Posted on 12/05/2019 6:06:10 AM PST by The Houston Courant
We should always celebrate more freedom in our lives. December 5 is no different. Eighty-six years ago, Prohibition was repealed.
This year, Texas can celebrate its own version of Repeal Day. This December marks three months since another kind of prohibition was abolished—on beer to go. On September 1, Texans were finally allowed to buy their favorite craft beer at a local brewery to bring and drink at home.
Until that date, Texans could buy wine to bring home from a local winery and distilled spirits from a distillery, but in most cases, not beer from breweries. The places that brew beer and were able to sell to-go had to be licensed as brewpubs—not breweries—which have low production caps in comparison.
If this sounds complicated, that’s because it is. After Prohibition, most states adopted a system called the three-tier system, which separates the alcoholic beverages industry in three tiers—manufacturers, distributors, and retailers—and strictly regulates them. The system has long been both complex and unfair in how it regulates different sorts of alcohol and players. Craft beer had to fight for its freedom to grow, and Texas has been dispensing that freedom drop by drop over the years, sometimes even taking it back.
https://www.houstoncourant.com/houston-voices/2019/a-little-freedom-goes-a-long-way
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