Sound familiar?

By Steve Wilson | watchdog.org

After touring the Lucky Town Brewery in Jackson, brewmaster Lucas Simmons can give you a sample of his pub ale or his Belgian style blonde ale, but forget about buying a six-pack from him. He’ll have to send you down the road, to a nearby store.

Lucky Town Brewery in Jackson, MS. (Courtesy: Lucky Town Brewery)

Craft brewers like Simmons are facing a serious challenge to their solvency, as Mississippi regulations that prohibit them from selling their beer at production facilities. Simmons, under the current laws, could apply for a license to sell wine at his brewery. But not beer.

“You get your 36 (free) ounces of beer with the tour and mosey on out,” Simmons said. “It’s extremely silly. It’s a giant revenue generator, and as much as people don’t want to think about it, if you saw the margins that we make on a product we have to sell through a distributor to the retailer, it’s tiny. It’s nothing.

“If we sell that same product on site, if someone wants to sit down and have a pint of beer, it’s a ton more revenue. At our levels right now, what we’re putting out right now, if we can sell just 5 percent of that on site, which is not unreasonable, we’d have 49 percent more revenue without spending a cent.”

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