WASHINGTON — Craft beer brewers marched on Washington last week for their industry’s first conference in the nation’s capital. They were there to engage in a local pastime that goes pint in hand with drinking: lobbying.
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As part of the conference, hundreds of small-scale brewers met with congressional staff members to press for a tax cut that they say would make it easier for them to brew more beer and hire more workers....
Here's to that!
Not everyone thinks the tax cut would be a good thing....
Not when the American people are having austerity shoved up their ass.
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Looks like I'm going to need that drink.
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Maybe you would like to have one with lunch?
A few more belts for you:
"Ads poke fun at claims of watered-down beer" Associated Press, March 04, 2013
NEW YORK — The maker of Budweiser is using splashy newspaper ads to poke fun at a lawsuit that alleges its beer is watered down.
That's been known for years. The old joke was how is Budweiser like a canoe? It's close to water.
In full-page ads in 10 newspapers on Sunday, including The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Anheuser-Busch InBev shows one of the 71 million cans of drinking water it has sent to the American Red Cross and other relief organizations responding to disasters. ‘‘They must have tested one of these,’’ the ad says.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in several states, accuses the brewer of cheating consumers out of the stated alcohol percentage by adding water just before bottling its beers.
The water cuts the alcohol content by 3 percent to 8 percent, according to the lawsuit’s lead lawyer, Josh Boxer. The lawsuits are based on information from former employees, he has said.
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N.H. House rejects raising beer tax a dime
At least it isn't watered down.
