Obamacare Regulations Target Breweries Making Craft Beer

freebeacon.com ^ | November 20, 2015 11:26 am | BY: Ali Meyer

[Red Badger]

New rules will cost businesses between $49,000 and $77,000 to comply

Obamacare regulations requiring that restaurants post calorie information on menus will make it harder and costlier for breweries making craft beer to comply with the new rules, Watchdog.org reported.

Regulations taking effect next year will require that restaurant chains with more than 20 locations nationwide such as Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee’s post calorie information on all of their menus. For items such as craft beer, which are not made in house, calorie information from the brewery must be shipped to the restaurant.

“Brewers are facing the prospect of spending potentially thousands to determine calorie counts for every variety of beer produced,” explains the article. “Unless they spend the money to provide the information, breweries may never get their products into chain restaurants.”

Smaller brewers will be more affected by the regulations since they have to decide whether producing the beer is worth the cost of complying with the rules.

“A regional craft brewer or a major brewery can spread the cost over a much larger volume of sales and it’s not so unreasonable for them,” said Paul Gatza, a former brewer. “Smaller guys that are just trying to sell a keg or two here or there, they have a decision to make on whether it is worth the additional cost to try to get their beers into chain restaurants.”

According to the Cato Institute, the regulations will cost between $49,000 and $77,000 for each business to comply. For what it costs to update the menus, businesses could afford to hire two to three employees.

“It doesn’t make sense for brewers to test every variety of beer they make, spending many thousands of dollars before they even made it onto a chain restaurant’s menu,” explains Michelle Minton, a fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

“Restaurants interested in carrying a craft beer may not want to wait for testing to be done and will move on to beers that already have nutritional information,” she says. “That means that many craft brewers will miss out on an important opportunity to grow their business.”

[stephenjohnbanker]

Answer: Obama is hooked on Bud Light.

[Lee'sGhost]

I hate Barry Sotero!

[C. Edmund Wright]

It’s not the taxes....not nearly so much as the regulations...THATS where the administrative state can control our very lives.....

[bert]

The beer crafters will probably need to provide info on CO2 emissions during the brewing and then the drinking process.

Beer has a tremendous carbon foot print during the brewing and drinking. All that head producing fizz is CO2 coming out of solution

[Skooz]

bfmex

[RatRipper]

Obama: protecting “Big Beer” against the little guys.

Shout it from the mountaintops: Obama: friend of radical Muslims and Big Beer

[DoughtyOne]

So am I. Miller lite, Coors lite, Bud lite...

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good.

Why did you have to mention lite beer this early in the morning?

= :^)

I don't like the thicker beer, and if I were in Britain, I wouldn't do well with the warm beer either.

Germany, their thick beer. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.

Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]

An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of: Tijeras_Slim

[Lorianne]

Pure protectionism.
The Big Beer lobby got to them.

More crony capitalism ... the only kind there is apparently in the USA.

[stephenjohnbanker]

When I lived in Malaysia, my favorite was Carlsberg on tap.

Here, Sam Adams..

No hard stuff or wine either. I ain’t too picky, am I ?

[Texas resident]

Obama is protecting Big whatever.
They give lots of money to dimrats.
Small businesses can’t.

[anoldafvet]

And yet Muslims are exempt from Obamacare. Isn’t the government offering a financial incentive to a religion the same as aiding the establishment of that religion?

[RatRipper]

You are absolutely correct. Just wish Trump, Cruz & Carson would start pointing it out. Most folks do not realize what is happening.

[DoughtyOne]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaa! LOL

Other than the difference in beer tastes, we have the same drinking habits. Don't like the hard stuff and wine is as worthless as horse whiz to me.

I get a real kick out of wine snobs.

The look of anticipate they get when they finally talk you into trying that miraculous tasting sample they've been haranguing you about for the last 20 minutes..., and then you wretch inside because it tastes BLAH...

"Oh you loved it didn't you. See... Here's a glass..."

Spare me.

After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.

Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]

An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of: Tijeras_Slim

[17th Miss Regt]

The craft brewers are small businesses that are mostly owned by white entrepeneurs. I think that is really the connection - he hates whites so this is one way to drive them out of business.

[Don W]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3362763/posts

[joshua c]

How many calories?

Alot! Bottoms up!

[NFHale]

RE “Germany, their thick beer. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...”

Why do you think they’re always trying to conquer the world? Hmm?

It’s the beer. Gotta be...

(singing) “All we are saying.... is give MICHELOBE a Chance”

[unixfox]

Yes...because beer drinkers are so concerned about calories and ingredients in their beer.

F U B O!

[stephenjohnbanker]

” MICHELOBE “

To each his own.....uh....SWILL

: )