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Shutdown forces MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves

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Shutdown forces MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves | StarTribune.com

Miller Time in Minnesota is over -- until lawmakers reach a budget deal.

The state's government shutdown, now in its 13th day, will soon force MillerCoors to pull its beer from Minnesota liquor stores, bars and restaurants. A state official says the law requires the company to stop selling products like Coors Light, Miller Lite and Blue Moon imminently because their brand licenses expired.

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Blue Moon Pale Moon Belgian Style Pale Ale, 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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*lies on floor, sobbing*
 
The run to the line just got a little longer.
 
Objective Voice said:
Simon,
Imagine if that were a line for gas? :shock:
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Where I live, there're many dry counties. And, the run to the line is such a ritual in those counties that some people have even created T-Shirts to let there friends and neighbors know that they are going and willing to take orders. Now, for MI, they have to run all the way to the state line, (as if it were Sunday).
 
Simon W. Moon said:
Where I live, there're many dry counties. And, the run to the line is such a ritual in those counties that some people have even created T-Shirts to let there friends and neighbors know that they are going and willing to take orders. Now, for MI, they have to run all the way to the state line, (as if it were Sunday).
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Neville says MillerCoors must remove the beer because they did not renew their brand label registration with the state before the shutdown began. By law, brewers must renew those registrations -- which show the label on each brand of beer -- every three years.
The company tried to renew in mid-June, but the process got delayed when they wrote a check for too much money. Green said they sent in a new check, which the state received on June 27, but nonetheless got a letter three days later saying their brand licenses had expired.
“We believe we’ve followed all applicable state laws on this," Green said.
Neville said his agency has asked MillerCoors to develop a plan to remove the product from shelves and cease their distribution. He added that Anheuser-Busch will face a similar problem if the shutdown extends to October.
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must suck being the person who fubared this
 
Prime example of too damn much government, causing a business to lose millions and millions of dollars, at who knows what effect on employees, over a trivial technical problem with a license.
 
Goshin said:
Prime example of too damn much government, causing a business to lose millions and millions of dollars, at who knows what effect on employees, over a trivial technical problem with a license.
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really? It seems to be a system that has worked prior to this, and an issue largely based on the mistakes and inactions of Coor's
 
Goshin said:
Prime example of too damn much government, causing a business to lose millions and millions of dollars, at who knows what effect on employees, over a trivial technical problem with a license.
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Getting a license to sell stuff is too much govt?

I am pretty anti-gubmint myself, but to me, that seems well within the legitimate confines of local govt.
 
...over a trivial technical problem with a license.
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Notice the emphasis? Coors tried to pay already, accidently made out a check for too much, had to send another... for that they have to pull stuff off the shelves at enormous cost to the company? During a time when the economy is already wobbly?

If I'm not mistaken Coors has to be USDA certified already, doesn't it? So the state license serves what purpose other than revenue-generation....?
 
Goshin said:
Notice the emphasis? Coors tried to pay already, accidently made out a check for too much, had to send another... for that they have to pull stuff off the shelves at enormous cost to the company? During a time when the economy is already wobbly?

If I'm not mistaken Coors has to be USDA certified already, doesn't it? So the state license serves what purpose other than revenue-generation....?
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I think that the USDA license may be for their production facilities. And the state license is for their distribution efforts.
But idk
 
Goshin said:
Notice the emphasis? Coors tried to pay already, accidently made out a check for too much, had to send another... for that they have to pull stuff off the shelves at enormous cost to the company? During a time when the economy is already wobbly?

If I'm not mistaken Coors has to be USDA certified already, doesn't it? So the state license serves what purpose other than revenue-generation....?
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States Rights. (tm)
 
As a resident of Minnesota, I must say that this would be the first time in the past two weeks that I miss the government. Apparently if this continues into October, Budweiser gets the boot too.

I don't miss it too much yet. Until it's Labatt Blue. Then I'll be inciting a riot.
 
rocket88 said:
As a resident of Minnesota, I must say that this would be the first time in the past two weeks that I miss the government. Apparently if this continues into October, Budweiser gets the boot too.

I don't miss it too much yet. Until it's Labatt Blue. Then I'll be inciting a riot.
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St. Paul Beer Party.

Move over, Boston and your stupid tea.
 
Deuce said:
St. Paul Beer Party.

Move over, Boston and your stupid tea.
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I guarantee you that no beer would be spilled or wasted at a St. Paul Beer Party. Having been to a few of them, that is...
 
rocket88 said:
I guarantee you that no beer would be spilled or wasted at a St. Paul Beer Party. Having been to a few of them, that is...
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Who said anything about spilling? That would be alcohol abuse. Instead, we'd get a bunch of beer together and drink it all.

Near a river or something.

.... so, basically like any other day of the week.
 
Not surprisingly, very shortly after this side-effect becomes public, the government of Minnesota takes a big step towards reconciling the issue. :D

Rest stops? Parks? Real estate license testing? Pssh.

But **** with our beer...
 
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So, let me see if I have this straight: The state has no money, so it's been shut down and can't renew the brewers' licenses, so they can't sell beer any more (for a while anyway) and so can't pay taxes to the state because it has no money to renew their license.

No, no, that's too absurd. There has to be something I'm not getting.
 
danarhea said:
I'm not sobbing. That beer is crap. LOL.
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I dunno... I happen to like Blue Moon at least... which is in that product line aparently.
 
Dittohead not! said:
So, let me see if I have this straight: The state has no money, so it's been shut down and can't renew the brewers' licenses, so they can't sell beer any more (for a while anyway) and so can't pay taxes to the state because it has no money to renew their license.

No, no, that's too absurd. There has to be something I'm not getting.
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We shut our lottery down too. The one thing absolutely guaranteed to be profitable for the state.
 
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