Pemblish Guild of Brewers and Publicans

The Guild of Brewers and Publicans, commonly the Publicans' Guild, is an association of brewers, innkeepers, publicans and caterers, as well as importers of alcohol. Unlike most of the other guilds and livery companies of Pem, the Publicans' Guild has never had an official guild hall. Instead, when Guild officials have a meeting, they have a lock-in at one of the many hundreds of guild-affiliated pubs. As a result, these meetings have a reputation for being "fun, loud and excitable".
The Guild formerly had a reputation for being violently aggressive towards unlicensed hostels and hotels. Indeed, a spate of arsons committed against the bed and breakfasts by guild apprentices is considered to be the instigating factor in the legislation's introduction. This behaviour was only rectified by the introduction of the 31 Rain's Hand Guild and Liveries Act. 
The Act specified that the obligation to register with the guild was defined exclusively by the purveyance of alcohol rather than by food, lodging or other services, and that hostels, boarding houses, hotels and the like were not required to become members of the Guild unless they brewed or sold alcohol on the premises. The law was resisted heavily by the Guild, which recognised the loss of influence which would result if many of its non-alcohol-selling members were no longer obliged to be register. However, with much grumbling, the law was slowly accepted on the basis that they had probably brought it on themselves.
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