It's been about a week since my last post on Saint Arnold's and the work they (along with other Texas Microbreweries) are doing to change Texas Legislation. As a recap they in essence would like to be allowed to sell their beer in their breweries straight to the public, without having to go through Distributors. No they are not asking to be able to sell an unlimited amount, only 5,000 barrels a year, which is not a lot in the grand scheme of things. In other words this is not some drastic change to the three tier system that distributors should be worried about (after all how has California Tasting room sales affected California Wine Distribution?).
The good news, as Brock is tirelessly working on getting someone to support the legislation in Austin, there are many newspapers and blogs that are picking up and covering the story. Here is a sampling:
The guys over at A Good Beer Blog (Canadians are writing about Saint Arnold's!) wrote about it and got some good replies.
Houston's Alternative news paper, the Houston Press has a nice story as well.
Houston's channel 11 KHOU ran a piece as well.
Finally the San Antonio Current ran this piece.
I'll again urge anyone that has any connections in Austin to help out in anyway you can. Even if you don't have connections you DO have a local representative in the State House that you can write to.
If you want to continue to stay up to date with all the happenings of Saint Arnold's quest be sure to check out their blog.
2 comments:
Hi Tedo -
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Hey Tedo, nice blog. I'm a reporter for The Austin Chronicle and I'll be covering the Friends of Texas Microbreweries both for our paper (austinchronicle.com) and on my personal blog (i-love-beer.blogspot.com).
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