Craft Brewers Bicker About Taxes, Trade Practices

Dear Client:Holy cow. There's trouble in paradise. Here's what happened. At about 3pm yesterday, outspoken brewer Larry Bell of Bell's Brewery rang BBD from the Cubs game to relay that it is his opinion that the small brewer tax bill (H.R. 1236 and S. 534), which sets a new tax threshold at 6 million barrels, should be scrapped in favor of language which keeps the threshold at 2 million barrels. "Why are we expending all this political capital on a