The Texas Craft Brewers Guild will be putting on a lobby day at the Texas State Capitol on February 6, 2025 to support legislation that would expand new and protect rights for breweries and brewpubs across the state of Texas. This will give our attending members the opportunity to interface with their elected legislators and legislative staffs about issues facing the Texas craft beer industry including Direct to Consumer Shipping and Delivery, Interfacility Transfer, the possible impact of the Beers For Steers campaign, and overall small business health. We highly encourage attendance, as a strong and united front of brewers talking about small business is a great way we can help to enact legislative change for our industry.
We will meet at noon at in the Texas Capitol Extension Legislative Conference Center for a briefing before sending you out to scheduled meetings with your elected representatives. That location to be announced in communication to come, but will be indoor and near the Capitol. Please eat lunch before arriving to allow for a prompt start. During the meetings, you will have the opportunity to tell your business's story and how current regulations impact your business and to discuss some changes that would promote healthy growth for Texas beer as a whole. We will have packets with one pagers surrounding statistics for the Texas industry, the three primary guild priorities and any other information we need to get to Legislative Offices. That evening at 6-9PM we will have a reception near by at the Cross Oak Group offices for attending Guild members, Texas legislators, and legislative staffers. A full schedule with your specific meeting details will be provided to you upon arrival.
Schedule of Events:
12-1PM: Lobby Day Briefing @ Texas Capitol Extention LCC (Direction in Know Before You Go email)
1PM: Group Photo
1:30-4:30PM: Meetings, Office Drop-Ins, Branded Beer Deliveries (Prescheduled for you)
4:30-6PM: Reception and TCBC Pro-Am Tasting/Awards Set-Up (Pro-Am competitors set-up pouring stations)
6-9PM: Lobby Day Reception and TCBC Pro-Am Tasting/Awards (Pro-Am entries to be poured)
This year the reception for the Lobby day will double as the awards ceremony and tasting party for the Texas Craft Brewers Cup Legislative Pro-Am and will be held at 504 W 12th (two blocks from the Capitol) beginning at 6pm. This will be a catered event. We will have between 4:30pm and 6pm blocked off for set-up of this event. We encourage you to invite any legislators or staff you engage with to the reception and tasting event. If you are competing in the Pro-Am, more information about beer service and load in to follow as we approach the date.