Our goal is to use the legislative process to make significant change in the laws and regulations that govern all aspects of the craft beer industry in Texas
As you all may know, we have been hard at work on our Beer Voting Guide. We have contacted every candidate for the 2012 Texas House and Senate races (that we could find contact information for) to ask them to fill out our three question position survey.
This past weekend, The Dancing Bear Pub in Waco, Texas, hosted a fundraiser on our behalf. Over two nights, and through 20+ amazing craft beers, $1000 in growler sales was donated to the cause! Thanks again to Paxton and the crew for an outstanding event!
Open The Taps has been busy and we'd like to tell you about two important events: first, our fundraiser with Southern Star, and second, the results of our survey and what this means for our legislative agenda.
Last Friday, I attended the TABC planning session to assess and/or change the marketing practices update that was issued following the Jester King/Authentic Beverages ruling late last year which invalidated a couple of key points of TABC regulations. My last post details the background of this session and where it came from.
The purpose of this post is to bring you up to speed on some specific questions that were raised in the meeting and ask for your opinion and feedback.
As most of you probably know, Jester King Craft Brewery in Austin is one of the more prominent plaintiffs involved in a lawsuit against the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission regarding a number of regulatory provisions in the Lone Star State. Of most interest to us here at Open The Taps is the ‘summary judgment’ entered in the case on a specific issue – the restrictions on the language that can and cannot be used on beer labels to describe the product in the container.
