Posted on 07/13/2011 7:17:25 AM PDT by Solson
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6:48am CDT
Mega-brewer Miller Coors must pull all of its beer — all 39 brands — from Minnesota store shelves because its branding license wasn't renewed before the state shutdown.
KSTP-TV has this absolute howler of a story, along with reaction from retailers, which is pretty much what you'd expect it would be. The beer company says it sent in the checks (brand licenses cost $30 for three years), but acknowledges they weren't processed in time.
The story doesn't address whether MillerCoors would have to pull its beer from bars, as well — but regardless, bars have their own shutdown problems. Many didn't renew their purchasing licenses before the shutdown, meaning they might run out of beer in the coming weeks, the Star Tribune reports. Many cigarette retailers are in similar straits.
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Give them a waiver. It works for Zer0.
I live 10 minutes from Wisconsin.
Might have to make a run for the border.
The Governor is still on the job so he can go process this himself.
If the state is shutdown, who can enforce this?
Is there a downside to this?
Heh. Shades of that Miller commercial where the delivery man pulls the beer out of the coolers.
Branding licenses, who knew?
The ways the politicians find to protect the little people would seem to have no bounds.
ML/NJ
Now this getting serious. Off to Walmart before it’s to late to get my MGD 54. I am a transplant here, waiting until we can escape to South Dakota. I hate this socialist scum sucking governor and all his minions and all the dummies that voted for him. Rant off!
Good question. I wonder which enforcers are not working.
The executive branch can selectively decide which parts of state government to fund and which to shutdown.
I hope Minnesota voters get a real bellyful of the consequences of promoting fools to high political office. Mark Dayton was a known fool when they elected him governor.
Miller Coors products are not beer!
Oh, enforcement is still in place.
You cannot purchase a hunting or fishing license, currently...but, the DNR can and will ticket you for fishing without a license.
I guess every day will be Sunday for MN residents...off to Hudson to buy their booze!!!!
To find an enemy of the citizens of the USA one only has to look at any government official.
But of course enforcement of the now unobtainable licenses is deemed critical.
I think Coors has been denied their due process.
It may be best to stay out of Minnesota for a while...
The legislature passed a law that said you had to accomodate these freaks by letting them use any bathroom where they felt comfortable. Of course, the female employees did not feel comfortable by having this freak walk in on them.
After several vain attempts at trying to reach a solution such as having the freak knock before he entered (it refused), the guy figured out another way to solve the problem.
He moved the company to Sioux Falls.
KSTP-TV has this absolute howler of a story,
Yeah, saw a story where even though all the state parks were closed, they were still paying the park staff to patrol the parks and fine anybody who was in the park illegally. If anybody needs any proof that this is about inconviencing as many people as possible to prove a point this is it, if the Governor is going to keep park staff on the payroll to issue tickets, he might as well keep the parks open.
But of course enforcement of the now unobtainable licenses is deemed critical.
I think Coors has been denied their due process.
Imposing arbitrary conditions making a legal business ineligible to sell product in this state is a violation of the interstate commerce clause. I think the State of Mn has a big law suit on its hands.
The Sioux Falls chamber of commerce pounds the airwaves with adds about moving business out of Minnesota and into Sioux Falls. It has worked for years.
State licenses in Minnesota renew throughout the year depending on when the business was started. Inability to renew licenses will soon start shutting down not only liquor wholesalers and retailers, but also auto dealers, auto auction companies, restaurants, a whole host of businesses that won’t be able to operate without Big Brother’s license stamp of approval. The state does a lousy job processing these items under normal circumstances. It will take them years to unscramble the mess that’s piling up. This is truly like watching a slow-motion train wreck.
In the words of baby Face Nelson: “Come and get me, coppers!” Seriously, how do they expect to enforce this? The “on the shelf” supply will be gone in days. More political posturing by the Governor, IMHO.
Awesome news for retailers in NOrthern Iowa, who’ve already experienced double-digit growth in the sales of lottery tickets and even smokes for some...
There is no need to worry.
If there is no one to issue licenses, there is also no one to enforce the law requiring the license. If an enforcer shows up, he is operating illegally because the government is shut down
The result is no government to meddle in the affairs of the business.
