Post by Bob McGill on Mar 6, 2007 21:07:43 GMT -5
Message from Charlie P.
Dear Texas AHA Member,
As a homebrewer and craft beer enthusiast, we wanted to alert you to legislation recently introduced in the Texas legislature and ask for your active support of this bill.
Follow this link to a press release from The Friends of Texas microbreweries, a coalition of Texas craft breweries and beer enthusiasts, led by Brock Wagner of Houston’s Saint Arnold Brewing Co. and avid supporter of the AHA and its members, with details of House Bill 1926, allowing microbreweries to sell limited quantities of their beer on-premise to patrons.
Please take the time to read it and the following information prepared by Brock Wagner, and then please contact the state legislators listed below.
Please pass this message on to your homebrew club members, beer enthusiast friends and others who enjoy great Texas beer and ask them to reach out to these legislators as well.
It would be helpful if you could email us to let us know you have contacted these legislators: pete@brewersassociation.org
Thank you for your support,
Charlie Papazian
President, Brewers Association
Gary Glass
Director, American Homebrewers Association
Change the World and Make it Better
House Bill 1926, our bill that will allow Texas microbreweries to sell a limited amount of beer directly to the public, was filed in the Texas House of Representatives Monday by Rep. Jessica Farrar (her district includes our brewery). Now we need a hearing, and more importantly, WE NEED YOUR HELP!
The bill (HB 1926 in the lingo) has been sent to the Licensing & Administrative Procedures committee. We need to let these people know that Texas beer lovers care about this bill.
Here is what we are asking you to do.
Email the representatives below. State the following items (please restate in your own words):
•Reference HB 1926.
•You are a supporter of Texas microbreweries.
•It would enhance your visit to Texas microbreweries if you could
purchase a pint or six pack, just like you can when you visit
microbreweries in other states.
•It will make you even more likely to purchase the beers of Texas
microbreweries when you are at stores and restaurants.
•It will make Texas microbreweries stronger.
•Such a change in the law would make it more likely for more
microbreweries to open in Texas.
You can send out such an email in less than 5 minutes. Even better, put this in a letter and mail it to the representatives.
Following are the members of the Licensing & Administrative Procedures Committee:
Kino Flores, Chairman (district: the Valley, Hidalgo)
Charlie Geren, Vice Chair (district: NW Ft. Worth)
Carl Isett, Budget & Oversight Chair (district: most of Lubbock)
Tony Goolsby (district: a swath of Dallas)
Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton (district: Orange, Vidor, east Texas)
Delwin Jones (district: areas surrounding Lubbock)
Borris Miles (district: Houston south inner loop and just south of 610)
"Chente" Quintanilla (district: east of El Paso)
Senfronia Thompson (district: NW Houston)
Etiquette:
In the mailing address, they are "The Honorable [Full Name]"
In the salutation, they are "Representative [Last Name]"
If you are curious about whose district you live in, click here, but you don't need to live in any of these reps' districts in order to contact them.
from Bob: I will try to add the EMail links. I heard Spec's has already limited its sell of Saint Arnold's because of pressure from distributors for their support of this bill. If you want Texas Breweries to survive longer than most do, you need to make sure you representative is in agreement.
Dear Texas AHA Member,
As a homebrewer and craft beer enthusiast, we wanted to alert you to legislation recently introduced in the Texas legislature and ask for your active support of this bill.
Follow this link to a press release from The Friends of Texas microbreweries, a coalition of Texas craft breweries and beer enthusiasts, led by Brock Wagner of Houston’s Saint Arnold Brewing Co. and avid supporter of the AHA and its members, with details of House Bill 1926, allowing microbreweries to sell limited quantities of their beer on-premise to patrons.
Please take the time to read it and the following information prepared by Brock Wagner, and then please contact the state legislators listed below.
Please pass this message on to your homebrew club members, beer enthusiast friends and others who enjoy great Texas beer and ask them to reach out to these legislators as well.
It would be helpful if you could email us to let us know you have contacted these legislators: pete@brewersassociation.org
Thank you for your support,
Charlie Papazian
President, Brewers Association
Gary Glass
Director, American Homebrewers Association
Change the World and Make it Better
House Bill 1926, our bill that will allow Texas microbreweries to sell a limited amount of beer directly to the public, was filed in the Texas House of Representatives Monday by Rep. Jessica Farrar (her district includes our brewery). Now we need a hearing, and more importantly, WE NEED YOUR HELP!
The bill (HB 1926 in the lingo) has been sent to the Licensing & Administrative Procedures committee. We need to let these people know that Texas beer lovers care about this bill.
Here is what we are asking you to do.
Email the representatives below. State the following items (please restate in your own words):
•Reference HB 1926.
•You are a supporter of Texas microbreweries.
•It would enhance your visit to Texas microbreweries if you could
purchase a pint or six pack, just like you can when you visit
microbreweries in other states.
•It will make you even more likely to purchase the beers of Texas
microbreweries when you are at stores and restaurants.
•It will make Texas microbreweries stronger.
•Such a change in the law would make it more likely for more
microbreweries to open in Texas.
You can send out such an email in less than 5 minutes. Even better, put this in a letter and mail it to the representatives.
Following are the members of the Licensing & Administrative Procedures Committee:
Kino Flores, Chairman (district: the Valley, Hidalgo)
Charlie Geren, Vice Chair (district: NW Ft. Worth)
Carl Isett, Budget & Oversight Chair (district: most of Lubbock)
Tony Goolsby (district: a swath of Dallas)
Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton (district: Orange, Vidor, east Texas)
Delwin Jones (district: areas surrounding Lubbock)
Borris Miles (district: Houston south inner loop and just south of 610)
"Chente" Quintanilla (district: east of El Paso)
Senfronia Thompson (district: NW Houston)
Etiquette:
In the mailing address, they are "The Honorable [Full Name]"
In the salutation, they are "Representative [Last Name]"
If you are curious about whose district you live in, click here, but you don't need to live in any of these reps' districts in order to contact them.
from Bob: I will try to add the EMail links. I heard Spec's has already limited its sell of Saint Arnold's because of pressure from distributors for their support of this bill. If you want Texas Breweries to survive longer than most do, you need to make sure you representative is in agreement.