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Thursday, January 10, 2019
Breweries affected by shutdown
So the story goes that breweries can't release new brews until the ATF reopens after the government shutdown. It seems to me that, if the ATF is closed, there isn't a whole lot they can do if you just release the beer anyway, and if they CAN stop you from releasing the beer, that simply proves that the government shutdown is a kabuki theater farce.
I can perhaps understand fed gov involvement in distilled liquor, but beer? That should be regulated, if it must be, at the state level.
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