Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| This blog post is a day late. I usually try to get it out on Friday, but I was busy yesterday covering the visit of the senior U.S. Senator from Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, to the Kenai River Brewing Company in Soldotna. Politics really isn’t my thing, but beer certainly is, and Senator Murkowski is the co-chair of the Senate Bipartisan Small Brewers Caucus. While most legislation impacting craft beer usually happens at the state level, the Small Brewers Caucuses (there’s one in the House as well) do play a significant role in supporting the ever-increasing craft beer movement across the country.
As an example of how important these caucuses are, currently there are two different acts before Congress to change the amount of federal excise taxes collected from brewers. One is designed to help small brewers (the Small BREW Act) while the other is designed to fatten the wallets of the big multinational brewers (the BEER Act). Here’s a side-by-side comparison: Given the deep pockets of the big b … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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