Much Ado About Small Brew

Dear Client: Last week your editor took the lovely Acela train to Washington, D.C., for a Brewers Association beer dinner. The topic? Politics, of course. Deschutes chief Gary Fish, Boston Beer founder Jim Koch, Freetail chief Scott Metzger, Fremont founder Sara Nelson and Country Boy pioneer Daniel "DH" Harrison all convened in a dimly lit room at a fancy DC restaurant to talk to local media about the Small BREW Act, which currently has 41 co-sponsors in the House and