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Excise Tax Would Double Under MA Proposal

House Bill 2861 seeks to double the excise tax on alcoholic beverages. Read More

ABV on Menus Proposal Surfaces in MA

House Bill 304 would require all licensees for alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises to list the alcohol by volume for each beer selection on their menu. Read More

Franchise MA Provision Suffers Setback

A Commonwealth of Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled that the application of the state’s franchise termination provisions, which were amended in 2021 to allow breweries to terminate wholesalers in the absence of cause, in a case involving Atlantic Importing …Read More

Tax Increase Floated in Massachusetts

House Bill 3101 / Senate Bill 931 seek to double the excise tax on alcoholic beverages. Read More

Pub Brewer Bill Considered in MA

H.B. 4590 provides that a pub brewer may sell malt beverages or malt beverage products produced by the pub brewery or produced for the pub brewery and sold under the pub brewery name: (1) at wholesale to any person holding …Read More

MA Pub Brewery Sales ill Up for Hearing

Scheduled for a hearing, House Bill 475 provides for pub breweries to sell up to 50,000 gallons of beer at wholesale and for off-premises retail sales. Read More

Trade Practices Addresssed in MA Legislation

H.B. 453 provides that no licensee shall give or permit to be given money or any other thing of substantial value in any effort to induce any person to persuade or influence any other person to purchase, or contract for …Read More

Pub Brewery Sales Addressed in MA

H.B. 475 relates to the selling of malt beverages or malt beverage products produced by a pub brewery. Read More

MA Farmer Brewer Sales Addressed

House Bill 940/S.B. 526 expands the sale of products by farmer breweries. Read More

Tax Increase Considered in MA

S.B. 179 seeks to increase alcohol excise taxes. Read More

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Pete Johnson

State & Regulatory Affairs Manager

Pete Johnson serves as the State & Regulatory Affairs Manager for the Brewers Association (BA). He joined the BA at its inception in 2005, having previously worked as Programs Director for the Brewers Association of America. Before coming to the small brewing industry in 2001, Pete worked for 14 years with both state and federal elected officials in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

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