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La. lawmaker: Free beer from barbers should be K

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

The News Review:

- La. lawmaker: Free beer from barbers should be K
- Budvar’s beer exports to US rise 7 percent
- Two with toddler held in beer heist
- Local microbrewed root beers make a tiny but tasty splash
- What’s Brewing: Making beer at home
- Beer price bill endorsed by Senate panel
- Cheers To Beer

La. lawmaker: Free beer from barbers should be K
Houston Chronicle
— A Louisiana lawmaker wants to give barbershops the right to serve their customers free glasses of beer wine and liquor. Jerry Gisclair said he has constituents who run hair salons and told him the state ffice of Alcohol and Tobacco Control was unfairly cracking down on their practice of serving complimentary drinks to customers. Gisclair said his bill is an attempt to put into law specific rules so that all cosmetology businesses — barber shops salons day spas — can serve a limited amount of alcohol while still allowing children in their businesses. “I’m not pushing or promoting alcohol” said Gisclair D-Larose.

Budvar’s beer exports to US rise 7 percent
Forbes
archrival Anheuser-Busch. Budvar exported a total of 11791 hectoliters (311494 gallons) of beer to the United States in 2008 compared with some 11000 hectoliters (290598 gallons) the previous year the brewer said. com%2Ffeeds%2Fap%2F2009%2F03%2F31%2Fap6233502.

Two with toddler held in beer heist
Denver Post
The incident happened at about 10 p. Monday in the 2300 block of 27th Street said Sgt. Joe Tymko wych a Greeley Police Department spokesman.

Local microbrewed root beers make a tiny but tasty splash
Kansas City Star
At Tom and Shelly Schierman’s Louisburg Cider Mill on Kansas 68 past the jugs of apple cider and homemade soaps and Kansas postcards the back room is humming and clanking. That’s because root beer season is nigh. And a fat scoop of vanilla ice cream.

What’s Brewing: Making beer at home
Stamford Advocate
For five or so years there I was like totally illegal in my beer-making activities. But so was my friend Jim Abrams who at the time was both a lawyer and Connecticut legislator and today is a superior court judge. The fact is that brewing beer back in the early 1990s — when making wine at home was explicitly permitted but state laws were silent on homebrewing beer — hurt neither of our careers. In fact it may have even helped my journalistic cachet just a bit. As citizens desiring to live by the laws of the land Jim and I were surprised back in 1996 when the American Homebrewers Association did a study and found that personal beer-making was either in contravention of the law or in a legal gray area in more than a dozen states.

Beer price bill endorsed by Senate panel
Arkansas News
The 5-2 vote to endorse House Bill 1807 came after lengthy debate in which the Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs was told that wholesalers across the state get different rates from the same brewer. ?This is about one thing … fairness? said the bill?s sponsor Rep. Keith Ingram D-West Memphis. ?At the end of the day we?re trying to help the consumer.
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Cheers To Beer
Findlay Living
It has been my experience that every once in awhile when someone is faced with the opportunity to try a wheat beer their reaction is ?No! I don?t like them?. Upon further investigation of their past wheat beer experiences I have found that 99. 5% of people that do not ?like? wheat beers have only ever had one style of wheat beer Belgian which utilizes coriander and orange peel (traditionally) in the brewing process. They then take this experience and apply it to every single wheat beer out there which means that there are people missing out on other great wheat beers because of one sipthat they did not prefer.