The Holy Ark of all area beer drinkers has been caught in a web of government red tape for months now, but, hopefully, fingers crossed, Hail Mary Full of Grace, the stuff might be on shelves soon.
The backstory (according to Crain’s Cleveland Business): 12 Northeast Ohio breweries had the genius idea of putting together a 12 beer sampler of their products. The tasty collaboration was supposed to be ready for Cleveland Beer Week in October. 1,100 to 1,400 cases were put together and stored at the Heidelberg Distribution Co., ready for the greenlight.
Enter the government, state and federal, who threw up as many road blocks as a Baghdad freeway: licensing issues, tax problems, distribution concerns, the works.
This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2011.
Leave it to the government to screw things up. And people wonder why Ohio is going down the tubes–the government has it’s hands in too much stuff.
This beer should be chilled cold by now,
How we going to partake of this great sampler?