18 Feb
2009
18 Feb
'09
11:11 p.m.
Use this link to find your representative:
http://www.gis.leg.mn/mapserver/districts/
Then go to the Members Page where you’ll find an email link and phone number.
Don’t just copy some text and send it…..use your own words to say why the state should
make this change.
FYI - I had trouble with the email link, so I called instead.
//Mike
From: mnbrewers(a)yahoogroups.com [mailto:mnbrewers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
jeffluskey(a)frontiernet.net
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:10 PM
To: Homebrewers Minnesota; mnbrewers
Subject: [mnbrewers] Fwd: Growler Bill-HF 546
Hi All! Please read the the dialogue and contact your Rep. to get this Bill passed. Thanks
Jeff
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Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:26:32 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: FW: Growler Bill-HF 546
From: Andy M [mailto:kdx2001989@yahoo.com <mailto:kdx2001989%40yahoo.com> ]
Sent: Wed 2/11/2009 6:59 AM
To: Luskey, Jeff
Subject: Growler Bill-HF 546
Jeff,
My father in law is a huge Surly fan. When he heard about the Growlers getting prohibited
due to the brewery getting too big he decided to do something. He spoke to Michael Nelson
who is a Rep. in the Minnesota House of Representatives who also happens to be a fan of
Surly Growlers.
Representative Nelson decided to write a bill that would allow the Brewery to continue to
sell Growlers. You can read the emails from him and my father in law below. So if
you're interested, write to your Rep. and tell them to vote for it.
See ya,
Andy Mattison
--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Steve Chesney <Steve(a)SChesney.com
<mailto:Steve%40SChesney.com> > wrote:
From: Steve Chesney <Steve(a)SChesney.com <mailto:Steve%40SChesney.com> >
Subject: FW: Growler Bill-HF 546
To: "'Chesney, Angela B.'" <angela.chesney(a)wmitchell.edu
<mailto:angela.chesney%40wmitchell.edu> >, ndavis496(a)comcast.net
<mailto:ndavis496%40comcast.net> , "'JOE NOARD'"
<jlnoard(a)embarqmail.com <mailto:jlnoard%40embarqmail.com> >,
kdx2001989(a)yahoo.com <mailto:kdx2001989%40yahoo.com> , "'Jim
Mattison'" <jim_mattison(a)yahoo.com <mailto:jim_mattison%40yahoo.com>
>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7:59 PM
I am now Pumphouse, the lobbyist.
Surly brewery is now prohibited from selling growlers because they got too
big. The bill would up the annual limit on a micro-brewery which would
enable them to sell growlers.
Write your house rep to support it if you ever want to buy a Surley growler
......
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Nelson [mailto:Rep.Michael.Nelson@house.mn
<mailto:Rep.Michael.Nelson%40house.mn> ]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:29 AM
To: Steve(a)SChesney.com <mailto:Steve%40SChesney.com>
Subject: Growler Bill-HF 546
Steve,
I just wanted to let you know that I introduced a bill addressing the issue
you brought up at Surly Brewery. I have attached it below, but you can
monitor its movement on the House website.
Now, I have spoken with staff in our non-partisan House Research Department
and this bill will need some tweaking during committee. I have asked for a
hearing, but I do not know when or if I will get one.
Michael Nelson
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19 Feb
19 Feb
5:15 p.m.
I wrote a couple of House members about this. I did recieve one response
which was quite positive.
In my letter I stressed the ideas that these were vital small businesses
that should be supported and that the products that they produce are
different from the major brewers. These products are of interest to a
segment of the population that appreciates these less common styles of
beer and are not of intrest to the "slam them down beer party crowd".
--
bob hain
bob(a)me.umn.edu
(612) 626-9800
5:53 p.m.
Hi everyone. I've been on this mailing list for awhile but never said hello
before.
I also contacted my representative (district 40A, Burnsville) and got a
positive response. He appreciated the need to defend local small business
from arbitrary laws that the current legislation killed Darkness day over.
Thanks for bringing HF546 to everyones attention!
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Bob Hain <bob(a)me.umn.edu> wrote:
I wrote a couple of House members about this. I did recieve one response
which was quite positive.
