FREE BEER!
Your attention?
Few other Americans realize that this undeniable word “beer” lies in a maze of regulations so difficult to navigate that it is said that it will take two doctors to decipher them. How did an effortless product, with a polished story, an excellent friend end up on the threshold of the cave in Florida? Why is the long-termness of one of Florida’s emerging fascheck industries tied to the annulled legislation of the 1930s?
On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment ratified, repealing Amendment 18 and the American alcohol ban, ending the ban.
The repeal triggered the creation of individual legislation on how the alcohol burst would be sold. In 1933, Florida incorporated the now-noted “3-tier system” into its alcohol legislation. Essentially, the formula allowed A) to brew beer, B) to sell beer or C) to distribute it. You let all three do it.
As the most important friend of more than one giant brewery like Anheuser Busch, Miller and Coors survived the ban, lawmakers believed the three-tier formula would save monopolies and create a grade playing field, allowing small breweries to participate. At first, this is the case. But that hasn’t been the case for some time.
Since 1933, more than 30 states have modified their legislation to be fairer for the 3 degrees by allowing “self-distribution,” meaning breweries can sell their beer directly to retailers. In states with conflicting legislation, breweries may sell no less than some in their beer, within a short radius of brewery location, directly to bars, restaurants or liquor retailers without the will of a distributor.
Florida, however, is never one of them.
Abig apple beer sold through a brewery to a store must, by law, be sold through a dealer, without connection to proximity (as in the other aspect of the street) or distance from the store. In addition, in states with amended laws, breweries may sell no less than some in their beer directly to bars, restaurants or liquor retailers without the will of a distributor, who gets about 30% off any of the barrels we sell to them. .
I did the calculations, and if we were allowed to self-distribute, breweries can also generate tens of thousands more green coins according to the year, allowing us to do things like expansion, expansion or can also provide our staff with comprehensive fitness benefits.
Scenario 2: Let’s say a bar owner needs beer, but the distributor doesn’t have what they want in the warehouse. The distributor then has to send a truck to the brewery to pick up the requested beer for the bar (remember the brewery is literally across the street). Then that truck has to drive back to the warehouse (no matter how far away that is) and the beer must — again, by law — be unloaded into the warehouse.
Later, recharged to be delivered to the bar!
Here’s another relevant fact about the fate of breweries locked up at distributors: did you know that the 3-level formula also stipulates that once a brewery submits a freelancer to distribute its beer, this contract is a lifetime contract? What other induscheck out is so? None, ours.
Self-distribution is a device that can also mitigate inefficiencies, or total madness, my finished product and reaffirm the operation of the greased hotel.
In 2019, craft beer brought $3.6 billidirectly to Florida, according to the Brewers Association. This has placed us in fifth place in the full country score, and it’s never very difficult to believe what Florida, with counterdependence legislation, could pull out. Breweries can also provide deliveries directly to retailers, they can even ship or deliver our beer directly to consumers. After all, much of the consumers stick to the current recommendations to stick at home, but still want to help their local brewery.
I’m not advocating getting rid of the 3-tier system, but I’m asking the State of Florida for more help in succeeding in other states that revel in promoting the economic benefits and benefits of craft beer.
If you prefer a locally crafted tight pint, I saw e launch, flbreweries4change.wixe.com/selfdistroflnow, to write for your representatives and help us #SaveFloridaBeer.
Let’s make matching paints to release (the) beer and give Florida craft brewers to survive. Now and in the future.
Pete Anderson, a former teacher, opened Pareidolia Brewing in Sebastian in 2014.