In an article published January 26, the Tampa Tribune reports that the, “The Florida Retail Federation, a statewide lobbying group, is now backing away from its legal challenge to a loophole in alcoholic beverage law that benefits the state’s craft beer makers.”

But, it is not because they have had a change of heart. The group is stepping aside because the Florida state regulators have promised…

Thanks, Trish: Some Florida Brewery’s New Home Is Available

  One of the things that has always bothered me the most is how ready – make that eager – some communities are to destroy huge parts of their heritage in the name of some sort of highly-suspect “progress”. Some of this is driven by real estate developers, always on the lookout for some ‘antiquated” building that’s standing in the way of their big plans for turning a profit off a piece of land…