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A Bell’s beer by any other name is probably still a Bell’s beer, right?<\/p>\nA Bell’s beer by any other name is probably still a Bell’s beer, right?<\/p>\n
That’s why there’s excitement in Chicago that Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, Mich., plans to start selling three brands of Kalamazoo<\/em> beer in Illinois.<\/p>\n Rumors that this would happen have appeared on several Internet discussion boards (I first read it in the Beer Mapping Project<\/a> forums) but a story in Crain’s<\/a> makes it quite official.<\/p>\n The basics:<\/p>\n – Bell’s left Illinois last year after a dispute with National Wine & Spirits Inc., a distributor.<\/p>\n – Brewery founder Larry Bells says he is finalizing contracts with two distributors to bring beer branded as “Kalamazoo” to a few bars and restaurants. Each bottle will have a label reading: “Brewed especially for the people of the great state of Illinois.” And just to be clear, the labels state the beer is brewed at Bell’s Brewery, which used to be known at Kalamazoo Brewing.<\/p>\n – Bells says officials NWS have told him they will sue to stop the sale of Kalamazoo beers in Chicago.<\/p>\n “I think it will be a very interesting court case,” Bell told Crain’s.<\/p>\n My guess is that if Bell succeeds you’ll be able to walk into a bar, order “Two Hearted Ale<\/a>” and get a classic American IPA without a bartender even asking “Did you mean Kalamazoo IPA?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Bell’s beer by any other name is probably still a Bell’s beer, right? That’s why there’s excitement in Chicago that Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, Mich., plans to start selling three brands of Kalamazoo beer in Illinois. Rumors that this would happen have appeared on several Internet discussion boards (I first read it in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-6k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}