Watch This: FSU Student’s Film Shows Craziness of Craft Beer Laws in ‘A Story So True, It’s Stupid’

In Florida, beer jug sizes are strictly and
nonsensically regulated. You can carry beer in a 32 oz. jug, or a
128 oz. jug—but nothing in between. The 64 oz. growler—an ideal
container to bring to a brewery, fill up, and take home—is illegal
in just Florida, Mississippi, and Utah.

Florida’s law, which was put in place by a vindictive
legislature more than half a century ago and maintained by
monopolistic beer distributors, is the subject of short documentary film by Florida
State University student Hunter J. Truman. Truman
told the Herald-Tribune that he set out to make a more
objective film, but it was just impossible:

He said started the project after wondering why 40-ounce beer
bottles weren’t available in Florida. He said he “went down the
rabbit hole of insane factors” about Florida beer regulations.

The craft beer industry “just seems it has everything right
going for it,” Truman said. He was surprised to find that the
brewers are being opposed politically, especially from
conservatives who say they support small businesses, he said.

Truman must not have heard of bootleggers and
Baptists.

Watch Truman’s film here.