the more likely there will be more breweries that can grow into needing a distributor<\/em>.\u00a0 In a way, the ABDI is arguing against its own interests, cutting off its craft brewer nose to spite its face.<\/p>\nThe part about small brewers having never been denied access to a distributor is a bit of a straw man, a bit of misdirection.\u00a0 Perhaps no one can say they’ve been denied access to a distributor, but consider the converse: How many places may not start up because a need for a distributor might preclude a workable business plan?\u00a0 How many homebrewers with a dream to open their own small brewpub might forget their plans entirely if the laws were changed to add more unnecessary requirements to open their own place?<\/p>\n
As we talked about yesterday, Argus does use a distributor for their retail business, but they wouldn’t have gotten to that level without self-distributing first.\u00a0 Shouldn’t we be using that as a model?<\/p>\n
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Save The Craft<\/strong> is not just about the way things are now, but the way things could be down the road and in the future for people who might want to make their craft-brew dreams come true.\u00a0 Over the next few days and weeks as we continue to watch this unfold, we’ll bring you at least one story of someone who wants to bring their product to market, and how this legislation might affect them directly.<\/p>\nAs for the existing legislation itself: <\/em><\/p>\nWe’re hearing that SB88 will NOT make it to the floor without an Amendment.\u00a0 The votes just aren’t there.\u00a0 We at GuysDrinkingBeer understand that sometimes changes will need to be made, and if, for instance, the numbers have to be adjusted, we’re ready to accept some form of compromise as long as the majority of craft-brewer freedoms remain.<\/p>\n
We’re learning more about the amounts of beer being brewed at some of our favorite places around the state and around the midwest, and in our own humble opinion, would love to see the parties at the table reach an agreement that works best for all involved, even if that requires a reduction of the current cap of 60k barrels per brewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[363,360,392,405,391,359,393],"yoast_head":"\n
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