Major Industry Coalition Forms to Fight Canned Cocktail Equivalency

Dear Client: As you may know, the New Jersey Assembly is considering a bill which would equalize the state excise tax for spirit-based canned cocktails at 8% or under ABV.  That bill may or may not pass (the president of the Senate introduced it, so….).  But something remarkable happened during the debate that I have not seen before in my many moons in the bev-alc industry:  A coalition formed against the bill which included everybody on the same side, (except