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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 www.nabca.org • OR: Merkley Helps Introduce Legislation to End Band on Shipping Alcohol • SC: South Carolina Distilleries Plan Growth With Passage of New Liquor Laws TODAY’S • Tokyo’s restaurateurs rail against alcohol ban as Covid measures bite HIGHLIGHTS • Alcohol use disorder has more stigma surrounding it than do other mental health conditions • Global alcohol sales plummet 15.8bn litres in 2020 CONTROL STATE NEWS NABCA NEWS MI: Michigan Liquor Control Commission Warns Visit NABCA’s COVID-19 Resource page for updates Parents of Underage Drinking Dangers During regarding policy changes that effect on- and off- premise retail operations. Prom and Graduation Season The Collection: An Alcohol Research Summary Press Release (formerly Annotated Bibliography) A comprehensive By the Michigan Liquor Control Commission overview of the latest scientific evidence on May 18, 2021 important topics related to alcohol policy. May 18, 2021 - With prom and graduation season Sharing Solutions E-Newsletter! A platform for the here, the Michigan Liquor Control Commission NABCA community to share successful plementations (MLCC) urges parents to talk with their teens and lessons learned about your good work. about the dangers of underage drinking. Parents are the number one influencer over their kids ADDITIONAL LINKS about making good choices by not consuming alcohol. Visit NABCA’s website for information on: • Control State Agency Information “During this time of celebration, it’s tempting for • Doing Business in Control States our high school students to consume alcohol, • NABCA News especially when they missed out on these memorable events last year with COVID-19 pandemic restrictions,” said MLCC Chair Pat Gagliardi. "Parents and other family members also need to be aware that they face severe consequences if they provide alcohol to minors, along with the fact they are endangering the lives of the kids they love." Parents may be surprised to learn that family and friends are the primary source for alcohol provided to their teens. In Michigan, those who supply alcohol to minors face serious penalties no matter if they are a parent, older sibling, aunt/uncle, acquaintance, or a stranger off the street who agrees to buy the alcohol for a fee. Michigan law makes it a crime for any person to sell or furnish alcohol to a minor with a $1,000 fine and up to 60 days in jail for a first-time conviction. And, if a minor dies as a result of 2 alcohol consumption -- whether it's alcohol • Michigan Coalition for the Reduction in poisoning, drowning, fall or traffic accident -- the Underage Drinking: mcrud.org. person who supplied the alcohol to that minor It is the mission of the MLCC to make alcoholic faces imprisonment for up to 10 years, a fine of not beverages available for consumption while more than $5,000, or both. protecting the consumer and the general public "The MLCC protects consumer's health and safety through the regulation of those involved in the through enforcement of state law, but we also importation, sale, consumption, distribution, and need parents to help us keep kids safe," said delivery of these alcohol products. Gagliardi. "Parents have a huge impact on their kids in educating them that drinking alcohol by anyone under age 21 is illegal, unsafe and unhealthy and OR: Merkley Helps Introduce Legislation to End can negatively impact their future in so many Band on Shipping Alcohol ways.” KQEN News Radio Tips for parents: May 19, 2021 • Discuss the dangers of underage drinking, binge Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley has joined a drinking and alcohol poisoning, drinking and group of colleagues in introducing the USPS driving, and getting into a car with a drunk Shipping Equity Act – a bipartisan bill to send the driver. prohibition-era-ban that prevents the U.S. Postal Service from shipping alcoholic beverage to • Talk with your kids about making good choices; customers. being responsible by saying “no” to alcohol and choosing not to drink amidst peer pressure. Merkley said currently private shipping can ship alcohol, but the USPS cannot. • Emphasize how alcohol can permanently impair a teen’s intellectual development and memory, Merkley said all American businesses deserve the as their brain is still growing. same access to the U.S. Postal Service when it comes to delivering products to their consumers. • Affirm that drinking alcohol is never the way to Merkley said it would ensure that wineries, deal with stress, problems or to feel socially breweries, and distillers in Oregon and acceptable. throughout American have another option to • Be a good role model and lead by example to consider when selling their world-class products. inspire your children to make healthy decisions. The release said the legislation