For all the debate over budget priorities and why Dayton's lockout failed, it may have been more simple than we know. Maybe it was all about the beer. We the public learned that for lack of a $ 30 piece of paper, purpose unknown and/or unexplainable, you cannot sell beer in Minnesota. Even if you accidentally overpay it. We also learned that our shut down State government providing essential services only somehow retained enough muscle to enforce orders clearing store shelves of that beer. And even Lori Sturdevant couldn't explain it.
A little bit of beer let me down, spoiled my plans to shut down
I had the GOP ready to back down, but a little bit of beer let me down.
When Republicans had done all that they could, Minnesota was saved by one of the littlest things - beer - that Theodore Hamm in his wisdom had once brewed in St. Paul.
Whatever DID happen to Hamm Brewing, anyway? And what happened to Hamm Island?
Posted by: J. Ewing | Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 08:14 AM
"Beer - the cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems."
H. Simpson
Posted by: The Big Stink | Monday, July 18, 2011 at 07:09 AM