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    "Since MillerCoors sponsor WeFest, I bet Anheuser-Busch is ready to jump to sponsor the event... MN government going into shutdown is causing major problems with beer drinking, hunting, fishing, camping, etc."

    http://finance-commerce.com/2011/07/...e-to-shutdown/

    Brewer disputes shutdown-related snafu claim



    Add Minnesota’s beer supply to the casualties of the state government shutdown.

    MillerCoors could pull its brands from the state within days, and some bar and restaurant owners could run out of alcoholic beverages — because they failed to get state licenses renewed before the July 1 start of the shutdown.

    MillerCoors, the nation No. 2 brewer behind Anheuser-Busch, has days to get most of its beer brands out of Minnesota stores and bars, said Doug Neville, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. That is because MillerCoors accidentally overpaid the $1,170 fee — $30 for each of 39 brands — that it needed to spend for its three-year beer brand registration license. The situation prevented the company from having the license renewed.

    Company spokesman Julian Green says MillerCoors met state laws and submitted the correct payment by June 30. MillerCoors officials are considering all options, including legal ones, to continue selling in Minnesota, where the company holds 38 percent of the market, Green said.

    Neville said there is nothing the Public Safety Department can do for the company. The 10 alcohol enforcement workers who handle licensing are laid off, along with more than 20,000 other state workers.

    “There is nothing in the statute that allows us to make accommodation for anyone,” Neville said. The Public Safety Department has asked MillerCoors to submit plans for pulling its product from stores and bars in the state.

    Brands affected include Miller High Life, Coors Light and Foster’s Lager Beer. (See below for details.) Not included on the list are brands from Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based Leinenkugel Brewing Co., which is part of MillerCoors but handles its registration separately.

    Neville knew of no other beer, wine or liquor brand that is in the same predicament as MillerCoors. Anheuser-Busch is up for a Minnesota license renewal in October.

    Liquor store owners may not be hurt per se if Miller brands go off the shelves. Jeremiah Cich, owner of the Liquor Barrel on Excelsior Boulevard in St. Louis Park, thinks customers who like Miller brands will be annoyed but will not drive to Wisconsin to get their beer. “They’ll probably switch to something else,” he said.

    Out of the thousands of Minnesota bars and liquor stores, a few hundred are in a similar licensing pickle. Their alcohol supplies are dwindling because they were unable to get beer purchasing licenses renewed before the shutdown. Out of the 10,000 license-holders in the state, 300 have licenses that are expired, a number that will grow to more than 400 next month, Neville said.

    Two weeks have now gone by since Gov. Mark Dayton, a DFLer, and the Republican-controlled state Legislature failed to reach an agreement on closing a two-year, $5 billion budget deficit, sparking the only state government shutdown under way in the country.

    The state shutdown will affect sales of 39 MillerCoors brands:

    Blue Moon Pale Moon

    Coors Banquet

    Coors Light

    Coors Light 3.2

    Foster’s Lager Beer

    Foster’s Premium Ale

    Grolsch Amber Ale

    Grolsch Blonde Lager

    Grolsch Light Lager

    Grolsch Premium Lager

    Hamm’s

    Hamm’s Genuine Draft Style

    Hamm’s Special Light

    Henry Weinhard’s Dark

    Henry Weinhard’s Hefeweizen

    Henry Weinhard’s Pale Ale

    Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve

    Icehouse Beer

    Keystone Light Beer 3.2

    Killians Irish Red 3.2

    MGD Light 64

    Mickey’s Ice Ale

    Mickey’s Malt Liquor

    Miller Genuine Draft

    Miller High Life 12/16 oz. can

    Miller High Life Ice

    Miller High Life Light 12 oz. can

    Miller Lite 3.2%

    Miller Lite Beer

    Milwaukee’s Best #1

    Milwaukee’s Best Ice

    Milwaukee’s Best Light #1 3.2

    Molson Canadian

    Molson Canadian Light

    Molson Golden

    Molson Ice

    Molson XXX

    Olde English 800 Malt Liquor

    Sparks Light
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  • #2
    The distributors are dumb-asses for not seeing this coming and renewing before-hand.

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    • #3
      These politicians in Minnesota got to be the dumbest bunch in the US. They even closed down the lottery. That was a cash cow for them and at least they were getting some money from the "moocher class" with that!!!

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      • #4
        How much will all of this cost MN in lot tax revenues? These dumbasses just don't get it. And neither do the nut jobs who keep putting them into office. At least they don't live in CA where the constituents can't ever seem to understand "We're out of money and there's nothing left to spend."

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        • #5
          Besides Killians I don't see anything wrong with that list
          There is a cure...http://phoenixtears.ca/

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          • #6
            Originally posted by MossyMO View Post

            Olde English 800 Malt Liquor
            Why would anyone miss this dreck of a beer?

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            • #7
              Change we can believe in.
              Smoke it.. and they will come!

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              • #8
                what is a DFLer?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by gmotoman View Post
                  what is a DFLer?
                  Apparently... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneso...er–Labor_Party

                  Never heard of 'em.
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                  • #10
                    Keep in mind our Governor Dayton(can you say trust fund baby) was the only US Senator to close his office down for about a week, claiming some sort of "terrorist threat". The guy has issues, and can not cook for himself. His house keeper and personal chef were deemed essential services....... Apparently his nannies growing up never showed him how to make peanut butter sandwiches, use a can opener, or a vacuum cleaner.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Adiochiro3 View Post
                      How much will all of this cost MN in lot tax revenues? These dumbasses just don't get it. And neither do the nut jobs who keep putting them into office. At least they don't live in CA where the constituents can't ever seem to understand "We're out of money and there's nothing left to spend."
                      Ahmen - Now with the feds about to F things up even more this could be a fun year for sure
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                      • #12
                        Whats even harder to believe is that a London based company Sab-Miller is distributing 39 beers under miller-coors and over 150 other brands world wide. Inbev/bud the Belgian co. has an even bigger monopoly on beer with over 200 brands it owns Worldwide.
                        "Because without beer, things do not seem to go as well"

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                        • #13
                          Move to Washintgon..... We got lots of booze AND rain
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                          • #14
                            Sounds like Dayton folded on the government shutdown.........

                            The moral of the story is...."Don't mess with a Mudduck's beer"!!!!

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by MossyMO View Post
                              ...MillerCoors, the nation No. 2 brewer behind Anheuser-Busch, has days to get most of its beer brands out of Minnesota stores and bars, said Doug Neville, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. That is because MillerCoors accidentally overpaid the $1,170 fee — $30 for each of 39 brands — that it needed to spend for its three-year beer brand registration license. The situation prevented the company from having the license renewed.
                              Let me get this straight. The brewer paid too much and therefore they get the boot.

                              Man, our country is seriously fucked up. A little common sense goes a long ways...but then, what do I know...I actually stop spending when I run out of money.
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