Micro-breweries will soon have to add a nutrition label on their beer bottles to notify the customer exactly what goes into their product.The move is a mandate from the Food and Drug Administration and it's causing concerns over costs.
Micro breweries now adding one more step to the process of getting their beer to the public.
“One more hurdle to overcome one more label approval so to speak and it just slows the process down on getting beer to market" says Bill Tressler, Owner Hinterland.
The FDA is requiring to have nutrition labeling on brewed beers in order to be sold in chain restaurants which in turn could become expensive to smaller brewers.
"It's going to be cost prohibitive and frankly if stuff cost more you're going to get less of it” Brent Weycker, Owner Titletown Brewery.
Each vat of beer must be tested under the new guidelines. It can cost between five hundred and a thousand dollars which could have some micro brewery owners second guessing selling their product.
"Craft brewers are going to choose not to be able to go and sell in chain restaurants" says Weyckler.
However, local brewers understand the public's need to know what's in their beer.
"There is a lot of things I’m sure people would like to know about what they're drinking and so to give the consumer a little more information makes sense" says Tressler.
Breweries have one year to get labeling in order.The regulations will go into effect in December of 2016.The new regulation will also apply to any micro beer sold in grocery stores and entertainment venues like sporting events.
