Dirty Pigs and Gnat’s Asses

Dear Client:While in years' past the NBWA Legislative Conference has highlighted tough relations between distributors and large brewers, the rift between distributors and craft brewers took a front row seat this year in Washington DC, with some spirited discussion on both sides of the franchise law carve-out issue, although the rhetoric was respectful (in contrast, several distributors felt, to the CBC meeting in Denver. As one distributor said regarding CBC, "Boy, I thought A-B hated their wholesalers"). As we reported