According to The Badger Beer Report, a trio of Wisconsin lawmakers have a bill that may do away with a 2023 alcohol law rewrite that requires out-of-state breweries to pay for a costly permit to sell small amounts of their product at Wisconsin beer festivals.
The 2023 law required all out-of-state breweries to purchase a $1,000-plus permit in order to serve beer at even one event, like the Great Taste of the Midwest, a popular Madison beer fest that brings numerous breweries from across the country to one of the nation’s longest-running beer festivals.
Act 73 came into being last year and saw small breweries decide not to attend the Great Taste of the Midwest due to the cost. The new bill would allow licensed beer festivals to receive limited amounts of beer from out-of-state breweries for an event, and the breweries would not need a shipper’s permit…