Obamacare is Coming After Your Craft Beer



Listen up Bernie Sanders supporting hipsters: Obamacare is coming for your craft beer.

According to the Brewer's Association, craft brewing contributed $55.7 billion to the U.S. economy and provided more than 440,000 jobs in 2014, a significant impact in a still sluggish economy.

Small and independent American craft brewers contributed $55.7 billion to the U.S. economy in 2014. The figure is derived from the total impact of beer brewed by craft brewers as it moves through the three-tier system (breweries, wholesalers and retailers), as well as all non-beer products like food and merchandise that brewpub restaurants and brewery taprooms sell.

But a regulation buried in Obamacare could change craft brewing and not for the better. From Americans For Tax Reform:

Amidst Obamacare’s 3,000 pages lies a regulation that may squeeze craft beer brewers out of business. Why would federal healthcare bureaucrats want to meddle in this thriving industry? Well, regulators claim that American consumers are not healthy because they are blissfully unaware of the amount of calories in beer.

As of December 2016, Obamacare dictates that all brewers must include a detailed calorie count on every type of beer they produce. Failure to comply with the new regulations means craft brewers will not be able to sell their beer in any restaurant chain with over 20 locations. Because this is a major market for selling beer, it hamstrings smaller craft brewers if they do not comply.

The Cato Institute estimates the Obamacare calorie labeling requirements will cost a business as much as $77,000 to implement. For larger beer companies, this is a drop in the bucket, but for small, local craft brewers it represents a substantial cost that they must pay. As a result, it creates a significant disadvantage compared to larger beer companies who can better absorb the cost of this new regulation.

Obamacare: ruining healthcare, creativity and fun one niche industry at a time.



http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/05/31/obamacare-is-coming-after-your-beer-n2171764/

Obamacare,the Gift that keeps on giving!
The New Trojan Horse!
That Thing at the City of Troy was a Joke compared to the ACA!

IMO that's a good thing.
Nutrition labels are a good thing.
Just like having standardized weights and measures.
I just wish they were more honest (e.g. "serving size").
Everything you consume, having not made it yourself, should have something on it telling you exactly what you will be consuming.

You still have the freedom to make alllllll the microbrew for yourself you want and not have to label anything.


They are meddling in all industry.
Saying "tell people what they're consuming."
I don't believe microbreweries are being singled out.

If you like your beer, you can drink your beer....amirite?

as long as Moochelle has approved the Ingredients!

Actually up here we have a lot of micro breweries and well most of them already do list ingredients, calorie etc..
I was actually surprised at our local pub A friend ordered a certain IPA and asked the calorie, carb, etc count They had it right there at the bar

So this one actually I like. Kind of like they new food labels are actually going to be listing how much sugar is really in something and if it is added or not.

Seven more months of Ostupid.

Its beer you frickin' morons....

But still...anyone know how its gonna cost $77_000 to add a few words and numbers on a label? I'm not a craft beer guy so IDK.

Why yes I do called job security

What I mean is....can it really cost that much to have labels changed?
And what about restaurants or bars that make it to sell on tap or whatever....cant they just hang a sign listing calories or whatever?
Just trying to see where this $77,000 number came from. Seems high to me...but then again, I don't make craft beer.

Yep. She (?) Is like.. . The food Nazi.

Hear, facts & jokes, often all on Washington DC radio.
That she hates " Anything White"
A list of chefs that she fired or they quit.. She asked one to cook & bake without salt, sugar, flour etc.
(White ingredients..)
That poor chef came from France & worked there over 20 yrs..& walked out.
How she cancels her husband's food order, like choclate cake.
Geez ! If the President wants cake, who is she to walk to the kitchen and say 'no'
What are they supposed to do?

Maybe an Executive Order from Barry is in Order!

Never mind....seems the "labeling only applies to restraunts and similar establishments..... And the concern is the craft breweries would lose business because the restraunts would drop the beers if th e breweries didn't provide the info....to avoid the hassle
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/craft-beers-grabbed-by-obamacares-long-reach/article/2577152

WH in Cahoots with the Big Breweries!
The Old Crony-Trick again,as Maxwell Smart so aptly used to observe!

Don't doubt that at all.

But I got news for these idiots, I've nevered ordered a pizza and thought..." Hmm...which one has less calories?"....its frickin pizza....same with beer

Pizza LIGHT(TM)