Steve Boucino This is Me

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1. 1. www.cbhbrew.com

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   Published on: 3/1/2008   Last Visited: 3/1/2008

   Steve Boucino steveb@cbhbrew.com Phone: (860) 653-BREW Fax: (860) 413-9620

2. 2. www.cbhbrew.com

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   Steven Boucino Owner / President The Cambridge House

3. 3. www.ctbizmag.com

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   Published on: 7/20/2007   Last Visited: 7/20/2007

   For the last several months, it looked as if Steve Boucino and his supporters were fighting a losing battle. Boucino, co-owner of The Cambridge House Brewpub in Granby, was working to change a 77-year-old Connecticut law that barred anyone who owned a brewpub from running a brewery, and vice-versa.
   
   And things weren't going well.
   
   Six or seven years ago, Boucino and his business partner, Scott Scanlon, decided they wanted to leave the world of insurance and start their own brewpub.
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   "Basically, it went through in the best form possible," Boucino says. "The bill will allow brewpubs, if we so choose, to brew, package and distribute products through the existing three-tier system." Breweries will also be able to operate pubs, while distributors and retailers-the other two levels of the three-tier system-will benefit from handling the beverages that are created and marketed by the brewers.
   
   The old law, adopted in 1930, was designed to protect distributors, then considered the little guy, from being run out of business by brewers who, it was feared, would market directly to customers. "They wanted to make sure distributors didn't get the rug pulled out from under them," Boucino explains. "Seventy-seven years later, the beer distributors are now the big guys and we're the little guy." Under the new arrangement, "we'll brew the beer, and the distributors and retailers will be our partners."
   
   Full Steam Ahead
   
   Boucino, who has had his eye on an historic bank property that he hoped to turn into a restaurant, brewpub and microbrewery, describes the new law as a "win-win" piece of legislation. With the fight behind them, he and Scanlon are moving full steam ahead with their plans to open a $2 million, 13,000-square-foot facility opposite the Warner Theater in Torrington. The new location will employ 50 people in addition to his 35-person staff in Granby. Still, Boucino says, he came very close to throwing up his hands and moving his venture to parts north.
   
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