Same for WI.
Last time driving up to Minneapolis has me crossing the border at around 5PM. I was stunned at the traffic going into the Hudson area. There was always plenty of residents of WI working in MN for the 12 years I worked up there, but never in the volume I saw that day.
MN is going to continue hemorrhaging companies to WI, IA, SD ND and metro population to WI if they keep on this current path.
Mark Dayton is absolutely destroying that State.
The only things “shutdown” seem to be revenue or recreation related. Enforcement agencies are still on the job, for your protection of course.
When I was in my Twenties, you couldn’t buy Coors in Milwaukee. Once every couple of months, we’d take up a collection, and cross the river to bring back a trunk load of Coors. Then we’d have Coors parties. I can remember thinking, “We went through all that trouble for this?”
Sorry!
Who’s gonna make’em stop?
For Miller or Coors?
Just because you work there doesn’t make it real beer!
Send me your address, and I’ll mail you some Shiner or Rahr & Sons :)
AH! You pulled the old, “Smokey and the Bandit,” thing. Sweet.
No apologies needed. I just make the malt.
WI has some marvelous local products. There’s a couple I buy in NJ. Freeing the shelves of their overload of mass-market beers might just lure more folks into enjoying craft beer products from closer to home. >PS
I just drink it for the three free cases per month allotment. Can’t complain about that.
I’m still experimenting with beers, though. Looking for a high malt/low hop flavor, high alcohol content beer. We made a special brew in memory of a Scottish Maltster named Gordon who died of cancer two years ago. They gave me a bottle of it and at the time, I didn’t drink and hated beer. When I tasted it, it was extraordinary.
I told management that if they could make a non-drinker like me to love this as a product, the company would explode in sales.
Of course, you know management....
We couldn’t get it in Delaware when I was in my 20s either. But at the time I was working in Maryland so I always brought it home with me. And to this day I still drink it!!!
When I was pregnant my local liquor store and favorite watering hole stocked Coors N/A for me (it was called Cutter back then) by the time my daughter was born, the only N/A they were stocking was that because every one preferred it to the dreck from Annheiser Busch.
I also remember doing that as well. I just can’t remember why.
First beer I ever had was a Miller High Life. The champagne of beers.
I still love it, and it is one of the best memories of my life.
I’m not much of a beer drinker any more, but I will drink a Miller beer on occasion.
As I’ve debauched myself, my tastes have with them, and I consume more bourbon, single-malt whiskey, and various wines.
I’m glad they kept Miller, the original. GD is fine for what it is, but in my opinion, Miller is better.
I lived in California when Coors was only available in Colorado, if that gives you an approximate age. Boy, that was a big deal, if you went to a party and there was Coors available. People were also drinking Primo Beer, from Hawaii. I never understood that, because it didn’t taste as good as even Bud. I’ve never liked Bud.
We used to cut holes in the bottom of cans of the 32oz Schlitz Malt Liquor Bulls and shotgun them before a night on the town. Instabuzz. It didn’t taste all that bad either. The only reason I even tried Colt 45 is because Billy Dee Williams was so cool even white boys wanted to drink it. Isaac Hayes too.
Better yet, make all booze unavailable to MN democrat politicians. Maybe when they sober up, the state will see some better policies.
” I just can’t remember why.”
We thought it was just a cool thing to do. Everybody loved that beer but me! I would’ve just as soon been drinkin’ Ripple Red!
If I recall correctly, during my Twenties, in the Early Seventies, Coors wasn’t available East of the big river??????
“I just make the malt.”
I used to know a guy who was a Master Brewer. He worked at some brewery in Cleveland.
I think it was, can’t have so want.
I never thought it was so great either.
Looking back, the 70’s were not a good time for folks who enjoy good beer.
You remember correctly but it wasn’t because Coors was being excluded from the markets. It had to be kept cold from brewery to the shelves and that was impractical with the technology of the times. So it could be transported so far as it was economic to do so.
Non-pasteurized, right? That was the hangup?
In the Nineties, My Dad would stock his fridge with Buttweiser, cuz he knew I wouldn’t drink it when I came to visit!
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