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Craft beer festival set for March

Associated Press — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:20:53 +0000

TUPELO — This city will host a craft beer festival with samples of at least 60 different beers. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the March 2 festival in comes about a year after the state enacted a law increasing the legal limit of alcohol by weight in beer. The law opened the state for [...]

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Craft beer lobby now to push for ‘growler’ sales

Associated Press — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:52:59 +0000

JACKSON — Buoyed by recent success in changing Mississippi’s beer and brewing regulations, the craft beer lobby was set to push next year to change laws to allow the sale of “growlers,” large containers of fresh draft beer to go. But upon review, it’s already allowed. And some gourmet beer outlets already have been selling [...]

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Coast aldermen give go-ahead to beer brewery

Associated Press — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:45:01 +0000

OCEAN SPRINGS — The Ocean Springs Board of Aldermen has voted unanimously to approve a small, specialty brewery for the city. The Sun Herald reports it will be in an outbuilding on the property of Broome’s Grocery and will produce 1,500 to 3,000 barrels a year beginning in November. Crooked Letter Brewing Co. will sell [...]

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Supervisors reject plans for Crooked Letter brewery

Associated Press — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:36:10 +0000

VANCLEAVE — Jackson County supervisors have rejected plans for a brewery in Vancleave. The owners of Crooked Letter Brewing Co. had sought a special exception permit to brew beer in Vancleave. In April, the county’s planning commission voted to give Wanda and Paul Blacksmith a special exception to build a brewing barn to manufacture beer [...]

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Will governor sign or veto craft beer bill?

Associated Press — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:15:42 +0000

JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant is not yet saying whether he’ll sign or veto a bill that would allow the sale of stronger beer in the state, including some craft brews that have been unavailable because of current regulations. Bryant will review the measure after he gets it from the Legislature, his spokesman, Mick Bullock, [...]

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House passes beer bill; held for more debate

Associated Press — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:38:18 +0000

JACKSON — A bill that passed the Mississippi House yesterday could lead to the sale of stronger beer. House Bill 1422 would raise the allowable alcohol by weight on beer sold in the state from 5 percent alcohol by weight to 8 percent. Mississippi has the lowest alcohol cap for beer in the country. Advocates [...]

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Microbrewery gets expansion funding from USDA

Associated Press — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:17:16 +0000

KILN — A microbrewery that started with a Christmas homebrew kit and saw its first year swamped by Hurricane Katrina is getting a $740,000 interest-free expansion loan that will let it quintuple production over the next four years. It’s part of Mark and Leslie Hendersons’ $3-million plan to boost brewing capacity at Lazy Magnolia Brewing [...]

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