USA, MI: Craft Brewing Legislation changes allow to double microbrewery limits

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder recently signed new legislation aiming to help expand the state’s craft beer industry, MI News 26 reported on March 27.

The nine-bill package doubles the amount of beer that microbrewers can produce, from 30,000 barrels per year to 60,000. It also allows brewpub owners to have an interest in five other pubs, up from the previous two, so long as the combined barrel production is under 18,000 barrels per year.

Additionally, small microbreweries that produce less than 1,000 barrels of beer per year are now able to distribute their product directly to retailers under certain conditions.

The package of laws are now Public Acts 42 thru 50 of 2014.

28 March, 2014