The popular blackberry-blackcurrant mead is rich, dark and complex and released in very small batches every so often. We know, we know, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and we're already talking about Holiday Markets? But, think about it this way, if we didn't plan ahead, then you might not get the best mead for your holiday parties, right? Yesterday, in a press conference at around 3 pm, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced new rules in response to rising rates of COVID, after a few weeks of improvement in the Commonwealth.
His new rules were mostly focused on bars and restaurants which includes PA breweries, wineries and distilleries. It banned ALL on-premise consumption of alcohol… unless it was accompanied by a meal.
The rule went into effect at am this morning. A few things to clarify first, before getting into the real issues with the ruling:. Masks help stop Coronavirus spread. Wear them. In fact, we spend a lot of time and energy trying to get rules we find unfair changed for the betterment of many communities of which we consider ourselves a part. Of course governors everywhere have an impossible job right now trying to balance competing imperatives, and of course their primary duty is to protect citizens.
Again, disagreement is good. The rule was announced at his press conference, around 2pm. In it, he seemed to indicate outdoor seating would be unaffected. Then the press release came out around 3pm, which indicated that it was subject to the same meal restriction. The rule took effect at midnight, less than 8 hours later.
This is absurd, and does not need to be this way. This rule seems to boil down to: a person can sit in a seat at a table at an establishment. If they order a drink but do not know what food they would like yet, they can not have it. If they would like a drink but not food, they can not have it. If they order a meal and a drink, it is okay. There is, so far as anyone can tell, no justification for this on any level.
Eating, like drinking, requires the removal of a mask. Either way, the person is seated at a table. Either way, the person is drinking. The only difference is the presence of food. Some on Facebook made the argument that alcohol lowers inhibitions, and so people looking to get drunk would be less careful than those looking to eat a meal.
Either way, you have to sit at a table. Either way, social distancing and mask rules are still in effect. Either way, maximum party size rules were already in effect. The presence of a sandwich changes nothing. Ok, now to hammer the pretty ugly stuff under that assumption.
You know what they all have in common? This rule stops us, not them. Which leads me to…. We already had a lot of rules. Like most responsible business owners, we were abiding by them, and we were doing it in spite of the fact that we knew there was basically zero enforcement.
Not everyone was so conscientious, and the ones who ignored the rules did so mostly to their benefit. The LCE liquor cops released their report for July , and it shows 77 warnings and zero violations given in 4, visits statewide.
Because as far as I can tell, this will only impact the people who were already doing their best to keep everyone safe.
The bars that ignored this before can still do it again, they all sell food. Wolf is effectively demanding more of the responsible businesses because he finds it too hard to punish the unreasonable ones.
Decisions like this very much hold in the balance the ability of businesses like ours to exist, pay debts, and employ people. That matters a great deal to many people, and much more so when you multiply it out by all of the companies subject to this rule.
Not to mention that, when a leader makes decisions that appear poorly-conceived, -planned and -executed, it raises questions about everything they do subsequently. So, what would we have done? Everyone understood them, and it was those procedures that kept the numbers moving in the right direction. Plus, it lines up with the research we have, that outdoor spaces are MUCH safer than even controlled indoor ones.
Once again, if you disagree with our assessment, we fully respect that. We thank you for taking the time to read our views on things and consider them, and we hope to see you back in the tasting rooms soon. It was going to be nice. None of this is nice, of course. But it was going to be familiar enough. And about business. Then, one of the companies we pseudo-sponsor, ChikaraPRO Wrestling, became embroiled in the allegations of misconduct, and basically the whole roster has quit.
Mike Quackenbush, the man who runs Chikara, has shuttered the promotion and temporarily and removed himself until further notice. The impact has been sweeping basically all levels, from WWE to the smallest promotions, over the past couple weeks.
We were going to use their image and name, with permission, on our next batch of Beso Exotico, and we in the past partnered with a faction called The Colony, for obvious reasons. We are disheartened, and sad, and legitimately heartbroken for the wrestlers who are finding out about this. We will probably not be working with Chikara in the future.
We hope the wrestlers and people whose passion and work we enjoyed find good nearby places to work, and we can continue to support them in the future.
At the very least, it seems like a lot of truly bad things happened under his watch. As a business owner, I have empathy for that responsibility and how fragile it can be.
This feeling of a close-knit community is part of what attracts so many people to care about these things. Of course, close-knit communities all can develop a dark side. For one thing, when our shared passion group is small, we tend to ignore or tolerate in others around us faults we would not in someone else. It actually feels a lot like the early days of craft beer which has gotten a little better, but still has a long ways to go , though probably we have more women-led meaderies than early beer did.
In an earlier post, I mentioned our corporate culture of disdain for platitudes, and how hard it is to take concrete action. Some breweries have tried to use can releases to raise awareness or money for causes they support.
There are about a dozen craft breweries in the valley, and all are owned by white men or white couples. In every single one of these companies, advancement for anyone - including an employee of color - is going to be limited by the very nature of the businesses. Jobs with us are a mixed bag.
On the other, a large number of our jobs do require you to have a car, or do a lot of manual labor. And of course, you have the customers, whose behavior is, granted, generally awesome, but the exceptions can be… a lot to deal with.
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