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Discover how the Louisiana Craft Brewers Guild is driving the craft beer industry forward! Learn about the recent legislative efforts, the economic impact, and the passionate brewers behind this growing scene. Cheers to local craft beer! #LouisianaBeer #CraftBeerGrowth #BrewScoop

#When we talk about this industry and it's a growing ind #I've traveled all over the United States and gone to towns like Charleston and Savannah and Hot Springs and Nashville. And i #you're going to find that those are tourism destinations just like our state. They have a craft industry that is booming. And in Louisiana #ours is not.#This bill is to clean up a 2022 piece of legislation to align business practices with reality #This is about small business brewers reinvesting in their product #reinvesting in their brands who have the means and will to create an entirely new brewery #go through the federal #state and local permitting practices. We feel like if you've brewed it great at one place #why would we prohibit them from bringing it to their second invested business to serve it?#tremendous operational efficiencies #They want to circumvent every process that puts them in the marketplace #We want to sell their product #but they don't want to do it within the construct that has been around since 1930 and has worked quite well. Not everything has to change f #specific entity within the state of Louisiana.#(The Center Square) — The Louisiana House Committee on Judiciary deferred a bill Thursday that would lessen regulatory burdens on the state'#sponsored by Rep. Tony Romero #R-Jennings. The measure would've ended the mandate for craft brewers to use a distributor to move product between two or more in-state faci #for a brewery to transfer beer between locations by paying an outside distributor #the transferring brewing facility must have at least a 10-barrel brewing system and the receiving facility must have a five-barrel system.#no craft brewer is taking advantage of ability to transfer beer between locations. Romero said. HB 821 #which is supported by the Louisiana Craft Brewer's Guild #would end these restrictions. said Cary Koch #the executive director of the Louisiana Craft Brewers Guild. Eric Avery #the president and founder of Crying Eagle Brewing in Lake Charles #told the committee his brewery would gain if it could transfer more barrels of brew between its two l #Miller-Coors #the Beer Industry League of Louisiana #the Associated Grocers and the Louisiana Restaurant Association. Their opposition centered around the three-tier system #which they say would allow craft brewers to circumvent. said Rouses Markets director of compliance Daniel Pritchett. Louisiana is ranked 5

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