The AHA is asking for help from American beer lovers. They are asking you to write your U.S. House Representative and ask him to join House Small Brewers Caucus. Below is the action alert along with the form letter to send out to your Representative.
Support the Community of Beer Enthusiasts
and Small Brewers-
Contact Your Congressional Representative
Dear Beer [...]

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This email was sent to the Craft Beer in Michigan group sometime this week. It originated from Charlie Papazian. It gives you information on a fight to prevent a Federal Excise Tax on brewers. Please if you have time read it.

Some of you are aware of the headline discussions in Washington DC this week and [...]

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WSJ article: Eccentric Brewmaster Takes Distribution Fight to Court
In his latest clash with Big Beer, the eccentric former home brewer has sued one of his distributors in a Michigan state court to try to block it from selling the rights to market his products to an Anheuser-Busch InBev distributor.

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Todd’s post the other day about laws that hinder breweries is just the tip of the iceberg. Another example of laws that regulate the sale of beer are Blue laws . The purpose of blue laws is to legislate morality. The term is used mainly for laws that ban alcohol which whether we want to admit it or not, some people have a [...]

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Guest Post by Todd Parker  – Master Brewer for Copper Canyon
 
When I was first approached about this topic by Kevin Nash, I enumerated 5 different legal issues that make it more difficult for Craft Brewers in Michigan (this is not an all-inclusive list).  In no particular order, here they are:
            1.  An owner cannot own more [...]

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