As usual, HBG follows the State of the State address with a must-read 2010 State of the Six Pack covering the Craft Beer Scene, Sunday Sales, Excise Taxes, Brewing Trends, and 2010's forecast.
Worth note: Sparks fly over alcohol sales bill that will let wholesalers distribute beer, wine, and liquor instead of beer and wine or wine and liquor.
The Great Crescent Brewery in stained glass.
Thank Heaven for Beer raves about Sierra Nevada ESB spring seasonal.
Beer Business Daily has an article about The Effect of Mass. Decision on Small Brewers. An appeals court ruled differing laws for breweries depending upon size is unconstitutional. In Indiana, breweries under 20,000bbl (all of them right now) can self-distribute to retailers, have a true brewpub, and sell directly to the consumer (as in growlers, bottles, and kegs).
This may turn into a good thing in disguise since Three Floyds and Upland may soon be bumping up against that 20,000bbl limit. If the powers-that-be-in-granite-buildings realize no BMC breweries are coming back to Indiana they can just take the 20,000bbl limit off.
"U.S. beer sales volumes fell 2.2% last year, the highest rate since the 1950s, with demand worsening late in the year in a sign of the pressures on big brewers to make their mergers pay off." Wall Street Journal article
CDC data for US cities of at least 10,000: (based on the percent of people who say they had at least one drink in the last 30 days.
| Wettest Cities
(Ranging from 69.4% to 64.3%) | Dryest Cities
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Meanwhile, 80% of the online tickets to Winterfest are sold. There are still plenty at most of the brewpubs all over the state. No tickets will be sold at the door. See you Saturday.
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