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The beer biz never sleeps at American Craft Beer. And here’s some more of what’s been happening in the beer world while you were drinking your way through the weekend.
Minnesota Breweries Must Decide Between Growlers Or Growth (Saint Paul, MN) – Current beer laws in Minnesota have forced craft brewers to decide what they value more, the ability to sell growlers or crowlers out of the brewery’s taproom or the ability to produce more than 20,000 barrels of beer annually.
But a new set of bills introduced in the Minnesota House and Senate (and supported by the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild) would eliminate that cap, allowing a brewery to produce more than 20,000 barrels a year while continuing to sell growlers according to the Duluth News Tribune.
The “Growler Cap Bill” is but one of four craft beer related bills introduced in Minnesota last week. According to The Tribune “other bills focus on allowing brewery tap rooms to have collaboration guest taps; allow the filling of growlers in other locations such as bars, restaurants and liquor stores; and expanding the sale of off-sale beer in a larger variety of sizes.”
Words To Drink By (St Paul, MN) – “We have a lot of really amazing craft beer fans here in Minnesota who just want better access and ease of purchasing,” Bennett McGinty, Executive Director/Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild
The mezzanine at Maine Beer Co. in Freeport, Maine. –Maine Beer Company
Maine Beer’s New Taproom Opens (Freeport, ME) – The Maine Beer Company will be opening its expansive new taproom this month and the northeaster craft beer community is beyond psyched. “The new tasting room takes over the former production space (which was relocated to a big barn-like structure to the side of the building), and is about six times as large as before,” according to Boston.com.
The Maine Beer Company’s newly expanded tasting room features 20 draft lines, and includes limited and brewery-only releases that will ensure its craft beer destination status.
