BILL NUMBER: ACR 32	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   Relative to California Craft Brewery Month.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 32, as introduced, Bloom. California Craft Brewery Month.
   This measure would proclaim the month of April 2015 as California
Craft Brewery Month.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, California is the birthplace of the craft brewing
movement, when Fritz Maytag acquired the Anchor Brewing Company in
1965 and began brewing authentic handcrafted beers; and
   WHEREAS, California is the home of the first microbrewery,
beginning with Jack McAuliffe who built a small brewery in Sonoma
from scratch, and began selling New Albion ales in 1977; and
   WHEREAS, The second largest craft brewer in the country, Sierra
Nevada Brewing Company, was founded in Chico, California, in 1979,
and spurred the craft brewery movement around the country; and
   WHEREAS, In 1982, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 3610
to amend the state's tied-house laws to remove the restriction on
on-premises sales of craft beer. Following this change in law,
California became home to three of the first five brewpubs in the
United States; and
   WHEREAS, The second brewpub in the United States was opened by the
Mendocino Brewery in Hopland, California; the third brewpub, opened
in September 1984, was Buffalo Bill's in Hayward, California; and the
fifth, opened by John Martin in March 1986, was Triple Rock Brewery
in Berkeley, California; and
   WHEREAS, In 2012, the California craft brewery industry had an
annual impact of $4.7 billion on the state's economy; and
   WHEREAS, As of the end of 2012, the California craft brewery
industry supported more than 45,000 jobs, which in turn create
billions of dollars in positive economic impact; and
   WHEREAS, The California craft brewery industry creates more
revenue for the state and federal governments than many other
industries, generating more than $850 million in federal, state, and
local revenues in 2012; and
   WHEREAS, California now has more breweries than any other state in
the country, and in fact has more than twice as many craft breweries
as the state within the next highest number, Colorado. The current
count numbers more than 440 small, independently owned craft
breweries. An average of one in every five craft beers produced in
the United States comes from California; and
   WHEREAS, California is now known and recognized internationally
for the quality of its craft breweries. Year after year, Californian
breweries win more medals at the World Beer Cup, the largest
international beer competition in the world, and the Great American
Beer Festival, the largest beer competition in the United States,
than breweries found in other states; and
   WHEREAS, Brewery tourism is increasingly popular and contributes
to the economic impact of the state's tourism industry; and
   WHEREAS, The California craft brewing industry is a leader in the
stewardship of natural resources and the environment and has made a
major commitment to implement sustainable practices that are
environmentally sound, including some of the largest solar arrays in
the private sector, and the use of fuel cells and other innovative
conservation techniques and processes; and
   WHEREAS, Despite the challenges of intense global competition, the
state's craft brewery industry is strong and growing, and is a major
contributor to the economic vitality of California; now, therefore,
be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby proclaims the month
of April 2015 as California Craft Brewery Month; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.