Two years ago, Greensboro businessman Marty Kotis had an idea. He’d start a brewery to complement his handful of restaurant properties in town. The Pig Pounder Brewery (named for a beloved beer from a now-defunct restaurant he set out to recreate) now occupies a 3,700 sq-ft building and is ready to produce five microbrews for local customers.
But those people will not be customers at Kotis’ restaurants, as he envisioned. Because of a post-Prohibition law, the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) says it cannot issue him the necessary permits to serve his own beer at his own restaurants.
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What the hell is he thinking, wanting to work and make a living. Individuals simply will not be allowed to sustain themselves unless they bow to the government's rule first. The though of being self-sufficient simply cannot be allowed. To bastardize a line from the show “Babylon 5”, “The government is father, the government is mother.”
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Really. :)
DeleteInteresting. There is a microbrewery in New Bern called Beer Army that has a retail shop and pub and is currently building a brewery in nearby Trenton, NC. In fact I think the brewery is now open.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Have you gone to the pub?
DeleteI never have Brock but I know folks that have. It's kind of a retail store and bar as I understand it. It's located just east of New Bern on US 70 in a strip shopping center off of the west bound service road just past Airport Road.
DeleteThanks.
Deletethose employed in the task of enforcing regulations never even understand the industry they are supposed to be regulating (more restrictions = more accidents +increased costs to business, anyway) so what makes anyone think that those writing the laws that lead to regulation, understand the consequences of said legislation? (these are people who can't make it in the real world to begin with)
ReplyDeleteOr do they just do it in purpose (evil) because the fascist inside them convinces them they are doing it for the greater good and it's satisfies their need to control everything in everyone else's life ?
actually, I don't really care, it just needs to stop.
Or they went broke trying to do the same thing and want everyone else to fail.
DeleteWhere do you think building inspectors come from? Failed contractors more than you would believe.
Failed contractors more than you would believe.
DeleteDidn't know that, but makes sense.
Hey come here illegally and get free shit for breaking the law, but don't you dare sell beer in your own establishment. What is wrong with this guy? Oh wait...... What is wrong with him? Same thing we all have is common that is wrong, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT!!
ReplyDeleteThe tree of liberty grows from the blood of tyrants.
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The tree of liberty grows from the blood of tyrants.
DeleteIt's withering currently.