Southern Brewers Conference, August 23-25

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Sorry I’ve been slacking about keeping up here. But I have a pretty juicy subject to discuss today, so hopefully that will earn some points toward forgiveness.

The second annual Southern Brewers Conference is happening at the end of the month in Nashville, and I’m super excited to be going and being a part of the hard-working, steadily thriving beer scene here in the southern states. This region has had a lot of legislative hurdles to clear – for example, Mississippi just legalized breweries to sell beer onsite at tap rooms as of July 1, and Georgia has had similar legislation passed to have the same right to sell beer at their breweries – but that still won’t be enacted until September 1.

Bet the Georgia brewers are going to be pretty excited – slash – chomping at the bit at the conference, a mere few days before this important law goes into effect.

So, yes, brewers in the southern region of the country have a lot to discuss and a lot of commiserating a …