Shutdown hammers craft brewers: ‘Having a beer’ not a high priority for unpaid workers

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Perhaps not since the Prohibition era has the federal government disrupted the beer market this much.

The last time, of course, it was intentional: the result of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which outlawed the commercial production and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1919 through its repeal 14 years later.

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