would allow the • Stay connected with your kids and establish USPS to ship alcoholic beverages directly from trust. licensed producers and retailers to consumers over the age of 21, in accordance with state and Resources for parents to talk with their kids about local shipping regulations. The bill will give the the dangers of underage drinking: USPS two years to develop regulations and • Foundation of Advancing Alcohol implement the law. Responsibility: Responsibility.org; Ask, Listen, The legislation is endorsed by the Oregon Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don't Mix. Winegrowers Association, Oregon Distillers Guild, • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and and the Oregon Brewers Guild along with a Alcoholism: Make a Difference: Talk to Your number of letter carrier organizations. Child About Alcohol - Parents | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism LICENSE STATE NEWS (NIAAA) (nih.gov). SC: South Carolina Distilleries Plan Growth With • Family Education: The Senior Prom and Passage of New Liquor Laws Drinking: How to Start a Conversation - FamilyEducation. Forbes By Hudson Lindenberger, Contributor May 18, 2021 3 At first glance, the recently opened Burnt Church growth. When the distillers approached me, I Distillery seems out of place. Its impressive red agreed that we needed to level the playing field brick facade towers over you as you approach it, a for them the same way we did for the brewers. feeling only amplified upon entering it. A cathedral- We had done all the heavy lifting a few years like roof hovers three stories overhead, drawing before while passing the beer bills; it was much your eyes towards a 7,000 square foot tasting room easier to convince my colleagues about why it overlooked by a large stained-glass window. It's the made sense to change these laws," said Bennett. type of facility you would expect to find in the "We have seen a whole lot of success on the nearby metropolises of Savannah or Charleston, brewery side since we passed the bills, so I fully not in tiny Bluffton, South Carolina. But, recent expect to see the same results on the distilling changes to decades-old liquor laws in the state side.” could mean that more facilities like this will start The distillers also received a boost to their cause appearing throughout the state. when E&J Gallo Winery, the largest winery in the According to the latest data from the American world, announced in early March that they were Craft Spirits Association, the United States craft looking to build a large bottling and storage distilling industry has seen strong growth trends facility in the state. It would act as their East Coast over the last decade. From 2014-2019 the industry home bringing in $400 million in investments and experienced a 142% growth rate going from 906 employment of 500 people. Gov. Henry McMaster distilleries to 2,197. Those numbers mirror the and the state's top elected officials announced 111% growth rate the craft brewing industry saw in that they were behind the project. A bill was the same timeframe, according to the Brewers introduced to the legislature to amend the liquor Association. laws to allow an onsite wine tasting room and other changes. In South Carolina, like many other states, a complex series of laws left over from the repeal of With the spotlight on that bill, the distillers Prohibition existed. Each state crafted its own set introduced their bill and ended up attaching it as of laws to reintroduce legal alcohol into its borders. an amendment to the Gallo bill to shepherd it Some of the more restrictive were fashioned inside through the legislature. It passed with bipartisan the Palmetto State. support on May 4, and became law on May 17 when Gov Henry McMaster signed it into law. The All facets of the liquor industry had to deal with changes it makes are as follows. restricted sales on-premise, limited tastings, and early closing times of 7 pm. It severely limited the • Increase the tasting limit from 3 oz to 4.5 oz, growth of local distillers, vintners, and brewers. unlimited if food is served Two laws passed in 2014 and 2019 changed the • Allow distilleries to serve food and other kinds playing field for breweries. They were able to sell of alcohol pints on-premise, sell products to go, greatly • Expand hours of service from 11-7pm to 9- expanded hours, increase tastings, and allowed 11pm while also adding Sundays. Retail bottle them to serve food and other kinds of alcohol. In sales will be allowed Monday to Saturday response, the number of breweries went from 31 from 9-7 to 95 over five years, a 206% increase. Seeing that success, the state’s distillers organized and formed • Increase the amount of hard liquor that can the South Carolina Distillers Guild (SCDG) in 2017 to be sold for off-site consumption from 2.25 lobby for the same changes the brewers received.