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Small Breweries Want Distribution Rights
(IRN)-The beers you'll never see advertised on the Super Bowl are closer to a victory in Illinois. A bill allowing craft brewers, producing fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer per year, to distribute their own product has passed the Illinois Senate. A barrel equals 31 gallons.

The bill, which now covers only two brewers, is intended as a response to a distribution suit filed by Anheuser-Busch. The idea, according to supporters, is to protect the smallest breweries while keeping giants such as A-B from self-distributorship.

The two breweries which are affected are Argus in Chicago and Big Muddy in Murphysboro.

S.B. 754 has passed the Senate, 48-1-3.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
05 04 11 by Newsroom
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