Talking About the Georgia “Beer Jobs Bill”
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
From the recent acquisition of Seattle’s Elysian Brewing by Belgian-based beverage giant AB-InBev to Budweiser’s craft beer-mocking Super Bowl ad (which Elysian founder Dick Cantwell called “tone-deaf” and “painful”), things have gotten a bit chippy between big and small beer, again.
Here in Georgia, the battle lines are being drawn around what its lead sponsor, state Sen. Hunter Hill, R-Smyrna, calls the “Beer Jobs Bill.”
In essence, Senate Bill 63 would allow consumers to buy a few pints to drink “on premise” at breweries or buy packaged beer to-go from breweries and brewpubs.
