Breckenridge Brewery Moving $15 Million Brewery EAST After Colorado Says No

After Colorado’s legislature failed to pass a bill changing state laws (HB1347 prevents Breckenridge from holding a license for multiple brewpubs), Breckenridge Brewery has decided to take it’s $15 Million and 75 jobs and move EAST!  While my first guess would be Asheville, NC….no details on location are available yet….this from Bizjournals:

Breckenridge Brewery will look to build its new brewery on the East Coast, taking with it 50 to 75 jobs that otherwise would have been created in the Denver area, because of the Colorado Legislature’s failure to pass a bill that would have changed state law to allow it to expand, its president said Monday.

Ed Cerkovnik said without House Bill 1347 — a bill that passed a House committee unanimously but that House leaders will allow to die without a vote this week because of opposition that mounted to it from several industries — the brewery cannot hold a license to operate several brewpubs at the same time it holds a license to operate a manufacturing plant that produces more than 60,000 barrels a year in Colorado.  Full details here.

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