Is anyone noticing a pattern?
2013: The Floyd County Health Department decides temporary food permits should apply to draft beer pours, and is proven mistaken.
PourGate 2013: It took two years, but this new law silences Dr. Tom Harris and the Floyd County Health Department.
2014: Indiana's requirement for weenies in the freezer (food service requirement) comes under scrutiny, and is amended.
Another legislative win: Effective July 1, revised food requirements for Indiana brewery taprooms.
2015: Decades later, Indiana's riverfront development three-way permits suddenly become incompatible with carry-out sales from small breweries.
No wonder they want to be rid of me.
Bangert: Hidden law mean goodbye to LBC growlers?, by Dave Bangert (Lafayette Journal & Courier)
And then one day, just like that, Greg Emig found out his Lafayette Brewing Co. wasn’t supposed to be filling 64-ounce growlers for carryout of Eighty-Five, Star City Lager or any of the other fresh beer produced at the brew pub on Main Street.
Last fall, word started getting around among the Brewers of Indiana Guild that there was a glitch in state law that forbids carryout of any alcohol under special liquor licenses set up in economic development zones.
And now, after years of being tucked away in Indiana Code, the law was being enforced by the state’s Alcohol and Tobacco Commission ...
... The story started in October, about the time of Harvest Homecoming festival in the southern Indiana city of New Albany.
Profuse public thanks go to Senator Ron Alting and Representative Ed Clere for their diligent efforts to make necessary repairs to these and other strange statutory divergences. After all, the ATC doesn't write these laws; it merely enforces them.
The riverfront three-way permits referenced here obviously were not intended to be incompatible with small brewing in Indiana; it's all about the wording, and the likelihood is that the words will be fixed during the coming legislative session.
As always, stay tuned.
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