Beer News
Beer related News and Events

Colorado lawmakers kill full-strength beer bill

Posted by admin | News | Posted on March 12th, 2009

The News Review:

- Colorado lawmakers kill full-strength beer bill
- Caught n Camera: Deer Make Beer Run In Greensburg
- Beer beer everywhere

Colorado lawmakers kill full-strength beer bill
Bizjournals.com
us Digg This The battle in the Colorado Legislature over allowing grocery and convenience stores to sell full-strength beer ended late Wednesday when the measure was killed but a more comprehensive fight over Colorado liquor-sales law has only just begun. After more than eight hours of testimony and discussion the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee killed House Bill 1192 which would have ended the post-Prohibition practice of allowing those two kinds of stores to sell only reduced-strength beer. Pueblo West Democratic Rep. Buffie McFadyen’s measure died by a 7-4 vote in which both backers and opponents crossed party lines. While liquor stores are allowed to sell beer of any strength grocery and convenience stores can’t sell any beer bigger than 3.

Caught n Camera: Deer Make Beer Run In Greensburg
MSNBC
- A wrong turn and an open door caused quite a commotion at the Beer Arena in Greensburg in Westmoreland County. A young family had just left the store when some unlikely visitors popped in. Story continues below ?advertisement |.

Beer beer everywhere
Philadelphia Inquirer
place_ad_here(“half”); Posted on Thu Mar. 12 2009 Beer beer everywhereAt breakfast and tea as well as bars and brewpubs Philadelphia Beer Week is positively bubbling. By Natalie PompilioFor The Inquirer The hammer had started its day in the Northeast and traveled in lympic torch-style relay via foot bike Big Wheels roller skates and truck to Center City. Noted beer aficionado Ben Franklin – or a very close facsimile of the Founding Father – carried the hammer on its final leg and handed it to a laughing Mayor Nutter. The second annual Philadelphia Beer Week – a 10-day celebration of all things brewed – was launched at the Comcast Center Friday where Nutter tapped the first Yards keg with a swing of a specially forged "Hammer of Glory" that would have done Thor proud. "We are the greatest beer-drinking city in the United States of America" Nutter said.
Related from Pvandv: ‘