VinePair: Congress Can’t Save Draft Beer… but It Can Help

Looks like those clowns in Congress did it aga— wait, what? A new bill, you say? Bipartisan support? More kegs… more jobs… more sustainability?

How do they keep up with the news like that?!

On Monday, a pair of congressmen introduced the Creating Hospitality Economic Enhancement for Restaurants and Servers Act — the CHEERS Act, if you will. (You don’t have to, it’s not a law yet.) At just two and a half generously spaced pages, H.R. 7577 is a lightweight piece of legislation. But the potential boon it represents for the hospitality industry, and the brewers and wholesalers that keep restaurants and bars across the country stocked with keg beer, is hefty indeed.

“This bipartisan bill will support these local establishments by incentivizing the expansion of tap lines and keg equipment on commercial premises,” said Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) in a statement. From across the aisle, his cosponsor, Steven Horsford (D-NV), offered his own statement, promising the CHEERS Act would enable hospitality businesses to “invest more in their employees [and] reduce waste created by using smaller, disposable containers.”
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