by Associated Press Published: January 14,2013
Tags: alcohol, beer, brewery, city, community development, craft beer, drink, festival, microbrewery, tourism, tourist, visitor
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 [...] [...]
Once Mississippi’s cap on beer alcohol content is raised Sunday at midnight, craft beer enthusiasts won’t have to wait long to get their hands on newly legal beer. After multiple tries, the Legislature approved and Gov. Phil Bryant signed this past session a bill that increases from 5 percent to 8 percent the alcohol-by-weight limit [...] [...]
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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