“Beer is Back!”

That was the battle cry of freshman president of the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA), Craig Purser, as he bounded onto the stage of the NBWA/Brewers Joint Legislative Conference. Over one thousand distributors and brewery execs assembled in the concrete fortress Hyatt calls a hotel to give beer its best face to federal lawmakers.NBWA chairman Phil Short extolled the crowd that "one size fits all [regulation] does not work." Why? Because the way people feel about alcohol in Salt Lake