Micrbreweries can't sell own beer in FL

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:00 pm

I thought this was mentioned in some car dealer thread but I couldn't find it.

Breweries in FL are forced, by law, to sell all their beer to distributors, and allow the distributors to sell to retailers. Microbreweries have a problem with this because that means they can't sell their own beer in their own bars/restaurants. They have to sell their own beer to a distributor, and let the distributor sell it back to them for whatever they want to charge.

Florida government supports that legislated middleman, quoted as "Fuck you, pay me."

Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:26 pm

I would make that sort of shit a treasonous offense in America II.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 6:17 pm

Wow. Isn't that something anyone else in the country would get brought up on charges for?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 6:18 pm

Wait, wait, wait. Can they give it away and accept voluntary donations in return?

EDIT: Christ. This was introduced and supported by alleged Republicans? Yet another reason why that party is defunct and needs to die. They have all the idiocy of their opponents with none of the good PR.

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Post by **GORDON** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:22 pm

I would bet a dollar it was whichever politicians the big beer makers decided would be the recipients of large donations to their reelection funds.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:46 pm

Small progress in Florida.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news....st.html

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:54 pm

Right now, Florida is one of only two states in America that won't allow independent craft brewers to sell take-home beer in the 64-ounce "growler" size that is most popular everywhere else.

Beer can be sold in 32-ounce bottles in Florida. And 128 ounces. Just not the size everyone wants.

You have to be fist fucking me.

the second half of the video, where the Beer Industry of Florida says it wants to keep other regulations in place to keep craft brewers constrained. Why? Because too much competition in the beer world could lead to, among other things, "deep discounts."

Choke on a cock, fucko.

...allowing craft brewers to sell the way they want would lead to "over consumption, increasing addiction, domestic violence, drinking and driving and other threats" ... problems that BIF seems to think don't exist with the beer they sell.

God. Damn.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:33 pm

Malcolm wrote:
...allowing craft brewers to sell the way they want would lead to "over consumption, increasing addiction, domestic violence, drinking and driving and other threats" ... problems that BIF seems to think don't exist with the beer they sell.

God. Damn.

That is one of the exact arguments the woman clubs used to get prohibition passed in the 1920's. The domestic abuse/unstable families part.

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