Living Here
The Town of Walworth, and the end of the square:
Last week they tore down the old antique mall, located at the south west corner of the square. They spent $1,100,000.00 bucks tearing it down (asbestos and heavy concrete basement), so Highway 14 can flow north and south through town without interruption. Then the city leaders decided on a date, along with the state and county, to start rebuilding the road. They decided on doing it in the year 2020.
That is not a joke.
The joke only comes when you begin considering just what kind of dog and pony show local governments can become when deeply involved in decisions they know very little or nothing about.
By 2020 the current board will be retired.
Go figure!
The Geneva Shore Report was wrong again.
The second apology of this issue. The Bagel joint located on Main Street in Lake Geneva is going out of business, but it’s not being replaced by a microbrewery. It would appear that a private distiller is coming in under the guise of a microbrewery.
What’s the difference?
A brewery brews and serves its own beer. There’s no special license for that. It’s cheap.
A class B license to serve hard stuff is a huge amount more, because the city is only allowed to issue so many of them, based upon population. There are no more class B licenses available so that means anyone who wants one has to buy one from an existing business. You are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars for an existing class B license. A private distillery would appear to run right around that issue as long as it opens a restaurant at the same time, and only serves on premises it’s own distilled and brewed alcoholic beverages.
Interesting way to beat the rules, and not have to pay the big bucks.
From 125.04 Wisconsin State Law:
125.26 (1) A Class “B” license authorizes sales of fermented malt beverages to be consumed either on the premises where sold, or off the premises. The city also has only a limited number of these, again primarily based on the city’s popula-tion.
125. 295 Brewpub permit: Requires the entire manufacturing, bottling and storing of malt beverages on brewpub premise. 125.295 (2) (a) (3). Requires the applicant to operate a restaurant on the premises for which the permit is is-sued, for which a license is issued.
The television show M.A.S.H. comes to mind when considering the opening of small private distillers. A few green Army tents, some doctors and nurses running around in scrubs, and some intellectually polished doctors slumming in some faraway backwoods.
This new place might be an interesting joint to drop in and have a martini.
Or two.
Featured Photo by Terry Mayer Photography
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