Blue Point up 25% in 2012

Dear Client: Often, when we're talking to an East Coast distributor, they'll mention Blue Point as one of their bull brands. The Long Island brewer will do about 64,000 barrels this year, up 25% over 2011. We caught up with co-founder Mark Burford post-Sandy. Luckily his almost 15-year-old brewery escaped the superstorm mostly unscatched. "We're in a bit of a high spot," he said. "West of us was much worse; we're far enough east that we didn't get the worst