This craft beer was not approved by the Federal Craft Beer Approval Agency.
Posted on 10/09/2013 9:07:26 AM PDT by posterchild
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The federal government shutdown could leave America's craft brewers with a serious hangover.
Stores will still offer plenty of suds. But the shutdown has closed an obscure agency that quietly approves new breweries, recipes and labels, which could create huge delays throughout the rapidly growing craft industry, whose customers expect a constant supply of inventive and seasonal beers.
Mike Brenner is trying to open a craft brewery in Milwaukee by December. His application to include a tasting room is now on hold, as are his plans to file paperwork for four labels over the next few weeks. He expects to lose about $8,000 for every month his opening is delayed.
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Obama’s prohibition?
NO MA’AM.
Beyond the relatively small number of hard-core leftists who believe Government should run everyone's lives, it is unfortunate that a large majority Americans give little or no thought to the idea of what the role and size of Government should be. Many simply accept the notion that Government needs to regulate nearly every aspect of human activity.
This craft beer was not approved by the Federal Craft Beer Approval Agency.
Keep that obscure agency closed forever. That one and every one like it.
Why pay for PBR, when pee is free?
.. and a smoking hot wife... I think i could put up with a couple gays bringing booze for that.
Why aren’t the States doing this?
Yeah, but he left the wife alone to go drink with the gays. WTH?
What was the beer that made Mel Famie walk us?
Now this is getting serious.......
Now that’s funny! Since when did I need government approval to make booze? There’s been brewers and distillers in our country since, well, before our country even existed. All the feds want is tax revenue, that’s IT. I work for my family and me, not the feds and their bankster buddies.
Time for another beer rebellion? (or was that whiskey?)
The subject Whiskey Tax was repealed ~7 yr after the gov’t offed a few of the rebellious “miscreants” (most in Philadelphia which apparently started a trend there)
nope not that kinky
I’m offended that craft brew labels don’t mention that they are made from government approved recipes.
Sounds like a job the states can handle. The problem isn’t the shutdown. It’s the unnecessary overreach of the federal government.
The shutdown is good practice for secession.
Every July 4th we pay lip service to freedom. It is more of a sham every passing year.
We should probably take this function out of the hands of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Unfortunately the agency in charge of taking things out of the hands of agencies is shut down.
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