{"id":25837,"date":"2011-07-14T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25837"},"modified":"2011-07-14T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:00:51","slug":"minnesota-to-be-beerless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25837","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota to be beerless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/125526248.html\">Old Trooper has been keeping TSO and me apprised<\/a> of the situation in Minnesota in regards to the sudden impending shortage of the brewed food groups. See, we&#8217;re going to be there next month and if there&#8217;s no beer, why would we go?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem stems from brand label registrations that brewers must renew with the state every three years, showing the label on each brand of beer. MillerCoors attempted to renew in mid-June, but, according to company officials, sent the state a check for more than the required amount. Green said the company followed up with a new check, which the state received June 27.<\/p>\n<p>But on June 30, one day before the government shutdown, the company received a letter from the state that its brand licenses had expired. State employees who would typically renew those licenses have been deemed noncritical during the shutdown and laid off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noncritical? That seems a bit arbitrary and capricious.<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But if the shutdown were to last into October, another brewing behemoth would have to grapple with an expired license: Anheuser-Busch, responsible for 48 percent of all U.S. beer sales and producers of Bud and Bud Light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that blocking that much business doesn&#8217;t help the state recover from it&#8217;s problems. I mean, I&#8217;m sure it will affect tax revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper has been keeping TSO and me apprised of the situation in Minnesota in regards &hellip; <a title=\"Minnesota to be beerless?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25837\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minnesota to be beerless?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}