You were right. There were a lot of good names submitted. You have some pretty clever and thoughtful Millstream fans out there. After seeing some of the names, it’s hard to imagine having to narrow it down to just one. As I mentioned earlier, Windmill Wheat IS a good name. I know I submitted my share of names, and can say for all those who sent in a name or 2, thanks for letting us get involved. It was really fun. I haven’t heard of any other brewery doing something like that. Thanks!

It’s fine and well to hear that these Keg Registration laws don’t negatively impact our industry, and can even be helpful, but that is not the point of these bills. These laws are designed to discourage underage drinking. I think we can all agree that making one container harder to obtain than another will not effect underage drinking. It’s a slippery slope. Once ‘they’ are done grinding their axes on this issue, what will they come up with next to ’solve’ the underage drinking problem? The longer it takes the states to uniformly adopt this idea of Keg Registration, the longer it will be until we have to face off against the next neo-prohibitionist idea. We can recover kegs on our own, and there are other ways that we can remind people that they need to be responsible when drinking.

Thanks again for letting us join in the fun.

I would love to hear some of the “losing” contributions sometime.

On another note, I know the Sioux City Journal published an article about a large group of High school students visitng the Capital in recently an effort to help push the keg registration bill through.

Link:http://siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/01/30/news/top/f74c02cba9a973ca86257273000fb132.txt

I do see their point and it would be great to help with underage drinking, but as you said in your last post, “Does it really solve the problem?” They cited stories of youth drinking/driving/dying, but I do think the container they get the alchohol from is irrelavant. I have spoken to my representative and he said he was in favor of the bill, while he understood that the bill is a mere “band aid” attempting to fix a broken leg. He said he didn’t know if it would save lives, and make it harder for kids to get beer, but it would make those who purchased the beer more accountable. As politicians, this makes them look good to voters. That’s what matters most to them.

Do you have a link to that windpower data?