In my letter I stressed the ideas that these were vital small businesses
that should be supported and that the products that they produce are
different from the major brewers. These products are of interest to a
segment of the population that appreciates these less common styles of
beer and are not of intrest to the "slam them down beer party crowd".
--
bob hain
bob(a)me.umn.edu
(612) 626-9800
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7:33 p.m.
I think it is great to try to get the laws changed to allow Surly, as well
as other small breweries, to sell growlers at the brewery.
However, I don't see that this creation of a new license will accomplish
what we're trying to do. If the noted changes are made to the statute, a
new "temporary" license will be created where a brewery producing between
3,500 and 7,000 bbl per year will be charged $1000 for a license and will be
required within two years if they want to be a brew pub or a production
brewery.
Subdivision 7, paragraph (b) of Statute 340A.301 states:
"...a brewer who holds an on-sale license issued pursuant to this paragraph
or a brewer who manufactures fewer than 3,500 barrels of malt liquor in a
year may, with the approval of the commissioner, be issued a license by a
municipality for off-sale of malt liquor produced and packaged on the
licensed premises..."
If I remember my research correctly, this is the paragraph that was added or
modified when the original "Growler Bill" was passed.
This is the statement that needs to be changed to read "7,000 barrels" if
Surly were to be allowed to continue with growler sales.
Patrick Sundberg
2009/2/19 Zach Vanselow <zvanselow(a)gmail.com>
Hi everyone. I've been on this mailing list for
awhile but never said hello
before.
I also contacted my representative (district 40A, Burnsville) and got a
positive response. He appreciated the need to defend local small business
from arbitrary laws that the current legislation killed Darkness day over.
Thanks for bringing HF546 to everyones attention!
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Bob Hain <bob(a)me.umn.edu> wrote:
I wrote a couple of House members about this. I did recieve one response
which was quite positive.
In my letter I stressed the ideas that these were vital small businesses
that should be supported and that the products that they produce are
different from the major brewers. These products are of interest to a
segment of the population that appreciates these less common styles of
beer and are not of intrest to the "slam them down beer party crowd".
--
bob hain
bob(a)me.umn.edu
(612) 626-9800
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8:23 p.m.
It is my understanding that this bill is just in the introduction stage
and is expected to change. It would probably be best to articulate this
to the bills author.
====
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:33:28PM -0600, Patrick Sundberg wrote:
I think it is great to try to get the laws changed to
allow Surly, as well
as other small breweries, to sell growlers at the brewery.
However, I don't see that this creation of a new license will accomplish
what we're trying to do. If the noted changes are made to the statute, a
new "temporary" license will be created where a brewery producing between
3,500 and 7,000 bbl per year will be charged $1000 for a license and will be
required within two years if they want to be a brew pub or a production
brewery.
Subdivision 7, paragraph (b) of Statute 340A.301 states:
"...a brewer who holds an on-sale license issued pursuant to this paragraph
or a brewer who manufactures fewer than 3,500 barrels of malt liquor in a
year may, with the approval of the commissioner, be issued a license by a
municipality for off-sale of malt liquor produced and packaged on the
licensed premises..."
If I remember my research correctly, this is the paragraph that was added or
modified when the original "Growler Bill" was passed.
This is the statement that needs to be changed to read "7,000 barrels" if
Surly were to be allowed to continue with growler sales.
Patrick Sundberg
2009/2/19 Zach Vanselow <zvanselow(a)gmail.com>
> Hi everyone. I've been on this mailing list for awhile but never said hello
> before.
>
> I also contacted my representative (district 40A, Burnsville) and got a
> positive response. He appreciated the need to defend local small business
> from arbitrary laws that the current legislation killed Darkness day over.
>
> Thanks for bringing HF546 to everyones attention!
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Bob Hain <bob(a)me.umn.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> I wrote a couple of House members about this. I did recieve one response
>> which was quite positive.
>>
>> In my letter I stressed the ideas that these were vital small businesses
>> that should be supported and that the products that they produce are
>> different from the major brewers. These products are of interest to a
>> segment of the population that appreciates these less common styles of
>> beer and are not of intrest to the "slam them down beer party crowd".
>>
>> --
>> bob hain
>> bob(a)me.umn.edu
>> (612) 626-9800
>>
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