The latest casualty of the government shutdown is the local craft brewery.
Brewers in Delaware and around the country says while they won’t stop putting out their best-known brands anything new ones will have to wait.
There’s a small federal agency in the Treasury Department that over sees all new breweries, recipes and labels.
And with the government shutdown there’s no one around to approve the latest creative brew.
Sam Calogione, president and founder of Dogfish Head brewery, told the Wilmington News Journal that the government shutdown has hit the momentum of the craft brewing industry.
Dogfish Head had planned to open a new brewpub in Chicago this November.
Meanwhile, Mispillion Brewing, a microbrewery in Milford, had purchased a large, industrial-size brewing system that could be delayed because it is on a ship headed toward the Port of Baltimore.
