Seattle Beer News, which is written by a guy called Geoff Kaiser, has a very good article detailing the impact of the new beer tax. The article was published on June 2. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you do.

Especially interesting bits:
This is not a direct to consumer sales tax. In other words, consumers won’t be seeing an immediate increase within a separate tax line-item on your receipt at the store when they go pick up that six-pack of Bud today. The tax is levied against the producers of the beer. How much of that tax is then passed on to the distributors, retailers and the consumer is the question that will be answered over time.

Domestic breweries that sell less than 60,000 barrels (120,000 kegs) of beer in the state of Washington will be exempt from paying the tax. Again – this tax exclusion is not based on how much overall beer a brewery produces or where they are located, but with how much beer it sells in Washington.

Beer drinkers, what do we think?