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The N.C. Craft Brewers Guild is among those, including Carolina Journal, seeking clarification from Gov. Roy Cooper about the fate of breweries, wineries, and distilleries.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2020 @ 8:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Thousands of distillers, brewers, and vintners across the country, are worried. Probably rightfully so.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 8:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday, May 30, signed into law House Bill 363, the Craft Beer Distribution and Modernization Act, the result of a compromise among mid-sized craft brewers and the N.C. Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 4:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A move to ease restrictions for N.C. craft brewers who want to distribute their own beer is on the verge of becoming law.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 7:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A measure brought about by a lawsuit against the state from craft brewers easily cleared another legislative hurdle Wednesday, May 15.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 11:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers this session have filed what amounts to a jumble of bills designed to ease restrictive Prohibition-era rules enacted in the first half of the 20th century.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2019 @ 4:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A collection of lawmakers, lawyers, lobbyists, and brewers gathered for a news conference Thursday, March 14, to talk about a pair of bills that, if passed into law, would even further energize North Carolina's thriving craft beer market.
Published: Thursday, March 21st, 2019 @ 11:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill filed Wednesday, March 13, in the N.C. Senate would raise the limit on the number of barrels North Carolina craft brewers can self-distribute.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 @ 3:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Much of the media coverage of the continuing government shutdown has focused on stories of federal workers who aren't getting paid. Stories about irregular inspections of our food and longer, slower lines at airports.
Published: Friday, January 25th, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Scott Smith, one of the partners who own and run Outer Banks Distilling in Manteo, loves his job
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 10:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Greensboro-based company told a North Carolina brewer he could get out of his distribution contract if he paid the distributor 16 times more than it cost to get in, an affidavit in a lawsuit filed by a group of North Carolina brewers says
Published: Monday, June 18th, 2018 @ 5:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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About a year ago, some North Carolina craft brewers took on a couple behemoths in the state ABC system and a well-funded and entrenched network of wholesalers and distributors
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 3:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Wake County Superior Court has ruled against the state of North Carolina in a lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of the state's distribution cap and franchise laws on breweries
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2018 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Craft brewers are waiting to learn whether a lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of the state's distribution cap and franchise laws will proceed
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The ongoing effort to loosen rules and regulations on North Carolina distillers, brewers and winemakers isn't about alcohol
Published: Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 5:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The fate of the Republican tax bill is tenuous at best, but suspended deep among its many provisions are measures benefiting brewers, vintners, and distillers
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 @ 3:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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News that beer distributors through political action committees poured nearly $100,000 toward defeating a bill to lift a production cap on North Carolina brewers should surprise no one
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 2:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Craft brewers say North Carolina is suppressing growth and have filed a complaint saying that two state laws are unconstitutional and nothing more than economic protectionism
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2017 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Asheville-based brewer has sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev, which, like its counterparts, is gulping down craft brewers in an apparent effort to offset waning sales for Budweiser and other mass-produced adjunct beers
Published: Sunday, May 14th, 2017 @ 8:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Chuck McGrady, R, Henderson, tried hard to smile this week while presenting the plundered remnants of House Bill 500.
Published: Thursday, May 4th, 2017 @ 3:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An effort to raise the number of barrels North Carolina's craft brewers can produce before they have to procure a distributor has failed
Published: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Craft beer is on tap at the state legislature, where lawmakers have introduced three bills to roll back laws that stifle unprecedented growth in the brewing industry
Published: Sunday, April 23rd, 2017 @ 1:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It would be hard to find a more blatant example of cronyism than the North Carolina law forbidding brewers who produce more than 25,000 barrels per year from selling their products directly to retailers
Published: Friday, April 21st, 2017 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's craft brewers want a fair system
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A healthy relationship between adults is no different than a relationship between two businesses.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Now, it appears WCNC in Charlotte has found one more questionable scenario involving Tillis, some wealthy donors, their real estate deals, and the proposed I-77 toll lane project enthusiastically backed by Tillis.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 8:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In September, craft brewers and beer distributors were knocking heads over state regulations some viewed as favoring the interests of large beer distributors over these small brewers.
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2014 @ 7:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The state House has said cheers to a compromise beer distributorship agreement that will make changes to the state's decades-old beer franchise law.
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2012 @ 10:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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