Battle Brews Over Craft Beer Production Caps

INDIANAPOLIS – Todd Antz is growing sales at his family-owned liquor store in New Albany by specializing in craft beers, but stocking an Indiana brew considered among the best on the planet has become a problem.

Demand for Dark Lord Russian Imperial stout — or any beer with a Three Floyds Brewing Co. label –- is so intense that Antz limits customers to a six-bottle ration.

Some of Three Floyds’ cult-like followers accuse the brewery of artificially limiting production, but Antz, owner of The Keg, says the Muenster-based company isn’t to blame.

The scarcity, he said, is due to laws that cap craft beer production in Indiana. Three Floyds sends about 40 percent of its beer to neighboring states as a result.

Antz thinks raising the cap would be a good thing for him and the state’s fast growing craft beer industry, but a proposal to more than double the limits is meeting resistance from others in the distribution chain… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT GREENSBURG DAILY NEWS