The Onion: "Shutdown Halts Craft Beer Production"

Not the Seasonals!

 

Nothing better than The Onion's American Voices. Thanks for posting the link.

 

Whew -- for a minute I thought you meant one of my favorites.

 

LOL! I like "Not the seasonals."

 

Crap. That means we won't get pumpkin until next Fall! Damn!

 

FTFY

 

Is this like for real for real?!?!?! I'm getting the kbs from founders brewery I thought that was a specialty and they are releasing there harvest ale too what does this mean?!?!?! The madness ahhhhhhhhh

 

It is for real and affects new beers (i.e. first-time releases that require label approval).

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/10/15/vermont-micro-brewery

If this drags on it's going to be a major headache for the micros and nanos without a stable of year-round brews in the fermenters.

 

Of course you have to provide a link to The Onion. There goes another hour of my life

 

The Onion reporting something legit? Hmm. Turning over a new leaf...

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/9/shutdown-could-delay-new-beers-making-market/

No joke it is real.

 

Today's Front Page News !

http://lancasteronline.com/article/...es-who-can-t-get-approvals-for-new-brews.html

 

Welcome to the Land of the Free!
Do your breweries really have to seek approval before they can sell a new beer or introduce a new label?
Seems like Big Brother to me.

 

A remnant of Prohibition as far as I know.

 

You better be careful. The NSA has friends across the pond.

 

It's the Onion. There's gotta be a catch but damn if I can figure it out.

 

It is a section of The Onion where they take a legitimate news item and use it for a fake "man on the street" section, where they basically uses a handful of stock photo people that they rotate through and it is the faked responses that are the joke. Here is another example:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/madonna-banned-from-movie-theater-for-texting,34226/

 

It's been a while since I checked the Onion. Thanx.