Small Victory for Craft Brews in Texas...

[Pdeezy]

I saw this article a few days ago, and forgot to post it up here. I didn't see if anyone else had posted it.

Court says Texas rules defining beer violate First Amendment | Local News | News from Fo...

Here's a longer right up on it...

Brewed and Never Battered

To summarize, the ruling has the following effects:

1.TABC cannot prohibit you from telling customers or advertising where they can buy your products
2.TABC cannot require you to label your products by their definition of “beer” and “ale”
3.TABC cannot prohibit you from advertising the strength of your products by prohibiting words like “strong”, “prewar strength”, “full strength”, etc

 

[hopsalot]

hell yeah, I did not know Jester King was going to sue over the this, really good news for Texas!

 

[Taypo]

We were talking about this earlier, JK rocks...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/jester-king-craft-brewery-austin-tx-has-some-balls-276535/