re: Beer Distribution Laws in LA

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This has more to do with production capacity. Lots of US craft brewers simply don't have to capacity to move into every state.

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I'm going to go ahead and state some things up front here:
1. I drink "craft" beer and abhor what I find to be an unbelievably antiquated/blatantly obvious money-grab system. I also abhor the term "craft beer" because I think it is douchy as hell. I just like beer that I think tastes good.
2. Despite that my flesh and blood cousin, who I love dearly, and several of my friends work for distributors. They are great people, their employers are fricking snakes that I hate.
3. I get paid for a living to call people out on bullshite (I work in finance), and without being a tool about it, I get paid well for it when I'm right.
4. Respectfully, what you said is entirely bullshite.
5. I am actively short SAM as a stock (see point 3). If there were publicly traded distributors I would short the ever living shite out of every one of them.
6. I am drunk.

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know Yeingling, New Belgium, Dogfish Head do not have capacity to handle more than they currently produce, so they haven't moved into other states at this point.

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You're serious about this too. How did we get 4 pages and no mavens came laying wood to this ridiculous comment? Let's go boss. Per the answer to everything:
WRT to NB (which has been distributing in La for, what, 4 months now?)

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In 2011, it produced 712,800 barrels of its various labels.[1] As of 2010, it was the third-largest craft brewery and seventh-largest overall brewery in the United States.[2]

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Not enough capacity. Right. We'll just ignore the obvious comments from Wiki AND the fact that that is ~2.5 years outdated.

Have you seen pictures of their facility, its a fricking beer farm dude. Locally loved Abita, who I will proudly proclaim is owned by friends of mine, can't even begin to hold their jock when it comes to facilities, yet distributes in practically the entire continental United States (that means not AK and HI but I'd take a shake bet that you could get Abita in Hawaii if you tried).

Nevermind the whole purported reason for this retarded 3-tier system is to separate distributor/producer/seller yet one of the biggest distributors owns 35% of the biggest brewer not only in the state but one of the biggest non-macro brewers in the country. Oh, you say, but NB produced 700k barrels in 2011, but how many did Abita produce? Only about 1/fricking7th of that, yet got to 46 states. Definitely a production capacity problem though.

So clearly its not a "production capacity" problem for them, since, you know, they've been pushing beer here for a few months, and also because they produced ~710k fricking barrels two years ago. I'm not going to outright attribute it to the bullshite discussed here...nevermind, yes I am. They've had the production capacity to distribute to god damn China for probably five years yet it took them until 2013 to get into La? There's a reason for that, its not "production capacity," it's greedy motherfrickers, the shithead politicians that STILL run this state, and the people who live here who just look at those clowns and give a :lolgoodoleboys: look. frick the bunch of y'all.
WRT to DFH:
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A portion of that investment will push annual capacity to around 500k barrels.

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Yeah these guys just don't have the ability to get capital to push capacity to get into La. Again. :EYEMOTHERfrickINGROLL:
Yeungling? I mean really? The and I quote "America's Oldest Brewery" doesn't have the "production capacity" to get into Louisiana? Come on dude. Per answer to everything, two years ago:

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Based on sales in 2011, Yuengling was tied with the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams brands, as the largest American-owned brewery.[1]

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Yeah a $2.2 billion market cap company just can't figure out how to get enough capital to distribute beer ~800 miles away. Even though they've been in operation since...

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1829

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No. I mean not even "no" but jesus motherfrickng christ frick NO. This is fricking stupid and ~10 minutes of research effectively refutes any argument. I mean this is the definition of not even trying, which is what effectively defines La politics (I hope you clowns read this, go to hell).

This is bullshite, distributors are blatant examples of people who run antiquated business models using politics to hold on to their business because they're about be phased out, and Louisiana continues to be about 1000 years behind even bumfricks like Arkansas because some Sigma Chi's daddy is the Speaker of the House (I was in a fraternity at LSU, so go ahead and put that pitchfork down friend). Meanwhile, stifling local economies and consumer choices, a combination of economic destruction and outright violation of declared rights of Americans.fricking unbelievably stupid and needs to end, like now.

/not end thread, let's keep this going

Brah, I explained that in two sentences on page 2. Ain't nobody got time to read all that. Cliffs please.

Someone hinted earlier in this thread, that there may be changes to the regulations coming or someone may have found a loop hole.

That's cool. At least it's a start. Interesting version going on in Florida. Apparently AB got an ammendment passed back in the 60s so they could sell beer at their Tampa brewery. Now their brewery is gone and they don't like the ammendment because it helps the craft brewers.

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