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Archive for the ‘Law’ Category

May 16th, 2008

Not sure how I missed this, but apparently it’s American Craft Beer Week, another one of those ceremonial weeks sanctioned by Congress (if you’re a law wonk, check out the actual bill as a pdf here).
If you read the recitals to that law, you’d think craft brewers are heroes (I certainly do), which is […]

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April 25th, 2008

Try a Weed beer

There are a lot of obscure and strange laws on the books which relate to how beer and other alcoholic products can be marketed, sold, distributed, and pretty much limiting all aspects of the product which can be limited. The Mount Shasta Brewing Co. found this out the hard way, when the FDA decided that […]

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March 24th, 2008

Beer’s not what it was yesterday, at least in Maryland

The law has long had a strange relationship with beer here in the US, which is why some of my German brews are still labelled “malt liquor,” but the craft brew movement is slowly influencing how beer is regulated. Maryland recently expanded the definition of beer to include hard cider, various malt beverages which I […]

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