Beer Politics In Wisconsin
In July, we published a post about the fondness that Wisconsin lawmakers have for beer-related bills. But an editorial in Madison Magazine reveals that there’s a beer issue before Wisconsin’s legislature this year that’s creating a bit of controversy. It turns out that Wisconsin has a law on the books that prohibits brewpubs from serving their own beer in some situations.
Brewers who produce more than four-thousand barrels of beer a year can’t sell their own beer at more than two retail establishments.
As it stands, the law is a three-tier system set up to keep brewers, wholesalers and retailers independent from each other. It was all intended to prevent a monopoly.
The owners of the Great Dane in Madison are fighting to have the law changed, but they’re getting no support from the large brewers in the state, like Miller, or from the wholesalers, who would rather sell beer to the pubs than have them brew their own.
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