California Tax Applies to All Beer

The State of California has lost its collective mind. While everybody has been poring over the A-B/InBev and MillerCoors J-V deals, the California State Board of Equalization has issued its regulations, which were approved by the Office of Administrative Law, which not only will increase state taxes on malternatives (FMBs or PABs or whatever) by 1,660%, but would effectively increase ALL BEER by that much, unless each manufacturer applies to the state to be reclassified as beer. That means beer