New subject: Hops Eden Prairie & Growlers

11 Aug 2003

Mike,
Thanks for the information.  I believe item #1 can be addressed in much
the same way that it was addressed at the capitol.  I would bet neither
the city council nor the EP police have even seen the law which requires
the containers to be sealed.  They also need to realize they are the
*only* city in Minnesota with a brewpub that has not allowed licensing.
As far as #2 goes, this issue seems like it could vanish with some
letters to the editors.  As far as I'm concerned, they have not only
formed a monopoly by owning all the liquor stores, they also control the
licenses.  This is simply ludicrous.
Even though you may not live in EP, you certainly may participate in some
kind of commerce in the city.  They would be foolish not to listen to any
suggestions on how their city/perception of their city can be improved.
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 16:20:17 -0500 Mike Behrendt &lt;MBehrendt(a)mn.rr.com&gt;
writes:
...

 I've had several conversations with the staff at City Hall including
 the
 Police Dept.
 The problem with sales of growlers at Hops Eden Prairie is due to a
 city
 ordinance.  There are two reasons:
 1 - The police are concerned about public safety, i.e. people take a
 growler, drink it and do dumb things.
 2 - The city controls off-premise liquor sales and actually owns the
 only
 stores in the city.  They don't want competition.  The Liquor
 Director was
 actually interested in selling the growlers at the stores, but that
 wouldn't be very good.
 To get this changed:
 1 - we'd need to contact the City Manager and ask that the ordinance
 be
 repealed/changed/whatever.
 2 - we'd need to give a presentation to the City Council and then
 they
 would have to approve it.
 Not sure what the club could really do, I don't know how many of us
 live
 and/or work in Eden Prairie.
 Maybe some petitions at the restaurant and other restaurants, maybe
 some
 emails, maybe boycott their stores (like both of us who live in Eden
 Prairie)
 email addresses of interest:
 sneal(a)edenprairie.org - City Manager - Scott Neal
 allcouncil(a)edenprairie.org - entire city council
 duram(a)edenprairie.org - he's the Liquor Director - Don Uram
 police@.........
 dcarlson@........ police Chief Dan Carlson
 //Mike Behrendt
 email - MBehrendt(a)mn.rr.com

David Berg
Head Brewer, Bandana Brewery
President, Minnesota Craft Brewer's Guild
________________________________________________________________
The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!
Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!
Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Re: Hops Eden Prairie & Growlers