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Friday Night Beer Blog: End of Year 2022 Edition [1]

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Date: 2022-12-30

Note the cognitive dissonance between the glass and the beer :) .

Greetings, beer lovers! Happy last Friday of 2022, and once more, for the final time this year, 'tis chingchongchinaman as your semi-friendly guest FNBB host, with esquimaux taking a well-earned break from blogging duties. Since this is the end of the year (well, duh), it's that time of year for newspapers, magazines, etc. to compile "Top 10", "Best of" or "Year in review of (fill in your topic of interest here)" lists on subjects like new restaurants, highlights in sports, or even best new wines or beers (!) for the year. Somewhat (well, OK, barely) related to this idea, self the loser did find a very high-level, "year in review"-ish "industry" video off YT, from the Brewers Association.

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BTW, pointless sidebar [among many from 3CM]: this bit from the video sounded curious.

"...in general, distributed sales are slow, with distribution increasingly competitive and challenging. That competition is extended to government affairs, with certain liquor products seeking changes to longstanding tax and regulatory structures. The BA has joined a coalition against these changes, which would put further pressure on craft shelf space."

I didn't know what this meant, until going to teh interwebz and doing what seemed like a reasonable search with this string of terms:

lobbying craft beer shipping distribution 2022 tax structure

One particular hit came up from the Brewing Industry Guide page, with this passage:

“Opposition to Spirits-Based RTD Tax Equivalency Distilled spirits are generally taxed at a higher rate than beer at the federal and local levels, even when it comes to products of equal alcohol content. Thus, the spirits industry is pushing for what it calls “tax equivalency”—arguing, for example, that the excise taxes should be the same for a 5 percent ABV hard seltzer produced by a brewery and a 5 percent ABV spirit-based canned cocktail produced by a distillery. The BA is united with other beer trade groups, such as the Beer Institute and the National Beer Wholesalers Association, in opposing this tax equivalency at all levels.”

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