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If beer sales approved at Six Flags trouble could come to a head

Posted by admin | News | Posted on March 1st, 2009

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- If beer sales approved at Six Flags trouble could come to a head
- regon’s tax on beer
- Viewpoint: Beer man loving life with Royals
- Using beer to stimulate small business?
- Moerlein debuts St. Patrick’s Day beer
- Fla. men charged with throwing beer can at police
- Elbert: 1933 law slimes winemaker who wants to make beer

If beer sales approved at Six Flags trouble could come to a head
Dallas Morning News
That’s how much Six Flags ver Texas plans to charge customers for a cold one – as soon as it wins approval to put beer on tap perhaps next month. Just this week Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission administrator Alan Steen signed an order all but clearing the way for beer to flow at Six Flags and its Hurricane Harbor water park. However one fed-up fellow opposed to the plan said Friday that he’s all but certain he’ll try – once again – to block beer consumption at the 212-acre family-oriented theme park.

regon’s tax on beer
The regonian – regonLive.com
open(urlwinnameoptions) newwin. That’s understandable. The proposed increase is too high and it makes beer drinkers responsible for societal ills that beer might not have anything to do with. But the widespread bitterness for the tax increase also is semihumorous. After all taxing beer is not like taxing milk.

Viewpoint: Beer man loving life with Royals
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
He took over the H-BR track and field program in 2002 and then later the middle school girls soccer team. But last summer after Larry Peppers was dismissed from the girls basketball job following a parent complaint after 31 seasons as head coach Burks stepped in. H-BR athletic director Bill Sambrookes had to delay calling Burks to offer him the job by one day because Burks was working as a vendor serving beer at a Coldplay concert at the United Center. But once he did Burks was all in. He gave up his role in the media kept his job as a Chicago sports beer vendor and took over one of the best girls basketball teams in the state. All of that made him appreciate Saturday’s state title even more. “You look at the Hinckley-Big Rock program and the things Larry Peppers did with it were absolutely amazing” Burks said.

Using beer to stimulate small business?
Reuters
A common theme was using stimulus funds to send the money back to taxpayers as a rebate or tax cut. Still there were some unusual requests. ne Virginia resident proposed a “shovel-ready” idea to lift small business development by giving a six-pack of locally brewed beer to every adult in the state. The cost would be $48. 6 million with the assumption that the beer’s price would average $7. Another Commonwealth citizen suggested giving seniors and the disabled $2500 apiece toward renovating bathing facilities in their homes pointing out that the move would also help small contractors in the state.

Moerlein debuts St. Patrick’s Day beer
Bizjournals.com
has launched another new seasonal beer Moerlein Friend of an Irishman Stout in time for St. Patrick’s Day. An Irish beer is a break from tradition for Moerlein which specializes in lagers and ales inspired by its German-American namesake. But it’s the kind of stout that was produced by Cincinnati breweries in the late 1800s for Irish immigrants said CE and owner Greg Hardman.

Fla. men charged with throwing beer can at police
The Associated Press
men charged with throwing beer can at police17 hours agoTAMPA Fla. (AP) — Authorities said two men were arrested after they threw an unopened 16-ounce can of Bud Light at an unmarked police vehicle. Richard Blasioli was on duty early Thursday morning driving an unmarked 2001 Ford Expedition when he saw a 1999 Toyota Solara cruising the wrong way down a road. He said the driver a 28-year-old man swerved the car toward the police vehicle and 24-year-old man leaned out of the passenger window and threw the can hitting Blasioli’s right front fender. fficers arrested the pair within minutes.
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Elbert: 1933 law slimes winemaker who wants to make beer
DesMoinesRegister.com
Ramis says because it would cause the end of life as we know it. Newton native Mason Groben is battling ghosts of a different sort the spirits who created Iowa’s liquor control laws more than 75 years ago. The fight is over whether Groben can simultaneously work in two industries – wine making and beer making – that were separated by law when Prohibition ended in 1933. Allowing one person to make wine and beer would open the way to industry consolidation which has been banned by law since the end of Prohibition said Lynn Walding Iowa’s top liquor regulator. Groben 29 and his supporters say Walding’s argument is a bit of an overreach.