re: Obamacare is Coming After Your Craft Beer

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legislating it

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Do you have a problem with government legislation of things like this in general or do you have a problem with this one thing in particular? I'm confused and genuinely interested in the actual source of the uproar.

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Question, weren't they already doing re bottling because of the "date of brewing" label you see on most beers now?

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stamped on

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If you're a small brewer who can't afford to pay the $77k, then you're probably not selling at large restaurant chains with over 20 locations. If you're selling at those chains, you can afford it.

I don't see anything wrong with posting calorie amounts. Can only help with decisions with what to drink. It's information I would like to know. Don't like that we are legislating it though.

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I don't like obama but this one doesn't bother me because you are correct. The way I read it is local breweries can still sell to all but pretty large restaurant chains. Does it hurt trying to get a tap in a place like Fridays? Yeah, it will make that impossible unless you provide your nutritional info.

Thanks. I've been curious about that after discovering really old beer at a neighborhood Albertson's a few months ago.

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Why would a smaller brewery bother with the labeling?

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Because they want their beer to be at a place like Flying Saucer or Mellow Mushroom (believe that Little Rock has both of them) and they wouldn't be allowed to sell their beer at those places otherwise.

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I don't see a problem with including nutrition facts on a label.

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I don't see a problem with it if the companies chooses to do it, I see a problem with government mandating it.

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I have a problem with the government legislating unwarranted things like this

especially when it hurt small business

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Okay, my next question is why is putting calorie content on the label hurting small business? Is it just the cost of fixing the labels? I'm pretty sure the government won't make them recall cans and bottles. There will be a date where it will become effective.

Do you think that information will stop people from buying or consuming craft beer? Because I don't care at all...if I want a craft beer, or any beer, I'm basically saying I don't care about my calorie count for the night.

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You really believe it costs $77k to figure out the caloric content of a beverage and put it on the label that already exists?

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LINK

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Small business / Like most regulations, this one will affect small businesses more than their larger competitors. The HHS concedes the measures will have a “significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities,” and noted that approximately two-thirds of the regulated entities are small businesses, largely because of the prevalence of franchised entities in food service. Based on the HHS’s estimates, the menu labeling rule will impose per-entity costs ranging from $49,000 to $77,000. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the typical food service employee earns $22,000 annually. Thus, the new rule essentially costs a business the equivalent of two to 3.5 employees, without doing a thing to increase sales or boost productivity

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Okay, my next question is why is putting calorie content on the label hurting small business? Is it just the cost of fixing the labels?

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yes...the cost and if you don't do it, you can't have your beer in larger chains, which is generally high volume accounts for small breweries

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Do you think that information will stop people from buying or consuming craft beer?

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No, not at all

which is why it is useless, unwarranted legislation