US Government Shutdown Affects Beer Industry

Good info, and I don’t doubt at all that they were against the move; navigating the comparatively impish TTF as an alternative to the scary IRS is a no brainer. Seems beyond unfortunate that our government has an arm (IRS) that instantly creates fear in every person or business. No agency in a free society should have that kind of power.

 

And (as noted in a few posts above) brewers and other alcoholic beverage producers sure don't want to have to meet the FDA's labeling requirements of listing calories and ingredients, etc.

 

They just told us not to pay our government credit cards until the shutdown ends. Thank goodness for some common sense this time around.

 

Only thing I’m getting from this article is how dumb and burdensome government regulations can manage to become.

 

Last week we found out that Elizabeth Warren drinks beer like a fish, now this.

 

I just want to say that my heart goes out to people who are working without pay. Also to those who are unexpectantly out temporarily and those contractors who lost their jobs.

Beer makes ppl happy so I wish you good beer.

 

you can blame Prohibition on all of this

 

I believe this only applies to new beers that are canned or bottled as they have to be submitted and approved. If they have submitted the label before(say a re-release), they would be fine, but if its brand new then they would have to keep it in house and not distribute/bottle/can. As far as I remember.....

 

More proof that gubmint is just too big and encompasses every single aspect of our lives.

 

Understood. OH does a weekly can release that’s often like four new ones, although they do also mix in repeat cannings of prior recipes.

 

Just another good example showing government has gotten too big. Unnecessary.

 

I'm curious about the timing in this scenario. When do breweries typically go through the approval process: before they begin the brew, having all the artwork and brand for that brew determined? Or when the brew is finished, giving them additional time to finalize the design of the can, etc. as the brew actually takes place?

As this shutdown was a possibility long before it happened, would breweries plan accordingly and get approval for extra beers earlier or would they not begin a beer, knowing the shutdown could prevent them from being legal to sell it?

 

Here in our area:
https://www.northjersey.com/story/n...nd-until-government-shutdown-ends/2498102002/

Alementary Brewing Co., which opened in 2016, planned to double its production by February, but the federal government shutdown has prevented the company from acquiring the necessary permits to open.

 

Seems more to be proof that our current politics has gotten dangerously petty and disfunctional. To me, ensuring accurate labeling of commercial products is exactly the type of thing I want government to do. The fact that literally stopping government from functioning is considered an acceptable negotiating tool is a sign of just how shitty our employees in washington are. Fire em all

 

I still have plenty of beers to toast "build the wall"

 

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe (as may have been discussed earlier in the thread) that federal labeling requirements apply to beers sold across state lines. If a brewery is selling on-site only, the federal regulations don’t apply — although some states may have state laws or regulations requiring all beers sold in state to meet the federal labeling requirements.

 

Correct, jesskidden mentioned it above as well.

 

I don't think hardly anyone in either the beer and wine industries predicted they'd not be able to get label approvals at the outset. You can blame the stable genius Individual #1 for that. I doubt anyone pre-approved labels unless they were already planning to do so. As for beer, especially these days where getting freshly brewed cans to market ASAP is the business model, they'll start the design process as soon as they know they are going to schedule a brew, then submit for COLA and hopefully it gets approved, and only then get the labels printed. So label production is a 3 step process. It has to be started as soon as they can because of the time these 3 steps take, then they need to get the cans out to market asap.

 

My tax dollars pay you to look at BA while you’re at work??? The horror!!

P.S. I’m a city employee. I check out BA on my break all the time.