Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Restaurants Terrorists may threaten beer supply
Posted by Jeff Holland on Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:08 PM
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), which took over federal regulation of alcohol from the ATF in 2003, has proven to be a constant annoyance to the craft beer industry. It has frequently denied names and labels based on oblique drug references or other seemingly innocuous associations(they recently made Ommegang change the name of its presidential tribute beer, Ombamagang). Now the TTB's dubious requirement of one small brewpub in San Luis Obispo to secure its brewing tanks behind a locked wall to prevent terrorist tampering further calls into question its understanding of its own regulations. The San Luis Obispo New Times reports on the absurd story of government ineptitude.
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