NC State Senate pushing an amendment of distribution

The issue is a state imposed production limit for breweries that self distribute. Raising that limit to 50K barrels from 25K barrels significantly helps Olde Mecklenburg and Red Oak, both specialists in German style beers. It's a good move that finally sticks it in the face of the North Carolina Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association. It's about time. In my mind it is the only good thing done by this current North Carolina Senate.

 

I dealt with European exporters who said selling beer in America is like dealing with 50 different crazy countries.

 

You should have made the title and original post more general if that’s what you were going for. You made a topic about a NC state law with no mention or discussion about other states until it was moved (for the record, I did not report your post).

 

Why would anyone report the post.? I thought it was perfectly suited for a general discussion of statutes changing around the country and statutes that need changing. In my estimation, the word "should" is always a bit preachy..

 

I’m just stunned that this horribly slanted towards corporate interests legislature would even consider this. Unless it’s part of the bill to poison pill the abc stores (which is actually a good idea, they want to shed the salaries of state employees to make up for all the giveaways but some choices and competition would be nice)

 

And it has been signed! Next up abolishing the ABC...I can dream.

 

North Carolina is a ridiculous state. I have been living here for a long time and even Pennsylvania isn't as crooked as North Carolina.

 

Next bill that needs to pass that effects beer drinkers is H536 which would do away with the totally stupid law that you can't walk away from the bar with more than 1 beer in your hand.

So if you are getting yourself and your wife, or friend a beer, you have to make two trips, from bar to where ever you are sitting.

Granted many tasting rooms mostly ignore this, especially if you are a regular, but some are very strict, probably because some ALE agent has fined them in the past, but a few will actually come out from behind the bar and carry the other beer to my wife. This has happened at Sierra Nevada, outside on the patio by the firepit.

 

Technically the USA is called that because it is 50 United States. Like the Euro Zone sort of.