The Heck! I'm Posting This Craft Beer Video, Too.
Posted by on Thursday, February 24, 2011 in - 1 comment
Just in case you do not read Lew or Troy (which is inexplicable if you are reading this blog) I, too, post this for your consideration: • That is the two-term Premier of the Province of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty. He's released this video statement along with a number of proposals on how our … read more »
Oz Not Adopting Oddly Low Blood Alcohol Limit
Posted by on Monday, February 14, 2011 in - 1 comment
It must be Australia week and, finally, a story that is not so much about weird culture as a weird misappropriation of science. Apparently officials in the Australian state of Victoria are not interested in following up on the idea of introducing a far lower blood alcohol content (BAC) limit …
Canadian Conservatives Are My Kind Of Conservative
Posted by on Monday, February 7, 2011 in - 2 comments
Political culture is a weird thing. It doesn't translate well from nation to nation and leaving the words associated with themselves rather meaningless. Conservative or liberal? Anarchist or patriot? Who know what any of this stuff means? Yet, there are moments when you know that being a Canadian …
