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West Selling Beer; East Not So Much

May 17, 2013 Dear Client: Thirty-nine of the fifty states are showing declines in beer shipments for the year-to-date period through March, according to Beer Institute figures. The seven worst performing states are all on the eastern seaboard, where weather has been awful. The states with the best trends are mostly out west. Idaho wins: it's up 3%. Below that you have Washington up 2.9%, Alaska up 2.4%, South Dakota up 1.7%, and Indiana up 1.2%. At the other end

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