The Gateway Pundit reported Monday that a Southern California brewery, already in trouble because of a Communist virus blockade, had a county health inspector doing a happy dance moments after ordering the brewery to shut down. The brown-shirted health inspectors are so drunk on power that they won’t stop until the American people say “enough is enough.
The beer at Bravery Brewing in Los Angeles County, California, can be found in restaurants, liquor stores, gas stations, Whole Foods and Trader Joes in the surrounding area, but the brewery’s main profit comes from the happy customers who enjoy the beer in the tasting room. And here’s where the problems begin.
New York City now allows indoor dining in restaurants, yet Los Angeles County is still one of the few counties that require outdoor dining. Outdoor dining is acceptable in sunny downtown Los Angeles, but in the high desert of northern Los Angeles County, it’s only about 10 degrees on a windless winter day.
Like other business owners across the country, the winery’s resident Avery’s have struggled with high winds that destroy outdoor tents and cold weather that plummets customers. Distillery owner Brian Avery told the right-wing media outlet The Federalist that the humiliation the distillery suffered on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 7), experiencing incompetent law enforcement, was truly devastating.
Without a TV screen, the brewery scheduled a half-day takeaway on Super Bowl Sunday so customers could take Home freshly brewed beer before the game started. No customers were on hand for tastings, and no hundreds of dollars were spent to hire Food trucks, a new decree introduced in response to the CCP virus.
Unfortunately, Jatinder Chhabra, a Los Angeles County health inspector, showed up just over half an hour after the brewery’s take-out began, and she also informed employees that they had to close immediately because there were no food trucks. When the distillery employees suggested it was just takeout, Chhabra said it made no difference. Brian recalls that according to the employee, the inspector was “rude” and arrogant.
The employee put Brian, the owner of the winery, on the phone with Chabala, who asked the inspector to call her supervisor. After 20 minutes, the inspector’s supervisor said that the inspector had made a mistake, that the brewery and the customer were right, and that they could stay open. But Chabala was not satisfied and made the only employee on site, who was still greeting customers, have to make 11 different copies of the form.
As seen on the tape, in between waiting for the employee to get the forms out, Chabala rummaged through the shelves, went to the bar to look around, and even danced on camera.
Lancaster, California, bordered by the Mojave Desert to the north and the 9,000-foot San Gabriel Mountains to the south, is a 70-mile drive to Los Angeles’ City Hall. Yet none of this has stopped the regulators of Los Angeles from making Life hell for the entrepreneurs in this quiet town.
Nor was Brave Brewery the first stop of the day for Chabala’s inspectors. Before checking out the brewery, Chabara stopped by the Thief & Barrel tasting room.
Barbara Moran, managing partner of the Thief & Barrel tasting room, told The Federalist, “There were two inspectors a few months ago who also did not properly understand the regulations, and we spent more than 45 minutes trying to educate them. Instead of being polite and interested in listening to us, they warned us that they would revoke the ABC license if they did not follow protocol.
Moran was allowed to stay open at the Time, but later learned that she would be written up for an inspection report and that a return visit had been scheduled, this time on a date other than Super Bowl Sunday, but on Valentine’s Day. The reason? It turns out that the CCP virus regulation sign posted in Moran’s tent was missing, and the government told Moran to shut down her business as a result. In the inspection report written by Chabala, not a single word was mentioned about the fact that Moran had submitted the CCP virus regulation signs.
Moran said that before visiting the Thief and the Barrel, Chabala also inspected Antelope Valley Winery, a mile and a half away, where the owner had a frustrating exchange over the inspector’s misunderstanding of the rules and was fortunate that the business was allowed to continue operating.
Moran told The Federalist, “The constant vigilance we need to have in order to meet all the regulatory requirements is exhausting in terms of the costs incurred.”
Mr. Avery said health inspectors “clearly don’t know what the rules are, and it seems to be a trend. Why on earth would the government send out people who don’t understand the rules to enforce them?”
He continued, “We’ve been tossed around by the crazy mandates, shutdowns, reopenings, shutdowns, etc. that the governor and Los Angeles County leaders have given us. The craziest mandate has been, for months, the county mandate that customers need to make reservations at the brewery 24 hours in advance. People were spontaneously going to the brewery and this mandate was ridiculously out of touch with reality. I called an acquaintance in the Los Angeles County supervisory department and asked if the 24-hour reservation rule could be lifted. This acquaintance told me to ignore the rule.”
Moran said, “If the government was really supporting us and wanted to help small businesses, it wouldn’t be there on Super Bowl Sunday, Valentine’s Day or any other day when there are a lot of customers. We intend to let our customers know that things are going to be okay and that we can do it. As a result, these inspectors are bringing their name tags and coming to our place of business, which is not adding to the mess.”
Mr. Avery added that all the regulations and rules are “just disruptive” and that “we’re just a small Family business, a brewery, just struggling to survive, and Los Angeles County is not helping at all, but adding to the chaos.”
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