Possibly The Worst Time To Talk About Beer

Capitol Currents:

Last summer a new interpretation by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission put the brakes on homemade beer competitions. The ruling caused an uproar in the homebrew community. Democratic Representative Mike Schaufler proposed a bill that would seek to address some of those issues. And that bill, HB 2642, was scheduled for a hearing...at perhaps the worst possible time to rally the beer-loving faithful:  8 a.m. on the morning after the Super Bowl.

But it was not to be. The bill was yanked from the schedule of the House Business and Labor Committee with no new date announced. In truth, it probably has less to do with the unfortunate timing of the hearing than it does with the apparent coalescing in the homebrew community around a competing measure, Senate Bill 444. That bill is tentatively scheduled for a hearing on February 10th in the Senate Business, Transportation
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