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Federal Judge Robert M Dow Jr has issued a stay on his ruling in the case of Anheuser-Busch v. Illinois Liquor Control Commission, extending the deadline for the legislature to reach a resolution in the matter to May 31st<\/strong>.\u00a0 That date coincides with the end of the legislative session.\u00a0 Judge Dow initially gave state lawmakers until March 31st to re-tool the Illinois Liquor Control Act after he found the Act discriminated against out of state breweries.<\/p>\n

This is huge news for both Argus Brewery in Chicago and Big Muddy Brewing in Murphysboro.\u00a0 Argus self-distributes about one-third of its beer while Big Muddy self-distributes all of the roughly 400 barrels of beer they produce each year.<\/p>\n

The current legislation in Springfield, House Bill 205<\/a><\/strong> and Senate Bill 88<\/a><\/strong>, have seen little to no movement since they were introduced in January.\u00a0 Currently SB88 is scheduled for the Senate Executive Committee, but the measure has been passed over the last three meetings because there is no agreement in place between the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild (which wrote the legislation) and the beer distributors.\u00a0 The same goes for HB205.\u00a0 The measure has been awaiting a vote in the House Executive Committee but has not been called for a vote because of the lack of an agreement.<\/p>\n

The sticking points appear to be the clause allowing brewpubs to self-distribute, which is currently not part of Illinois law, and the barrel limit for breweries.\u00a0 We told you last week about the Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois’ stance on the giving brewpubs the ability to self-distribute (hint, they don’t like it<\/a><\/strong>).\u00a0 And we told you Friday<\/strong><\/a> that State Representative Greg Harris (D-Chicago) has introduced an amendment to HB205 that would drop the barrel limit for breweries who want to self-distribute from 60,000 barrels to 20,000 barrels.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers go on spring break next week so this week is the deadline to move bills out of committee in the House.\u00a0 House co-sponsor Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) hopes the bill can move this week.\u00a0 Right now Representative Harris’ amendment is awaiting action from the House Rule’s Committee, which filters bills out to committee and has also been known to let bill’s languish.\u00a0 If the amendment clears this hurdle it’s next step is likely the House Executive Committee.\u00a0 The Illinois House is scheduled to be in session Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[363,360,392,430,405,391,359,393],"yoast_head":"\nBREAKING Save The Craft: Judge Issues Stay; Argus & Big Muddy Safe Till May 31st - Guys Drinking Beer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/breaking-save-the-craft-judge-issues-stay-argus-big-muddy-safe-till-may-31st\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING Save The Craft: Judge Issues Stay; 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