Thread: Boycott Big Beer

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/op...wers.html?_r=2

The Oglala Sioux tribe filed a lawsuit in February against Anheuser-Busch and other brewers, as well as local retailers and distributors. I don’t know how the lawsuit will go, but I’m pretty sure a nationwide boycott of Budweiser would wake the company up.

ALSO:

Breckenridge Brewery will take new brewery, jobs to East Coast - Denver Business Journal

But even after the House Finance Committee backed the bill 13-0, large brewers and beer distributors complained that allowing a brewery making more than 60,000 barrels a year to operate restaurants and sell its own beer out of those locations would give it an unfair competitive advantage.

OTHER Colorado Craft Breweries that have Moved East.
Oskar Blues.
New Belgium.
Flying Dog.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

Tragic.




The article says that the original motivation for Breckenridge to move some production east was that they were selling a lot in the east. Brewing in the East and in Colorado would lower transportation costs.

That makes sense. What's the problem?

Cheers,


AetheLove

I read it as they would rather stay in Colorado, but if they have to move some production out of state, East Coast would be more useful, business wise, than just moving next door to say, Nevada.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

"Breckenridge Brewery [...] originally began looking at East Coast locations to place its new brewery when it reached capacity at its 471 Kalamath St. location, because that would allow it to reduce some cross-country transportation costs and be able to penetrate markets in which it is now underserved,"

"But after talking with local economic-development officials, company officials reversed course and started scouting local sites"

Doesn't say how local economic-development officials persuaded them. Standard persuasion tools are money incentives, though none of that is touched on in the article.

Cheers,


AetheLove

The "at capacity" portion was what I was referring to. I read that as brewing capacity. Meaning any more, and they would have to give up their brewpub license.

Ed Cerkovnik said without House Bill 1347 — a bill that passed a House committee unanimously but that House leaders will allow to die without a vote this week because of opposition that mounted to it from several industries — the brewery cannot hold a license to operate several brewpubs at the same time it holds a license to operate a manufacturing plant that produces more than 60,000 barrels a year in Colorado.

It made 42,000 barrels in 2011 and, with added production capacity, is expected to hit 60,000 barrels at its main brewpub around the end of this year, he said.

History link, Breckenridge Brewing will build a new, ten-acre campus in the metro area - Denver Restaurants and Dining - Cafe Society

Boycott big beer? Isn't that just the same effect as having good taste in beer?


I kid, I kid... there are some big name imports I love despite living in a micro-brew hot spot.