It’s amazing how some really important things just slip by you. All this time I figured that the legislators were basically d***ing off and running up the electric bill they actually did accomplish a couple of important things and one of them would have went by me unnoticed if not for Bill Schneider’s legislative scorecard.
HB 400, AN ACT REVISING THE ALCOHOL CONTENT OF BEER, and no oh puritan hearts, not downward- but upward. Yes, we are now up to 14%, almost double what it was before. This led me to a little light beer math. Even if you are hung up on beer calories you can chuck the “Miller Lite” and drink a glass of 14% Montana micro brew that actually tastes good. You get twice the kick and and about the same calories from one micro than you would from two of the old “taste great-less filling” swill meisters.
The economy might be in the tank and the legislative session was the usual collection of buffoons micro managing their little flea circus but they did get a couple things right; this could be the dawning of a Montana micro brewers renaissance and you can now get to river from a bridge without being castrated on a barb wire fence.
Cause for celebration! Harvest Moon Brewing, Belt, Montana.
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Congratulations! Let’s hear it for beer.
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