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More craft breweries are popping up in Florida, but they are forced to abide by regulations. Florida is one of only three states where it is illegal to fill a 64 ounce beer container known as a growler.

The Florida Brewer’s Guild is pushing to make it legal to fill growlers of all sizes. As it stands now, you can fill a growler with beer that’s a gallon or more, or 32 ounces or less, but filling growlers in between those amounts is against the law.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Is it a viral ad or is it the next big thing in brewski?

Last month, Amazon announced it was testing out drones to deliver packages. Now a Wisconsin brewery is apparently trying out the idea for itself.

According to a video posted on YouTube, the folks at Stevens Point-based Lakemaid Beer are testing out the new technology on Lake Waconia.

Ice fishers put in a request for brews, and a drone flies it out to them.

The company plans to test the beer drones on Mille Lacs next, but there remain a few kinks they still have to work out, like for instance how to check the ID of buyers.

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For more than 100 years, Jelly Belly has been a leading name in the jelly bean industry, with flavors like Buttered Popcorn, Toasted Marshmallow and Bubble Gum. And now? Beer.

Jelly Belly debuted Draft Beer as its newest flavor on Saturday. While the news comes only one month after the December release of its Tabasco Dark Chocolate flavor, the latest addition to the Jelly Belly family is one that has been three years in the making.

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Everywhere you look on the internet, you’ll notice that people absolutely love lists. We are being bombarded with “top 10 of this” and “7 best of that”, and yet they are so dang addicting you want to click to see if you agree.

It’s no different in the beer world where you will see lists such as “15 Best IPAs” and “The Worlds 7 Greatest Stouts”.

I have nothing against these types of posts at all as they aim to celebrate some amazing beers. However saying that any beer is “the best” of any category doesn’t make sense to me.

First off, beer is subjective. What is best to me isn’t the best to you. All of us have different tastes and what I might find appealing about a beer, you might detest. Plus the more beer you drink, the more your tastes start to change.

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  Every year my wife, Millie, and I judge at The Music City Brewoff: a competition run by one of two clubs we’re members of. This year I had to head north to take care of business at our retirement shack.
 As editors of The Brew-Score: publication of The Music City Brewers, I usually write an article on the Brew Off… or I ask someone else in the club to write one. This year our president did a year review and since we weren’t there I decided not to publish what I had in the works. But then I thought, “Hey, what about The Professor?”
  You see, other than being editors of the Brew-Score, and I’m a writer for the Professor, we do have an advantage when it comes to covering competitions. For almost 30 years I traveled as an entertainer… and starting in the late 90s I discovered there are competitions in many of my port-o-calls. Millie judges at them too, occasionally.
  I have discovered there are things we do right at The Music City Brew Off I can share, and things others do well that we all might learn from. And since this column is web-based, people in clubs nationwide can discover possible interesting additions to their competitions. Continue reading “A Beer Judge’s Diary: Multiple Competitions Musings”