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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Low-strength versus full-strengh beer and the debate over who gets to sell what is bottling up a lot of anger. Convenience stores and grocery stores are permitted to sell low-strength beer that's 3.2 percent by weight.

But a proposal to allow gas stations, grocery stores and convenience stores to sell full-strength is advancing in the state Capitol.

Craft brewers like Bristol Brewing Company said they depend on liquor stores for independent access to the market.  But if the rules change and allow customers to buy full-strength beer everywhere, liquor stores could lose their angle.

"When those retailers are gone we no longer have some place to go and put our beers into, Laura Long with Bristol Brewing Company said. "We don't make enough to put in every grocery store in the state."

Convenience stores are heavily in favor of the possible full-strength changes. They think it's a great way to make extra money and a new way to bring in more customers.

"In this location specifically I think it would be very good because we've got [Colorado College] right over here and the liquor stores two blocks away, I think it would be wonderful," Kim McClure with G & S Campus Corner said.

Whether you're for the proposed changes or against, it all comes down to money, and whether you'd like to spend it in a convenience store or a Colorado independent.

The House Economic and Business Development Committee voted 7-6 in favor of the bill, it now advances to the full Colorado House for debate.