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![]() ![]() Orlando added that the Brewers Guild of New Jersey would advocate for ending a requirement that patrons must tour a brewing facility before on-site sales can begin. That’s something both the Brewers Association and the Beer Institute - national trade groups representing brewery businesses - also plan to lobby for. In addition to franchise law reform and maintaining self-distribution rights, Krill said the group also plans to advocate for continued excise tax relief included in the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act, which is currently set to sunset at the end of 2019. “This new organization is for the folks who want to get bigger and grow more of the production side and distribution side of what they’re doing,” Orlando told Brewbound. Until last week, Orlando had served as a government affairs liaison for the New Jersey Brewers Association since 2010. In order to represent those breweries’ interests, the guild has hired Eric Orlando, the vice president of government and public affairs firm Kaufman Zita Group, as its first executive director. “I can’t emphasize enough that this is not supposed to be another competing organization but rather representing different interests.” “This hasn’t been done in a vacuum,” Krill said. founder Eric Wallace, who served as board chairman for the Colorado Brewers Guild last year. The formation of the Brewers Guild of New Jersey has been months in the making, Krill said, adding that its members discussed strategies for starting a guild with Left Hand Brewing Co. Five months after fracturing, those groups agreed to recombine after former Colorado Brewers Guild director John Carlson stepped down. In 2016, 14 beer companies defected from the Colorado Brewers Guild to form Craft Beer Colorado, citing the inclusion of Anheuser-Busch InBev-owned Breckenridge Brewery on the group’s board as one of the reasons for splintering. This isn’t the first time a state-based brewery trade group has splintered. Those breweries account for more than 75 percent of the craft beer produced in New Jersey, according to a press release. It’s founding members include Cape May, Flying Fish Brewing Company, Kane Brewing Company, Carton Brewing Company, Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant, Riverhorse Brewing Company, Cricket Hill Brewing Company, Beach Haus Brewing Company and Spellbound Brewing Company. Membership in the Brewers Guild of New Jersey will be open to state-licensed craft breweries and brewpubs that sold at least 2,000 barrels of beer the previous year. ![]()
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