Posted on 11/19/2015 7:52:57 PM PST by Lorianne
Amidst the more than 20,000 plus pages of Obamacare lies a regulation that may squeeze craft beer brewers out of business. Why would they ever want to manipulate a thriving industry? Well, regulators claim that Americans consumers are not healthy because they are blissfully unaware of the amount of calories in beer.
As of December 2016, all brewers must include a detailed calorie count on every type of beer they produce. Failure to comply with the new regulations means craft brewers will not be able to sell their beer in any restaurant chain with over 20 locations. Because this is a major market for selling beer, it hamstrings smaller craft brewers if they do not comply.
The Cato Institute estimates the Obamacare calorie labeling requirements will cost a business as much as $77,000 to implement. For larger beer companies, this is a drop in the bucket, but for small, local craft brewers it represents a significant cost that they must pay. As a result, it creates a significant disadvantage compared to larger beer companies who can better absorb the cost of this new regulation.
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
As long as there are no Road Apples, it’s all good....
If states had more power like they should we have all these regulations, or Obamacare or refugees waiting to blow us to kingdom come. Support the Convention of States.
This here might get him impeached!
Yet another Obama similarity with Wilson. Wilson fought the “beer barons” as he campaigned for the Volstead Act. Wilson and his adoring press linked the “beer barons” to the Kaiser and when they attempted to defend themselves, accused them of subversion.
A Boston Beer Party?
In a time when we all could use a cold beer, 0bama is going to take that away from us too.
Just ignore it.
I wonder which major brewer lobby group pushed this.
Obama threatening a cornerstone of hipster culture. Sweet irony (Perhaps that should be a microbrew name?).
The author of the article said he learned the hard way the first year. He wound the vines counter-clockwise. They unwound themselves and were lying on the ground.
They are harvested mechanically.
The reason this sprang up as a specialty crop is because of the demand by craft brewers.
“Beer is a Yuge source of CO2.”
That’s one more reason to not understand the logic of gasohol.
‘Rats have no logic to understand.....
Why?
Miller, Budweiser and Coors cannot compete with craft brews on flavor, so they hire K street lobbyists to make it so they don’t have to compete at all. Soon your choices will be any variety of mass produced flavorless swill that is produced by corporations that donate to all the right politicians.
And Lo and Behold the Kaisers little boys bought Budweiser anyway!
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Your sitting over here and straining at how perpetually irritating you can be, will not effect the delivery of a single greater good... not one.
Greater goods are brought by showing gratitude to God for the lesser goods we have, right now.
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