Three days ago, I outlined the challenges facing the Maryland craft beer industry in the wake of House Bill 1283 passing. This bill is currently slated on the senate calendar for discussion on Wednesday, March 29 at 1 p.m., in front of the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee – so, call your state senators today.…
Editor’s Note: This piece was not written by me, nor is it the result of an interview I conducted. Instead, this is an editorial that was independently submitted to me from someone on the wholesaler’s side of what is currently happening in Maryland. They have requested to remain anonymous, and I will honor that request, without…
Here’s the Short Version for Those Who Want to Help If you care at all about small, independent local brewers in Maryland, you need to contact you SENATORS immediately regarding the recently passed House Bill 1283. In its current form, to call HB 1283 harmful to local brewers would be an understatement. In its current form,…
For those of you who know me, it should come as no surprise that my interactions with people who have the misfortune of being one of my interview subjects can sometimes be as fraught with the same mishaps and catastrophes I tend to encounter in my daily life. For those of you who don’t know…
Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Todd Haymore at the Beyond Brewing Forum So after months of waiting, Organarchy‘s first-ever Beyond Brewing Forum took place earlier this month. How was it? Well, I knew it was going to be fantastic, and it was. But more on that later – because today I want to share some thoughts on a…
Ben Savage, CMO of Flying Dog Brewery Last week, my column celebrating Flying Dog’s 25th anniversary ran in The Capital, but here’s the funny (see: “awful”) thing about feature writing. As if the writing process wasn’t already enough of an unending hellscape of misery and shame, you spend most of your time weeping over what massive bits of an interview…
