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Expanded Sales for MA Farmer and Pub Brewers Gets a Hearing

A hearing has been scheduled for Senate Bill 478 which seeks to expand the sale of products by farmer breweries and pub brewers. Read More

Expanded Sales for MA Farmer and Pub Brewers Sees Action

Moving through multiple committees, Senate Bill 478 seeks to expand the sale of products by farmer breweries and pub brewers. Read More

Manufacturer Sales Bill Floated in MA

H.B. 287 seeks to allow manufacturer licensees able to sell alcoholic beverages they produce for off-premises consumption to sell alcoholic beverages in kegs, casks, barrels, cans or bottles for consumption off the manufacturer’s premises. Read More

MA Bill Addresses Pub Brewer Sales

House Bill 401 provides for wholesale and retail sales of pub breweries. Read More

Happy Hour Legislation Intro’d in Massachusetts

S.B. 157 provides for happy hours in the Commonwealth. Read More

Expanded Sales for MA Farmer and Pub Brewers Considered

Senate Bill 478 seeks to expand the sale of products by farmer breweries and pub brewers. Read More

Massachusetts Tax Increase Proposed

S.B. 1860 seeks to increase the excise tax on all alcohol, with the beer rate proposed at $10.73/barrel (current rate is $3.30/barrel). Read More

Excise Tax Would Double Under MA Proposal

House Bill 2861 seeks to double the excise tax on alcoholic beverages. Read More

ABV on Menus Proposal Surfaces in MA

House Bill 304 would require all licensees for alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises to list the alcohol by volume for each beer selection on their menu. Read More

Franchise MA Provision Suffers Setback

A Commonwealth of Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled that the application of the state’s franchise termination provisions, which were amended in 2021 to allow breweries to terminate wholesalers in the absence of cause, in a case involving Atlantic Importing …Read More

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Pete Johnson

State & Regulatory Affairs Manager

Pete Johnson serves as the State & Regulatory Affairs Manager for the Brewers Association (BA). He joined the BA at its inception in 2005, having previously worked as Programs Director for the Brewers Association of America. Before coming to the small brewing industry in 2001, Pete worked for 14 years with both state and federal elected officials in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

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