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BY MEGAN NOE

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The Minnesota government shutdown is taking a toll on...happy hour. The government has told MillerCoors it must pull its 39 brands from stores and bars, and Minneapolis’s KARE says beer isn’t the only thing that’s brewing.

“The battle began when the beer company attempted to renew its brand label registrations back in mid-June. The company initially cut a check for a couple hundred dollars over the right amount, which delayed processing. The state received a check for the right amount on June 27, but by that time, state officials say it was just too late for workers to process the renewals in time.”

Blue Moon, High Life, Coors Light.... all could be gone from Minnesota watering holes within a matter of days. As The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports, that means lost revenue for the brewer, bars and the state alike.

“That would decimate choices for consumers. MillerCoors supplies 38 percent of the beer sold in Minnesota, and the state is one of the top five markets in the country for the brewing giant.”

Some bloggers -- like Reason -- are calling it another example of unwanted government intervention.

“One more reason to keep government out of the booze biz: If government shuts down, so do the taps. And with two of their own already ‘exchanging blasts’ in the presidential primary, Minnesotans are going to need a drink or two to keep their famous‘nice’going.”

But as Minnesota Lawyer Blog sarcastically notes-- it’s taken many Minnesotans two weeks and a beer ban to get their attention.

“Minnesotans survived the Fourth of July weekend with no freeway rest stops and the closing of Canterbury Park barely registered in our collective consciousness, but this, this has got to be fixed.”

It isn’t just MillerCoors taps that have been shut off. KMSP says Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety also won’t renew any annual permits which allow bars, restaurants and liquor stores to buy alcohol from wholesalers.

“The so-called buyers’ cards expired at 320 businesses last month, and will at 400 more at the end of this month, drying up inventory in hundreds of establishments across the state.”

And the associate director of the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association adds...

“If this goes on any longer, a few more weeks, these folks can’t number one, purchase alcohol, to sell the alcohol, we’re talking a lot of places are going to be out of business in the next 3 to 5 weeks.”

So for the more than 20,000 state employees out of work and hoping to relax with a Miller Lite, the prospect of a beer-less Minnesota is already looming. Could smokes be next?

“There’s even more bad news for smokers, because the state has stopped issuing the tax stamps legally required on every pack of cigarettes sold, so by Labor Day those are expected to be in short supply, too. ‘We’ve been in business for 70 years,’ says one tobacco distributor, ‘and all of a sudden this whole thing is going to screw us over?’” (Newser)

MillerCoors is threatening legal action against the state. But unless the court intervenes-- for many Minnesotans, it appears to be -- last call -- until a settlement is reached.

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